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Now We Know This Wax Bust Is Definitely Not A Leonardo. How Do We...
Back in 1909, a couple of very prominent German art historians decided, for various reasons, that a wax figurine of the goddess Flora that...
A Dance Critic On How The Pandemic Has Changed Her Work
Deborah Jowitt: "Inevitable distractions occur when filming (or viewing) dances in this climate. Dog walkers may intrude. A pet cat may decide on a...
How The 1918 Flu Pandemic Changed America’s Public Libraries
"Public libraries in the United States started to proliferate in the late 1800s and early 1900s, often founded by women's clubs and other social...
Key Arts Figure In Belarus Freed From Prison After International Campaign
"Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Watch Docs Film Festival in Belarus, has been released from prison and had charges against her dropped following...
Through Assassination, Official Harassment, And Right-Wing-Media Smears, A Theatre In A West Bank Refugee...
The Freedom Theatre, founded in the Jenin camp in 2006, has as dual missions "to build back Palestinian identity destroyed by years of brutal...
Singapore’s First Independent Arts Complex Is Closing, And The Arts Community There Is Worried
"The Substation was founded as Singapore's first independent arts centre in 1990 by theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun. The careers of some of Singapore's...
Wouldn’t It Have Made More Sense For Netflix To Just Buy Sony Pictures Outright?
Last week the video-rental-service-turned-streaming-giant paid an estimated $1 billion for five-year exclusive U.S. rights to Sony's theatrical releases and right of first refusal for...
Key Missing Link In History Of Alphabet Identified
"Archaeologists digging in the ancient Canaanite settlement of Lachish have unearthed a 3,500-year-old pottery shard inscribed with what they believe is the oldest text...
French Court Rules Art Galleries Must Remain Closed (Never Mind The Auction Houses)
Gallerists, angry that their competitors at auction houses were allowed to continue operating during France's ongoing pandemic lockdown, and arguing that online sales don't...
Gustavo Dudamel Is Paris Opera’s Next Music Director
The world's oldest opera company (founded in 1669 by Louis XIV) has signed one of the very few living conductors to become a celebrity...
Is It Really Possible For A Singer To Shatter A Glass With Her Voice?...
It can be done, but it's hardly easy or common, even for people with astounding voices. You have to be hitting just the right...
Benchmarking? Maybe Not
A guest post by actor/writer/arts administrator Selena Anguiano, who shares some concerns about the use of benchmarks in the process of pursuing equity in...
For The Guardian, At Least, Charitable Donations To Support News Are Actually Working
The newspaper/website raised $9 million through its dedicated US nonprofit alone over the past 12 months, and has been both active and transparent about...
Marketing Opera On TikTok (Maybe It Works!)
The Royal Opera House in London launched a TikTok channel last summer and has since picked up more than 400,000 followers, with some of...
The Louvre’s Director Is Mounting A Public Campaign To Keep His Job
"Jean-Luc Martinez, … whose job security has been a matter of public speculation for weeks, … has been on a media tour in recent...
Why Do Complex, Messy Spelling And Writing Systems So Rarely Get Reformed? Power
When they do get reformed, it's usually because autocrats force the changes through (as with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Mao Zedong). "A big reason...
The College That’s Brought Popping, Breaking, Hip Hop, And Other Urban Dance Styles Into...
The University of East London has offered a BA in "Dance: Urban Practice" (as the program is called) since 2007. Carla Trim-Vamben, the program's...
Respected Actors Doing Commercial Endorsements Used To Be Considered Déclassé. Not Any More.
"Not too long ago, stars aligning their images with multivitamins or prepaid debit cards might have been eyed skeptically, their efforts coded as a...
One Of The Movie Theater Chains That’s Closing Also Owns Cinerama Technology. What Happens...
"Pacific Theatres announced on Monday that it would close all of its locations, which include the ArcLight Hollywood and the historic Cinerama Dome. Not...
With Theatres Closed, Regular Folks Have Taken To Doing Play Readings On Zoom
"Over the past year, as many theaters worldwide have remained closed, online play reading groups have arisen to fill that dramatic gap, with more...
Sydney’s Major Museums Face Huge Funding Cuts From State Government
"The state government flagging multimillion-dollar cuts for the Art Gallery of NSW, the Australian Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences...
Russian Artist In Obscenity Trial For Her Female Nudes
"Feminist artist and LGBTQ+ activist Yulia Tsvetkova … was detained in November 2019 and remained under house arrest in Komsomolsk-on-Amur until March 16,...
How A Gentle Little Movie By One Of Pakistan’s Favorite Directors Got Banned For...
Novelist Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes) writes about the strange case of Sarmad Khoosat's film Zindagi Tamasha ("Circus of Life"), which has...
On Zoom, Using Ancient Greek Theater To Process Modern Traumas
"Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings...
Two Years After The Notre-Dame Fire, What’s The State Of The Cathedral’s Organs?
In something of a miracle, the huge fire that ravaged the Paris landmark on April 15, 2019 did almost no serious damage to the...