The Ideas Challenging This Year’s Turner Prize Finalists
This year’s prize arrives at a moment when sculpture, funding structures and art education are becoming unusually entangled. - The Conversation
Blame It On The Culture
Someone observes a behavioral difference between groups or countries. They can’t immediately identify the mechanism. So, they invoke “culture” as an explanation or, even...
After Implosion Of The Adelaide Book Festival, A New Director
Both Newcastle and Adelaide made the decision to invite Abdel-Fattah but only one imploded over it. So what went differently for Rosemarie Milsom? -...
A Binational $1.3 Million Program To Fund Individual Creatives In San Diego And Tijuana
“At its core, Artists Count consists of a $1.3 million fund, available to active artists in both San Diego and Tijuana. In addition, a...
Does Reading Help?
Books do not create a higher form of conversation but instead allow for a unique ‘fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of...
Cutting The Baby In Half? Venice Biennale Jury Says It Won’t Consider Russia Or...
The Venice Biennale‘s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International...
Remembering MTT
Thomas was also an example of an artistic leader serving as a guiding star for an entire geographic area - emphasizing the importance of audiences...
Berlin’s Controversial Culture Chief Resigns After Less Than A Year
“Sarah Wedl-Wilson has stood down over a funding scandal involving the irregular distribution of €2.6 million in public money for programmes to fight antisemitism....
The Complicated Calculations Behind FOMO
By recognising the social orientation of the experience, we can take a step towards understanding the nature of FOMO and what it can do...
How Long Should Movies Have To Wait In Theatres Before They Go To Streaming?
Maybe the middle ground was 45 days. Because at CinemaCon 2026, every single studio, not just Universal, reiterated its commitment to windows of at least that...
Send In The Pool Guy: Trump Wants To Replace The Capitol Mall Reflecting Pool
He complained that the 2,030-foor by 167-foot pool, which was built in 1922 between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, “never looked great” because...
Nicholas Hytner’s London Theatre Company Is Looking To Sell Its Home, The Bridge Theatre
“The Stage understands the Bridge Theatre, which opened in October 2017 and was founded by former National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner and executive director...
After Four Decades Out Of Print, Octavia Butler’s “Lost” Novel Is Back
Butler was not happy with her 1978 novel Survivor, and she forbade any reprint of it. But her estate, along with her publisher and...
Yet Another Construction Delay For Berlin’s Modern Art Museum
“Another day, another setback for Berlin‘s long awaited Berlin Modern, as moisture damage in the building’s shell and microbial contamination in other parts of the structure...
Warner Bros. Shareholders Overwhelmingly Reject CEO’s $800 Million+ Golden Parachute
“Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav‘s compensation tied to the company’s pending merger with Paramount was rejected by an eye-opening 82% of shareholders.” Unfortunately, that vote...
Arkansas Public Television Gets $3 Million Pledge — If It Stays With PBS
“The ‘challenge grant’ requires $1 million to be used per year for three years, on the condition that the network retains its PBS membership...
EU Cuts Funding For Venice Biennale Because Of Russia’s Participation
“The European Commission has informed the Biennale foundation of the (€2 million/$2.3 million) funding cut over three years, and the Biennale has 30 days...
Saudis Pull Out Of $200 Million Deal With Met Opera
Under the arrangement, the Saudi government would have provided the Met with $200 million in badly needed funding in exchange for the company performing...
Sir Humphrey Appleby at the Opera
Yes, Minister ran on BBC television in the early 1980s, the early Thatcher years (I’ll come back to the importance of this). I enjoyed it at the time (I was pretty young), and recalled it when I went to work in government myself in the 1990s. Canada has a UK-style Westminster
NYC Ballet Star Takes A Big Leap: Wearing Hearing Aids Onstage
“Sara Mearns was missing her cues. She couldn’t hear what her dance partner was saying from across the studio. She was late for her...
A Backlash To Biennales?
But with the boom came backlash: the suspicion that biennales were above all an excuse for a tote-bag-wearing international art crowd to descend on...
Warner Shareholders Approve Sale To Paramount
Shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery voted to sell the company to David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance for $31 a share in cash at a special virtual meeting Wednesday morning. The...
Director Joe Mantello On Time In “Death Of A Salesman”
“One of the questions I always have is whether Willy is having flashbacks, or if he has some kind of dementia. … Miller said...
Musicians Are Using AI At All Levels. They Don’t Want To Talk About It
Tech companies with billion-dollar valuations are extracting value from copyrighted music on the internet and selling it as a service: making music-making easier and,...
A 60s Art Experiment That Redefined How We Think About Creativity
The discovery of this “problem-finding” creative process was a seminal moment in creativity research. In the decades since, countless researchers have shown that many of the...
