Yayoi Kusama And Kiki Smith Are Making Big New Pieces Of Public Art For...
New York's MTA has commissioned the two superstars to create huge floor-to-ceiling mosaic murals for the new Long Island Rail Road terminal deep under...
Now 25 Years Old: How Guggenheim Bilbao Changed The Museum World
In the book Design and Crime, Hal Foster wrote that Gehry’s spaces “trump” the post-war art they were intended to hold, using its scale “as...
Remembering Theatre Critic Dan Sullivan
For his generation of critics, reviews were not a freelance assignment but a beat, as regular as a sports columnist, whom such critics often...
Report: Audience, Funding, For Public Media Have Been Steadily Growing
According to an analysis performed by one of our authors, total direct revenue for the largest 123 news-focused public radio licensees has grown steadily,...
Major New Contemporary Art Museum Planned For Amsterdam
Beatrix Ruf told The Art Newspaper that the Hartwig Art Foundation's museum will "change the shape of contemporary art not just for the city, but the...
The BBC Turns 100. Now Its Five Biggest Challenges
Great institutions, like great literature, are often born from existential angst, as urgent responses to the prevailing horrors of their era. As with TS...
Derek Jacobi, At 84, Thinks He’ll Never Do Live Theatre Again, Either
"It's not stage fright exactly. But I'm not comfortable like I used to be. And it's far easier to do telly and films. They...
By The Numbers: American Orchestra Programs Are Getting Dramatically More Diverse
The latest Orchestra Repertoire Report shows a 638% increase in music by women at our symphony halls in the past six years. The numbers for...
When “Sesame Street” Came To Post-Soviet Russia
The idea and hope behind Ulitsa Sezam, which debuted in 1996, five years after the USSR came apart, was to help its young audience...
Playbill Gets A New Editor-In-Chief
Diep Tran will lead a largely new editorial team at Playbill. - Playbill
The Neon Lights That Made Hong Kong Hong Kong Are Fading Away
"Once ubiquitous in Hong Kong, the signs ... have been steadily removed in the last few decades. The recent dismantling of some of the...
Are The Oscars As We Knew Them, Doomed?
The more important factor in the dwindling of the Academy Awards viewership is that the Academy has been hurting itself by doing its job:...
She’s The Edinburgh International Festival’s First Woman Director. What Are Nicola Benedetti’s Plans?
She's made her career as a classical violinist, but the EIF includes dance, theatre, and popular music as well. "'Well, classical music does count...
The Artist Who Travels America “Improving” Bad Hotel Art
At first, Mr. Powell says, the artistic mischief was a joke, a test of whether anyone would notice and a strike against the ubiquitous...
U.S. Ballet Companies Are — Gradually — Performing More Works By Female Choreographers
Dance Data Project's latest report says that in "ballet and classically inspired companies" the vast majority of the repertoire was created by male choreographers,...
Are Great Works Of Art Properly Protected From Demonstrators’ Soup-Throwing And Super-Gluing?
A leading expert on museum security answers questions about which artworks are and aren't protected by glass (and why), the tensions between protecting the...
Disney Tells France: We Won’t Release Any Blockbusters In Your Cinemas Unless You Change...
"Disney is to release Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in French cinemas next month but has warned that future blockbusters may go straight to its...
Patti LuPone Says She Has Given Up Her Actors’ Equity Card And Her Stage...
She tweeted the news on Monday but actually turned in her card this summer. LuPone said in a subsequent statement, "When the run of...
America’s Oldest Working Theater Is Selling Naming Rights
"The Walnut Street Theatre is seeking a single donation of more than $10 million to complete a capital campaign for the long-planned, pandemic-delayed expansion...
The Next Music Director Of London’s Royal Opera House Will Be Jakub Hrůša
"(The Czech conductor), 41, will begin his tenure in September 2025. He succeeds Antonio Pappano, who steps down from the post at the end...
The Booker Prize For 2022 Goes To “The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida” By...
"(This) supernatural satire set amid a murderous Sri Lankan civil war ... is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to...
The Confidence To Know Our Own Ignorance
The better approach is to cultivate an appreciation for our ignorance, get comfortable with it and look at it very closely, disentangling it as...
Kennicott: Attacking Paintings To Protest Climate And Social Justice Policies?
All this is misdirected and counterproductive. It makes the urgency of the crisis seem ridiculous to people who are already disinclined to give credence...
Seattle Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Departs For Chicago
Braden Abraham joined Seattle Rep in 2002 as an artistic intern, holding multiple artistic staff positions at the company, including seven years as associate...
This Small Publishing House Keeps Winning Nobels, Bookers…
Jacques Testard said that he would think it “very silly” if people called Fitzcarraldo the home of the Nobel. “It’s not like we have...
