Arts Funding In New York State Faces A Sharp Drop As Pandemic Relief Cash...
"According to a summary of the (Governor's) executive budget released by the state Senate, the proposed fiscal year 2024 (arts) budget is $42.8 million,...
Hong Kong’s New M+ Becomes One Of The Most Popular Museums In Asia
M+ reported 2,034,331 visitors for the whole of 2022, placing it 18th on our table of the world’s most visited art museums. If visitors...
American Ballet Is Still Hung Up On George Balanchine, And He’s Been Dead For...
The new season of the podcast The Turning looks at the life of the choreographer; the heights, the difficulties, and the suffering that dancers...
Family Discovers Hidden Brueghel “Masterpiece” Behind Door In Their House
The family, who wishes to remain unknown, had asked Malo de Lussac of auctioneers Daguerre Val de Loire to estimate the value of their...
Florentines Invite Floridians To Come See For Themselves Whether Michelangelo’s David Is Pornographic
The director of the museum housing the work said that the board, parents and students of Tallahassee Classical School to come see the white...
How Artists Are Fighting Back To Protect Their Work In The World Of AI
Artists are fighting back, using a range of tactics from legal action to IT hacks, in order to protect their creative output and secure...
Countertenor James Bowman, One of The First Stars Of The Early Music Revival, Is...
Starting in the 1970s, he overtook Alfred Deller as the world's leading male alto through his work with David Munrow's Early Music Consort of...
Canada’s Regina Symphony Is Cancelling Performances Because Of Low Ticket Sales
This was supposed to be the first full season since the pandemic for the orchestra in Saskatchewan's capital. Ticket sales, however, are down...
Actors’ Equity Is Forming Its Own PAC
"The union ... will be launching the PAC in the first week of April, with the goal of contributing money to federal candidates who...
Yet Another Prosecution Setback In The Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting Case
The special prosecutor originally assigned to the case was legally obliged to withdraw, and now the judge has told Santa Fe's district attorney, whose...
The Texas Observer, Once The State’s Leading Liberal Print Outlet, Is Shutting Down
"The decision marks an end to 68 years of publication, starting with its founding in 1954 by Ronnie Dugger and including a six-year period...
Arvo Pärt And Angélique Kidjo Win The 2023 Polar Music Prize
The 87-year-old Estonian, for many years the world's most-performed living classical composer, and the 62-year-old Beninese singer-songwriter, a five-time Grammy winner, take this year's...
Everything Old Is New Again In The Recent Cascade Of Irish Music
Why now? "The legalization of abortion and same-sex marriage ... have marked the diminished power of the Roman Catholic Church alongside the greater empowerment of women. Brexit, while...
AI’s Challenge To Traditional Education
For all the opportunities ChatGPT might bring, its greatest threat right now is to the teaching of writing. There are other ways to assess...
Burnout Afflicts Toronto’s Theatre Community
Even without hard numbers, many of the designers, technicians and stage managers who are still around agree: there are more job contracts available in...
How Professional Wrestling Explains American Culture
Millions of people love wrestling; millions more loathe it. Many people simply don’t know what to do with it. Although the symbiotic relationship between...
Neil Young: Tickemaster Has Ruined Touring
"It’s over. The old days are gone. I get letters blaming me for $3,000 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does...
ChatGPT Suggests A New Way To Search. But Will Microsoft Ruin It?
Microsoft’s rollout of a Bing search chatbot based on technology underlying OpenAI’s ChatGPT has prompted concerns that Microsoft is unfairly squeezing out its search data customers as...
The Inherent Dangerousness Of Janet Malcolm’s Method
For a writer so relentlessly suspicious of the accounts we give of ourselves, and so attuned to the meager defenses we muster against self-exposure,...
Disney Will Make Three Rounds Of Layoffs This Year
This week’s initial round comes a few days before the company’s annual shareholder meeting on April 3. Iger had first announced plans for the...
Banksy’s Migrant Rescue Boat Seized By Italian Authorities
A rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy was seized in Lampedusa on Sunday after Italy's coast guard said the boat had disobeyed...
The Problems In Properly Authenticating, Protecting Indigenous Art
The Native community finds itself in this fight against the misrepresentation. This leaves consumers in a tough spot, parsing through what efforts businesses are...
Dear Parents: In Our Art Class There’s Going To Be Art. Okay?
You signed up for a classical education, in theory — at least, that word is in the name of our school! — so I...
Staff Of The Louvre Have Blocked The Museum As Part Of Pension Protest
"The demonstrators toted banners and flags in front of the Louvre’s famed pyramid, where President Emmanuel Macron had celebrated his presidential victory in 2017....
The Greatest Show On Earth Is Mounting A Comeback
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are back, baby (in September) - without lions, tigers, or bears, but with a lot of roadies to...
