Fred Child To Lead Portland Classical Music Station
He is best known for his 25-year run as host of American Public Media’s national classical music program “Performance Today.” Child, who will relocate...
Jake Heggie’s New Opera: A Historic 1976 Wine Competition
His one-act opera "The Judgement of Paris" is set to make its world premiere at Festival Napa Valley at Charles Krug Winery in St....
World’s Third-Busiest Public Library Withdraws “Restructuring” Plan After Outcry
Many of Australia’s most prominent writers and artists, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, expressed outrage over the proposal to eliminate 39 jobs —...
David Ellison’s Dangerous Play For Warner Bros.
David Ellison was able to ascend to Paramount moguldom thanks in part to his closeness with Mr. Trump, and now he is trying to...
Profound Changes In Canada’s Cultural Economy
It found that Manitoba’s cultural sector produces $1,010 worth of cultural goods and services per person, one of the highest per-capita levels in Canada....
The Benefits Of Tolerant Cultures
A tolerant person is one who does not interfere with other people, even if he thinks they are wrong, but is prepared to let...
Director Of Britain’s Tate Galleries To Step Down
“Maria Balshaw is to (depart) in 2026, after a challenging nine-year tenure when she steered the organisation through the COVID-19 pandemic and had to...
Disney Sues Google For “Massive” Copyright Infringement
Disney is accusing the tech giant of copyright infringement on a “massive scale,” claiming it has used AI models and services to commercially distribute...
Controversial New Designs For Notre Dame’s Stained Glass Windows Go On Display
The designs for six new stained-glass windows for the cathedral of Notre Dame have gone on show at the Grand Palais in Paris, despite...
Disney/OpenAI Deal Will Redefine Copyright
On the surface, there appears to be some dissonance with Disney embracing OpenAI while poking its rivals. But it’s more than likely that Hollywood...
A Wave Of Unionization At Chicago’s Cultural Institutions
In the last four years, AFSCME’s Cultural Workers United organizing campaign has helped 2,500 Illinois cultural workers form unions at such sites as the...
Novelist Joanna Trollope Is Dead At 82
“When popular fiction written by, and mainly for, women tended to be classified either as ‘romantic novels’ or ‘historical sagas’, Joanna” — a great-great-great-grandniece...
Director Convicted Of Defrauding Netflix For Series Which Was Never Finished
Carl Rinsch was convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and making illegal transactions in a case where he took $11 million in funding from...
D.L. Coburn, Playwright Of “The Gin Game,” Has Died At 87
He was in his late 30s when he wrote the play, his first. It premiered in Los Angeles in 1976; it reached Broadway the...
The Louvre’s Security Cameras Caught The Entire Jewel Heist — But The Security Guards...
“(The museum’s) security control room was not equipped with enough screens to watch every camera simultaneously, so the break-in was not watched in real-time....
Arkansas Becomes First State To Sever Its Public Television’s Ties With PBS
“The eight-member Arkansas Educational Television Commission, made up entirely of appointees of the governor, announced … that it planned to disaffiliate from PBS effective...
Broadway Had Its Second-Highest Attendance In History Last Season
More than 14.7 million seats were filled in 2024-25, according to the latest audience-demographics report from The Broadway League. Among other findings is that,...
Judi Dench On The State Of Her Memory And Her Eyesight
The 91-year-old acting legend, who has age-related macular degeneration, stopped performing because she can’t see her way around a set or read a script...
Can Literary Fiction Help Save Classical Music?
Since 2020, well over a dozen novels have taken classical music as their setting. Of course, novels about classical music are nothing new. But...
Why Does It Seem Like Every Major Cultural Institution In Melbourne Is Named After...
Well, because that person, Ian Potter, was extraordinarily generous, as his widow and his foundation continue to be. But when your sister gets angry...
“Nutcracker” From Behind The Stage
Pittsburgh’s production has evolved its own traditions and superstitions. During some performances, performers pass a Heinz ketchup packet while onstage, like a hot potato....
Americans’ Obsession With Renovation And Makeovers — And The White House
The White House has explained the East Wing’s demolition as “renovation,” and the necessary prelude to a multimillion-dollar ballroom. This is the architectural equivalent...
Have Stripped Public Media Of Funding, Now Republicans Want To Cancel NPR, PBS Station...
The CPB is set to shut down after Congress approved President Trump’s request to rescind its funding. The Center for American Rights said the CPB shutdown should...
Poetry And Politics In The U.S., Then And Now
Verse was used as a political tool going back all the way to the Revolutionary War. Walt Whitman considered poetry to democracy, which “waits...
Mark Swed: LA’s Best Classical Music Of 2025
Classical music’s survival instincts proved reliable. New leaders of L.A.’s arts institutions are bringing vitality to the region, empowering musicians and giving fans hope...
