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Artist Robert Moskowitz, “A Rare Bridge Between Abstract Expressionism And Minimalism,” Has Died At...
"Beginning in the late 1970s, (he) began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three...
Workers’ Strike Closes Toronto’s Largest Art Museum
"Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario gathered on the picket line as they began strike action Tuesday. After months of negotiations,...
Another Boston Public Media Outlet Warns Of Layoffs
Senior management at GBH, which under the call letters WGBH operates both an NPR affiliate and a TV station which produces a number of...
What’s The Secret To The Songs That Make People Want To Dance? Syncopation, Says...
But not too much — just "a moderate level of syncopation to the point where our brain can still extract the periodic beat from...
Florida’s New Budget Increases Arts & Culture Funding By Over 60%. However, …
"Allocations for fiscal year 2025 total $93.9 million, funding 669 different arts and culture projects or organizations. Just $32 million of that is allocated...
Māori Postmodern: Indigenous Architects In New Zealand Are Creating A New Style of Design
"The country’s Māori population now numbers 17% and rising, and the new generation’s enthusiastic embrace of tribal cultural identity is making their presence more...
“Merrily We Roll Along” And The Nature(s) Of Long-Term Friendship
"Frank's and Charley's very different definitions of what constitutes a friend offers an astringent alternative to our culture’s sometimes treacly, overly simplistic portrayal of...
What’s An Intimacy Director To Do On A Musical About Ladyparts With Chompers?
"(In Teeth,) a show in which violence begets vengeance, … it’s a lot to endure, for both biter and bitee. … Campy or not,...
Choreography On Broadway Is No Longer Broadway-Style Choreography
"Today’s shows are increasingly using movement makers from genres outside the musical theater world altogether, like experimental dance (David Neumann, Annie-B Parson, Raja Feather...
How The “Star Trek” Franchise Keeps Going After 58 Years
"Since the original series debuted in 1966, … the Star Trek galaxy has logged 900 television episodes and 13 feature films, amounting to 668...
Ex-Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Is Out Of Jail, Trying To Figure Out What’s Next
In 2021 he pled guilty in an enormous art-fraud case and was sentenced to seven years in prison. This past January he was released...
Strike At Mass MoCA Is Over As Union Ratifies Contract
"The agreement, which (ended a three-week strike and) will be in effect for two years, will increase average pay for bargaining unit’s roughly 120...
Hoping To Move Beyond Thefts Scandal, British Museum Appoints New Director
"The outgoing National Portrait Gallery director (Nicholas Cullinan) replaces former Victoria and Albert Museum head Sir Mark Jones, who was made interim director following...
Shortlist Revealed For First-Ever Women’s Prize For Nonfiction
The finalists are Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, Thunderclap by Laura Cummings, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, A...
Meet The Organist For The Boston Red Sox At Fenway Park
"It’s (Josh) Kantor’s job to punch up the action when it’s going well on the field and soothe fans’ frayed nerves when it’s not....
Michael Ondaatje On His First Poetry Collection In 25 Years
"The real question I had “was could I write poems anymore? … I didn’t want to miss out on a certain pensiveness, and a...
Making Dementia-Friendly Theatre
"Designed in collaboration with people living with dementia and their carers, these performances are specifically adapted for their audience, allowing them to have a...
Algerian Officials Rebuke TV Stations For Too Many Ads And “Immoral” Programming During Ramadan
The communications minister's complaints were about some of the prime-time soap operas that draw massive viewership as people break their Ramadan fasts in the...
“Information Is Power” — Dance Data Project’s Founder Talks About Five Years Of Collecting...
"We are here to provide data and analysis which journalists, funders and advocates can deploy to create a more interesting dance world. Artistic-director candidates...
Richard Serra Made Modern Sculpture Exciting — By Creating The Feeling That It Might...
Sebastian Smee: "As an artist, he was no bully. Rather, he was a physicist. He wanted you to know, and to feel in your...
Smithsonian Misused Federal COVID Relief Funding, Finds Internal Audit
"The Smithsonian’s internal Office of the Inspector General last month released a report saying that the institution misused a portion of the $7.5 million...
Ohad Naharin On Ballet Ireland’s Cancellation Of His “Minus 16” Because He’s Israeli
"From the abyss of my sadness witnessing the ongoing catastrophe ... I am writing to you. If the act of cancellation would have helped...
Boston Public Radio Station WBUR Is Offering Staff Buyouts
As management looks to cut 10% of the budget, it "hopes the plan will help reduce some expenses, but … the station expects to...
Arts Funding In Hawaii Is Saved By State Senate Committee
The state's percent-for-art law, the oldest in the US (1967), requires 1% of the construction or renovation costs of state buildings to go to...
Sagrada Familia In Barcelona Will Be Finished (Sort Of) In 2026
With the completion of the Chapel of the Assumption in 2025 and the last and highest of its six towers the following year, construction...