How’s Ireland’s Basic-Income-For-Artists Scheme Working So Far?
Six months into a pilot program that pays 2,000 working artists €325 per week/€16,000 ($18,200) per year, the results look good: as one recipient...
Oklahoma Moves To Revoke License From Teacher Who Directed Students To Brooklyn Public Library’s...
State Superintendent Ryan Walters has filed paperwork to cancel Summer Boismier's teaching certificate — despite the fact that she's now moved to New York...
Florida School Principal Forced To Resign After Sixth-Graders Were Shown Michelangelo’s “David”
Hope Carasquilla was ousted from Tallahassee Classical School after several parents complained about the lesson in a Renaissance art class. (One parent called the...
The BBC Singers Are Saved: Decision To Dissolve Choir Is Reversed After Outcry
The decision to close the BBC Singers, announced in March, was expected to result in the loss of 20 posts, but was met with...
Van Gogh And Rethinking The Tortured Genius Narrative
A 2014 study even discovered that van Gogh’s work was perceived as higher quality by viewers exposed to his mental health story. In promoting suffering over...
Let’s Look Again At That Definition Of Liberalism
A liberal is someone who’s tolerant of ambiguity, who can join arguments that he doesn’t have to win, who can live with people who...
Copyright Office: Some AI-Assisted Work Will Now Be Copyrightable
Effective March 16, the Copyright Office’s statement of policy indicates that copyright applicants are permitted to submit AI-assisted works (across literature and visual arts)...
Last Fall Aaron Sorkin Suffered A Stroke
“For about a month afterward, was slurring words. He had trouble typing; he was discouraged from flying for a few weeks; and until...
Can You Copyright A Rhythm? The Lawsuit That’s Shaking Up A Corner Of The...
The track featured the first known example of what would come to be known as a “dembow” rhythm – the percussive, slightly syncopated four-to-the-floor...
This Is How Difficult It Is For International Artists To Get Into The US
The process is difficult even for organizations with strong financial and administrative support. For smaller companies with less funding, it is daunting. - Broad Street...
The Extraordinary Puppets Of Broadway’s “The Life Of Pi”
"Finn Caldwell, the production's puppetry director, and two of those Olivier-winning puppeteers, Fred Davis and Scarlet Wilderink, sat down at the Schoenfeld one morning...
Scott Timberg And What Happened To Culture
“Scott was just so present, and then he exterminated himself,” says Dana Gioia, former California poet laureate and a friend of Timberg for many years....
Oscar Wilde’s Irishness (Which So Many People, Including Oscar, Seem To Forget)
Everything about the man said London, but he spent 20 of his 46 years in Ireland, including seven years at a grim Ulster boarding...
Not OK: The UK Government’s Attack On The Arts Is Doing Damage
Watching these wounds being inflicted is painful. People who work in culture and the arts in this country are exhausted. The 30% cut to Arts...
Rome’s Pantheon To Start Charging Admission
In the past, access to the Pantheon has always been free. Roman officials suggested a €2 entrance fee several years ago, but the controversial...
The Future For American Movies For Grownups Seems To Be In Microbudget Indies. But...
The equipment for making professional-looking films has never been more inexpensive or accessible. There are people writing creative scripts; there's always an abundance of...
Big Questions About Met Museum’s Collecting Prcatices
A broader examination of the Met’s antiquities collection, conducted by ICIJ, Finance Uncovered, L’Espresso and other media partners over recent months, raises new concerns...
Is Melbourne’s Arts Centre On The Brink Of Financial Disaster? Depends On Whom You...
An alleged internal document was reported by the city's biggest tabloid to reveal that the complex is short $223 million (Aus), due to the...
She’s A Swing, An Understudy, And the Dance Captain For “+ Juliet,” One Of...
"(Brittany Nicholas is) responsible for knowing the 12 ensemble tracks and all of the dancing for eight principals. She also acts as an extension...
Here’s What The New, Animal-Free Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Will Look Like
"The 75 performers from 18 countries will include performers on a triangular high wire 25 feet off the ground, crisscrossing flying trapeze artists, a...
Is Hollywood Worried About ChatGPT-Style AI? Of Course It Is.
"(Many in the industry are ambivalent), acknowledging the power of AI to help a screenwriter overcome writer's block or an editor to skip mundane...
Raid On Suspected Art Smugglers Turns Up An Unknown Jackson Pollock Painting
Bulgarian officers working under Europol staged a raid in Sofia to break up a Greek-Bulgarian art-trafficking ring. They found what curators at Bulgaria's National...
More Evidence That Monet And J.M.W. Turner Were Inspired By Air Pollution
A new study has been published by climate scientists who examined paintings from throughout the two artists' careers and found that the works provide...
Book-Banning Attempts In The US Soared To A New Record Last Year
"More than 1,200 challenges were compiled by the association in 2022, nearly double the then-record total from 2021 and by far the most since...
