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At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater, New Leader Means To Really Live Up To Its...
Says Ken-Matt Martin, who was named artistic director last month after having been Robert Falls's number-two at the Goodman, "If I figured out how...
A Critic Considers Where Music And Writing About It Meet, And Where They Miss
Thomas Larson, former music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican (1980-82), now a staff writer at the San Diego Reader: "Figuring out that...
Ballet In America Is Having A COVID-Induced Baby Boom
"A career in ballet lasts only as long as a dancer's body does. If they're lucky, dancers can perform into their 30s — or...
The Tech That Lets Opera Singers Rehearse With Accompanists Remotely
Says San Francisco Opera general director Matthew Shilvock of the platform, called Aloha, "It allows a singer and a pianist to essentially be in...
Harriet Tubman’s Lost Family Home Discovered In Maryland
The site, on land recently added to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, includes ten acres that Tubman's father, Ben Ross,...
Chicago Says It Will Spend $60 Million On Arts Throughout City
The initiative, called Arts 77 (referring to Chicago's 77 neighborhoods), takes in multiple programs spread over several departments of the municipal government. Along with...
Richard Wright, Who’s Been Dead For 60 Years, Has A New Novel Coming Out
"In July 1941, Richard Wright, then America's leading Black author, began writing the novel he felt was his masterpiece. Written 'at white heat,' …...
Chiefs Of ‘The Gold Standard Of Art Film Studios’ Retire After 21 Years
Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have been at the helm of Searchlight Pictures since the turn of the millennium, and one could argue that...
With The Castros Gone, Will The Arts In Cuba Be Any Freer?
Since Raúl Castro's government had recently had another period of censoring art and arresting artists, there's some hope — off the island, at least...
Entire Board Of New Zealand’s National Organization For Museums Resigns
"The entire board of Museums Aotearoa has abruptly quit after concerns about its governance and management. The organisation’s remaining executive director, Phillipa Tocker, is...
The Walkie-Talkie, Big Underpants, And The Bathtub: What Modernist Architecture’s Abhorrence of Imitation Has...
For centuries, great architecture involved innovation and invention within the context of established, tried-and-true styles, materials and techniques — and the result was buildings...
The Pursuit of Equity
The intent is to overcome the very real danger that the nonprofit arts industry’s “equity statements” could easily become like the “thoughts and prayers”...
Literary Scholar And Critic Denis Donoghue Dead At 92
"First at University College Dublin and later at New York University, Professor Donoghue carved out a middle ground in the contested landscape of late-20th-century...
Here’s A Landmark For A Growing Company: Indianapolis Ballet Hires Its First Executive Director
"More than three years after its 2018 debut, the professional company … announced April 6 that longtime Indianapolis arts leader Don Steffy will take...
Anthropology Museums Start Reckoning: What To Do With Bones Of Enslaved Africans In Their...
It started last summer with the Morton Cranial Collection at Penn, spread to Harvard's Peabody and Warren Museums, and, in recent weeks, has come...
The Rise And Fall Of ‘Florida Man’, Once The Internet’s Favorite Laughingstock
Tyler Gillespie, author of The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State and Florida Man: Poems, traces the course of this icon of the...
Why Did Scott Rudin Step Back From Broadway? Maybe Not Just Because He’d Seen...
The key seems to have been Rudin's high-profile, high-stakes production of The Music Man, set to start previews in December. While some of the...
At The RSC, ‘The Winter’s Tale’ Is Finally Coming Together After Two False Starts
The COVID lockdown hit Britain just days before this production was to open and put the company's entire operations on hold; the show was...
Has NPR Recovered From COVID Cutbacks? ‘Not Completely’, Says CEO
"NPR cut spending in areas including staff and executive pay to offset a decline in revenue spurred by the pandemic, particularly in corporate sponsorship....
Two Senior Staffers Quit MOCA In L.A. Over ‘Hostile Environment’ And Resistance To Diversity...
One of the departing execs, the director of human resources, left over conflict with his boss, the deputy director, and alleged retaliation which he...
The Cutting Edge In Breathing Therapy For Recovering COVID Patients? Opera Singing
Last June, English National Opera and a branch of the NHS launched ENO Breathe, a program that offers what are basically online voice lessons...
Beijing, Hong Kong, The Streisand Effect, And The Oscar For Best Documentary Short
" Hammer is bemused at the lengths to which China has gone to stop its citizens catching even a brief glimpse of his latest...
Jazmin Morales Talks About Being an “Intrapreneur”
The Assistant Director of the Colburn School’s Center for Innovation and Community Impact shares the impact of Colburn’s EDI initiatives and strategies on being...
A Soldier’s Tale for Today
The pertinence of A Soldier’s Tale today is self-evident. It is a COVID diversion: compact, flexible, rejecting Romantic symphonic upholstery in favor of a...
‘Navy Twerking’: Why All Australia Is Arguing About A Dance Clip
"A video of dancers twerking in hotpants at … went viral when it emerged on Wednesday. But the music video-style choreography — featuring...