Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony’s DC-Area Home, Finally Settles With IATSE
"After a two-year stalemate that sparked a feud with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra," — which cancelled several concerts this fall because of the standoff...
The Louvre Said That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is A Real Leonardo. Now The Prado Says...
The catalogue for this fall's Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Madrid museum has reclassified The World's Most Expensive Artwork into the "attributed works,...
‘Discovery Of A Lifetime’: Well-Preserved Tudor-Era Murals Uncovered At Yorkshire Manor
During restoration work at Calverley Old Hall, between Bradford and Leeds, workers discovered what turned out to be floor-to-ceiling paintings ("basically Tudor wallpaper") in...
Quebec Court Upholds Fines On Theatres That Portray Smoking Onstage (Even With Prop Cigarettes)
The theatres challenged the fines, claiming it violated their freedom of expression. They argued Quebec’s ban on indoor smoking goes too far, because it...
NFT’s Explained
NFTs have fundamentally changed the market for digital assets. Historically there was no way to separate the “owner” of a digital artwork from someone...
Disney+ Loses Momentum
Disney+ growth slowed for the fiscal fourth quarter, adding 2.1 million subscribers to hit 118.1 million. That’s 10M less than it added in the...
How Beeple Is Changing The Relationship Between Artist And Collector
The dynamic nature of Beeple’s art speaks to an emerging paradigm in both art and crypto, where the artist and the buyer are in...
Local Journalism Is Disappearing. Might We Revitalize It With Existing Institutions?
One starting point is to re-imagine and use already-existing public infrastructures that produce and disseminate vital information, such as libraries, public broadcasting stations, and post...
Music Is What It Is – You Have To Meet It There
David Finckel: "People have a hard time sitting still. Attention spans are getting shorter. The only thing this doesn’t change is the length of...
At The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Annual New York Powwow
"Dance Magazine joined Saturday night's sunset bonfire to capture some of the competitions, and asked Thunderbird director Louis Mofsie and company dancer Michael Taylor...
Man And Daughter Killed Over Four Stradivarius Violins
“Our principal hypothesis is that the motive for the double crime was to find the international certification of authenticity of the violins so they...
Ocean Vuong Bombarded By Complaints From Australian 12th Graders Who Got His Writing On...
Student: "ur text was good but so confusing". Vuong: "mission accomplished". Student: "So u da one that got us all fucked up". Vuong: "Don't...
Xi Jinping Is Rewriting China’s History – A New Cultural Revolution
Xi’s use of history projects the message that the struggles of the first century of Communist Party rule have been buried by the need...
The Original True-Crime Dramas Were In Elizabethan Theatres
"More than four centuries ago a series of plays closely based on real murder cases appeared on the London stage. Their literary quality is...
David Graeber Was A Startlingly Smart Anthropologist. He Died Just After Completing His Magnum...
"Since one cannot know a radically better world is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by insisting on continuing to justify and reproduce...
Oxford’s Bodleian Library Was A Wreck Before The Eponymous Bodley Fixed It Up
"In 1598, … Sir Thomas Bodley, a retired diplomat and Oxford alumnus, offered to restore the dilapidated university library, entirely at his own cost....
How We Became Post-Modernist (And Why It’s A Problem)
Perhaps the ultimate postmodern irony is to be both – to sell out to the system while sending it up. It becomes impossible to...
Forest Whitaker’s Production Company Has Never Lost Investors A Dime. It Still Has Trouble...
Significant Productions, founded by Whitaker and run by Nina Yang Bongiovi, has made admired films like Fruitvale Station and Sorry to Bother You (that...
How A Nice Jewish Boy From Oakland Became A Busy Bollywood Actor
Richard Klein seemed well set as a math and science teacher and amateur performer in the Bay Area. Then, at 45, he up and...
How Julia Child Changed Americans’ Minds, And, Later, Her Own
Those under 55 may not appreciate just how differently people in the US thought about home cooking before Child's TV shows caught on. For...
Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Opens In A Climate No One Expected When It Was...
When plans for Asia's biggest contemporary art museum were announced back in 2007, Xi Jinping wasn't yet president of China, few people anticipated political...
How Peter Gelb Is Handling The Most Difficult Job In Opera, Now Even More...
A longread on how the Metropolitan Opera's general manager is handling the company's reopening and its long-term problems, what people inside and outside of...
A Universal Basic Income For Arts Workers? One Country Is Trying It
Ireland will launch a basic income guarantee program for artists and arts workers in 2022. The three-year initial plan will have a budget of...
Art Critic Reviews Work Without Noticing That It Depicts Rupert Murdoch
Robert Nelson of Melbourne's The Age wrote several hundred words about Jeremy Deller's Father and Son — life-sized grey wax candles, lit and gradually...
As Broadway Reopens, Who Is Broadway For?
Representation absolutely matters. But ever since Broadway announced that so many Black plays would reopen its season, there has been a feeling of dread...
