There’s a draft of an open letter to Mayor Katie Wilson and the Seattle City Council that’s been making the rounds on social media and racking up signatures over the past few days. The request: divert...

L.A. Times classical music critic Mark Swed has retired. He was the last full-time classical music critic at a major American newspaper.

Why do some people focus on the “liberal” in a liberal arts degree when they could focus on the “art” part?

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

Korean-American artist Eujue turned a missing NYC subway tile into an art intervention, catching mayor Zohran Mamdani's eye — here's what actually happened.

ALT: Queen of Hearts: Off With His Head!

One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”

The problem is not famous people speaking out, as they always have. It is the feeling that leaders have failed, obliging celebrities to fill the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Moment of reckoning for ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music, who embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from billionaire

Art can respond powerfully when something goes wrong. What might creativity make possible before it does?

The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.

"I can say with a clear conscience that Trump is lying about the Kennedy Center’s financial stability," says Mara Richards Bim.

I too easily latch onto the term authoritarianism. This essay from @Rogue Art Historian reminds me, “The real offense is independence. “Because constitutional democracy requires a president to hear...

What happens when protest becomes a creative act rather than merely an expression of opposition?

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