Art and Culture

The future of Opera Australia’s signature event, the annual Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, is in limbo over a funding dispute with its patron, reclusive Japanese billionaire Haruhisa Handa.Opera Australia announced its 2027 season on…
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On an April evening in 1939, an estimated 150 million listeners from across the globe tuned in to a remarkable BBC radio broadcast that even now evokes wonder.…
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Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other Anthony Chemero Columbia Univ. Press (2026)Consciousness research is having an AI moment. Will the hype help the field?What does it mean for a machine to be…
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Gao Zhen, a prominent Chinese artist known for provocative sculptures of the former leader Mao Zedong, has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of slandering China’s “heroes and martyrs”. The sentencing came…
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Oh shit.Studs Terkel ​is d​ead.He was 96​ —the blackest white man I ever met. Blacker even than his lifelong friendNelson Algren,another black manwho happened to beborn white.jh BORN BLACKOh shit!Studs Terkelis dead.He was 96…
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A PCS ballot registered 95% in favour of industrial action. The union did not say how many workers would be striking. It called for better pay, a cross-site policy to close public spaces when temperatures reached 30C, and for V&A…
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In the spring of 2025, Erik Schark, managing director of Theatre Now New York, received a note from the National Endowment for the Arts informing him that his company’s grant had been terminated. The independent federal agency,…
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We wanted to celebrate our nation, because 2026 is our 250th birthday, and also, it feels necessary in this moment. But how would we do it in a moment when celebrating living in the USA feels political, feels fraught with…
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Image by Jo Re from Pixabay We collected 127 stories on ArtsJournal last week. Here’s what I learned. A couple of weeks ago, I got a PR pitch from a theatre. It praised my writing in Diacritical, not just mentioning particular…
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Tim Curry, who soared to fame in the ‘70s as the flamboyant star of the campy horror movie stage spoof “The Rocky Horror Show” and its screen version “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 80. Curry’s…
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