When the public again returns to full contact " with embraces and smooches, and eating together " what will matter most is not the freedom to shop without masks, or to fly without fear. What…
"The National Gallery of Art will open its six-acre Sculpture Garden to visitors on Saturday, marking the first step of a multiphase comeback from the museum's coronavirus closure. The secon…
"The resignation of Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara was announced as Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker and supporter of the president, was set to take over as…
Bilge Ebiri thinks there have been enough Oscar-worthy films released already this year to fill out a nomination roster. "Most are the kinds of movies that would have had a hard time standin…
"Many governors across the United States have been eager to begin the multiphase reopening of businesses, but bookstore owners are acting cautiously. In remarks gathered from more than 25 in…
Many on Twitter and Instagram voiced surprise at"but also saw the funny side of"the results of a 1,000-person survey published in the Singaporean newspaper the Straits Times. The publication…
More than half of the NBCC's board of directors have resigned since last Thursday, when now-ex-member Hope Wanuke posted on Twitter part of an email discussion among the board about an anti-…
It's worth thinking anew about the value of living memorials, and why so little of our mad fetish for public memorialization has been devoted to them. Could we rethink not just the whom and …
"Last week, the country's ministry of culture launched an open call for the design and production of the public work, which will be installed in Paris's Tuileries Gardens, next to the Musée…
"Outgoing director Stéphane Lissner dropped a bombshell Thursday, saying Europe's biggest opera and ballet company was 'on its knees' and he would be leaving seven months early in January. …
"The group's founders, Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh, who control operations of the organization's training program and theaters, said that they have been seeking nonp…
From 2010: As part of our long-term project of staying at all six of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses that can be rented for overnight stays, we launched our vacation by flying to Pittsburgh an…
"Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare." George Saintsbury, A Last Scrap Book Continue …
Sotheby's has quietly upped its charges for purchasers of its offerings: An "Overhead Premium" of 1% of the auction hammer price will supplement its buyer's premium, effective Aug. 1. " Lee …
Laurie Hertzel, who had served as president since 2019, announced over the weekend she was leaving the 24-member board. Her departure came two days after another board member, Ugandan-Americ…
Popular YouTube videos are filled with flashes of memes, zoom-ins, funny voices, gurning faces and whiplash-inducing cultural references. Watching a Pewdiepie video is like having some sort …
We could try to salvage the order by constructing institutions that enable us to meaningfully govern it. But to do that, we'd have learn to do politics with people who are different from us.…
The most important point to start from is that while there are a number of things you should consider when planning your book " such as characterisation, plotting or the style and voice of y…
"We found that 25-to-34-year-old college graduates were among the most likely to move of any demographic group, and that they were systematically moving toward some places and away from othe…
The Internet Archive announced the National Emergency Library project on March 24, in response to the widespread closures of libraries and schools during the Covid-19 crisis. The temporary i…
These shows will be the first paid gig many people in the industry have had since March. Airwaves' event director, Cindy Jensen, says organising her event has highlighted how desperate the m…
Marc Spiegler: "Fortunately, the Amazon art world won't come to pass. For one thing, artworks are unique, and thus not so easily commodified. They have no utility value, no truly provable wo…
Buyers demand discounts of as much as 30% on new works and 50% on the secondary market, according to art dealers. Temporary reprieve, including government rescue loans or rent reductions, wi…
O'Connor is now as canonical as Faulkner and Welty. More than a great writer, she's a cultural figure: a funny lady in a straw hat, puttering among peacocks, on crutches she likened to "flyi…
With the cost of tickets ranging from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars, calling for ticket donations is a strategy many performing arts organizations are using to stay afloat amid coro…