The Cost Of Making Art Is Surging
"Over the last six months we have seen price increases from domestic suppliers that range from 7-15% on average, with some items as...
After 33 Years Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Founding Director Retires
Criss Henderson’s departure, which had not been widely anticipated, is part of a great wave of resignations and retirements in the Chicago theater community,...
The Towering Intellect Of Richard Taruskin
People with encyclopedic minds are often paralyzed by the sheer quantity of what they know. Taruskin could step back from the crowd of facts...
Australia Is Working On A New National Arts Policy. Here Are Artists’ Demands:
Battered by rolling lockdowns, key figures in the sector have said COVID-19 disruptions exposed job insecurity, poor remuneration, and a thinning of government grants...
Arts Journalism Is On Life Support
Arts criticism, which used to nurture the innovative, is on life support. Independence of judgment and expertise are in short supply. When it comes...
Portions Of 2,000-Year-Old Roman Temple Fresco Unearthed In Italy
Says the excavation's lead archaeologist, "It's the first time that the ruins of a shrine painted with such a wide palette of colors in...
What We Know So Far About Placido Domingo And The Argentine Criminal Cult
Further investigation will show if Domingo was aware of the Yoga School cult’s alleged crimes and of his friends’ connections to the group. But...
How Paul Robeson Became A Hero In Mao’s China
The great African-American singer-actor suffered a great deal in his home country because of his fervent Communism, but — starting in 1941, when he...
HBO Max Lays Off 70 (And Making Programmers Much Less Diverse)
One former employee says as many as 13 people of color previously in charge of developing shows like The Gordita Chronicles and the Spanish-language docuseries Menudo: Forever...
The Agony Of An Author Recording His Own Audiobook
Adrian Chiles: "Whenever I read back anything I have written, I think how I could have written it better. ... Having to read your...
Beyond Politics: What’s Wrong With Technocrats?
The idea of surpassing politics with technical-scientific rationality such that the “the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things” is often...
In Narendra Modi’s India, Archaeology Isn’t Just A Battleground, It’s A Political Weapon
That Hindu temple built over the destroyed mosque in Ayodhya (said to be the birthplace of the god Rama) was just the beginning. Modi...
Hawaii Symphony Signs A New Four-Year Contract With Its Musicians, Goes Year-Round
The new contract guarantees 18 weeks of performances in the first two years, 19 weeks in the third year, and 21 weeks in the...
Lourdes López Marks Ten Years At The Helm Of Miami City Ballet And More...
After dancing as a principal at New York City Ballet under Balanchine, she became a TV reporter, ballet instructor, head of the Balanchine Foundation,...
American Librarians Are Now Having To Do The Jobs Of Social Workers
"In recent years, amid unrelenting demand for safety-net services, libraries ... offer help accessing housing, food stamps, medical care, and sometimes even showers or...
Two Of Paul Newman’s Daughters Sue The Charitable Foundation Behind “Newman’s Own” Foods
"The daughters, Susan Kendall Newman and Nell Newman, allege their own charity organizations are both supposed to receive $400,000 a year from the Newman's...
Three Years After A Ferocious Battle, There’s Finally A New Official Definition Of “Museum”
When a new definition of the term was proposed to the International Council of Museums in 2019, the arguments over the wording were so...
Musicians Of The Defunct San Antonio Symphony Have Formed A New Orchestra
The San Antonio Philharmonic will perform ten classical programs and three pops programs from September to next May at the city's First Baptist Church...
Warner Bros. Is Holding Secret “Funeral Screenings” Of Shelved “Batgirl” Movie
The showings are reportedly restricted to those who worked on the film, as well as selected executives and representatives, before the footage is locked...
More Basquiat Scandal Fallout: Orlando Museum’s Interim Director Resigns After Seven Weeks
Luder Whitlock took the temporary post on July 5, following the firing of director Aaron De Groft after the FBI confiscated as forgeries the...
Lessons From The Vanity Press Trenches
Despite my many frustrations with traditional publishing, I’ve chosen to believe in it because I think it gets a few things right. For one,...
Your Museum Has Been Implicated In A Fraud. What To Do? Why, A Task...
Shortly after federal agents descended upon the institution in June following questions about the authenticity of works in a Basquiat show, the Orlando Museum of...
Towards The Collective: Redefining Intelligence
We have become too used to thinking of intelligence as the private skill of individuals, vying against one another in a neoliberal world of...
The Internet As Anti-Humanity Machine
The intensity of our collective distraction is historically unprecedented, and for obvious reasons. Most importantly, the power players in our online experience are financially...
The Things That Eat Books
The problem with assembling a massive collection of books is that you necessarily collect the very organisms that feed on books. - Lapham's Quarterly
