Sculptor Carl Andre, 88, Pioneer Of Minimalism
"(He) stripped sculpture to its essentials, paring (it) down until it existed as forms made from industrial materials that were not intended to evoke...
The Academy Clearly Doesn’t Understand “Barbie”
Before the nominations, there were whispers that snobbery would derail the film’s Oscar hopes, but the results show some puzzlement on the part of...
Four Ways AI Is Changing Music
AI tools analyse vast amounts of music data to learn patterns and styles, enabling them to generate compositions in any genre. This technology is not just...
Climate Disaster Movies Make More Impact Than Journalism
The power of cinema in communicating the climate crisis is undeniable. This is becoming increasingly apparent in my own research on the history of the environmental...
Entities Cranking Out Fake Research Papers Have A New Tactic — Bribing Editors
Cash-rich paper mills have evidently adopted a new tactic: bribing editors and planting their own agents on editorial boards to ensure publication of their...
Greil Marcus On The Art Of Writing Criticism
"I realized I had a choice as a writer: make the world bigger and more interesting and live in that world, and find a...
Performer In Marina Abramovic’s Nude Performance in 2010, Sues Museum Of Modern Art
"A performance artist who participated as a nude performer in the 2010 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present” has...
How Does Aszure Barton Describe Her Choreographic Language? Well, …
"Every time I’m asked (that) question, it’s like being asked for the first time. I am constantly changing, and it depends on the day...
Why Was The Art Gallery Of Ontario’s First Indigenous Curator Abruptly Fired In November?
News that Wanda Nanibush, the first Canadian and Indigenous art curator at the AGO, was leaving the institution shocked the Canadian art world. The...
“The Verse That Bears Witness To The Everyday”: A Look At Docupoetry
"For generations, through wars, crisis, and political upheaval, documentary poets have helped make sense of some of our most difficult moments – by expressing...
Ethical Considerations For AI in Art
Striking a balance between leveraging AI for creative enhancement and preserving the human element in art is a critical ethical consideration related to creative...
An Audience With Angela Gheorghiu, Who Was Very, Very Angela Gheorghiu
"I like to say that the fairies visited me when I was born and gave me what I needed to be an artist." And...
Why Are Theatre Audiences Behaving So Badly?
Perhaps there’s a feeling that, having spent upwards of, say, 180 quid on a pair of tickets for something, they’re entitled to a five...
How Does Trajal Harrell Work All Those Different Genres Into His Choreography?
"Who is this man? How does he seamlessly synthesize voguing and runway idioms with butoh, the dances of Greek antiquity, and modern and postmodern...
Australia’s Live Music Venues Being Squeezed Out By Increasing Insurance Costs
While some people’s bar-going and spending habits have shifted since the pandemic (not everyone is returning to their regular bar or pub-going routines), by...
Why And How Are So Many Roald Dahl Adaptations Coming To The Stage?
Jenny Worton of the theatre division at the Roald Dahl Story Company: "Because the stories are so beloved, and appear in lots of different...
Did Sexism Keep Greta Gerwig From Getting A Best Director Nomination For “Barbie”? (Not...
"Though Barbie had no trouble making it into the best picture category, which all members of the academy (may) vote on, the Gerwig snub...
The Razzie Awards Have Announced Their Nominations, Too: Expend4bles And Winnie The Pooh Lead
Expend4bles leads the nominees for the Golden Raspberry Awards with seven nods, followed by Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey with five, including Worst...
US COVID Relief Funding For The Arts: How Much Was There And Where Was...
"Using a broad definition of arts and culture inclusive of nonprofit and for-profit industries, $53 billion was awarded nationally to arts and culture via...
Germany Cuts The Value Of Its Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds In Half
Italy and France have for several years had similar programs giving 18-year-olds a few hundred euros to spend on performance tickets, books, or other...
National Art Gallery Burns Down In Georgia’s Breakaway Region Of Abkhazia
More than 4,000 items were destroyed and only about 150 pieces survived in the blaze that broke out early Sunday morning. Abkhazia broke away...
Charles Osgood, Beloved CBS TV And Radio Host, Has Died At 91
"In a varied career spanning more than a half-century, … (he) spent 22 years anchoring the CBS-TV staple “Sunday Morning” and decades as a...
Linguists Pick Their (Admittedly Quirky) Word Of The Year
In contrast to the prominent dictionaries that designated as their word of the year “rizz,” “hallucinate” and “authentic,” the American Dialect Society celebrates linguistic variation to...
A New Generation Of Architecture Wars
Architecture has been hit by a new sobriety. Tradition, apparently, is back. The reaction against ultramodern architecture arrived slowly at first, but accelerated with...
AI Writing May Be Aesthetically Pleasing But Incoherent. Okay With That?
The device has no way of knowing what its words refer to, as humans would, or even what it means for words to refer...
