New York Public Radio Plagiarism Case May Be About To Get Messy
WNYC announced last week that 41 stories by a single author — unnamed by the station but reportedly former host Jami Floyd — had...
A Settlement May End The Strike At Chicago’s PBS Station
"Striking broadcast technicians at WTTW-Channel 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with management Wednesday, likely ending the three-week work stoppage at the public television...
Enforcing EU Sanctions, Finland Impounds $46 Million Worth Of Art Headed To Russia
The artworks, which belong to prominent Russian museums including the Hermitage and Tretyakov, were being returned from exhibitions in Italy and Japan. Finnish customs...
Russian Oligarchs Have Given Hundreds Of Millions To US Cultural Institutions
Wealthy Russian businessmen, many of whom are now sanctioned, have donated between $372 million and $435 million to more than 200 nonprofits in the US...
Why It’s Important (And Difficult) For Computers To Learn Common Sense
For certain kinds of tasks—playing chess, detecting tumors—artificial intelligence can rival or surpass human thinking. But the broader world presents endless unforeseen circumstances, and...
Theatre In Ukraine Right Now
Theaters and art venues appeared to be one of the most fragile institutions with the war. Most of them stopped functioning and closed up...
As The BBC Turns 100: The Radicals And Mavericks Who Built It
The BBC was formed in 1922 to control and discipline what was then a poorly understood new medium of mass communication. - The Conversation
The Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages
By his count, it is actually 37 more languages, with at least 24 he speaks well enough to carry on lengthy conversations. He can...
The Kronos Quartet’s Fifth Member
Those scrappy days of shoestring budgets and ad hoc responsibilities — with everyone, including the members of the quartet, pitching in as needed —...
One Of Those Guys Who Writes SEO Clickbait Articles Fesses Up
"I spend my days writing optimized blog articles that feature short paragraphs and less-sophisticated wording — proven SEO winners — to help my clients...
Bringing In Gamer Culture To The Museum
What if we put video game designers inside the gallery context? How could they reimagine the world of gaming for a more collective audience...
Why “Fairview” Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury Finds Writing About Race Difficult
"Because to write about anything, you have to declare something and I find that very hard to do. I do very much feel: 'Is...
On Rewriting Beethoven
These modern bastardizations have eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precedent. Singers notoriously inserted their preferred arias into opera scores, however unrelated to the opera at hand. -...
City Of Sarasota Approves Plan For New Waterfront Performing Arts Center
"The arts center will be the centerpiece of a 53-acre park on the Sarasota bayfront. It will have a 2,250-seat main stage theater and...
No, Artists Do Not “Deserve” To Be Paid
Artists do not deserve financial support just for being artists. Selling one’s art is a different story altogether and requires at least 2 parties to be in agreement....
Olga Smirnova Opens Up About Walking Away From The Bolshoi Ballet And Running Away...
"My life totally changed in one day. In the morning, I didn't know I was going to leave Russia. And in the night, I...
Canadian Conductor Boris Brott Hit, Killed By Hit-And-Run Car
Brott was a pedestrian involved in a hit-and-run incident. Following the news of his death, social media tributes poured in from the Canadian classical...
Two-Time Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi In Iranian Court On Charge Of Plagiarism
The somewhat confusing case — earlier reports that the director had been convicted were later denied — concerns Farhadi's A Hero, an Oscar-nominee this...
Baltimore Symphony’s New CEO: Mark Hanson, Formerly Of San Francisco Symphony
"Hanson, 48, who already has led two orchestras larger than the BSO" — the San Francisco and Houston Symphonies — "will begin his new...
Palace Of Versailles Reopens The Tennis Court Where French Democracy Was Born (Wait, What?)
The Jeu de Paume room was built in 1686 for Louis XIV to play the game of the same name, an ancestor of modern...
Getty Trust Names NYU’s Provost Its New CEO
"The world's wealthiest arts institution, the J. Paul Getty Trust, has selected a new president and CEO: New York University Provost Katherine E. Fleming....
Attempts To Ban Books From US Libraries More Than Quadrupled In 2021
The annual report from the American Library Association said that there were 729 challenges to books in school, university, and public libraries in 2021,...
Classical Grammy Winners: LA Phil’s Mahler 8th, Met’s “Akhnaten”, Philly’s Florence Price, Caroline Shaw
The Philadelphia Orchestra's release of Price's First and Third Symphonies took Best Orchestral Performance, while Dudamel's Mahler Eighth from Los Angeles won Best Choral...
New York Times Officially Names Zachary Woolfe Classical Music Critic
In a long-expected move, Woolfe, who became the Times's classical music editor in 2015, succeeds Anthony Tommasini, who retired as chief classical critic last...
Visionary Detroit Symphony Chief Anne Parsons, 64
Determined to avoid another labor dispute and eager to make the orchestra a pillar of Detroit’s civic revival, she spent the next decade rebuilding...
