The move, said director Neal Benezra, will "enhance (the museum's) contemporary holdings, and address art historical gaps." Significantly, he said, it will also address the need "to broad…
Fakery is gushing in from everywhere and we're drowning in it. "Deepfake" videos mash up one person's body with someone else's face. Easy-to-use software can generate audio or video of…
All of it was gone. Five decades of artwork, tools and texts " crucial components of Liz Albuquerque's archive and artistic legacy. Within a few hours, reduced to ash-covered rubble. –…
The basic irony of standards is the simple fact that there is no standard way to create a standard, nor is there even a standard definition of "standard." There are, however, longstanding wa…
Rachel Donadio: “To DAU's producers and editors, and some of its celebrity-artist guests, the project has become a vibrant creative and intellectual community, even a way of life. T…
It's just the latest study to find that giving students more access to the arts offers measurable benefits. And adding time for dance, theater, or visual arts isn't at odds with traditional …
These excellent results have freaked the researchers out. One concern they have is that the technology would be used to turbo-charge fake news operations. The Guardian published a fake…
"I know what it's like to have to go through puberty in a leotard," said Kondos Field, a former professional ballerina who had little experience in gymnastics instruction when she joined the…
Current diversity initiatives within the cultural and creative industries continue to approach the issue of ethnic minority equality through a culture of schemes " and the hyper-celebration …
The government issued a decree that requires artists to obtain government approval before performing or displaying their work, while also regulating the artwork itself. For example, it prohi…
"I confirm the Musée du Louvre has asked for the loan of the Salvator Mundi for its October exhibition and truly wishes to exhibit the artwork," a spokeswoman for the institution tells The …
Chloe Smith: “Like I mentioned earlier, we work to utilize our platform as musicians to help promote social and environmental justice causes with the aim of educating and inspiring pos…
Since arriving as the new Dean of the School of the Arts at Purchase College in the State University of New York system last summer, Lorenzo Candelaria, 47, has made arts advocacy his school…
"Art and public practices play a significant role in reproducing and reconstructing racial, gender, and class difference in a way that is positive. Art is so powerful when it operates outsid…
Artist Publisher, a new online forum launched by the Chicago-based printing collective Temporary Services, aims to encourage online discussion of art books and to democratize knowledge of a …
"That professionalization process had the effect of setting up boundaries between 'scientists' and anyone else who might be interested in science, so it led to the exclusion of a whole bunch…
The Composer's music moves people, and he is not characterized in the book as necessarily a bad person; he meets with every fan who stays after the concert to chat with him, and he knows his…
Alexandra Suda comes to the position from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), where she is currently the curator of European art and the R. Fraser Elliott chair of prints and drawing. – …
Ashley Magnus: “Right now, we're in a golden era of American opera. Significantly more operas have been written in the US between 1997 and the present than in the 100 years…
Bob Lynch tries To Add it up: “A specific example of the chilling effect of the shutdown's impact on arts organizations and local businesses comes again from the Smithsonian, which rep…
Amazon had a deal and could have simply gone ahead. But the company had no allegiance to Queens and no need to be where it wasn’t wanted. “Amazon’s retreat from Queens show…
Unfortunately, big-ticket philanthropy is in the middle of a protracted sea change that is already having a direct effect on the arts. Thirteen years ago, the Journal reported that younger n…
In the largest analysis of the issue thus far, investigators have found that the smaller the research team working on a problem, the more likely it was to generate innovative solutions. Larg…
The parallels are numerous, and detailed. Both novels feature anxiety-ridden, middle-aged female narrators who are afraid to leave their homes, and they witness something suspicious while sp…
Staying in love with dance takes grit. Choosing to pursue a lifelong relationship with dance involves the risk of physical injury, financial instability and the ups and downs inherent in …