There’s A New Oscar Category For Casting. Not Many People Really Get What It’s...
“Even in a case where a star comes on first, … the casting director has to build an entire world around them — not...
Should Struggling Artists And Performers Get Preference In New York City’s Affordable Housing Programs?
After all, large numbers of creatives have been fleeing the city, driven away mostly by the high cost of apartments. But would such a...
Chaos At One Of San Francisco’s Beloved Indie Performance Venues
“CounterPulse … is in crisis caused by financial strain, leadership collapse and a bitter labor conflict. With just one show on its calendar for...
New York State Governor Proposes $150 Million Retroactive Extension Of Theater Tax Credits
“(State agency) Empire State Development … currently isn’t accepting applications for the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit. … The proposed...
There’s A New Cliburn Competition Coming — This One For Conductors
“The first Cliburn International Competition for Conductors will take place in 2028 in Houston. … The competition will be hosted in partnership with the...
Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley Public Media Lays Of Half Its Staff
“The Bethlehem-based organization, which includes PBS39, WLVR radio and the Lehigh Valley News website, will lose about half of its workforce, which had stood...
Finally, A Ballet Shoe That Incorporates Athletic-Shoe Technology
Seth Orza, when he was a principal with Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, developed plantar fasciitis and couldn’t find a shoe that would give...
The Remarkable Art In A Building The Federal Government Has Marked For Sale
What would happen to the murals is an open question, as removing them may prove difficult. Advocates for the building fear that without protections...
The Erasure Of Paul Robeson
He was once the most famous Black American in the world, and one of the most accomplished: college football and NFL star, a degree...
The Wrong Way To Popularize Classical Music
In execution, this theory works very simply: Don’t change the music; change the way you deliver it. Do the opposite of what institutions are...
The Real Battle For The Smithsonian
Americans argue about the Smithsonian far more than we would if only its possessions mattered. When our museums of record tell us a story,...
Science Peer Review Journals Are Being Swamped By AI Slop
For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re...
Rarely-Seen Leonardo Da Vinci Mural In Milan Opened To Public For Winter Olympics
For just over five weeks, from February 7 to March 14, visitors will be allowed to climb the towering 20-foot scaffold inside the Sforza...
Napa Art Museum Selling Its Estate Because Of Financial Pressures
The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa has listed its 217-acre estate for $10.9 million, less than a year after announcing a...
Snubs In This Year’s Oscar Nominations
The overlooking of the Good Witch was truly Wicked. Then again, crowd pleaser Wicked: For Good got basically nothing overall, so maybe it’s time to reconsider that...
La Scala Finished 2025 With Record Box Office
La Scala closed 2025 with record ticket sales of over €40 million (+7.3% compared to 2024). Added to this is the record revenue of...
Hollywood’s “Woke” Era Has Emphatically Ended
For anyone fantasizing about Hollywood as some liberal bulwark, though, the 2024 election brought that idea to an abrupt halt. The industry’s era of...
Unique, “Priceless” Medieval Manuscript Discovered In English School Library
The book is the only surviving complete original manuscript of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vitae, written circa 1340. - BBC (MSN)
Will The Met Opera Sell Its Chagalls?
New York’s Metropolitan Opera is facing a serious financial crunch, and may sell two beloved Marc Chagall murals to help fill the gap—but if it does, it will...
Hundreds Of Artists Warn About AI Slop
Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call “theft at a grand scale” by AI...
The Messy Details Of Extracting Washington National Opera From The Kennedy Center
Extracting the endowment after 15 years of operating under the auspices of the Kennedy Center will take more work—and a lot of lawyers. “It...
BBC Strikes Deal To Produce Original Content For YouTube
Under the agreement, the BBC will grow its number of YouTube channels to 50, which includes those operated by commercial arm, BBC Studios. New...
Director And Designers Demand Their Names Be Removed From Met Opera’s “Carmen”
Carrie Cracknell’s staging has Escamillo (here a rodeo star rather than a bullfighter) enter to the “Toreador Song” in a Jaguar convertible followed by...
Oscar Nominations 2026: “Sinners” Sets All-Time Record With 16 Nods
Director Ryan Coogler’s Mississippi Delta vampire epic has surpassed the 14-nomination record jointly held by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. Paul...
Trump Administration Just Won’t Let Its Court Fight Against Institute Of Museums And Library...
“Although the IMLS restored discretionary grant funding in December and just last week reopened to grant proposals for FY 2026 — in compliance with a November court order...
