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Should Arts Organizations Draw More From Their Endowments To Get Through The Pandemic? In...
Up there, as in the States, organizations themselves explain (again) that endowments are for providing income year after year and that drawing down capital...
Opera Philadelphia Gives Up This Year’s O Festival
For the second year in a row, the company's critically praised September week of mostly new opera is called off; even as other groups...
Six Stolen Roman Frescoes Returned To Pompeii
"Six fragments of wall frescoes stolen from the ruins of ancient Roman villas have been returned to Pompeii's archaeological park after an investigation by...
Final Suspect In Dresden Jewel Robbery Arrested
Police in Berlin have captured Abdul Majed Remmo, the fifth and final suspect connected to the shocking 2019 jewel heist at Dresden's Green Vault...
A Years-Long Argument Over Conceptual Art, Capitalism, Classism, And Stir-Fried Noodles
Art critic Enid Tsui looks at the perennial controversy over Rirkrit Tiravanija's performance piece untitled (pad thai), in which the artist creates a "micro-utopia"...
Record man Koester’s blues and jazz legacy
Chicagoan Bob Koester, proprietor of the Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records for nearly 70 years, is a model of music activism and entrepreneurship...
Veiled Threats: A New Sitcom About An All-Female Muslim Punk Band (?)
In We Are Lady Parts, "the stakes are high: can an extra guitarist give Lady Parts the edge they need to get out of...
The Hidden Treasures Of The St. Louis Central Library
"First editions of Palladio and Alberti as well as 16th century printings of Vitruvius — oh, and first editions of Piranesi etchings that once...
If You’re Incorporating ASL In Your Play, Please, Please Don’t Do These Things
Brian Cheslik, theatre teacher at the Texas School for the Deaf: "Please know that I am writing this from a place of love and...
Seeing How Musical Instruments Actually Get Made
"The process of making musical instrument is generally out of the public eye, and there's often a mystique about how those particular tools-of-the-trade are...
A Sci-Fi ‘Rite Of Spring’ Set In The Arctic
Choreographer Andrea Schermoly, who created this wintry take on Stravinsky's modernist classic for Louisville Ballet's online "Season of Illumination": "I'd seen a short film...
Art Gensler, Who Founded World’s Largest Architectural Firm, Dead At 85
"Over the decades, Gensler's firm has designed universities, hotels, sports stadia and universities, touching almost every part of the built environment. It has created...
Asking The Museums That Have Benin Bronzes About Repatriation
"The contentious objects, known to have been looted from the Benin Royal Palace in 1897, are scattered across some of the most prominent museums...
The Amenities This Developer Is Adding To Apartment Buildings Are Theaters And Gallery Spaces
Mind you, this isn't just any old real estate mogul: it's Dasha Zhukova, the collector who founded the popular Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art...
At Last, Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection Opens In Paris
"The reopening of Paris museums this week finally gives billionaire tycoon François Pinault the chance to showcase his vast contemporary art collection in the...
Actor Charles Grodin, 86
" made his mark in both comedy and drama, onstage and on screen and as a writer and director. He often adopted a quirky...
Dick Van Dyke Is 95, And He Really Wants To Get Back On Stage
"His last singing gig took place on a Saturday night 15 months ago at the Catalina Jazz Club. He packed the house. They even...
Newark’s Old Works Offloaded: NJ’s Most Prominent Art Museum Sells “Outdated” Outcasts Tomorrow
As part of her reinvention and rebranding of the Newark Museum (which, in 2019, added “of Art” to its name, even though it also...
Words to live by: Don’t shoehorn grand opera
The return to the stage (though not their own) of the Met and of Opera Philadelphia, along with a streamed Aïda from the Paris...
What James Whiteside Has Been Doing With (Or To?) Dance Through The Lockdown
"As theaters went dark during the pandemic, the New York-based Whiteside" — best known as a prinmcipal at ABT — "began putting out a...
London’s West End Reopens Yet Again, Hoping This Time Will Stick
There were two attempts in the second half of 2020 to start British theatres up after the pandemic lockdown, and both were quickly ended...
Britain’s Stages Are Not Reopening With Theatrical Comfort Food
"There has been a fear that the large-scale redundancies during the pandemic – an estimated 40% of theatre workers lost their jobs – could...
On The Rediscovery Of Black Composers Of The Past
"Black composers have been emerging over the past year at a dramatically accelerated pace that's particularly rare amid the normally glacial progression of the...
Uffizi Gallery Is Making Up Its Pandemic Cash Shortfall By Releasing NFTs Of Its...
"And it's starting off with a bang: an encrypted Michelangelo painting of the holy family, Doni Tondo (1505-06), just sold for €140,000 ($170,000). The...
Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth Biography, Withdrawn By W.W. Norton, Picked Up By New Publisher
The acclaimed but controversial bio was dropped by its original publisher after several women came forward with serious allegations of sexual misconduct on Bailey's...