A New Magazine For Art Criticism
"Our goal is to shift industry standards. Capitalism swallows its own critiques, and we really are dedicated to waiting to scale. We have ambitions...
CNN’s New Boss’s “Revolution”: Smaller Budgets And Slashed Salaries For Stars
"CNN boss Mark Thompson is looking to fund his digital-first transformation by cutting anchor salaries — currently more than $50 million — as he...
A Rising Movement For Academic Freedom (But How To Define It?)
Over the past year, faculty groups dedicated to academic freedom have sprung up at Harvard, Yale and Columbia, where even some liberal scholars argue...
The Choreographer Who Came Up With Emma Stone’s Totally Insane Dance In “Poor Things”
Buenos Aires-born, Berlin-based dancemaker Constanza Macras also choreographed the warped courtly dance and the chase/fight in the woods in The Favourite. She says that...
Insurers Say The Biggest Danger To Museum Artworks Is — Well, Not Climate-Protesting Art...
It's "a scourge of selfie-takers backing into paintings and other objects. As many visitors are increasingly more interested in stunting for the ’gram than...
England’s Arts Funder Gives In To Backlash Against Its Warning About Grantees’ “Political Statements”
"A series of recent updates to (Arts Council England) policies … were met with fury from artists, writers and musicians. … Within hours, ACE...
And Who Has Swooped In To Buy Bankrupt Radio Giant Audacy? George Soros.
"(His) buyout of approximately $415 million of Audacy's debt would make his Soros Fund Management the largest stakeholder of the second-largest radio company in...
BBC Says It Has “Secured The Future” Of The BBC Singers
Last year, public outrage caused the broadcaster to abandon its plan to dissolve the 20-member BBC Singers. Now the network has announced a partnership...
National Book Awards Extends Eligibility To Non-US Citizens
"The change will affect prizes for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature to begin including authors 'who maintain their primary, long-term home in...
English National Opera’s Orchestra Ends Its Strike Threat
All labor action planned for February has been called off as the company and the Musicians' Union have come to a revised agreement about...
Can Humans Survive AI?
“Biological extinction, that’s not the point. The light of humanity and our understanding, our intelligence — our consciousness, if you will — can go on without meat humans.”...
How Arts Council England Coerces
"A number of programming staff at a major ACE-funded organisation recently described to me how they were investigated by its HR department after inviting...
Royal Ontario Museum To Redesign, Make First Floor Free Admission
"We call it OpenROM, a transformative project that will both literally and figuratively open the museum up even more, creating a thriving cultural and...
Like A Switch Flipped: Today’s College Students Have A Reading Comprehension Disability
Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no...
Judge Throws Out Some Artist Claims Against OpenAI
In the ruling, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín threw out claims on vicarious copyright infringement, DMCA violations, negligence, and unjust enrichment. The court did not believe...
The Allure Of The Grand Gesture
Classic grand gestures from novels and films are defined by a kind of sacrifice: hallmarks include the willingness to be rejected. - The Point
With Las Vegas Philharmonic Between Music Directors, Leonard Slatkin Will Fill In
Donato Cabrera ends his 10-year term as the orchestra's music director this summer; with no successor yet appointed, Slatkin will serve as Artistic Consultant....
BodyTraffic Aims To Be LA’s Dance Company
For most of its existence BODYTRAFFIC has been better known and more appreciated outside of LA than in its hometown, in great part because...
How Hard Is It To Make Animated Characters Cry? Let The Animators Tell You
"Heaving sobs and effervescent teardrops are the result of the exacting labor of artists who must precisely illustrate, iterate on, time, and log their...
A Transformative Calder Gift To The Seattle Art Museum
Last April, the Shirleys donated 48 works by Alexander Calder to the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). While Calders proliferate in museums across the globe, these are...
Another San Francisco Theater Has To Do An Emergency Donate-Or-We-Close-Down Campaign
"Cutting Ball Theater, the 25-year-old company known for form-breaking new plays and rejuvenated classics, ... says it needs to raise $45,000 by March 1...
A Transformative $60 Million Gift To San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet has received a groundbreaking gift: It announced on Thursday that it had secured a $60 million contribution from an anonymous donor,...
Meet The Mother Of Contemporary African Dance
"Germaine Acogny studied dance at the École Simon-Siégel in Paris. She was the only black student (there) and a teacher criticised her 'big butt...
The Critical Importance Of Thelma Golden In The Art World
"I had known Thelma Golden for a decade before I fully absorbed the critical role she had played, and continues to play, in desegregating...
Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyers Appeal His Rape Conviction Before New York State’s Highest Court
The basis of the appeal is that the trial judge should not have allowed testimony from three other women whose alleged assaults by Weinstein...
