This Museum Employee Committed An Unusually Brazen Theft
The unnamed, now-former collections management staffer at the Deutsches Museum in Munich took one painting right off the gallery wall, replaced it with a...
Founder Of Philly Fringe Festival Is Stepping Down After 27 Years
Nick Stuccio established the Philly Fringe in 1997, inspired by a visit to the Edinburgh Fringe. Over the years, the festival has grown from...
Is Homework Good For Kids?
“Homework is seen to benefit time management, self-discipline, organizational skills, but there have been no studies that really have shown that homework actually...
Why AI Companies Are Hiring An Army Of Writers
A string of job postings from high-profile training data companies, such as Scale AI and Appen, are recruiting poets, novelists, playwrights, or writers with a PhD or...
Literary Magazine The White Review Suspends Publication
This comes after the not-for-profit journal’s applications for funding were rejected by Arts Council England for three consecutive years. The charity relied on this...
China Has Been On A Museum-Building Spree. Now Some Of Them Are Closing
In the 2010s, China built new museums with a frenzy. According to the China Museums Association, 1,563 new museums opened between 2009 and 2014. They...
Unionized Workers At The Art Institute Of Chicago Win Their First Contract
Unionized employees of the Art Institute of Chicago museum (AIC) and its affiliated school, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), have secured their...
Lin-Manuel Miranda And Phylicia Rashad Head To Capitol Hill To Lobby For Theatre
The event, hosted by the Professional Non-Profit Theater Coalition, is poised to “shine a spotlight on the challenges facing the theater industry, showcase the...
When You’re A Musician And Your Brain Stops Speaking To Your Hands
"From another musician, I learned that my experience was not unique. This trusted colleague speculated I might suffer from musician’s focal dystonia. I was...
This Family Has Been Making Bronze Bells For More Than 1,000 Years
"The Marinellis have been handcrafting bronze bells (in the mountains of southern Italy) since at least the 11th century, although archaeological findings at nearby...
What Journalism Needs To Learn About AI
Journalism is trying to understand and harness GenAI’s power. There are countless experiments to computationally fabricate headlines, stories, images, videos, podcasts, broadcast personalities, and...
Now That Breakdancing Is A Competitive Sport, Team USA Has Fallen Behind
"As ambassadors of the country where breakdancing originated 50 years ago, members of Team USA have something to prove — and potentially to lose...
Why Being Mediocre Is The Better Choice
As of 2023, more than three-quarters of U.S. adults report feeling stressed at work, almost 60% experience elements of burnout, and almost 20% feel...
Leading Avant-Garde Theater Directors Are Turning To The Musicals Of Andrew Lloyd Webber (?!?)
Ivo van Hove is bringing his video-heavy style to Jesus Christ Superstar in Amsterdam. Jamie Lloyd (loves Pinter, hates scenery) is staging Sunset Boulevard...
Still Leaving Voice Mails? Here’s The New Phone Etiquette
Just because someone is calling you out of the blue does not mean you have to pick up. - Washington Post
How Asian-American Parents Teach Their Kids Heritage Languages They Themselves Can Barely Speak
"In the U.S., bringing a heritage language back into a family usually comes down to the efforts of individuals. The parents I spoke with...
Why Hollywood’s European Connection Is Growing
We’ve always been an international industry, but the pandemic has really illuminated that fact in some ways, both in physical production, as well as...
England’s Second City Is Bankrupt. Arts Groups Fear It Might Sell Off Its Cultural...
"After Birmingham city council declared itself in effect bankrupt this month, there has been growing speculation about what assets could be sold to help...
Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland Sues Poland’s Minister Of Justice For Defamation
"The three-time Oscar-nominated Polish director is going ahead with her defamation suit against minister Zbigniew Ziobro after Ziobro refused to apologize for public comments...
Agnieszka Holland On Her Award-Winning Refugee Film, “Green Border”, And Why Poland’s Government Is...
"The decision to do the film the way I did (came from) working in a country that uses police, and its military forces to...
Archaeologist Helping Manhattan DA Identify Looted Antiquities Complains That His Work Never Gets Credited
“They are taking my work and presenting it as theirs,” said Christos Tsirogiannis. “They are showing off with my academic work and not giving...
Juilliard’s Acting MFA Program Will Become Tuition-Free
The change, which takes effect in fall 2024, "follows other acting programs that have stopped charging tuition, including the Yale School of Drama, which...
Actor Michael Gambon Is Dead At 82
"(His) extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National Theatre to screen roles in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films....
Daniel Barenboim’s Successor In Berlin Will Be —
— the man everyone presumed it would be. Christian Thielemann will become general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and chief conductor of...
Inside The British Museum Scandal
It is not just the losses that are so damaging but also the way the museum has dealt with the issue since antiques dealer...
