Philly Pops To Close Permanently
"Facing mounting vendor debt and depressed ticket sales since the pandemic shutdown ended, the group has decided to fold, says longtime pops president Frank...
2022 National Book Awards To Imani Perry, Tess Gunty, Sabaa Tahir, John Keene, Samanta...
More specifically: Imani Perry's South to America (nonfiction), Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch (fiction), Sabaa Tahir's All My Rage (young people's literature), John Keene's...
Just How Serious Are Jay Leno’s Burn Injuries?
"Right now they're in that progression of somewhere between deep second and third-degree burns to the face," says his doctor. "We're hoping we can...
Kevin Spacey Is Hit With Seven More Sexual Assault Charges In London
"The Crown Prosecution Service said (Spacey) has been charged over 'a number of sexual assaults against one man between 2001 and 2004'. It also...
Art Basel Miami Ramps Up The Security
Art Basel Miami is the annual neon orgy of high-octane contemporary art, endless wealth, and celebrity bacchanalia where the art world’s most prominent high...
As It Turns 100, More Need For The BBC Than Ever
Is this the beginning of the end for BBC radio? The history of the medium provides some answers about the role radio still plays...
How AI Is Being Used In Creative Work
AI-generated content can be of higher quality than content created by humans, due to the fact that AI models are able to learn from...
Being A Writer Of Books In A Shrinking Market
Most books don’t succeed either in terms of sales or critical unanimity. Most writers don’t earn a living wage from their writing. Tenure-track appointments...
Can We Be Done With The Idea Of Longtermism?
Longtermism is a technocratic dream that purports to give some of the wealthiest people in the world the ability to plan the far future...
Historian Picked To Lead Courtauld Institute
Curator and art historian Mark Hallett has been named as the next director of London’s Courtauld of Institute Art. He will succeed Deborah Swallow,...
The New Public Art Of Newark Airport
“The airport is a theater,” the artist said. “It’s like a soapbox, a place where you can reach the whole world.” - The New...
A Newly-Discovered Artifact Could Rewrite The History Of The Mysterious Basque Language
"Investigators in northern Spain said this week they discovered what they believe to be the oldest written record" — inscribed on a bronze hand...
Russian Troops Looted Kherson Museum Before Fleeing
Russian soldiers looted nearly 15,000 objects from the Oleksiy Shovkunenko Kherson Art Museum and other cultural venues in the region two weeks ago. - Artnet
The Author Of “Gomorrah” Is On Trial For Criminal Defamation Of Italy’s New Rightist...
"Roberto Saviano, Italy's best-known anti-Mafia author, went on trial for libel on Tuesday for calling Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a 'bastard'. If convicted, he...
UK Arts Funding Cuts Will Hurt Most Those They’re Supposed To Help
It’s pure vandalism to withdraw funding from institutions that are nurturing new talent. People who think that the arts are for the elite alone...
Are You Happy? Pharrell Williams Makes NFTs Of Hilma af Klint
"The NFTs come from af Klint's series Paintings for the Temple, created between 1906 and 1915. The series contains 193 paintings, none of which...
How Teaching Math Got Caught In The Culture Wars
"I’d argue that the spectre haunting today’s discord over math education is a growing suspicion of the equity-based movement of educators who, as in...
The Two Meanings Of “Irony”
The first meaning of the word goes back more than two millennia; the second dates back less than two centuries. Ben Yagoda explains. -...
US Patent Office: No, Mariah Carey Can’t Trademark “Queen Of Christmas”
While Carey might’ve filed a petition to be the one and only “Queen of Christmas,” that royal title will remain free for anyone to claim this...
Does Australia Have Any Classic Plays Of Its Own? Yes, Though You Wouldn’t Know...
The working definition of a "classic play" here is one that's revived repeatedly through the years and reinterpreted over time. What happens in Australia,...
“Cine-Theatre”: Australia’s Hottest Young Director On How He Integrates Live Video Into Stage Performance
Says Kip Williams, who won't pre-record video and insists that his actors perform before the cameras live, "It takes the best of cinema and...
The Dance Data Project Looks At How Much Money Artistic And Executive Directors Make
"This Data Byte examines artistic & executive director reportable compensation increases (or decreases) in relation to the overall budget of the largest 50 U.S....
“The New Yorker Radio Hour” Gets Its First Spinoff Podcast
"The New Yorker Radio Hour, the podcast and syndicated public radio series, is spinning out its 'Political Scene' feature into a full-fledged podcast. ......
This Year’s Classical And Jazz Grammy Nominees
This year's ubiquitous musician in these categories is Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performing as conductor or pianist on five separate nominated recordings. - WRTI (Philadelphia)
Today In Climate-Protesting Art Vandalism: Actual Oil On A Klimt In Vienna
"Letzte Generation activists targeted Death and Life (1910/11), one of a number of Klimt masterpieces that regularly draw tourists to the Leopold Museum. In...
