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Kristin Chenoweth‘s musical The Queen of Versailles will be taking its final bow earlier than expected. The Broadway show, which began previews Oct. 8 and officially opened just two weeks ago, has announced that it will close Jan. 4. The production had been expected to run much longer — ticketing website had performances listed through

When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now officially reclaimed as a hometown hero, and

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor announced four more arrests Tuesday in connection with the stunning heist at the Louvre Museum in October by a gang that made off with $102 million worth of jewels. The two men and two women taken into custody are from the Paris region and range in age from 31

Al Letson: From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Revealed. I’m Al Letson. Julia Jimmie lives on the western edge of Alaska where indigenous villages dot the banks of two massive rivers. Julia Jimmie: I’m from Tuntutuliak. If you go by boat, it’s two hours away, but if we take a plane,

Loans available to architecture students in the USA will be reduced under the terms of president Donald Trump‘s One Big Beautiful Bill, as architecture will not be considered a professional degree. Under the terms of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the provision of student loans in the USA will be overhauled starting 1 July, 2026,

Rocío Jimenez of East Los Angeles beamed with pride watching her 13-year-old daughter perform at one of LA’s most iconic venues, the Hollywood Bowl. With fellow members of the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, or YOLA, she sang “Hasta la Raíz,” alongside Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. “It was

“When will AI achieve humanlike intelligence?” I recently asked a friend. “It already has,” he replied, suggesting that if you were to travel back in time to 1995 and evaluate our current versions of artificial intelligence from that vantage, most people would consider the technology’s intelligence humanlike—maybe even superhuman. The goalposts for humanlike intelligence, he

The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of articles on the web are

(Indiana University Bloomington, Kelley School of Business (left) and O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (right)). At her blogArts Analytics, Joanna Woronkowicz haswritten a post– reposted to a wide audience atartsjournal.com– trying to answer the two questions in the title of this post, with the heading (which I don’tfullyunderstand) “Stop teaching arts administrators to

A few days after the initial experiment, the team tested participants’ memory by having them look at more Mooney images online, including some they had seen before. Participants were better able to remember prior images that they had rated highly on the three aspects of insight. This suggested that the insight-memory advantage was real, but

It’s mid-July, 1954. The Mexican summer heat scorches the tarmac outside the home of Frida Kahlo, La Casa Azul. Storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. Inside, on her deathbed, Kahlo is surrounded by those closest to her. She’s weakening. One of them says: “Look into your heart Frida, tell us, what is it you

IS COBALT BUZZY? Would you read a carefully reported, compact but spirited essay about Canada’s rising strategic value in a resource-hungry world? No? Well, a lot of you did. A few months ago, Christopher Pollon’s “The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them?” drew 150,000 readers in two days. What

It is a commonly accepted truth that being nominated for the Booker Prize has a significant impact on the sales profile of a title, winning it even more so. This year’s winner David Szalay’s Flesh jumped from selling 163 copies a week to 653 once the shortlist was revealed – in the week since its

The Huntington has acquired a rare Civil War-era painting by American master Winslow Homer. “The Sutler’s Tent” was made in 1863 when Homer was traveling with the Union Army as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly. The title refers to a type of transitory store that sold goods to soldiers when they were out in the

Then-Scottish Rite Board Chairman Richard Park (left) and San Antonio Philharmonic Executive Director Roberto Trevino sign paperwork last year enabling the orchestra to share use of the Scottish Rite Temple’s auditorium. Credit: Sanford Nowlin San Antonio’s Scottish Rite fraternal order has given the San Antonio Philharmonic until Friday, Nov. 28 to vacate the group’s historic

Bach Collegium San Diego and Ruben Valenzuela Find Acclaim for their El Mesías Project, a Translation of Messiah into Spanish Handel himself shaped and manipulated his music to adapt to its context and its audiences This article was first published in the January 2025 issue of EMAg, The Magazine of Early Music America. The Bach

An empty auditorium, photo by Pixabay / Pexels. A new report has examined the state of programming on UK stages since the pandemic. The British Theatre Consortium report, titled “British Theatre Before & After Covid”, examines 2019, the last full year before the pandemic, and 2023, the first full year after theatres reopened. It draws

It’s official: The Trump Administration has picked its artistfor the 61st Venice Biennale. After months of speculation and much confusion, the artist to represent the U.S. will be Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen, in a pavilion organized by curator Jeffrey Uslip. The sponsor is the American Arts Conservancy (AAC). But what is this organization, now vaulted

Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno have struck what they call a “first-of-its-kind partnership”. They claim the deal will “open new frontiers in music creation, interaction, and discovery, while both compensating and protecting artists, songwriters, and the wider creative community”. The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies. The deal, according to

What’s the price? Everything has one; admission, subscriptions, memberships, special exhibitions, box seats, refreshments, souvenirs, and on and on – a full menu. What the price is matters. Generally, nonprofit arts organizations in the US receive about half of their revenue as “earned income,” and … [Read More…] View Original Article Here