Louisville Ballet Makes Cuts To Next Season And Is Trying To Raise $3 Million...
"Tax documents from 2010-2020, which are the most recent available from the IRS, show that's an optimistic number, and in some cases, hundreds of...
Major Museums Hike Admission Fees
The trend started last July when the Metropolitan Museum of Art — New York’s largest art museum — raised its adult admission price to...
Wyoming Library Board Withdraws From Library Association, Fires Librarian For Not Removing Books
The board voted 4-1 to fire longtime library director Terri Lesley after months of tension surrounding her refusal to weed out the library’s shelves...
Hong Kong’s Big New Arts Center Is Facing A Terrifying Fiscal Cliff
The West Kowloon Cultural District was meant to be funded by income from adjacent office buildings — but, since COVID, the office market is...
All About Leonardo – Inside Google’s Masterclass in The Artist
The expansive project, titled “Inside a Genius Mind,” is a collaboration with 28 institutions around the world. It features 3,000 drawings, including 1,300 pages...
Well, There’s One Big Show Business Event Unscathed By The Hollywood Strikes: Montreal’s Just...
"To be sure, stand-up artists gathered in Montreal like summer camp for their industry have been looking with great interest to the stalled contract...
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Names New Director
Giovanna Sardelli will serve as the company’s artistic director, after a brief turn in the position on an interim basis following the departure of...
Threads: How A Small Team Built An Alternative To Twitter From Scratch In Seven...
"(The app's fast creation and launch) has become something of a marvel inside Meta. … Many see its quick rise as a reminder that...
British Museum Director Steps Down
As well as overseeing the British Museum during the Covid pandemic, Hartwig Fischer has faced growing controversy over one of the institution’s cultural highlights...
Why “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” Was So Brilliant At What It Did
"(The show) made perfect sense. Kids are wigged-out surrealists by nature; it takes grown-ups to regiment their impulses into predictable TV formats. ... Maybe...
Paris Olympics Organizers Say The Bookseller Stalls Along The Seine Must Move, And The...
The opening ceremony, rather than being in a stadium, will be a parade of boats down the river through the city, and authorities say...
Judi Dench Says She Can No Longer See On A Movie Set Or Read...
Says the 88-year-old actress, who had already revealed her macular degeneration, "You just deal with it. Get on. It's difficult for me if I...
Myth Debunked: Antiquities Trafficking Is Not The World’s Third-Largest Illegal Trade, Finds Study
"Though (the researchers) agree that the illegal trade in antiquities is a matter of serious concern, they argue that the reiteration of and reliance...
Last Of The Big Holdouts Gives In: Hyperion Records Is Finally Making Its Catalog...
The classical label's founding father and son, Ted and Simon Perry, insisted for years that they'd allow their recordings to be accessed only by...
Why Are The Big Studios Risking Everything?
They don't exactly have a history of making great decisions: "Hollywood has a history of treating evolving consumer habits first as a threat to...
Why Aren’t More Women Playing The Trombone?
Hillary Simms, the first woman in the American Brass Quintet, would like to solve that by inspiring more girls and women - which involves...
Book-Tok Has Revolutionized Book Marketing. Now It’s Going To Publish Books, And…
Called 8th Note Press, the proposed entity seems to sit at the intersection of a major publisher and a site like Amazon or Goodreads,...
How AI Is Training On The Work Of Artists It Will Replace
There's a model with Stability AI that utilizes a large data set called LAION. It contains 5.8 billion text and image data pairs. And...
Sorry, But London Is No Longer A Classical Music Capital
London achieved its musical status in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, adding two new symphony orchestras and drawing a surprised endorsement from Arturo...
Paul Reubens, Actor Who Played More Than Pee-Wee Harman, Is Dead At 70
He first developed the Pee-wee character in the 1970s as a member of the Groundlings, then went on to a popular stage show, two...
Inflamed. Impertinent. Insightful: How D.H. Lawrence Read Literature
Lawrence’s bristling, inflamed, impertinent language provides a reminder that criticism is not just the work of the brain, but of the gut and the...
The Rise Of AI-Generated “Adjacent” Culture
There’s a lot of talk of “innovation” in Silicon Valley, a term that usually means destroying things that work in favor of things that...
How Translated Books Have Found A New Generation Of Readers
There seems to be a transgressive quality to some translated fiction. Is that appealing? “That genre of ‘messed-up’ books has just exploded on TikTok.”...
Classical Music And The Streaming Wars
"I can’t put myself in the unisex Crocs of a young person exploring classical music for the first time, but Apple Classical strikes me...
Why Hollywood Is At The Precipice
Hollywood has a history of treating evolving consumer habits first as a threat to theatrical dollars and then as a tool to be co-opted...
