The Twin Cities’ Favorite Venue For Dance Is Closing
"The Cowles Center for Dance & The Performing Arts, which operates the Goodale Theater in Minneapolis, will cease operations on March 31. … Due...
Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall To Be Renamed For Marian Anderson
The original deal with Verizon for naming rights at the Philadelphia Orchestra's home venue expired as of Jan. 1. Philanthropists Leslie Anne Miller and...
England’s Arts Funding Agency Backs Away From Implied Threat Against Political Work
"Arts Council England has released new guidance confirming it will not penalise organisations for working with artists who make political statements, after earlier advice...
Comedian Richard Lewis, 76
"A regular performer in clubs and on late-night TV for decades, … known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes, … he re-introduced...
Oregon Arts Groups Pressure Legislature For $27 Million In Funding Relief
Despite Oregon’s arts sector garnering $829 million in economic activity every year, the state is ranked at No. 41 for its annual arts funding per capita. - KOIN
Huh? New AI Synthesizes Radio Listener Voices
Artificial intelligence is already enabling stations to replicate the voices of on-air talent. Now a new Benztown product uses AI to craft “listener” audio...
100 Amazing Women Architects
The researchers behind 100 Women: Architects in Practice hope that its title will ultimately sound as strange as a book about 100 left-handed architects, or 100...
Why Did Waterloo, Canada “Pause” Its Arts Funder?
Regional council’s decision to pause the arts fund for a third-party review due to alleged harassment and governance concerns, announced in a press release on Wednesday...
Reconsidering Whether We Have Free Will
Since our actions result from nothing more than one event following another, no one really deserves praise or blame for anything they do. Our...
Newly Discovered Letter: Arthur Miller Explains Tragedy And “Death Of A Salesman”
"As I see it, the force of the Elizabethan form lay in its ability to follow the mental processes of its protagonists wherever they...
Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ Cuts Its Flagship Local News Show In Half
A decade ago, WBEZ had four hours of weekday local news; as of next week, there's one hour, as Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons loses...
Minnesota Dance Theatre To Halt Performances
Although ticket sales were up for last holiday season's "The Nutcracker" and "Carmina Burana" in January, the boosts weren't matched with the grants and...
Mr. Fruit Salad Explains Why His Absurdist Standup Comedy Is An Excellent Vehicle For...
"Absurdism is like smoke – it shifts before your eyes and takes on strange, beguiling patterns, but if you try to close your hand...
An Idea To Make Theatre Sustainable Again
"I’m trying to get artists to think of themselves as owners, not employees. So there’s a direct connection between the bottom line and their...
We Recreated Leonardo Da Vinci’s Harpsichord-Viola From His Own Designs
After five years of research, a team at Leonardo3, an interactive museum/exhibition center in Milan, built the instrument from drawings and notes in the...
Warner And Paramount Are No Longer Talking Merger
Warner Bros. Discovery is no longer pursuing a merger with Paramount Global as its shares trade near a 52-week low, according to people familiar...
Why Armistead Maupin, The Echt-San Francisco Writer, Up And Moved To London
"In fact, he and husband Chris Turner – a photographer in his early 50s – have been living in England for nearly five years,...
A Look At Northern Ballet’s Artistic Compromises Around Live Music
The musicians I spoke to have all seen Sinfonia work and income decrease significantly because of the switch from exclusively live music to occasional...
500-Year-Old Flemish Triptych Turns Up In (Of All Places) Guernsey
"Experts said it is from the workshop of important Flemish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst, or by an artist in his circle. The triptych,...
By The End Of This Year, Streaming Video Will Be Pulling In More Money...
"Streaming revenue is poised to overtake pay TV subscription revenue by the third quarter of 2024, boosted by the recent uptick in ad-supported offerings,...
The Maven Who Assembled A Massive, Now-Priceless Collection of Yiddish Literature
"Scholars had estimated that there were about 70,000 books waiting to be rescued. (Aaron) Lansky went on to gather 1.5 million Yiddish books —...
Israel Will Not Be Disinvited From Venice Biennale, Says Italy’s Culture Minister
"In a tersely worded statement sent out earlier today, (Gennaro) Sangiuliano called (an open letter calling for Israel to be excluded) 'shameful' and claimed...
Jaap van Zweden’s Next Band Will Be L’Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France
As he finishes up his terms as music director of the New York and Hong Kong Philharmonics and begins a new tenure at the...
Edinburgh Fringe Frustrated As Its Bid For Long-Term Funding Is Rejected
In fact, the enormous theatre festival hasn't been on Creative Scotland's list of "regularly-funded organisations" (those with three-year "core funding" grants) since 2018, and...
England’s Local Governments Are Flat Broke, And Arts Are Among The First Things They’re...
"More than half the councils that responded to a survey said they were likely to be unable to balance their books in the next...
