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A lawsuit has been filed challenging Paramount‘s $110 billion megadeal for Warner Bros. Discovery, the opening legal salvo over a merger that will reshape Hollywood. Paramount subscribers, in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in California federal court, allege the acquisition will substantially reduce competition in streaming, news and theatrical distribution in violation of antitrust laws.

Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death was announced in a press release by Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented the artist.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Onion’s plan to take over the Infowars platforms that Alex Jones built into a bullhorn of conspiracy theories and turn them into parody sites was in limbo again Thursday, after a Texas court paused a proposed deal involving the satirical news outlet. Austin-based Infowars is facing liquidation because of the

Longtime arts and city government veteran Matthew Goudeau has been named San Francisco’s firstexecutive director of arts and culture. The role was created by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who vowed Monday, April 27 that “under my administration, government is going to do a better job supporting those artists and organizations who are driving our city’s economic

In a Broadway season notable for the strength of its musical revivals, there has been some concern that the best new musical Tony Award category might be particularly scrawny this year. The shows that left the biggest impression on me — “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Ragtime” and “Chess” — are well-known properties. But these warhorses

For Evelyn Hart, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet will always be home. The legendary prima ballerina and former RWB principal dancer will return to the Centennial Concert Hall stage this week for the 2025/26 season finale, reprising her role as Winter Woman in James Kudelka’s The Four Seasons. (It’s a reunion of sorts; fellow RWB company

Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the window, and where others see reality as a continuous expanse, flowing inexorably forward from moment to moment, Zeilberger sees

On the evening of February 18, the Deutsch-Romantisches Orchester (DRO) gave a performance in Berlin’s Funkhaus, a one-time radio broadcasting center converted into a chic concert hall. It was a classical concert like any other—except for the guest list, five-course banquet, and glaring mismatch between the skill levels of the professional instrumentalists and their conductor,

Keith Lockhart, longtime conductor of the Boston Pops, said Wednesday “there is a lot of blame to be spread around” for the turmoil that has engulfed the Boston Symphony Orchestra, noting that the BSO for years has been “living on borrowed time.” “The board and management seriously miscalculated their announcement” of music director Andris Nelsons’

A new Banksy statue, featuring a man with his face covered by a flag, was this week erected in the dead of night in central London. His new work of art was first spotted on Wednesday, and the artist’s signature was scrawled at the base of the statue’s plinth. The elusive artist, known for his

Dressed in a boubou, a traditional Arab robe, Mohammed Abdullah Ould Gholam Habott, 51, puts on gloves before delicately handling the ancient manuscripts. He opens a book about Sufism, a mystical practice within Islam, and then another about its interpretation. Gingerly, he thumbs through the pages of Arabic script. Habott is the custodian of his

‘After my son’s birth, I was a different person’ Lana Jones, midwife, former principal dancer at the Australian Ballet I loved taking the audience on a journey in ballet, pushing my body to its limits. But I knew I couldn’t dance for ever. After the birth of my son, I came back as a different

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay This week we collected 138 stories on ArtsJournal [subscribe]. Here’s what I learned: Cultural historian Joseph Horowitz published an alarm this week — part of a transcript of a conversation he had with conductor Thomas Fortner about whether classical music can survive a collective collapse of attention. He writes:

Union Arts Center, home of ACT Contemporary Theatre & Seattle Shakespeare Company, is excited to announce an opening for a Director of Production (DOP). Union Arts Center (UAC) has successfully launched our inaugural season, which includes both contemporary and classical works. This is a momentous opportunity to join our merged organization within a collaborative and

This Week’s Highlights: The Boston Symphony has been “living on borrowed time” for years, says Keith Lockhart (Boston Globe). The Jungle Theater in Minneapolis has put its building up for sale (Star Tribune). London’s National Gallery — in such precarious shape it has just hired an economist-in-residence — warns that “if they catch cold, the

Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The casualties are staggering, with an estimated eighty-nine colleges closing or merging since 2020 alone and forecasts that a quarter of the nation’s private colleges and universities are at risk in the coming decade.

Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop and have Claude or ChatGPT write the story for you. That seems to be the takeaway

LAS VEGAS — Paramount Skydance CEO and chairman David Ellison made big promises to movie theater owners at CinemaCon on Thursday in Las Vegas. Ellison said he will guarantee 30 movie releases a year between Paramount and Warner Bros., and that he is committing to a 45-day exclusive theatrical window “starting today.” “Long live the

Some of our finest contemporary writers got their laurels Friday night at the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. At the awards ceremony, which opens the annual L.A. Times Festival of Books weekend, Oakland-born writer Amy Tan and literary nonprofit We Need Diverse Books received achievement honors, and finalists in