Thousands Of Berlin’s Arts Workers Protest City’s Decision To Require Arts Funding Recipients To...
The authors of a petition signed by more than 4,000 people "are concerned the addition of this clause as a prerequisite for funding will...
How BuzzFeed Got Itself $200 Million In Debt, And How It (Maybe) Can Get...
It all started when, in 2021, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti decided he wanted to take the company public using a SPAC (remember those?), all...
New York’s Number-One Opera And Ballet Superfan Bequeathed $1.7 Million To City Cultural Institutions
From the estate of Lois Kirschenbaum, who spent decades attending opera and ballet and collecting autographs at Lincoln Center and elsewhere, "donations of $215,000...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts To Shut Down Its Degree Programs
"The Academy … will keep its museum open and fully operating. It plans to carry on classes in continuing education and its K-12 arts...
Amazon Is Laying Off Hundreds Of People At Its Video Studios
"Amazon is laying off “several hundred” employees at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios. Additionally, 500 employees — or 35% of the workforce —...
It’s Not Just The British Museum: Many Of England’s Museums Have Items Missing
"Freedom of information requests by the PA news agency to museums and galleries that receive public funding from the (national government) asking for details...
New Tax On UK Orchestras Touring In Europe Is The Latest Brexit Blow
A new Brexit tax hike set to hit U.K. orchestras later this year could make trips to Europe “unviable” and undermine their activities back...
Study: How Music Puts Us In “Sync”
“I am interested in how being ‘in sync’ with other people through the experience of music-making and other forms of artistic expression supports a...
Generative AI Is Still In Its Infancy. We Need To Treat It Like A...
A.I. is in the phase when kids live like tiny energetic monsters, before they’ve learned to be thoughtful about the world and responsible for...
Just Because Western European Culture Has Been Dominant For A Long Time Doesn’t Mean...
First was the original ‘world order’ created by Genghis Khan (and his house) in the 13th century. If there is indeed an ‘East’ that is distinct...
Why The LA Public Library Bought A Book Publisher
The LAPL, which manages 73 branches and houses more than 8 million books, has lately been much more ambitious than even the average big-city...
Russian Billionaire’s Aide Testifies In Court About Sotheby’s Alleged Role Convincing Him To Overpay...
An adviser to a Russian billionaire asserted in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he and his boss had been tricked by a Swiss...
The Woman Bringing Poetry Slams To Zambia
After she discovered the work of African-American spoken-word poets, Vanessa Chisakula co-founded Word Smash Poetry in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, and she's seen poetry events...
A New Center To Give Shape To Creativity Of Lakota Artists
The Artspace is the latest manifestation of a resurgence of Native cultural traditions and ceremonies and the increased national and international visibility of Indigenous...
Poland’s Old Government Politicized The Public Broadcaster. The New Government’s Having Trouble Undoing The...
As Civic Platform, the leading party in the new governing coalition, put it last year, "Poles deserve real public television, not like Russia Today,...
Is It Ethical To Have AI Complete A Painting Keith Haring Deliberately Left Unfinished?
Haring created the 1989 work titled Unfinished Painting as a comment on the lives unlived and the creativity unrealized because of the AIDS epidemic,...
Jonathon Heyward On The Future Of The Baltimore Symphony
I don’t want it to be an art form where people feel like it’s only for certain types of people. Because it’s not. I...
The San Francisco Symphony Has Cut Back Its SoundBox Concerts. How Worrisome Is This?
The orchestra says it reduced the programming to save money, because SoundBox concerts lose a lot of it even when they sell out. Yet...
When AI Comes For Culture (Who Cares Who Gets Hurt?)
If A.I. is the key to a gleaming utopia or else robot-induced extinction, what does it matter if a few poets and painters got bilked...
SAG-AFTRA Deal Will Let Actors License Their Voices For AI Cloning For Video Games
"Under a new deal with an artificial intelligence company, members of the Screen Actors Guild will be able to create and license digital simulations...
Teachers At Second City In Chicago Are Set To Strike Next Week
"Unionized teachers and others at the Second City Training Center said Tuesday they have authorized a strike and will set up a picket line...
As Interest In His Work Grows, Thornton Wilder’s Estate Appoints A New Literary Executor
"Jeremy McCarter, the former New York magazine drama critic and co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of the behind-the-scenes book Hamilton: The Revolution, has been named...
To Solve Audience Confusion, Philadelphia Orchestra/Kimmel Center Renames Itself Ensemble Arts Philly
Following the 2021 merger of the orchestra with the organization that operates its concert hall and three other venues (and presents shows in a...
Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art Is Losing Board Members Following CEO’s Unexplained Departure
Six of the board's 30 members have stepped down since Colette Pierce Burnette suddenly left Newfields in November after only 15 months as CEO....
Sales Of Ink-On-Paper Books Were Down 2.6% In 2023
"Helped by a 1.7% increase in the fourth quarter, unit sales of print books fell only 2.6% in 2023 from 2022. ... The dip...
