Could Japan’s Highest-Grossing-Ever Live-Action Film Revive Interest In Kabuki?
In the movie Kokuho, a epic covering five decades in the life of a fictional kabuki actor, we see the traditional theater slowly fade...
Philanthropist Ensures Live Orchestra For San Diego Opera
On Monday, San Diego Opera announced that Jacobs has committed $4.5 million to establish The Joan and Irwin Jacobs San Diego Symphony and San...
The Humanities Crisis Is Over. Uh-Oh.
There is no longer a crisis in the humanities. Our field’s long-running narrative of continuous crisis is over. The bad news: The crisis of...
The Poverty Of Living When Everything Is Ranked
Value capture occurs when you get your values from some external source and let them rule you without adapting them.” Because we live in...
First Designs Released For 2032 Olympic Stadium In Brisbane
The design, by the Australian firms Cox Architecture and Hassell in collaboration with the Japanese practice Azusa Sekkei, is inspired by the wraparound verandas...
Making Climate Change Real: When We Write About Places People Know
We have discovered that writing about local places that people are already connected to changes this dynamic and gives people a way to examine...
Science Fiction And The Art Of Predicting The Future
At odds with the outspoken desire for that which is novel and original in art, audiences also have a hunger for the familiar or...
Researchers Use AI To Decipher Tens Of Thousands Of Medieval Manuscripts
More than 32,000 manuscripts were transcribed in the space of a few months. - Inria
One Of America’s Top Luthiers Is Still Picking Up The Pieces After Last Year’s...
Mario Miralles has made violins and cellos for everyone from Yo-Yo Ma and Anne Akiko Myers to principals in the Los Angeles Philharmonic to...
More And More Artists Being Asked To Help Finance Museum Shows Of Their Work
Across the US, artists report being called on to subsidise budgets for museum exhibitions, public commissions and even acquisitions. In some cases, opportunities evaporate...
Universal Music Chief Warns About “Irresponsible” Business Models For Music Taking Hold
“Let me be clear: UMG will not stand by and watch irresponsible business models take hold, models that devalue artists, fail to provide adequate...
Vancouver Symphony Backs Down, Says It Won’t Require NDAs In Harassment Settlements
On Tuesday, the VSO issued an open letter saying it would be ending the use of confidentiality agreements in cases of sexual misconduct, unless it is...
San Diego Museum Of Art At 100
“After starting out with ... mostly borrowed and donated items a century ago, the museum today boasts a collection of more than 39,000 items,...
Dance Theatre Of Harlem In Court Battle With Its Former Archivist
“The court conflict involves Dance Theatre of Harlem; its former archivist, Judy Tyrus; and ChromaDiverse, a nonprofit Tyrus founded to preserve the records of...
Ron Protas, Martha Graham’s Heir And Controversial Custodian Of Her Work, Has Died At...
"Graham … died in 1991 at 96. Tensions between her company and Protas then simmered for a decade before boiling over in a court fight starting...
“A Cold Dose Of Reality”: Atlanta’s Public Radio And TV Face A Future With...
With Congress’s defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its subsequent dissolution this week, WABE in Atlanta and jazz station WCLK-FM have seen...
Frank Gehry-Designed Concert Hall For Wimbledon Will Go Ahead
The local council governing the London suburb, along with the trust created for building the venue, have confirmed that planning and construction of the...
An “Existential Question” For Scotland’s National Orchestra?
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra's chief executive says that government funding of the group is the same amount as in 2009 — amounting to,...
Most Arts-Vibrant Communities In The US 2025
“This year marks a decade of measurement. In celebration, we’re releasing our most comprehensive analysis yet: rankings for the top 100 communities nationwide and all 50 states.” -...
How To Assemble A Film Cast And Crew While Hiding The Entire Project From...
And this project — Jafar Panahi’s Cannes-winning It Was Just an Accident — was extra-sensitive, since it’s about torture victims hunting down a man...
Elite Universities Are Cutting Their Art History Admissions
Amid widespread budget deficits, several top universities have suspended admissions to their art history graduate programs or cut the size of the cohorts they will admit,...
At Florence’s Uffizi Galleries, Temp Workers Protest: “No More Precarious Lives”
“Some temporary workers at the museum — assigned to roles in security, reception, ticketing, the bookshop, and the coatroom — lost their jobs following...
Movie Theatre Association Comes Out Against Warner Sale To Netflix
"We are deeply concerned that this acquisition of Warner Bros. by Netflix will have a direct and irreversible negative impact on movie theaters around the world,” Cinema...
A Plan To Map Europe’s Dance Heritage
That lack of recognition has real consequences. Across Europe, most public heritage funding is absorbed by monuments, libraries and museums. Dance, which exists only...
Kenneth Turan: I Lost My Library In The LA Fires. Should I Start Collecting...
My entire collection of something like 4,000 volumes, acquired one by one over all those decades, had turned to smoke and ash in the...
