New York City Removes All Regulations On Sotheby’s, Christie’s, And Other Auction Houses
Now the city won't even require auction houses to be licensed, let alone disclose such things as whether they have financial interests in the...
Dave Chappelle Physically Attacked While Onstage At The Hollywood Bowl
"Footage showed someone running on stage and tackling Chappelle during his performance at the Netflix Is a Joke festival ... on Tuesday night. ...Chappelle,...
The Physical (And Spiritual) Power Of The Vibrations From A Single Musical Note
Though horribly abused and exploited by various New Age fads over the years, the old intuition still holds: vibrations reveal a lot about life,...
If America Didn’t Already Have Public Libraries, We’d Never Invent Them Today
I can imagine the internet hot take: Why punish people who can afford to buy books by making them free to read for everyone?...
The Essential Problem When Writing About Music
As far as I can tell, most writing about music is built on analogies and cliches. This is understandable; you can’t describe music literally...
How James Corden Turned His Show Into A Social Media Phenomenon And Changed Late...
"What James Corden has done incredibly well is to leverage this TV content, and amplify it with social media to create fame." - BBC
Polish Government Replaces Museum Director For One More Ideologically Aligned
“I am not going to get rid of the conceptual art that was acquired for the collection and is exhibited. But I intend to...
These Are The Books School Districts Are Being Forced To Ban
The United States is facing an unprecedented wave of schoolbook banning. PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, tallied 1,586 book bans in...
Statue Of Pioneering Native American Ballerina Stolen, Hacked Up, And Sold For Scrap Metal
The bronze sculpture of Marjorie Tallchief was part of a monument at the Tulsa Historical Society honoring the "Five Moons," American Indian women from...
Do Arts Non-Profits Do Things Backwards?
Solving the external problem has to come first. Then a good nonprofit strategizes the second part. Good faith efforts require that to happen in that...
So-Called “Wicked Bible” Or “Adulterers’ Bible” Turns Up In New Zealand
The 1631 printing of the King James Bible gets its nicknames, and its fame, from a typo: the printers omitted the word "not" from...
Are Big Stars Still A Draw On Broadway?
You bet. The relationship an audience has to a Broadway star is all the more intense for being in-person. Knowing a body in space,...
Immersive Van Gogh Shows Are Old Hat. The New Hotness Is Immersive “Bridgerton” Experiences
"The Queen's Ball: A 'Bridgerton' Experience" is one of several costume parties quasi-theatrical pop-up events based on famous media franchises (Star Wars and Game...
Something New In Hollywood: The 50-Something Female Lead
It’s been a slow burn, but Hollywood is finally recognizing a trend corporate America long ago seized upon: The spending power of the 50-something...
Meet Frankie Light, “YouTube Polyglot”
A handsome young Black man surprising Chinese immigrants with fluent Mandarin can amass quite a following on social media. Frankie Light is one of...
Smithsonian Announces New Policy Of Ethic Returns Of Art
“My goal was very simple: Smithsonian will be the place people point to, to say ‘This is how we should share our collections and...
Bolshoi Theatre Cancels Operas And Ballets By Directors Opposed To Ukraine Invasion
"The theatre gave no reason for dropping Timofey Kulyabin's production of the opera Don Pasquale and Kirill Serebrennikov's ballet Nureyev, which will be replaced...
Netflix’s Stumbles And Layoffs Have Employees Nervous And Angry
"Bleak subscriber numbers and the company's response have stirred a mix of angst and uncertainty among many rank-and-file workers. Some are worried that the...
Is It Possible To Run An Orchestra As A Publicly-Traded Corporation? This One Is...
Japan National Orchestra Co. was founded and is led by 27-year-old CEO Kyohei Sorita, a concert pianist convinced that his band (for now, really...
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella” Posts Closing Notice, And Some Cast Members Found Out Only...
The West End run of ALW's latest musical will conclude on June 12. But the company was told after the Sunday matinee on a...
Russian Soldiers Remove Art From Mariupol Museums And Take It To Donbas
The city council of the occupied, now-largely-destroyed Ukrainian city says that more than 2,000 works, including paintings by the renowned 19th-century artists Arkhip Kuindzhi...
Russians Steal Ancient Scythian Gold From Ukrainian Museum
Russian soldiers and intelligence officers, along with "a Russian-speaking man in a white lab coat" and a film crew, entered the Melitopol Museum of...
A New CEO At Hay Literary Festival Following Founder’s Forced Resignation
"Julie Finch, … the former CEO of the Cheltenham Trust, … has been appointed CEO of the Hay festival and will succeed founder and...
Is Historic Preservation Hurting Our Cities?
As many cities today grapple with unprecedented housing shortages and cost-of-living issues, the degree to which historic-preservation laws can function as a pretext for preventing change entirely...
A Military Expert Defines What A Coup Is
January 6th was an extreme attack. But it was not a coup d’état. Because a coup d’état is not a demonstrative action, where you...
