Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Amna Nawaz: In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has sought to put its mark on various parts of the nation’s cultural sector, the Kennedy Center, funding for federal arts agencies, and more. One focus, how American…

One city bus is about to get a little more artistic. Artist Koy Sun’s illustration shows a family on a bus, surrounded by grocery bags of familiar Asian products — drawing on the rich diversity of Asian food and culture in San Diego. “I included things like halo-halo, Yakult, to reference my Thai culture, the…

Prause’s Meat Market Now Officially Under Contract to Become Theater, and Arts and Culture Fund Started  The La Grange City Council voted 4-1 Monday night to establish a La Grange Arts and Culture Fund. The Council discussed the idea at length during their March 24 meeting. City Manager Jack Thompson proposed the fund as a…

00:00  /  Artists, nonprofit leaders, and cultural workers from across the state gathered at the Oregon Capitol this month with a common message: Arts and culture aren’t just “nice to have” — they’re vital, and they need support. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: Organized by the Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon, the event marked a coordinated…

President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box during a tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2025. Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have been remarkably eventful across…

Have fun exploring the city with Play List, Mirror Indy’s midweek arts and culture newsletter. Sign up here: Support local news Our journalism will always be free because of donations from readers like you. The world of Little Free Libraries and Community Food Boxes has a new pal: Tiny neighborhood art gallery. Savannah Jacob, a…

When Tara Mahadevan began her career as a music journalist in the early 2010s, she noticed gaps in coverage of the music, arts and culture she loved from her hometown of St. Louis. So when Mahadevan returned during the pandemic to stay with her family, she decided it was time to do something to fill…

Alec Butterfield Not even halfway up the chairlift my face was already red from the beaming morning rays. Dirt was beginning to trace the ditches between the moguls under the lift. It snowed only two days before, now it was 70 degrees and any semblance of winter has subsided. Two days after and the snow…

“We hope in the future our Aral Sea will be full again,” said Aygul Pirnazanova, head of the ethnographic department at the Savitsky Museum of Art, distilling the collective ambition of the inaugural Aral Culture Summit (ACS), held last month. Spearheaded by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF), the summit, held this year…

An air of anxiety pervaded the opening of the seventh Culture Summit Abu Dhabi (27-29 April) as, one after another, speakers set out the challenges the arts face. The rapidly changing global order, the climate crisis and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) that threatens millions of jobs in the creative sector were on a…