The State Of Today’s Culture
The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction. Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s...
Broadway’s Big Presidents Day Box Office Boost
The Presidents Day Weekend was like a little Christmas gift for Broadway, with grosses for the 23 productions posting a hefty 27% increase over...
A Staggering $100M Canadian Art Fraud
A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. - Smithsonian
Bellevue Arts Museum Declares A Crisis, Says It Might Have To Close
“We’re at the place where the straw breaks the camel’s back,” Kate Scher said. She called the crisis a “combined product” of the museum’s lack...
How AI Is Changing Music
AI is already changing how musicians compose and play music in ways hard to imagine only a few years ago, opening up new horizons...
The Systematic Destruction Of Gaza’s Buildings
Since October 7 2023, the bombardment of Gaza is reported to have damaged more than 100 historic sites and destroyed 69,700 homes. - The Conversation
Pro-Palestine Protestors Take Over MoMA
MoMA had shut down completely. It would not reopen until the following day. Visitors were ferried to the exits. Outside, a soft-spoken museum employee...
At 61, Jodie Foster Is Finally Unclenching And Letting (Some Of) Her Guard Down
"At a certain point, the survival tool, which has kept you safe and kept you warm, which has kept you with your family, it’s...
The Big Hong Kong Arts Complex Designed By Norman Foster’s Firm Is Running Out...
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, which operates M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum as well as a traditional Chinese opera center and...
Ways Of Looking At Art
In a YouGov survey released in 2023, nearly half of Americans said they didn’t consider themselves artistic. At 58 percent, even more respondents said they weren’t...
Trying To Learn To Cry On Cue, The Way Actors Do
Journalist Rachel Handler talks to a somatic psychotherapist, an acting coach to major stars, that coach's son, and several actors and directors, all in...
Debunking Reasons For Looking At Art
Art, I have preached, is for bildung, self-development, especially within the context of an undergraduate education. Art helps you to become a deeper, freer...
Merging American Sign Language Into Choreography Aimed At General Audiences
"(There's) a wider shift in the performing arts, one that is more artistically fulfilling for Deaf and ASL-fluent artists and that also repositions accessibility:...
Alonzo King: Attaching Dance To The World
That prospect of dance having a life and an urgency beyond an arrangement of steps has fueled King’s path as a dancer and a...
This Upstart Has Surpassed Netflix To Become Africa’s Number-One Streamer
"Showmax — (a South African company) spun out of Africa’s largest entertainment (conglomerate), MultiChoice, in 2015 — had 2.1 million subscribers on the continent...
France Has Expanded Eligibility For Its “Talent Visa” To Include Performers and Artists
The "passeport talent," launched in 2017 for certain highly-skilled individuals, now includes entrepreneurs, investors, and staff employees (as well as freelancers) judged likely to...
The Oldest Rock Art In South America Is Far Older Than Was Thought
"After more than a decade of work, scientists from Argentina, Chile and the United States have successfully dated the Huenul 1 cave paintings in...
Ron DeSantis Is Now Backing Away From All The Book Bans He Helped Start...
"Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday came out in support of a proposal to limit book bans in schools. ... In a press conference, DeSantis...
Maine’s Portland Museum Of Art Lays Off More Than 10% Of Its Staff
"The 13 layoffs include salaried and hourly employees on (the) roughly 100-person staff. Front-line support staff … will not be impacted by staff reductions."...
Inside The Rural Alabama Radio Station Whose Entire Transmission Tower Was Stolen
"Many in Jasper, a city of about 14,000 (located) 40 miles northwest of Birmingham, fear the culprits have taken more than a heap of...
Verbier Festival Hires A Second CEO
Hervé Boissière, a former senior executive at Naïve Records who went on to found Medici.TV, where he is CEO, and who's also executive director...
The Web As We Know It Is About To Change
Seeking information using a search engine could be almost completely replaced by this new generation of large language model-powered systems. - The Wall Street...
Book Bans Are Bad Enough. Stripping Libraries Of Funding Is A Whole Other Bad
While the nation has been focusing on book bans, school libraries all around us have gone without enough (noncontroversial) books. Or inviting furniture. Or amenities that would help...
Will A Show Of Chuck Close’s Final Work Help Restore His Place In Art?
Arne Glimcher said the controversy surrounding Close is not his concern. “There has been too much about Chuck that isn’t about the art,” he...
100 Years Later “Rhapsody In Blue” Is Still Riling Up Debate
Rhapsody in Blue opened up a wider set of debates about the relationship between “high art” and popular art, about racism and cultural differences, about...
