Dancers Sue Shen Yun Over Working Conditions
The complaint itself alleges that children as young as 13 years old worked grueling 15-hour training schedules at least six days a week, in exchange...
A Brief History of The Can-Can
“The identikit all-female spectacle we know so well is the opposite of how the cancan first began in the working-class dancehalls of Paris, where...
Canada’s Founding Document May Be Sold At Auction
Experts, historians, and Indigenous groups argue the item isn’t just surplus inventory but part of the country’s origin story. They are calling for its...
Artist Suppliers Struggle With Tariffs And Uncertainty
Some arts suppliers have been preparing to pass the costs of tariffs on to their consumers. Canal Plastics Center, a plastics fabrication company in SoHo,...
Trump’s Movie Tariffs Are More About Cultural Protectionism Than Money
Amid an ongoing tariff war, Trump’s proposal — which may ultimately remain an empty threat — goes beyond economic protectionism. It is cultural protectionism. It also...
“A Hot Mess” At Philadelphia’s Arts Magnet High School
Students, parents, staff and former staff at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts say that a toxic atmosphere, worsened by allegedly...
Why Culture Has Always Been At The Center Of North American Trade
Free-trade agreements radically reshaped the economies and public understandings of the western hemisphere in the late 20th century. Political scientist Guy Poitras argues that North...
As The 300+-Year-Old Hudson Bay Company Dissolves, What Should Be Done With Its Art...
Some HBC records have provided a window into Canada’s climate history and ecology, offering valuable long-term data to environmental researchers. Others show evidence of Indigenous...
It Is, After All, The Library Of <i>Congress</i>: Lawmakers Push Back Against Trump Takeover
On Capitol Hill, Democrats said Tuesday they did not believe that Blanche was the acting librarian — and Republicans, who have repeatedly deferred to...
Yum! Espresso Made From Venice Canal Water Wins Architecture Biennale’s Top Prize
The project — “Canal Café” by Diller Scofidio + Renfro — filters water from Venice’s notoriously polluted canals and lagoon through a series of...
Trump Escalates Punishment Of Harvard
Harvard quickly responded Tuesday evening, filing an amended complaint in its lawsuit against the Trump administration, objecting to numerous actions federal officials have taken...
This Is What The Power Shift At The Kennedy Center Really Looks Like
Probably the most searing impact of the takeover has been the exclusion of small, local groups for whom the Kennedy Center gig was the...
Big Fight Over UK AI Copyright Transparency Bill
An amendment to the data bill requiring AI companies to reveal which copyrighted material is used in their models was backed by peers, despite...
Bay Area Is Evidently Losing Yet Another Theater Company
“Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company plans to ‘suspend’ producing shows (next season), taking a possible step toward closure. The company hopes to continue to exist in some form,...
Ten Heritage Foundation Arguments Against The NEA, And How To Answer Them
Ben Davis: “I think it’s important for NEA advocates to actually understand the spectrum of arguments ranged against them, and not rely on dated...
English National Opera Names André De Ridder Music Director
The German conductor, currently Generalmusikdirektor of the Theater Freiburg, succeeds Martyn Brabbins, who resigned in 2023 to protest ENO management’s proposed elimination of 19...
Screenwriter-Director Robert Benton, Winner Of Three Oscars, Is Dead At 92
Of the nine films he wrote and directed, the best-known are the two for which he won Academy Awards: Kramer vs. Kramer (for screenplay...
Authors Guild Sues DOGE And NEH For Cancelling Grants
“A class action lawsuit was filed Monday by the Authors Guild, along with independent scholars and writers, against the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and officials within the...
Audible To Use AI For Narrating And Translating Audiobooks (But Not All of Them)
“Today, Audible announced it would begin offering AI-powered narration to select publishers. AI translation services will launch in beta later this year.” CEO Bob Carrigan pointed...
New York State Increases Tax Credit For Broadway Productions
“Included in the $254 billion budget is an expansion of the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, known colloquially as the downstate tax...
Ireland’s New National Dance Company Makes Its Debut
“Liz Roche, Artistic Director of Luail, Ireland's all-island dance company, (writes) about the beginnings of the company, as it prepares to make its highly anticipated...
Public Radio As An Empathy Machine
Public radio had been explicitly understood as an empathy machine since the dawn of This American Life in 1996. If we allow synonyms for empathy, radio...
On the frontiers of AI
Prelude, from The Onion:
Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport
Now then. A few days ago, my son googled “Franz Kafka Airport” and...
Read The Resignation Letter From NEA Literary Staffers
“We are processing a lot of complex emotions in this moment, as we imagine you are too in light of recent agency developments, but...
What We Learn From Close Reading
We all pretended that we knew what close reading meant. We not only talked about it but we did it. We knew it when...
