Time To Give Duke Ellington The Pulitzer He Was Denied
In 1965 the Pulitzer board rejected a unanimous recommendation from the music jury to award Duke Ellington a special citation for long-term achievement.” It...
Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Names New Director
The position has been vacant since April of 2021, which Tom Loughman resigned, but the search for a new director really began in November...
Science: How We Learn Emotional Response
Parents constantly provide their children with emotion concepts to disambiguate what is going on. Especially towards the second year, when children start using emotion...
Russian Feminist-Queer Artist-Activist Acquitted Of Pornography Charges
"Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, spent months under house arrest after authorities in the remote city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur launched a criminal case into the 'spread of...
Ethics And What Art Gets Shown
The Wollongong Art Gallery needed to make some big calls after it was discovered that one of its prominent donors, who passed away 30...
Bollywood’s Latest Blockbusters Are Not Doing Big Box-Office
"Expectations that pent-up demand from movie-hungry audiences would lead to packed cinema halls have been belied by millions of dollars in lost revenue, as...
Ukraine’s Historic Churches Are Being Ravaged By Russia’s War — And There’s Too Much...
"Ukraine's churches are the hardest hit of all heritage sites in the war-torn country, new data suggests. But a coalition of priests and religious...
Today’s Library Censorship Looks Different
Although the challenging of books and curriculum is hardly new in the United States, what we’re facing now is somewhat different. It is not...
Fired Artistic Director Of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Says He Won’t Return If Invited...
In a statement released this week, Ken-Matt Martin writes, "I have decided that I need to take a break from nonprofit theatre administration and...
Paul Taylor Dance Begins A New Era
The upshot of all this change is the emergence of a company that is more diverse, and more versatile, than ever before. Taylor dancers...
When It Was First Shown, Picasso’s “Guernica” Bombed (Ahem)
"Picasso, deeply apolitical, had shown little interest in the Spanish Civil War. ... Nor had he ever done a public mural, let alone one...
The War Between TV Studios And Their Creative Workers Over Pay Is Going To...
"In the 2023 round of negotiations with the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA, the discussions are sure to...
Henry Louis Gates Is Editing A New Dictionary Of Black American English
"A new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black...
The New Yorker’s Archive Editor Accuses Editor-In-Chief David Remnick Of Inserting Errors Into Her...
In a 40-part tweetstorm, Erin Overbey argued that she was put under a performance review after complaining that female and male staffers at the...
Is Lincoln Center Edging Classical Music Out Of Its Summer Programming?
Lincoln Center president Henry Timms: "In terms of volume, probably, the amount of classical music being presented hasn't changed much. The nature of it...
2022 Kennedy Center Honors: Tania León, Gladys Knight, George Clooney, U2, Amy Grant
"The performing artists recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture include actor and filmmaker George Clooney; contemporary Christian and pop singer Amy Grant;...
Baltimore Symphony Makes History Again, Appointing Its First Black Music Director
Jonathon Heyward, now 29 and chief conductor of the Northwest German Philharmonic, will be (after the late James DePreist of the Oregon Symphony) the...
Consuming The News Depressed Me. So I Quit. But Is There A Way To...
I went to a therapist. She told me (ready?) to stop consuming the news. That felt wrong. Wasn’t it important to be informed? Quitting...
India’s Most Influential Artist
He was the first Indian artist who successfully combined Indian iconography and subjects with Western techniques and styles. His art influenced Indian literature, music,...
What University Museums Have To Teach The Broader Museum World
Here are five ways college and university museums model a braver future for the museum field at large. - Artnet
Defining What Generative Art Is
The 2018 Chaos Machine by the artist collective Distributed Gallery is an early example of a blockchain sculpture where the use of randomness and algorithmic code...
How Scientists Are Using AI To Complete Unfinished Symphonies
Mahler and Beethoven left several tantalizing blueprints of their 10th Symphonies behind. Now, computer scientists are developing algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI) to lift...
The Obsessive Behind The Aix Festival
An experienced stage director as well as a renowned administrator, Audi doesn’t just work on grand strategy and schmooze with donors. He also gets...
Big Publishing’s Lawsuit Against The Internet Archive’s Open Library Is “A Trojan Horse”
The big-firm plaintiffs' brief accuses the Internet Archive of "mass-scale copyright infringement" and giving away "full-text digital bootlegs for free." (The Archive's Open Library...
Why Netflix Wants Traditional TV To Die
When you’ve basically got as many subscribers as you can currently, you need your competitors (linear TV, YouTube, TikTok, the great outdoors, etc.) to...
