Monica Vitti, Icon Of Italian Cinema, Dead At 90
"Once a symbol of Italian mystique, ever-present on-screen and on fashion magazine covers, … (she) secured an enduring place in art house drama as...
Now Even Theresa May Is Pleading Against Massive Arts Funding Cuts
The former prime minister, under whose austerity regime many local governments were forced to slash their arts budgets, now sees the authorities in the...
The Coolest Architecture You’ll See At The Beijing Olympics
Here are the most architecturally significant venues, including a new stadium by Populous and the world's first permanent structure for big air extreme snow jumping. -...
The Objects That Have Gone Away
What if these objects had survived? What might that alternative world be like? This idea of a parallel material universe, in which some of...
How Ailey Director Robert Battle Got His Creative Chops Back
The pandemic smothered everything, wiping Battle’s calendar clean, and crazy as it sounds, it helped him. The shutdown provided space, and the racial reckoning,...
New NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson Talks About The NEA’s Future
“We’re striving for people to have artful lives, and artful lives are about participation as audiences and they are also about making, doing, teaching,...
How NFT’s Can Preserve Street Art
“By scanning a mural and turning it into an NFT, we forever immortalize the art.” - Wired
Eight-Year-Old Writes Book, Hides It In Library — It’s A Hit!
The book, “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis” by the author “Dillon His Self,” had drawn so much attention by the end of January...
The Guy Who Conned All Those Manuscripts Out Of Publishers — What Did He...
It wasn't hard to identify Filippo Bernardini once the FBI got involved; he didn't cover his email tracks very well. But none of the...
First International Orchestras In Two Years Return To Tour US
With their own instruments and evening clothes in hand, the Royal Philharmonic completed a 14-concert, nine-city U.S. tour on Monday night, the first international...
The Most Important School Subject For Future Tech Workers? Would You Believe It’s Drama?
So argues one business-oriented demographer. Why drama? Because you learn how to work closely in groups and to fill a variety of roles, onstage...
Crisis? More Than Half Of America’s Teachers Say They Want To Quit
The survey shows that 55% of teachers now say that because of the pandemic, they’re going to leave the profession sooner than they’d planned....
Someone Paid $30 For This Drawing Five Years Ago. Now It’s Worth About $10...
The sketch, titled The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bank and dating from around 1503, was purchased by a Massachusetts...
Time For Moliere To Ascend The Pantheon
Last year, the actor Francis Huster passionately made the case for the reinterment of Molière within the Panthéon, Molière’s remains having had a long...
Big U.S. Podcast Companies Turn Their Attention To Non-English-Speakers
Vice Media, Audible, iHeartMedia, and the children's podcast producer Tinkercast are all working to expand offerings in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, French, and other...
What Makes You – Your Body, Not Just Its Memories
Personhood is a property of the whole body, and the whole body is implicated in how both personhood and an individual person can persist in the face of...
Italy’s Turning A 233-Year-Old Prison Into An Arts Center
The panopticon-style jail, built in 1789 and closed in 1965, is on the tiny island of Santo Stefano, part of the Pontine Islands off...
Look Out, Disney! Mattel Is Coming For Hollywood (Yes, The Toy Company)
Greta Gerwig is directing a Barbie movie with Margot Robbie (Ryan Gosling plays Ken). Lena Dunham has a Polly Pocket film coming. Tom Hanks...
How San Antonio Symphony Musicians Are Keeping Themselves Fed Through A Months-Long Strike
There's teaching, church gigs, the occasional out-of-town sub job in another orchestra. The lucky ones have fully-employed partners. - KPAC (San Antonio)
Remember Trump’s Order That The Art At Federal Buildings Must Not Be Abstract?
"President Joe Biden has reversed a Trump-era order requiring that any visual art added to government buildings must portray American historical figures or ideals...
How Broadway’s “The Music Man” Has Worked Its Way Through A COVID Nightmare
Since the revival began rehearsals in October, five dozen cast and crew members have tested positive for the virus; at one point producers had...
Conductor Edward Gardner Gets A Big New Job
Currently the chief conductor of the London Philharmonic and Bergen Philharmonic and formerly music director at English National Opera, Gardner will become music director...
There’s A New Art Space At Berlin’s Old Airport, And Some Artists Want It...
"The exhibition space, called Kunsthalle Berlin, opened January 28 at the Tempelhof Airport, a facility that was built by the Nazis in 1923 and...
Why A New Focus On Black Writers Doesn’t Feel Like Victory
As a Black author, what do I do with the knowledge that the cruel and senseless murder of a Black human being led to...
Why More Musicians Aren’t Pulling Their Work From Spotify
The reasons why more artists haven’t abandoned Spotify include a stew of political hesitancies, music ownership complications and business incentives. The issues speak to...
