Louisville Ballet Artistic Director Robert Curran Resigns
"His resignation was announced via a news release Thursday. Curran has been in the role since 2014 … (and) was at the helm of...
Eight Ways Taylor Swift Has Changed The Music Business
She’s an advocate, a style icon, a marketing wiz, a prolific songwriter, a pusher of visual boundaries and a record-breaking road warrior. And she...
Dayton Ballet Has A New Artistic Director
"The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance named Brandon Ragland as artistic director of the second-oldest regional ballet company in the country. With more than 15...
Write For Free? An Existential Question
At a moment of upheaval in the arts, the suggestion that writing’s value may simply be intrinsic—a creative act worth less than the website...
Amsterdam Bans Cruise Ships
"Amsterdam is expected to receive over 18 million overnight visitors this year. By 2025, that number could reach 23 million, in addition to another...
Public Radio Stations In America’s Four Largest Media Markets Are Evidently Bleeding Listeners
Nielsen Audio ratings indicate that, over the past two years, market share and estimated listener numbers have fallen at an alarming rate at KQED...
Disney Is Trying To Sell Part Of ESPN To One Or More Of The...
"As Disney considers a strategic partner for ESPN, CEO Bob Iger and ESPN head Jimmy Pitaro have held early talks about bringing professional sports...
President Biden Will Establish National Monument To Emmett Till And Mamie Till-Mobley
"The new monument will be established across three locations in Illinois and Mississippi in an effort to protect places that tell Till's story, as...
House Republicans Move To Block Funding For Smithsonian’s Planned Latino History Museum
"The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved an interior and environment funding bill that bans the federal government from spending any taxpayer money on...
Concerns About Four Programs At Smithsonian’s Asian-American Literary Festival Were Flagged Hours Before It...
The flagging was part of a routine procedure before Smithsonian events. The institution insists that the festival was called off because the organizers were...
Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels Next Spring’s Tour To California
Concerts in early March in Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, and Palm Desert were found "no longer financially viable" due to "significant increases...
An Encouraging Weekend At The Movie Box Office
“Barbie” ended up with $162 million in its first weekend of release, above Sunday’s already record-breaking estimate of $155 million. "Oppenheimer,” too, beat expectations with $82.4...
A Crisis In The Avant Garde (Or, Where Are The Provocateurs?)
What’s to blame for the lack of a coherent movement? If the avant-garde is dead, what killed it — and what’s been lost along...
Why (Despite Repeated Attempts) Books Can’t Be Disrupted By Technology
One reason books haven’t been particularly disruptable might be that many of the people looking to “fix” things couldn’t actually articulate what was broken—whether...
Odesa Cathedral Hit By Russian Missiles
This was the second time that the vast, sand-yellow Transfiguration Cathedral, which sits in the heart of Odesa’s Unesco-listed historic centre, had been attacked:...
End Of An Era: Yoko Ono Moves Out Of The Dakota And NYC
After a half century Ms. Ono has moved out of New York City to the sprawling Catskills farm she bought with Mr. Lennon in 1978....
“Sustainability” Festival Canceled After Being Unmasked As Conspiracy Theories Event
The Think Local Festival, which promised attendees the chance to “discover the roots and taste of tradition,” was due to be held on Wednesday...
Master Of The Universe: An Epic NYer Profile Of Larry Gagosian
Traditionally, the model for dealers has been to bet on raw talents, and support these artists until work by some of them sells well...
Why Presidents In The Movies Always Look Young
On screen we want our romantic leads flawless, our sitcom families lower middle-class but quirky, and our presidents capable of single-handedly killing terrorists and...
Comic-Con Without The Actors Was Quite Different This Year
But, some whispered, was it better? At least for regular cosplayers? "All the excitement that we’re not getting from the panels and stuff, we’re...
New Building Material: Fungus?
A new piece was "built using a paste of mycelium and sawdust that’s pumped inside a fabric formwork. ... hardened into a moderately...
There’s A New Guerrilla Artist Residency In IKEA
Which IKEA? Well, that depends on where the residency applicants live. In Burbank, one artist "pulled out a tub of IKEA’s MÅLA modeling dough...
The Deep Crisis In The United States’s Regional Theatres
"'It’s impossible not to be distraught about the state of the field,' said Christopher Moses, an artistic director of the Alliance Theater in Atlanta....
How A Grammy-Winning Jazz Composer Learned To Trust Her Creative Instincts
Maria Schneider says that "the pressures in your life, good and bad, just affect music so much. ... When you look back, it's...
The Front Line In Ukraine’s Opera Houses And Pop Concerts
"Before the curtain, an announcement: 'In the event of an air raid or siren, we ask you to adjourn to the shelter. If the...
