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Owner Of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Sues Wright Conservancy
The current owner of the building, Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has sold a few of Wright's interior furnishings to pay for expenses. The...
Godzilla Is 70 Years Old, And Its Warning To Us Is Still Relevant
"(The franchise) conveys a vital message about Earth’s creeping environmental catastrophe. Few survivors are left to warn humanity about the effects of nuclear weapons,...
Royal Shakespeare Co. And Chicago Shakespeare Begin Their First Collaboration
"On Friday, for the first time in some 30 years, (the RSC) will open a show in Chicago — William Shakespeare’s Pericles, now in...
Roman Polanski Avoids Civil Trial For Alleged Rape Of 13-Year-Old In 1973
"Polanski, who fled the U.S. decades ago after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old, will no longer face trial over an alleged...
Whitney Museum To Make Admission Free For Those 25 And Under, Thanks To Julie...
"Mehretu, who is internationally known for her swirling abstracts that have sold for up to $10.7 million at auction, has contributed $2.25 million to...
ACLU Sues Vail, Colorado For Canceling An Artist’s Residency Over Views On Gaza
"Nearly a month before Danielle SeeWalker was slated to paint a mural in Vail, town staff told her that a social media post featuring...
40 Years Of Mural Arts Philadelphia
From its origins (as the Anti-Graffiti Network) in 1984, working with graffiti artists to engage them in public art, the organization has evolved. ......
Remembering The Real Glory Days (The ’80s And ’90s) Of The Village Voice
Ed Park, who spent 12 years there in various editor positions before Craigslist destroyed its business model, recalls some of the many impressive writers,...
57 Media Power Players (Many Anonymous) Assess The Current State of The Media
"All of these media insiders have watched up close as the business that undergirds journalism (has) changed dramatically. ... We wanted to understand not...
Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” Conforms To Laws Of Physics That Hadn’t Even Been Discovered...
"Last month, fluid dynamics researchers from China and France published a research article in the Physics of Fluids journal indicating that van Gogh’s signature...
The Entire Ecosystem Of Children’s TV In America Is Collapsing
"Linear ratings for kids television have cratered over the last decade and changed the programming landscape completely. … The carefully curated programming blocks of...
Somehow The Gothic Cathedral In Cologne Has Become A TikTok Star
Several videos featuring the building have racked up millions of likes and tens of millions of views, and no one seems certain as to...
Off-Off-Broadway Theater Company Told It Must Clear All Productions With Its Landlord — The...
For years, the Connelly Theater has been performing in two auditoriums at a Catholic school in Manhattan’s East Village. In recent months, the Archdiocese...
Proposing A New, Different Model For Arts Funding In England
With the new Labour government having announced a "proper review" of funding body Arts Council England, Mark Pemberton suggests overhauling the structure of government...
San Antonio Philharmonic Inks Agreement For New Venue That Needs Millions’ Worth of Upgrades
The venue, of which the orchestra will have partial ownership, is the old Scottish Rite of Freemasonry hall downtown, which has, per music director...
City Of Dallas Puts Funding For Dallas Black Dance Theatre On Hold
Due to concerns over the company's firing and replacement of its entire roster of dancers earlier this year, the city council's Quality of Life,...
Steven Spielberg, Ruth Asawa, Spike Lee, Aaron Sorkin, Idina Menzel Among 39 Awarded National...
"Filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Ken Burns and singers Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah were among 20 recipients of National Medals of Arts,...
The Azure Buildings Of India’s Blue City Are Fading
A historic neighborhood in the center of the city of Jodhpur is famous for the old homes and buildings clad in blue plaster. In...
Toronto’s Mayor Announces Five-Year, Multi-Million Plan To Boost Arts And Culture
Mayor Olivia Chow's plan would increase the budget of the city's arts funding agency by $2 million annually over the next five years, double...
Paris To Spend $55 Million Greening The Spaces Around Notre-Dame Cathedral
The project will create roughly 20,000 square feet of green space with 160 new trees, adapting the cathedral's underground parking garage into a visitor...
Does Money Change Everything? Five Major Dance Artists Talk About Winning Major Grants
Donald Byrd, Michelle Dorrance, Miguel Gutierrez, Rosie Herrera, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa discuss how receiving six-figure prizes such as the Doris Duke Artist Award...
John Leguizamo Has Written His First Play For More Than One Actor
Not to worry: it's still about Hispanic Americans, and he's still starring. "Not bragging on myself, but Molière wrote all his plays for himself...
University of Cincinnati Press Will Close Down Next June
"The university said that it had 'determined that the long-term financial sustainment of the University of Cincinnati Press is not feasible. Funding resources, including...
Why Concert Halls Still Matter Enough That We Spend Hundreds of Millions Of Dollars...
"A room that’s consecrated to music is one where people come together, sit in quiet communion, listen rather than shout, and focus for a...
Hard To Take, But More Right Than Ever: Jeremy Denk On The Music Of...
"You do not see advertisers beating at the door of the Ives estate to use his music in commercials. His music is not ready...