Venice Biennale Artists Protest Awards Inclusions
More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for...
They’re Going To Extraordinary Lengths To Move The Bayeux Tapestry To London Safely
After two dry runs with facsimiles, France’s culture ministry is confident that the fragile 900-year-old textile will be fine. They’ve developed an ingenious container...
This Year London’s Serpentine Pavilion Is Actually Serpentine
“Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo (of Mexico City’s Lanza Atelier) have gone back to basics and produced one of the most literal Serpentine pavilions...
YouTube Now Has, On Average, More Daily Viewers Than Netflix
“Average daily usage per YouTube account (worldwide) rose from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, according to analysis conducted by the Digital...
New Jersey PBS Finally Finds Its New Operator: Montclair State University
“A consortium led by Montclair State University has won a competitive process to take over New Jersey’s public television station.” The move comes months...
Colorado Passes Landmark Law: Artists Can Now Protect Their Rights By Becoming Corporations
“Senate Bill 133 creates Colorado Artist Companies, or A Corps, a new subset of limited liability corporations that guides artists through the complexities of setting up a...
Artists Say They’ll Sue Venice Biennale If They’re Included In Public-Vote Prizes
“Dozens of artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show are threatening legal action if their names are not removed from the ballot allowing...
Marjane Satrapi, Creator Of “Persepolis,” Is Dead At 56
She achieved international fame for the graphic memoir of her girlhood in Khomeini’s Iran, and then for co-directing the animated film adaptation. Based in...
Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?
The Kennedy Center is a treasure. Not just for what it has been, but because of what it represents. But the practicalities of providing a roof for a bunch of artistic enterprises that essentially have nothing much to do with one another — or worse, having to squabble dysfunctionally among themselves for resources — are an argument for the need for something better.
The Composer-Conductor Who Pioneered European Opera In Japan
Manfred Gurlitt was reluctant to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power, but he ultimately had to flee and ended up in Tokyo....
The New School Makes Some Painful Cuts
The New School will employ 65 fewer full-time faculty members in the fall than it did last year, Kessler said. Based on the most...
Radio Station Says New Data Center Has Forced It Off The Air
“Rainey Broadcasting has told the FCC that development surrounding a massive data center and semiconductor manufacturing project forced gospel WFQY Jackson, MS (970 AM)...
Getting Students Inside Dance
“That’s the entire mission of the school Not ‘You come to us’ but ‘We bring dance to you.’ And we want people in the...
Will The Smithsonian’s Smallest Museum Survive?
Anacostia, since renamed the Anacostia Community Museum, was the first federally funded museum focused on Black history, as well as the first federally funded...
A Story Of Gay Life In Early America
The two women lived openly as a same-sex couple from 1807 to 1851 in Weybridge, VT, where they ran a successful tailoring business. Despite...
Here’s What Trump’s Washington Arch Would Look Like
Much of the public debate around the arch has centered on how it would affect other nearby memorials, particularly the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington...
A New Wave Of Women’s Ragebait Lit
"These books may have inspired more than their share of hot takes ... but the conversations around them allow us to question where we...
Ben Folds: The National Symphony Is In Peril
The NSO doesn’t even know if it has a home, given the previously announced two-year closure of the Kennedy Center. This is a very...
Trump Administration’s Plans To Cancel Student Loans For Almost All College Arts Programs
Yale University’s master’s programs in visual arts and music would fail. Harvard University’s master’s degree in museum studies would fail. The Juilliard School’s undergraduate...
Crystal Bridges Completes Major Expansion
This component of a long-running plan for the site adds two galleries and 114,00 square feet (10,590 square metres) of space for a recent...
Second-Generation Cambodian-American, Trained Only In U.S., Becomes Skilled Teacher Of Khmer Classical Dance
Peter Veth has never studied in Cambodia — only in his hometown of Lowell, Mass., a center of the diaspora. But from sixth grade...
London’s Royal Opera House Is Embracing AI. Some Musicians Aren’t Happy
"We started programming SHIFT because there is a bit of a crisis in the performing arts with regards to machine learning. There's absolute panic....
Report: Australian Arts Participation At Highest Level Ever
More Australians are attending live arts events and festivals, with 2025 the highest level of attendance recorded. While some art forms have seen shifts back...
Carl Schachter, Influential Music Theorist, 93
His groundbreaking work as a music theorist primarily advanced Schenkerian theory by integrating rhythmic, metric, and harmonic dimensions into linear voice-leading analysis, while emphasizing...
Painter Of Dallas Whale Mural Painted Over For World Cup Promo Sues FIFA
The 17,000-square-foot mural, one of artist Robert Wyland’s popular “Whaling Wall” series, had been on view in downtown Dallas since 1999. Wyland is suing...
