Judge Temporarily Halts Trump Order To Shut Down Voice Of America
“Judge Royce C. Lamberth … wrote that the administration's decision to dismantle the agency was ‘arbitrary and capricious. … Not only is there an absence...
Pawn Shop Owner In L.A. Charged With Trying To Sell Stolen Warhol
“Glenn Steven Bednarsh, 58, has been charged with knowingly buying a stolen Warhol trial proof depicting Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin in February 2021...
Woman Sues Kehinde Wiley For Sexual Assault
Artist Ogechi Chieke sued under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law, filing the day before the window closed. The suit claims...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Pays A Little Visit To The National Gallery Of Art
“Members of the U.S. DOGE Service met with National Gallery of Art leadership Thursday, ... signaling that cuts or other changes may be on...
The Debut Of Climate-Protesting Ballet Vandals
At opening night of New York City Ballet’s spring season, as the dancers performed Balanchine, a woman began yelling from a balcony, “We’re in...
Broadway Has Its Biggest Non-Holiday Box Office Week Ever
The figure, for 40 shows, is a huge 47% greater than this week last year. Total attendance of 357,319 was 19% more year-over-year. - Deadline
Is There A Future For Scots Gaelic?
“What was until the 14th century the primary language of Scotland was, in the 2022 census, spoken by 2.5% of the population (up from...
Medieval Cathedral Puts A Spotlight On Its Centuries’ Worth Of Graffiti
“You don’t notice them at first. ... But once the marks carved into the stonework of Salisbury Cathedral by centuries of pilgrims, churchgoers and mischief-makers are...
What Does It Mean To Win A Book Award For Translation?
While the International Booker might have heralded a rise in the status of literary translators, is there a commensurate deepening of appreciation for, and...
Producing Theatre Is About So Much More Than Just Producing Shows
We should cherish the miracles that happen on stages all over the country every night, even as we question why theatre needs miracles, when...
Academy Makes New Rule: No Voting In An Oscar Category Unless You’ve Seen All...
That wasn’t a rule already? No, it wasn’t, except for Best Foreign-Language Film (now Best International Feature Film) and Best Documentary Feature; otherwise, things were...
The Frick Museum Needed A New Piano. Here’s How They Went About Choosing It
With a team that included Raj Patel, the acoustician who worked on the auditorium, Ney assembled a trio of pianos to choose from, all...
A Short History Of Public Funding In The Arts
Artists and arts organizations have a long legacy of persistence and strategic organizing during periods of political and economic upheaval. - The Conversation
Warning: Australia’s Arts Education System In Crisis
NAAE Chair Dr John Nicholas Saunders said the sector was in crisis after years of cuts to arts education pathways and growing barriers to...
What’s Left Of Palmyra After Syria’s 13-Year Civil War
“The scale and beauty of the site still impress, although some of the showcase monuments are so badly damaged that it is hard to...
Scientists Believe They’ve Found The Part Of The Brain That Perceives Consciousness
Conscious perception is the ability of human beings to become aware of the stimuli received by their senses. It is a different state from...
Queensland Ballet: An Unexpected Unraveling
The company that former artistic director Li Cunxin turned into a powerhouse with an international reputation is now “beleaguered”, as one headline put it....
What Does It Mean To Be Telling The Truth About America?
What does it mean for something to be improper if the administration’s understanding of what is acceptable excludes anything that might make white Americans...
Bucking The Trends, Houston Grand Opera Is Growing
“With many opera companies in a doom loop of shrinkage caused by rising costs and stagnant (or worse) earnings, Houston has proved an exception....
Immersive Wall Street Play By “Sleep No More” Creators Shuts Down Without Warning
“Life and Trust, an immersive follow up to Sleep No More from the producing team Emursive, closed abruptly on April 19 after beginning performances in the summer of...
A New Opera About A Historic Supreme Court Case, Directed By Denyce Graves
“This month, Virginia Opera and Richmond Symphony will present the world premiere of composer Damien Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo’s Loving v. Virginia,...
Chuck Connelly, Neo-Expressionist Artist, Dead At 70
“(He was) known for his thick applications of paint and his furious brushstrokes … (and) an uncompromising personality; (his) paintings depicted scenes like Noah’s...
Meet The Attorney Whom Trump Tasked With Weeding Out “Improper Ideology” From The Smithsonian
“Lindsey Halligan, 35, is a Trump attorney who seems to have tasked herself as a sort of commissioner — or expurgator, according to critics...
U.S. House Members Urge Vice President Vance To Halt Overhaul Of Smithsonian
Four Democratic members of the House committee overseeing the institution wrote, “we now stand at the brink of seeing the Smithsonian at its worst:...
Two More Ex-Dancers Sue Shen Yun
“Two former dancers … filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the group of amassing a financial fortune and worldwide renown by subjecting an ‘army...
