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Veteran actor James Handy has died at his home in Los Angeles after a stabbing, allegedly by his girlfriend’s son. The 81-year-old actor was found in the front yard of his home in Tarzana, California, at 9.30am on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles police department. He was unconscious and had multiple stab wounds to

NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of literary entities, from the presenters of the National Book Awards to an organization supporting North Carolina writers, have received grants from an endowment established last year to boost support for the U.S. independent and nonprofit book community. The Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and

MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following MBW op/ed comes from Sammy Andrews. Below, she argues that Bill Ackman may be right about Universal Music Group – and still be wrong about the universe it sits within… Pershing Square‘s proposed $64 billion bid for

PARIS (AP) — Wilting in the summer sun, a line of tourists waits to climb Notre Dame cathedral and meet its gargoyles. Four meters (13 feet) beneath them, a team of archaeologists is digging the other way — straight down and back in time, to Roman Paris 2,000 years ago. In 2019, fire brought Notre

Ever since physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax paper in the journalSocial Textin 1996 to skewer the “fashionable sectors of the American academic left,” a mini-industry of polemicists has dedicated itself to exposing the ideological excesses and intellectualbizarreriesof humanities scholarship. In 2018, the provocateurs James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose performed Sokal’s stunt on

When a Pulitzer prize-winning play about a feminist activist opened in New York, audiences had to do something unusual. They were asked to put their phones away – not in their pockets, but in specially designed pouches, which they could open only at the intermission or after the show. Eva Price, a producer of the

Several people I know now refer to ChatGPT as ‘Chat’. They give it human pronouns (Chat is usually a he) and ask it for restaurant recommendations, holiday schedules and relationship advice. Some go further, automating their office admin and getting it to summarise meetings and write reports. Passing off whole chunks of AI-generated text as

The inaugural Enhanced Games took place to much fanfare in Las Vegas on May 24 2026. An event that has attracted much controversy, the games are designed to showcase the prowess of high-profile athletes who openly take legal performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to maximise their sporting potential. Masterminded by sports media and wellness company Enhanced

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. AI company OpenAI and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks announced in February 2026 that OpenAI’s flagship model GPT-5 had autonomously designed and run 36,000 biological experiments. It did this through a

Lucinda ChildsMomentary RepriseFisher Center at BardJune 26–28, 2026Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Lucinda Childs Limitless Time Watermill CenterJuly 24–25, 2026 Water Mill, NY Even though choreographer Lucinda Childs has been working steadily for five decades, she is having a moment, with a program at Bard’s SummerScape 2026, and a new, five-year artistic residency with New York’s Gibney Company,

Summer movie season is normally a battle of Hollywood heavyweights — but this year, two of the hottest tickets at the box office come from filmmakers who’ve never had movies in theatres before. Kane Parsons, 20, and Curry Barker, 26, the directors behind Backrooms and Obsession who both built their audiences on YouTube, have become

As July 4, 2026, approaches, Americans will be paying more attention than usual to events of 1776: the year the American Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Public historians, including filmmaker Ken Burns, have tried to offer a more inclusive view of the American Revolution, highlighting lesser-known patriots. But figures such as Thomas Jefferson,

“It’s a big shift,” says Creative New Zealand CEO Gretchen La Roche, “and I know that can be quite confronting for people. Quite unsettling, especially because we’re in the process. This will take time, it’s a transition, but people have been calling for change.” Our arts development and funding agency is undertaking one of the

Some of the biggest West End shows could be forced to temporarily close during a “summer of turbulence” in London after union members voted to move towards strike action over a dispute about pay and conditions. An indicative ballot held by the performing arts union, Equity, was overwhelmingly backed by its membership: 98% voted yes

Arts & Entertainment New Opera By Chicago Music Critic Unpacks Being a Son of Holocaust Survivors Journalist and former Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich with family photos. His new new opera, “The Dialogue of Memories,” is embarking on a three-city U.S. tour this month that culminates at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago on May

Art has never been a question of life and death.1—Barbara Rose IT WAS 1968, and Barbara Rose was excoriating her Artforum colleagues in the pages of the magazine. Assassinations, riots, and wars were ripping the country apart. Yet somehow these writers were wasting their energy and talents debating how sculpture could acknowledge its dependence on

Published May 15, 2026at4:49pm Cricket just wants to dance. The $40,000 humanoid robot walked to the center of an octagon cage inside SoMa’s Temple nightclub Thursday night wearing a neon pink wig and struck a pose. A moment later, A-ha’s “Take on Me” filled the air, and Cricket started swiveling its hips, gyrating to the

This week we collected 125 stories on ArtsJournal [subscribe]. Here’s what I learned: Over the past six months we’ve collected dozens of stories about the death of Hollywood. The cumulative numbers are stark: roughly half of all Hollywood production jobs are gone, and the family businesses that built the production economy — prop houses, florists,