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A Young Belarusian Conductor Reports From The Polish-Ukrainian Border
Vitali Alekseenok's had been expecting to spend March and April working in Ukraine, including at the Kharkiv Music Festival, which he directs. Instead, he...
Meet The Consultant Who Rescues Hollywood Execs From Cancel Culture — Meaning From Their...
"At some point during the pandemic, Hollywood's creative underclass realized it had power — on Slack, on Twitter, and in blind quotes to a...
After 11 Years, Rubens’ Massive (And Very Heavy) “Baptism Of Christ” Is Brought Out...
The 13½-by-22-foot, 1,225-pound painting is back in place at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, which is about to reopen after a...
From Vaccine Rules To Visas To Shipping Delays, The Dance World Is Having A...
Sarah Kaufman: "To better understand the pressures facing these artists and how they'll affect audiences, I spoke with presenters, consultants and company leaders about...
Youth America Grand Prix Finds Ballet Schools To Take In Ukrainian Contestants
Academies at top companies all over western and central Europe have given refuge to more than 60 young dance students since the war started,...
Museums In Shanghai And Shenzen Close Again As China Faces Another Wave Of COVID
At least seven major institutions in Shanghai's West Bund and Pudong districts shut their doors on March 10, just before local schools were closed....
Strike At Chicago’s PBS Station
"Broadcast technicians and other employees at WTTW-Channel 11 went on strike Wednesday at the ... public television station shortly before the start of the...
France Creates €1 Million Emergency Fund For Refugee Ukrainian Arts Workers
"The emergency reception program will finance Ukrainian artists and cultural professionals and their families for a period of three months (with) residencies within the...
Russian Air Force Bombs Theater Where More Than 1,000 Ukrainians Were Sheltering
Very luckily, it appears that most of the civilians inside the Mariupol Drama Theater were able to get down to the building's bomb shelter...
Paul Taylor Dance Company Chooses Classical Ballet Star As Resident Choreographer
"Until the fall, Lauren Lovette was an esteemed principal at New York City Ballet, but now she has crossed over into modern dance and...
Museums Are Re-Examining Their Security Arrangement Following MoMA Stabbings
"Given the rarity of violence within museums, most are protected by security guards who are typically unarmed and capable of detecting and responding to...
The Design For Melbourne’s Huge New Contemporary Art Museum Is Revealed
The nearly 200-foot-tall NGV Contemporary — which, at 323,000 square feet (140,000 of display space), will be Australia's largest art museum when it opens...
Philosophers On TikTok (Yes, It’s A Thing)
Search the hashtag #Philosophy and you could find a tenured professor discussing Aristotle or Hannah Arendt, Plato or Peter Singer. If you're lucky, you...
Ballet-Class Pianists Fess Up
"It's better now. Back in the day, I might as well have been a radio in the corner." "Sometimes I see a dancer who...
L.A.’s Underground Museum Closes Indefinitely As Co-Directors Step Down
The free-admission space, founded in a minority neighborhood in 2012 by a prominent Black artist family, had reopened only a month ago following its...
This Public Library Was Unlocked And Unstaffed, But Patrons Checked Items Out Properly And...
You've got to hand it to New Zealanders. The main public library in Christchurch was closed for the national holiday on Feb. 6, but...
Hiring And Pay Equity In US Theater Did Improve In 2020, But Just Barely:...
The union's third annual Diversity and Inclusion Hiring Bias Report found that just under a quarter of contracts went to actors and state managers...
Gender Equity Seems To Be Better At Dance Festivals Than In Other Parts Of...
Among the statistics in this report are that, in 2021, two-thirds of US dance festivals studied were headed by women, almost two-thirds of the...
Taking Kids To Museums, Plays, Or Concerts Does Not Improve Their Grades: Study
"There have been persistent theories that wealthier children may be given an advantage in their school careers by being pressed into visits to art...
Restoration Workers At Notre-Dame In Paris Unearth Medieval Tombs
"Several tombs and a leaden sarcophagus likely dating from the 14th century have been uncovered by archaeologists at Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral following its devastating...
The Oldest Form Of Jewish Theater Takes New Shape
Purim spiels, retelling the story of Queen Esther, are documented back to the 14th century and doubtless happened for generations before that. New versions...
Nobel Laureate Peter Handke’s Fans Say His Support Of Milošević Has Nothing To Do...
"Rather than a departure from his literary work, Handke's position on Serbia may be of a piece with it — a logical consequence of...
Read These Letters That Freed Black Folks Wrote To Their Former Enslavers
"Some are exquisite condemnations from learned and accomplished men who escaped their enslavement. Some are brief queries, shots in the dark, dictated by...
$1.23 Billion Redevelopment Of Melbourne’s Main Arts District Approved
The Southbank district already has three concert halls, an outdoor music venue, five theatres, three museums (including the National Gallery of Victoria), an arts...
Conductor Paavo Järvi Explains Why He Stayed In Moscow To Finish His Gig After...
"These young people should not and cannot be punished for the barbaric actions of their government," said the Estonian maestro, who was there to...