US Supreme Court Rules Against Warhol In Copyright Case
The case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, No. 21-869, concerned the limits of the fair-use defense, which allows copying that...
A Setting Of The Orthodox Liturgy, Kept Hidden For A Century, Is Heard In...
Konstantin Shvedov composed his setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in 1913. It was kept secret through the Soviet years until Irina...
After A 15-Month Struggle, The Topless Dancers Of North Hollywood Have Finally Unionized
"Dancers at a North Hollywood topless bar," Star Garden, "will become the only strippers in the United States to gain union recognition after the...
Europol’s Most Recent Operation Pandora Raids Recovered 11,000 Stolen Artworks And Artifacts
"Pandora VII, which resulted in crackdowns across 14 European countries and was led by Spanish authorities, involved checks across airports, ports, border crossings, auction...
Penguin Random House And PEN America Sue Florida Over Book Bans
"PEN America, Penguin Random House, a group of authors, and a group of parents have filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida school district...
Montana Just Passed A Law Banning TikTok. But Can The State Enforce It?
"The law will prohibit downloads of TikTok in the state and fine any 'entity' — an app store or TikTok — $10,000 per day...
British Museum Faces Another Repatriation Request — For Asante Gold From Ghana
The Asante people's traditional monarch, "the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who attended the Coronation of King Charles, later met the museum director (to...
World’s Oldest Surviving Hebrew Bible Sells For $33 Million
"The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten (10th-century) parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased … on behalf of the American Friends...
As Another Round Of News Organizations Shut Down, What’s To Become Of Our Media...
As the ice floe keeps shrinking, watching the cycle play out feels increasingly grim. Online, writers and editors trade condolences, often in lieu of...
The Ethicist: Is A Colorblind “Fiddler On The Roof” Cultural Appropriation?
As I’ve argued before, the habit of reducing the complexities of identity and culture to a matter of ownership is an artifact of our own...
A Month After It Closed Down, Santa Fe’s Center For Contemporary Art Reopens
It was the shuttering of an art space that served Santa Fe for over four decades. Five weeks later, with a board member-initiated fundraising...
Ghost In The Machine: What Andy Warhol Understood About Computers And Art
He was one of the first who saw machines had something to offer to the artistic process. The artistic technique for which Warhol became...
Saudi Arabia Swings For The Culture Fences — The Complicated Blockbuster Pompidou Deal
The comparison for the Pompidou project is the Louvre Abu Dhabi. In that landmark 2007 deal, the UAE paid France €1 billion for a...
How Musical Hooks Embed Inside Your Brain
Much of modern pop could be described as a hook-delivery device: ‘Bad Romance’ by Lady Gaga or ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift, for...
This Ancient Amphitheatre Stages The Classics Of Greek Drama In Grand Style
The auditorium, carved out of a hillside in Syracuse on Sicily's southeastern coast, "seats 5,000. The stage is 27 metres wide and 44 deep;...
Podcast Producer PRX Cuts 10 Percent Of Staff, Blaming Declining Sponsor Income
With a roster of 124 active shows, PRX has been a steady, albeit low-key, podcast publisher. It had nearly 6.6 million unique U.S. listeners...
Who Was The First Modern Celebrity? Sarah Bernhardt
The great French actress wasn't the first to be famous solely for being famous (that phenomenon came later), but she was the first to...
On The Internet No One Knows You’re An AI
If a computer system can write code—as ChatGPT already can—then it might eventually learn to improve itself over and over again until computing technology reaches what’s...
Breakdancing Debuts At The 2024 Olympics. Meet Some Of The Hopeful Young Competitors
"Next summer, the best 16 B-boys and 16 B-girls from around the world will face off in solo battles soundtracked by a live DJ...
The Art Of Collecting: Heroes Or Plunderers?
As long as objects have been plundered, countries have called for their repatriation. Yet western popular culture has muted these voices, sometimes expressing anxiety...
U.S. Carmakers Are Eliminating AM Radio From Their Dashboards
"Despite protests from station owners, listeners, first-responders and politicians from both major parties, automakers … are removing AM radios from new electric vehicles because...
Philosophers And Their Obsession With Language
In the 20th century, Western philosophy split into two discourses, each with its own canon and jargon, usually referred to as ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’. Mastering...
Two Florida Moms At The Center Of The Fight Against Book Bans
"Jen Cousins and Stephana Ferrell track school board votes and the fates of books across Florida's 67 districts. They file public records requests, appear...
Nicholas Hytner’s Plan For Reforming British Arts Funding
The stage and film director, former head of the National Theatre in London, argues for two different (and, of course, generously financed) government funding...
Ten British Classical Luminaries Suggest Ten Ways To Save Classical Music
Antonio Pappano, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Sarah Connolly, Edward Gardner, and others offer suggestions from turning off the cell phones to incentivizing philanthropy to restoring music...
