NPR Cancels Next Year’s Summer Internship Program
"(The decision comes) amid $10 million in budget cuts, close to 3% of NPR's annual budget, linked to an anticipated $20 million decline in...
Wales’s Leading Concert Hall To Be Leased To Private Operator
A committee of Cardiff's city council has approved in principle an operating lease of St. David's Hall — which hosts the BBC National Symphony...
The Metropolitan Opera Is Back Online
"The website was restored at around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, and ticket sales have resumed after more than a week of chaos. Met Opera...
English Is A Global Language. New Words Are Coming From Everywhere
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has documented many of the words that these new communities of English speakers have added to the vocabulary. - The Guardian
Australia’s National Gallery On The Edge Of A Financial Cliff
The National Gallery of Australia is headed for a financial cliff next year and contemplating drastic measures including forced redundancies, the closure of the...
Are Public Protests Undemocratic?
The fact that people protest when they don’t accept the outcome of the democratic process is a rather clear sign that protests are a...
Museums Are Trying To Make Their Collections More Inclusive. Why Is Progress So Slow?
Why haven’t we seen greater change after all that effort? The simple answer is that most institutions have thousands of works in their collection...
Yet Another String Quartet Calls It Quits
The Orion quartet was formed in 1987 by violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips, brothers who share the first violin chair equally, and cellist...
A Great Year For Books About Dance
Biographies of Nijinska, Balanchine, Graham and others. Wendy Perron's annual survey points you to the must-reads. - Wendy Perron
How George Balanchine Made Classical Ballet American
Jennifer Homans: "He was absorbing modernism from Europe and interest in the motorcar, the airplane, the train, the speed, ... the idea that there...
AI-Created Art — Democratizing Creativity Or Replacing Artists?
A reasonable reaction to generative AI is concern; if not even the imagination is safe from machines, the human mind seems at risk of...
“Flimsy, Paper-Thin Architecture Held Together With Tape”: The Guardian’s Architecture Critic Has At The...
"The ruptured, splintered aesthetic goes beyond the sculptural moves alone. Sheets of buckled steel are screwed crookedly against the edge of the undulating façade,...
Artists Revolt Against AI Images On Artist Platform
To many artists on ArtStation, the juxtaposition of AI-generated images with their own work is degrading and undermines the time and skill that goes...
Every Autumn, Madrid Is Littered With Sculpture Knockoffs Of “Las Meninas”, And Madrileños Are...
"The fifty figures scattered throughout the city include a Menina Wonder Woman, a military Menina, a Menina painted with skulls, another wrapped in aluminum,...
Is The Familiar Cable TV Model Simply Reorganizing Itself Around Streaming?
Short for “free, ad-supported television,” FAST is a live, linear and growing area of the streaming universe that has emerged as a complement to on-demand offerings....
For The First Time, There’s Sondheim, In Spanish, In Spain, Courtesy Of Antonio Banderas
In 2019, in his hometown of Málaga, Banderas founded a nonprofit company called Teatro del Soho to produce musicals more serious than the blockbuster...
Library Acquires Archives Of The Famously Secretive Thomas Pynchon
The archive includes correspondence relating to the publishing process, the library said, but no private letters or other personal material. And no, there are...
Lula Brings Back Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Which Bolsonaro Dissolved, And Appoints A Musician To...
Jair Bolsonaro, the mercurial right-winger whom President da Silva succeeds, abolished the culture ministry on his first day in office. Lula wasted no time...
Despite Its Paralyzed Box Office, The Met Opera Keeps Going, And Audience Members Keep...
A week after the cyberattack which has paralyzed its ticketing and payroll operations, the company has not missed a single performance. And with its...
The Long HarperCollins Strike Will Have A Real Effect On What Books People Get...
"The outcome of the strike, which began Nov. 10, ... may have a ripple effect on jobs across the publishing industry. Its impact may...
Warner Bros. Discovery Expects To Write Off $3.5 Billion-With-a-B In Content Costs
"The company said it now expects to incur total pre-tax restructuring charges" — that is, charges related to the merger of Warner Bros. and...
France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Offshoot, With The Winner Chosen By Prison...
"Some prisons have organized their own literary prizes, but the inmates' Goncourt" — Goncourt des détenus, as it's called in French — "is unprecedented...
English National Opera Will “Definitely” Move Out Of London, Says CEO
Following the stern directive from Arts Council England, the government funder, to leave the capital, "(Stuart) Murphy said he had been contacted by MPs...
Could Cleveland Become America’s First Big “15-Minute-City”?
“We’re working toward being the first city in North America to implement a 15-minute city planning framework, where people—not developers—are at the center of...
Herd Mentality Is Oh So Empowering (And Yet So Dangerous)
Because of our herding behaviour, then, we stand a better chance to survive as members of a group than on our own. The trouble...
