"Starting in 1945, East German art owners fell victim to an array of inventive methods of expropriation. … In each of the four collections [studied], between 200 and 1,500 objects were dis…
"Of a random sampling of 30 Philly murals that included people, about three-quarters had some degree of facial blurring applied in Street View." Why? According to a Google spokesperson, the …
Streetwise Opera, the British company for people struggling with homelessness, founded the choir Uma Só Voz/With One Voice for the 2016 Olympics, and the city has kept it going. Two AFP r…
"The museum, one of Europe's most ambitious and expensive current cultural projects, has been burdened … by accusations from academics and activists that it hasn't done enough to determine…
Alejandra Frausto, Mexico's secretary for culture, wrote an official letter to designer Carolina Herrera and her creative director, Wes Gordon, about a recent Herrera collection that Frausto…
He's known to the wider world primarily as the writer of the TV series Lonesome Dove and the films Raggedy Man and The Perfect Storm, and he was a book author and photographer himself, but i…
In a word, yes. As one such producer puts it, "There's layers of conversation of what diversity really means in a cultural arts landscape. … We have the opportunity to go deep within multi…
"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hasn't visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture, but he cited one of its exhibits last week to explain how Washington's rumo…
"Countless workout fads have come along since the heyday of Jazzercise: Tae Bo, Pilates, Zumba, boxing, spinning, pole dancing. And yet Jazzercise persists: today, according to the company, …
The diva posted a photo of herself in her dressing room at the Mariinsky, all done up as Verdi's enslaved Ethiopian princess, and one commenter wrote, "Beautiful singing! But is the blackfac…
On the backs of pictures that photographer Hank O'Neal took of the marches in the 1970s, Ginsberg commented in Ginsbergian style. "Black white brown boy girl what idealism! " Wearing their h…
During her years in Seattle, trumpeter Samantha Boshnack has become intrigued not only with volcanoes but with the overall seismic behavior that continues to be a major and often disruptive …
Having controversially deaccessioned a classic Rothko (given to it by the artist himself) in order to fund future acquisitions, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is now raiding its coll…
San Diego is not only the eighth largest U.S. city by population, but also among the fastest-growing. And it has a lot to offer in art " and if the current exhibit at the San Diego Museum of…
Few of the people involved in the controversy at the time imagined that the culture wars would still be raging three decades later. Kriston Capps reconsiders that battle and the way museums …
"Spotify is currently running a campaign centered on moods [and its mood playlists] " the company's Twitter tagline is currently 'Music for every mood' " complete with its own influencer cam…
"[The phrase is] a nickname, coined by fans, for young, delicate-featured, makeup-clad male entertainers." (The Chinese Communist authorities, it seems, prefers to call them niangpao " "siss…
"[She] earned two Academy Award nominations (for Midnight Cowboy and Farewell, My Lovely) and decades of glowing reviews for her acting before drawing equal attention for her midlife transit…
"Around 100 Hong Kong arts organisations, including commercial galleries, signed up to call a strike on Wednesday as lawmakers were expected to begin a series of votes on the [law which woul…
"The National Sound Library of Mexico … [has] unearthed what they believe could be the first known voice recording of Kahlo, taken from a pilot episode of 1955 radio show El Bachiller, whi…
When the Chase Center opens in San Francisco in the fall, it will feature a 700-pound mobile by Alexander Calder and Isamu Noguchi's 1975 Play Sculpture. "[They're] part of a unique ongoing …
After all, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock is still set at two minutes to midnight, most of the Cold War-era nukes (or their replacements) are still here, and the world…
"Their moves are fresh, funny and stylish; their subjects include the climate crisis, gender politics and poetry." " The Guardian
"The happy ending of our most-watched childhood stories is no longer a kiss. Today, Disney films end with two siblings reconciled despite their differences, as in Frozen (2013); or a mother …
In fact, writes Michael Dirda, the tale came from one Antoine Galland, an early-18th-century Orientalist who was the first Westerner to translate the actual Thousand and One Nights from the …