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A flood of executive orders are impacting the arts: L.A. arts and culture this week
President Donald Trump sent shock waves through the world of arts and culture on Friday when he announced on Truth Social that he intends to appoint himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and terminate multiple board members. The unexpected move is one of many — big…
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French culture budget cuts spark a stern response from the Académie des beaux-arts
With severe budget cuts hitting France’s arts sector, the Académie des beaux-arts warns of threats to creativity and democratic freedoms. ADVERTISEMENT France’s Académie des beaux-arts has added its voice to growing protests against budget reductions that threaten to cripple the culture sector. The budget cuts, adopted last Thursday, will axe €150 million in the Ministry…
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This historic S.F. office building was going to become housing, now it’s slated to be an arts hub
The Warfield Building, at 988 Market St. in San Francisco, was supposed to become the city’s first office-to-housing conversion project. Now, it’s planned to become an arts and media hub. Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle The historic Warfield building in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood was supposed to be the first downtown office-to-housing conversion in the wake of the…
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Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre Opens its Call for Scores & Proposals for the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes
Toronto, ON, Canada, 10 February 2025 – The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) has opened its international call to composers for the (AMP). For its sixth biennial cycle, AMP is seeking scores and proposals for choir and orchestra with optional soloists. The 2026 call is open from 7 February through 2 May 2025. Created in…
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Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre Opens its Call for Scores & Proposals for the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes
Toronto, ON, Canada, 10 February 2025 – The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) has opened its international call to composers for the (AMP). For its sixth biennial cycle, AMP is seeking scores and proposals for choir and orchestra with optional soloists. The 2026 call is open from 7 February through 2 May 2025. Created in…
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TLV ‘Working Class’ offers insights into various aspects of life
If someone were to invent a time machine that could enable, say, folk from the 19th century to pop over for a glimpse of contemporary 21st-century life, they would probably be amazed by the new Working Class event. The series kicks off in Tel Aviv on February 13 and is described as “a new and…
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TPIsoftware Partners with Lissome to Transform Tainan Cultural Site with AI and Green Energy Technologies
TAIPEI, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TPIsoftware (TWSE: 7781) and Lissome Arts and Culture Co., Ltd. have announced a collaboration to rejuvenate a historic cultural site in Tainan’s North District, a designated area near the established cultural park 321 Art Alley Settlement. As part of the initiative, TPIsoftware will help develop Taiwan’s first cultural site…
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TPIsoftware Partners with Lissome to Transform Tainan Cultural Site with AI and Green Energy Technologies
TAIPEI, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TPIsoftware (TWSE: 7781) and Lissome Arts and Culture Co., Ltd. have announced a collaboration to rejuvenate a historic cultural site in Tainan’s North District, a designated area near the established cultural park 321 Art Alley Settlement. As part of the initiative, TPIsoftware will help develop Taiwan’s first cultural site…
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Trump plans to become chair of the Kennedy Center. Here are three things to know.
President Trump plans to fire several Board members at Washington D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. And to the surprise of many in the arts world, on Friday, he said he would name himself chairman. Here’s why any of that matters. 1. He wants to chair a Kennedy Center board. Is that…
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Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower
Artists and conservation groups have decried the “irresponsible” plan to tear down a brutalist arts tower at a Midlands university, saying the proposed redevelopment is overlooking the “massive historical significance” of the structure. The University of Wolverhampton has earmarked the nine-storey School of Art, which is also known as the George Wallis building, for demolition…
