Royal Scottish National Orchestra To Be Stripped Of All Local Government Funding
"The RSNO (has been) told it will lose all of its local authority support over the next three years. It is expected to cut...
Orange County’s Hilbert Museum To Triple In Size
The $12 million museum – a part of Chapman University – will expand from 7,500 to 22,000 square feet, nearly tripling its size. Galleries...
The Outsider Queer Trio Running — Entirely Together — The Ballet National De Marseille
"(Marine) Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel are the trio behind (La)Horde. They met 14 years ago on Paris’s queer club scene and ......
“The Real Tragedy Of This Play Is That Everyone’s Right All The Time”
That's what one cast member said, during rehearsals at New York's Public Theater, about Itamar Moses's The Ally, in which the characters hash out...
Middle School Teacher Accused Of Copying Students’ Art Onto Mugs And Tote Bags For...
"(Mario) Perron allegedly asked his class to create artwork in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat for a 'creepy portraits' project … (at) the Lester...
France’s Film Industry Enters A New Phase Of #MeToo
"Actors who allege they were teenage victims of sexual and physical abuse by directors decades older than them are shining the light on the...
San Francisco Symphony Is Knocking Scents Into Scriabin
"Prometheus: The Poem of Fire … has an element of synesthesia in its score, which calls for a color organ along with a full...
Vice Media Is — Well, If It’s Not Completely Dead, It’s A Zombie
"Several hundred of Vice’s remaining 900 employees will soon be laid off in a restructuring that essentially kills off the editorial brand. … No...
Previously Unknown Cézanne Mural Uncovered In His Childhood Home
"The mural is the tenth to have been discovered on the walls of the house (in Aix-en-Provence), having been found last August in the...
Could a Paywall Have Saved Pitchfork?
Implementing a paywall would have given Pitchfork’s readers an opportunity to support it while liberating its staff from having to conjure money out of thin...
Where Should Privately-Owned Art With Murky Provenance Go? Universities
The best stewards for these privately held collections, I believe, are university museums openly committed to provenance research, repatriation, and public education about cultural...
A Call For Philanthropic Investment In Culture
While some grassroots organizations and organizers do integrate culture into their efforts, the potential to build power in under-resourced and marginalized communities by harnessing...
Hollywood Report: Leadership Of Women In Top 100 Movies In 2023 Was Down
Despite the $1.4bn success of Barbie, last year’s top 100 films saw just 30 feature a female lead or co-lead, the worst result since...
As Traditional Journalism Struggles In Canada, Journalists Take To TikTok
They're demonstrating that there is a demand for watching someone deliver the news when the traditional local TV news landscape is diminishing. But media...
New Lawsuit Charging Sexual Abuse At San Francisco Conservatory
Two women say they were assaulted by former professor of violin and chamber music Axel Strauss. - Van
“Not Every Giselle Has To Be Fragile And Petite”: New English National Ballet AD...
"A lot of people in the culture have grown up with a certain physical ideal. The more traditionally minded are bound to the idea...
Long Lost Gershwin Musical Manuscript Found
The approximately 800 pages of material included the musical’s complete orchestration, with parts for flute, cello, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, bass and piano. -...
With Two Of L.A.’s Major Film Festivals Now Gone, A Streaming Company Launches A...
Though this is arguably a great time for SoCal's cineastes, there's been trouble sustaining big events: Outfest collapsed last year, and the Los Angeles...
The Critic’s Enthusiasms: Joan Acocella
Acocella’s attention is fixed first on the lives of her readers. She doesn’t neglect to tell us a writer’s best book and is never...
Berlin Taxi Drivers Put On A Makeshift Film Festival In The Backs Of Their...
The TaxiFilmFest is in part a protest against the august Berlin Film Festival, currently in full swing, which signed an exclusive agreement with Uber...
How We Picture Sound In Our Minds
If you think of a sound, such as a dog barking, a loved one’s voice, or a favorite tune, to what extent can you...
How One Of Metro DC’s Best Stage Directors Came Back From A Catastrophic Highway...
After midnight on Nov. 30, 2022, Synetic Theater co-founder Paata Tsikurishvili was sitting in traffic when another car rear-ended his and knocked it into...
Machines That Can Read Minds Are Teaching Us About Ourselves
Results are overturning assumptions about brain anatomy, for example, revealing that regions often have much fuzzier boundaries and job descriptions than was thought. - Nature
“The City Hall Powerhouse Shaping London’s Cultural Landscape”
Meet Justine Simons, Mayor Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for culture. - The Standard (London)
Why The Neighbors Are Not Happy That The Burned Herculaneum Scrolls Are Being Deciphered
The news that a team of students, using AI on digital scans, has deciphered the text on one of the scrolls carbonized in the...
