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Louvre Will Get New Department Of Byzantine And Coptic Art, Says New Director
"If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre's president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary,...
An Opera By The Dean Of Black American Composers Finally Retakes The Stage
William Grant Still's one-act Highway 1, U.S.A. has barely been seen since its 1963 premiere, but it's being brought back to life this summer...
Oh, Great — Now Going Back To Movie Theaters Will Become Part Of The...
Owen Gleiberman: "To go or not to go? To believe in the primacy of the communal, cathartic big-screen experience or to see it as...
Why ‘The Great British Baking Show’, ‘Project Runway’, And Other Reality TV Competitions Have...
"Rather than offering an escapist vision of a world unravaged by pandemic, I've taken reassurance from the way these shows offer an escapist vision...
Getting New York’s Comedy Clubs Reopened Is No Laughing Matter
With capacity restrictions, social distancing rules, other safety measures, and eager-but-nervous audiences and performers, venues from mighty Caroline's to tiny Stand Up NY have...
Raimund Hoghe, Who Created Dances For His Own Nonnormative Body, Dead At 72
Five feet tall and born with a curved spine, he was a young journalist interviewing Pina Bausch when she asked him to work with...
Liam Scarlett’s Death Did Not Happen The Way Everyone Presumed It Did
The British choreographer, aged 35, died in April, one day after the Royal Danish Ballet announced it was cancelling its staging of his Frankenstein...
When ISIS Made Off With A Magritte Nude (Which Made It Back Intact!)
In 2009, a pair of thieves got into the René Magritte Museum in the Brussels suburb of Jette, located in the artist's former home,...
These Unpublished Charles Schultz Cartoons Are About (!!) Adults
Here's the story of a set of seven comic strips, called "the Hagemeyer strips" after their main character, set in an office, with protagonists...
At 4,300 Years, This May The World’s Oldest War Memorial
"A huge burial mound holding the corpses of at least 30 warriors in Syria could be the oldest war memorial ever discovered, dating back...
These Protesters Faced Down The Colombian Cops By Voguing
As a crowd marched in Bogotá against poverty and police violence, three twenty-something queer folks whose dance video had gone viral a couple of...
Arts Groups To UK: Thanks For Offering Us Relief Funding — Now Could You...
"Hundreds of arts organisations that received grants in the Culture Recovery Fund's second round are still waiting for money to be paid out, causing...
Newark’s Quirks: Examining the Museum’s (& Sotheby’s) Art Sale Shenanigans
In my previous post on the Newark Museum of Art’s dicey deaccessions, I didn’t analyze the overall sale totals, my customary practice when covering...
John Steinbeck Really Did Write A Werewolf Novel. No Way His Estate Is Letting...
"The manuscript, Murder at Full Moon, was completed in 1930 but was never published. A single copy has been sitting, mostly forgotten, in an...
How Biden’s New, De-Trumpified Commission Of Fine Arts Could Make A Real Difference
Philip Kennicott: "The new members aren't just visionaries with a firm command of inspiring rhetoric; they know how to read a plan, look at...
France Reveres Roland Petit. Why Doesn’t It Perform His Ballets More Often?
"Even in Petit's home country, his works haven't been staged with great regularity. Nor do companies seem especially interested in resuscitating any of the...
Charles Larson, Who Established Study Of African Literature In U.S. Academia, Dead At 83
"As a professor at American University in Washington, where he joined the faculty in 1970, Dr. Larson taught some of the first classes offered...
Shakespeare’s Globe’s Bumpy Return To Work
Not only are audience members (at a quarter of pre-COVID capacity) required to stay six feet from each other, so are all the actors...
Fear Of Deepfakes May Be Causing More Problems Than Deepfakes Themselves Are
Simon V.Z. Wood: "Searching for evidence that bad actors were weaponizing artificial intelligence for political gain, what I found instead was an emerging field...
Okay, Public Radio: ‘Our Culture Of Host Hero Worship Creates Monsters, And It Is...
In the wake of Bob Garfield's firing from On the Media for what he's described as "anger mismanagement," Celeste Headlee — who endured mistreatment...
After Investigation, Embattled Head Of Americans For The Arts Departs Permanently
"Robert L. Lynch, the longtime president and chief executive of the Washington-based advocacy organization Americans for the Arts who had been on paid leave...
Sexual Abuse In El Sistema, Long Rumored, Is Now Being Brought To Light
A Facebook post in late April from an alumna of Venezuela's famous system of free musical education "has since sparked a collective portrait of...
Hermitage Museum Satellite In Barcelona Gets Go-Ahead
"The long-awaited Barcelona branch has finally been given the green light for development. The port of Barcelona's board of directors announced on Thursday...
Millions Lost: Australian Ballet Hit Harder By Pandemic Than Most Of Country’s Large Arts...
"The Australian Ballet forfeited $32 million in ticket revenue for 2020, a pandemic blow that it has only survived thanks to an...
We’ve Had Shakespeare In The Park. Now How About Molière?
"Sitting on a bench in Prospect Park recently as flocks of maskless Brooklynites passed by, Lucie Tiberghien reflected on the long, strange journey toward...