"After more than a year and a half of being without a permanent director, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam said that the veteran museum leader Rein Wolfs has been picked to fill the positio…
The hedge fund that bought the beleaguered Barnes & Noble last week also owns Waterstones, the UK's leading bookstore chain, which had been suffering from similar troubles. So the new ow…
"'We had several options, and this was the one that was viable … because he had that incredible imagination and powerful talent that a lot of people don't have,' said Carol Karotkin, chair…
"Less than an hour after Watkins Glen International speedway announced it was no longer hosting Woodstock 50 on Monday (June 10), in separate announcements the event's producer CID Entertain…
The whereabouts of the world's most expensive artwork " which may or may not actually have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci " have been a mystery for months. But Artnet columnist Kenny Scha…
In support of what's arguably a good idea (giving media companies an antitrust exemption so they can band together and bargain for revenue sharing with Google and Facebook), the News Industr…
Heir to a tobacco fortune who made another fortune as an investment banker, Cullman gave away hundreds of millions to, among many other organizations, the New York Public Library, the Museum…
"On College Bowl, two teams of four college students answered questions on science, history, philosophy, music, literature and other subjects. It combined elements of a team sport, high-spee…
Or, at least, in Manhattan. The once-wildly-popular 1990s electronic game can still be played at arcades in Times Square and Chinatown, where there is a devoted following. " The New York Tim…
On pretending to be a bogus Israeli anti-terrorism expert for his film Who Is America?: "The character creation is a reverse character creation. You have to think, Okay, we got Dick Cheney, …
"Women hold half of the leadership positions at the major film animation companies, new research has found. And, of the top 120 animated films over the last dozen years, nearly four in 10 ha…
"Actually, our growth curve as a company parallels almost exactly the growth of Silicon Valley as a thing. And I credit our success and durability as a company with the fact that we were in …
Lily Tung Crystal began her career as a news journalist who did stage acting on the side. She now says that "theater is the hobby that became a job" " in 2010, she co-founded the Bay Area As…
Alsop, who is currently music director of the Baltimore Symphony and begins as chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony this fall, steps down from Brazil's leading orchestra at the end o…
"Among the changes [to the "Rouanet Law"] due to come into effect next year is the reduction of the annual funding cap per project from 60m reais ($15.44m) to 1m reais ($257,000), but museum…
"After nearly a yearlong legal wrangle, a court in St. Petersburg has ruled in favour of the State Russian Museum staff who have been fighting against plans for a $17m overhaul of the Mikhai…
Kelly Lamb Pollock: "My organization, COCA"Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, is expanding with a 50,000 square foot addition. … In planning for our expansion, we have done more than ou…
"At the Latino Theater Company's landmark 'Encuentro 2014: A National Latina/o Theatre Festival' " the largest of the sort in over twenty-five years " theatremakers, scholars, and advocates …
"As part of the Courtroom Artist Residency, artists may sit among the friends and family members of defendants waiting to be tried at Cook County's Criminal Court and witness the brisk flow …
Vu Le: "I've been thinking a lot about the differences between conservatives and progressives (see "10 things progressive funders must learn from conservative ones or we are all screwed"). L…
"The paid, three-month apprenticeship programme will allow refugees aged 17 to 24 to gain experience across different aspects of theatremaking, including writing, directing, producing and fu…
"The words 'Trump' and 'opera' occurring in the same sentence might seem far-fetched, but for composer Anthony Davis, whose latest work, The Central Park Five, has its world premiere at Long…
"The role of women art-makers in Native communities has gone widely ignored. Now a bold museum show [at the Minneapolis Institute of Art], by and for these women, is shining a light on 1,000…
"Women in opera need to be not only acknowledged for their work, their passion and dedication to the artform, but placed front and centre, asked for their opinion, introduced as a driving fo…
"A quarterly that began publishing in the spring of 1999, [Tin House] quickly set itself apart, injecting the staid world of literary magazines with humor, adventurous design and an expansiv…