Art and Culture

Dame Lynda Topp’s seven-minute speech which included a request for more funding at the Aotearoa Music Awards last Thursday has set off a domino tumble of headlines. First, reports or full recordings…
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The Edinburgh festivals hope to launch a single box office for all the city’s 11 festivals to make it simpler to buy tickets and profit from the “lake” of customer data they hold.Festival directors hope a universal box office will allow…
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If Bilton stays, as he presumably will, the organization will try to muddle its way forward, damaged and listing and leaking to the gossip columns. Meanwhile, no answers were forthcoming about why Weiss was so determined to burn…
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The AI revolution in Hollywood is not just real, but taking form in tangible projects that people can now see. Whether it’s animated shorts, experimental theatrical projects or full-blown movies and shows, AI is showing that it…
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“The whole art gallery art system became too big, too commercial, too impersonal and too corporate,” Marc Glimcher, the chief executive, said in an interview this week.  – The New York Times Source link
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Good Morning, Pace Gallery is cutting 50 artists and 50 staff — about half its roster — and with them, the idea that mega-gallery expansion was the art market’s future (The New York Times). Also this week, Suno, the AI…
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My introduction of Gary Dunning at New England Conservatory’s Commencement ceremony on Sunday May 17, 2026. He received an honorary degree. Let me speak of Gary Dunning who has spent decades reminding Boston — and reminding this…
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Managers of smaller venues fear that they would lose too much money presenting unfamiliar performers in an unfamiliar genre, said the report, which also flags the lack of university- or conservatory-level training in South…
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I want to start by preventing some heart attacks and assuring the administrators of every book prize I’ve ever judged that I am NOT about to disclose any secrets of the judging room. But authors and readers (and even editors) tend to…
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“The program, Next Stage Chicago, will provide a maximum of $50,000 to up to eight nonprofit theater companies that have been in business for at least three years but no more than 10.” – WBEZ (Chicago) Source link
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