Northern England’s Top Concert Hall Gets A New Name: The Glasshouse
"For 19 years it has been called Sage (Gateshead) after a deal with its donor the Newcastle-based software company Sage. But the tech firm...
Fox Corp. Sued By New York City And Oregon For Lies About 2020 Election
"New York City's pension funds and the state of Oregon took legal action on Tuesday against Fox Corporation, alleging in a lawsuit that the...
2023 Praemium Imperiale Goes To Marsalis, Eliasson, Celmins, Wilson, Kéré
The five recipients of the Japan Art Association's 15 million yen ($102,000) prize, conceived as a Nobel for the arts, are composer/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis,...
The Gilmore Artist Award, A Sort Of MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship For Pianists, Goes To...
The $300,000 quadrennial grant, like the MacArthur, can't be applied for, and candidates don't know they're being considered. Kantorow, now 26, is in illustrious...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago CEO Anthony Freud Announces Early Retirement
The company's fourth general director, and the first to come from elsewhere (he had previously run Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera), Freud...
Arts Leadership Shakeups In Portland, Oregon
The opera, symphony and several other organizations have new leadership. It's a changing of the guard familiar now in many American communities. - Oregon...
Spotify Denies “30-Second-Loop” Can Game Royalties Payout
Concerns have been raised that artificial streaming - where devices run chosen tracks on loop - is hindering the music industry, with JP Morgan...
Your 2034th Admonition: You Really Should Care About The Data Companies Are Collecting On...
Retail companies do collect massive volumes of terrifically sensitive data. They do this not only to predict your future behavior, but to influence it....
The Complicated Rise Of Curators Of Color
This tension—between changing the institution from the inside and protesting it from the outside—is not only a psychological conflict for young curators, often of...
The Living Heritage Of Marrakech Lost In The Earthquake
The UNESCO designation was a historical acknowledgment of the traditions of poor and rural communities that can often get left out of larger conversations...
An Initiative: 18 Communities And Theatre Around An Idea
Given the atomization of American culture, the communities will not present a single show — in fact, many of them are not staging shows...
Does Studying A New Language Interfere With The Foreign Languages You’ve Already Learned?
"This is a frequent observation among multilinguals, that 'Languages can co-exist, but they tussle, as do siblings, over mental resources and attention,' as (language...
So You Want To Make A Play. It’s Tough…
We quit on our work much more readily than our work quits on us. We walk away, we claim defeat, we belittle our inadequate...
1948, The Worst Year Of John Steinbeck’s Life
"His best friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, had died in a train crash, before his second wife, Gwyn, left him and took their...
Own Culture? You Better Have A Physical Copy Of It
Every time news breaks of one of these deletions, a refrain echoes online: Buy physical media! The internet is too impermanent, the argument goes: The real...
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Still Teach Us About Grief: Teju Cole On Seeing...
"'Tragedy,' in drama, is concerned with suffering, but there's more to it than that. ... Individuals inherit fallout from events in the remote past,...
Disney/Charter Deal Demonstrates The Weakness Of The Cable And Streaming Businesses
The traditional TV business is losing customers until it hits a bottom that it may take a while to find. Streaming is losing money...
Drew Barrymore Breaks The Hollywood Strikes To Restart Her Talk Show, And She’s Getting...
"Barrymore was initially announced as host of the Nov. 15 (National Book Awards) in late July. Now, just days after some protested her decision...
Who Benefits From Dance Company Apprenticeships?
As trainees and apprentices, dancers may perform on professional stages for years without being compensated. Not everyone can afford to work for free—much less...
The Van Gogh In The Ikea Bag: Why The Criminals Who Had It Gave...
The purloined painting, says the art detective to whom it was returned, "was a little bit cursed." - The Guardian
The Punk Trio That Co-Directs France’s National Ballet Of Marseille
"They may only be three but they are a horde. They are (La)Horde. … How did the threesome end up as artistic directors of...
Billionaire’s Heirs Will Return 33 Looted Statues To Cambodia
"In one of the most significant repatriations of art to Cambodia from a private collection, the family of billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to...
Oscar-Winning Writer Of “Moonlight” And “Choir Boys” Named Geffen Playhouse’s Artistic Director
"An ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company," Tarell Alvin McCraney "is professor of playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale...
Evidence For A Putin War Crimes Trial In A New Report On Destruction Of...
"(The briefing) by the NGO Blue Shield International has tentatively made the claim that the Putin regime has premeditatively, systematically — and provably —...
The Dude Endowment: $40 Million Gift To New York Philharmonic To Fund Gustavo Dudamel’s...
"The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he...
