Ellsworth Kelly’s Widower is On A Giving Spree With Both Artworks And Money

To honor Kelly's 100th birthday, Jack Shear is dividing 146 works among 19 museums, with MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art,...

A New Bill In The US Senate Targets Ticketmaster’s Market Stranglehold

"Titled the 'Unlock Ticketing Markets Act,' the legislation aims to 'help restore competition to live event ticketing markets by empowering the Federal Trade Commission...

NPR’s “Fresh Air” Gets A New Full-Time Co-Host

Terry Gross isn't going anywhere; she remains as host and executive producer. Starting May 1, her on-air partner will be Tonya Mosley, a contributing...

The Rising Alarm Over Library Book Bans

It appears that public libraries are another battleground for the United State's ever-present culture wars. - NPR

Pappano: The Challenges Of Conducting Music For The Royal Coronation

"You can imagine the challenges of getting the choir, the organ, the fanfare and the orchestra together. So yes, it's going to be...

Edinburgh Festival Fireworks To End After 40 Years

The 45-minute show from Edinburgh Castle, which began in 1982, usually attracts more than 250,000 spectators. Organisers said the world famous event would not...

Disney Sues Ron DeSantis

“The governor got very angry over the position Disney took and he’s decided to retaliate against us, including the naming of a new board...

How The Internet Has Changed Art

There’s this huge sense of people claiming spaces and positions without truly investigating them. I’m trying to speak to this idea that art isn’t...

So How Are Those Art Investment Funds Doing?

A wealth adviser based in Florida whose firm has researched and invested in fintech companies told ARTnews that “cheap money” fueled a surge of interest in...

The Africa Center In Harlem Is Becoming far More Than A Museum Of African...

It was called the Museum for African Art when it opened in 1984 and for decades afterward. After a long, troubled move into a...

Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Published 400 Years Ago. Here’s What Would Have Been Lost...

Without the weight – cultural as well as literal – of the collected edition, it’s possible few would care about these surviving plays. Something...

Dissident Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Is Able To Leave Iran For The First Time In...

"Panahi, 62, is best known for films including The White Balloon, The Circle and Taxi Tehran – and for spending his career under close...

Meaning And Machines And Making Sense Of How Art Works

There’s something irrevocably empirical about the fact that poems and novels and paintings and music and films stir cognitive-affective goings-on that have the bearings...

Why BuzzFeed News Didn’t Survive While Its Sister, HuffPost, Did

"BuzzFeed News was 'a social media ecosystem company, and the ecosystem went away,' said a former BuzzFeed exec. 'HuffPost was a pre-social media company....

The Usefulness Of Feeling Irritated

Something about this ordinary, negligible feeling seems to make it inaccessible to critical reflection. Perhaps because, when irritable, we tend to be at our...

Alexei Ratmansky Cut All Ties With Russia, But The Bolshoi And Mariinsky Are Still...

He's found clips of the works in recent social media posts by the two companies — with his name removed. And, no surprise, they...

The Art Of Classical Music Fashion

While not every musical artist takes risks — in their repertory or their apparel choices, be they prét-à-porter or the hautest of haute —...

DC’s Arena Stage Appoints Its New Artistic Director

"Hana S. Sharif, artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and a former staffer with organizations in Hartford, Boston and Baltimore, takes...

“There Is Nothing That Fires”: On Location As Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Very Carefully Resumes...

"(Armorer Andrew) Wert built rifles from individual parts so they would look as real as possible but would not be able to fire under...

Pianist Angela Hewitt On How To Keep So Many Pieces Memorized As She Ages

"At the age of 64, (my brain is) definitely shrinking, and memorising has become a very conscious, frustrating and time-consuming activity. But I stick...

It’s Over: After Several Attempts To Save It, San Francisco Art Institute Goes Into...

"The San Francisco Art Institute has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, a move that will force the 152-year-old institution to liquidate its assets"...

American Museum of Natural History’s New Science Building Gets A Rave Review

"(The) Gilder (Center) is spectacular: a poetic, joyful, theatrical work of public architecture and a highly sophisticated flight of sculptural fantasy. New Yorkers live...

Does The Rise In Movie Attendance Mean We’re Headed For A Recession? (Or Is...

"The data looks like a sign that Americans are continuing to spend on entertainment services and flexing their wallets despite recession fears. But moviegoing...

The Big US Publishers Have Raised Starting Salaries by 23%

"As of April 1, the average entry-level salary for publishing employees located in New York City at the Big Five trade publishers and Scholastic...

The Emerging Science Of Hope

We might typically think of hope as a touchy-feely emotion that, almost by definition, is divorced from real-life experience. In fact, as more research...