A Hudson River School Painting On Public View For The First Time In 152...
In 1873, Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway was taken to London by its commissioner. It remained overseas until last year,...
25 Dance Artists To Watch In 2026
These dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies are already doing exceptional work, but we’re betting on them to break through in a major way in...
Rijksmuseum Director On The Humanness Of Museums
“In a good museum, it’s a lot about imagination. You don’t want to spell things out. We are complex. History is complex, and history...
AMC Declares Its Live Event With Netflix A Huge Success
In addition to the countless millions of people who will enjoy Stranger Things on the Netflix streaming platform, in just two days, more than 753,000 Stranger Things fans...
China Threatens To Jail Anyone Who Performs, Listens To, Or Shares Uyghur Songs
During a meeting in the historic Uyghur city of Kashgar in October, authorities warned residents that performing, playing, uploading onto social media, or storing...
Prince’s Withering Putdown Of Digital Musicians
“The kid with the PC in the bedroom can’t play his instrument. He can make some sounds, and then you can get a vast...
The Playwright Contemplating The Post-Human World
“Everyone was afraid of the telephone, everyone was afraid of television,” Harrison said. “It’s just going to march on. And we’ll acclimate.” - The...
Doug Varone Talks About Cancelling His Date At The Kennedy Center
"I do believe they should be separate. And the success of the Kennedy Center, you know, working in a bipartisan way, has been an...
Māori Vogue Balls Hit The Mainstream In New Zealand
The voguing scene, led by Māori (indigenous New Zealanders) and immigrants from the Pacific islands, only got started in the country about a decade...
Ten Questions For Theatre In 2026
Each year, theater producers and publicists work to make opening night more and more meaningless. Given that this is the night that reviews come out,...
Trump Plans To Reconstitute The “Commission Of Fine Arts” To Approve His Projects
The White House is expected to invite past Trump appointees to rejoin the Commission of Fine Arts, according to three people who spoke on...
Like “The Vandals In Rome”: Senators Investigate How MAGA Allies Are “Looting” Kennedy Center
Led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Democrats on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee say they’ve obtained documents suggesting that the Center is...
Australia’s Capital Will Finally Get A Big-City-Sized Performing Arts Center
“The new (2,000-seat) theatre will allow Canberra to host major national and international theatre productions that currently don’t visit Canberra because our 1965-built Canberra...
If We Want More People To Read, We Should Tell Them That Reading Is...
“This would be a more effective way to attract young people, and it also happens to be true. When literature was considered transgressive, moralists...
Rightist Politicians Instigate Parliamentary Inquiry On Impartiality Of France’s National Broadcaster
“The UDR party, an ally of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, set up the inquiry amid far-right claims that public TV and radio has...
Russia Reopens Theater It Bombed Out In Occupied Ukrainian City
“Moscow-installed authorities marked the rebuilding of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater (in Mariupol) with a gala concert on the building’s new main stage...
Janet Fish, Dead At 87, Painted Radiant Still Lifes As The Art World Favored...
“As rendered by Fish, bottles of window-cleaning fluid, jars of honey, plastic-wrapped trays of fruit, and glass vases bursting with flowers appeared to glow...
Historic Amsterdam Church Destroyed In New Year’s Eve Fire
The Vondelkerk, a 154-year-old Gothic Revival church which had been deconsecrated and run as a concert and events venue in recent years, ignited shortly...
Artnet’s “The Worst Art We Saw In 2025”
By no means is all of this bad art actually from 2025, though a fair bit of it is. In fact, one choice (this...
The Walrus’ Year In Arts And Culture
These were the economic and political forces shaping culture in 2025. From the decline of the middle-class musician and the digitization of art to...
Twelve Stories That Defined 2025 For Museums
In the U.S., a tense political climate and moves by the Trump administration to exert more control over the country’s cultural institutions is creating...
In A Time Of Flattened Attention, It’s Time To Reconsider The Complications Of Saul...
The persistent cultural resistance to Bellow, who remains popularly read yet broadly under-appreciated by the taste-making classes, comes in several flavors. Over the decades...
The Return Of Scott Rudin Was One Of Broadway’s Big Surprises Of 2025
Even four years after his decades-long, widely-gossiped-about abuse of his employees was publicly exposed and he was cancelled, few observers were expecting him to...
In Memoriam: Art World Luminaries We Lost In 2025
Some were giants in their fields, while others have had quieter, less-heralded careers—and some leave behind questionable legacies. - Artnet
Here’s What’s Wrong With Letting AI Take Over Lower-Level Creative Work
What’s the harm, studio executives might wonder, if machines take over work that seems unchallenging and rote to knowledgeable professionals? The problem is that entry-level...
