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The Pandemic Has Shown Us That Museums Should Give Up On Blockbuster Shows: Chris...
Says the former director of Tate Modern, now at Paris's Grand Palais, "We probably cannot afford to ship works back and forth, and will...
Provincetown And Its Performers Step Nervously Back Into Action
The arts-dependent Cape Cod town got clobbered by last year's lockdowns, but with vaccination rates up and caseloads down this summer, the scene joyfully...
Walter Yetnikoff, Hot-Tempered Head Of CBS Records, Dead At 87
"(He was) as famous for guiding the megastar careers of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel as for his...
California Art Dealer Pleads Guilty To Peddling Forgeries
Jason Harrington, 38, fabricated paintings which he sold as work by the late artists Barkley Hendricks and Richard Hambleton (aka Shadowman) for a total...
“San Diego’s Answer To The Hollywood Bowl”
The Rady Shell was built to be the San Diego Symphony's summer venue, but, COVID rates and the city's weather being what they are,...
Patricia Hitchcock, Daughter Of And Actress For Alfred, Dead At 93
While she acted in other films, radio and TV before retiring to raise her children, she's best known for key supporting roles in several...
Head Of One Of London’s Top Drama Schools Out Over Behavior Allegations
Sarah Frankcom has stepped down as director of LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) as the school's trustees investigate "complaints on...
Why The Icelandic Sagas Remain So Readable After All These Centuries
It's not just that they came from a culture more like ours than most medieval societies (no hereditary aristocracy, a genuine parliament). It's that,...
Italy’s Best Wood For Musical Instruments May Be In Danger
For centuries, the spruces of Val di Fiemme have been used in the greatest instruments Italy produces, from Stradivari violins to Fazioli pianos. Here's...
Texas Monthly’s Lucrative New Income Stream: Selling Old Articles To Hollywood
The magazine has secured rights deals with film and TV production companies for more than 20 pieces from its archives so far — a...
The Most Reliable Stage Director Working In Opera Today
That's how Joshua Barone of The New York Times categorizes Robert Carsen: "His work is by no means repetitive, cautious or dull. But in...
How Did Synchronized Swimming Become “Artistic Swimming”?
The sport's governing body pushed the name change through in 2017, reportedly at the request of the IOC. The athletes weren't consulted, and many...
Now These, Say Some Native Americans, Are The TV Shows We’ve Been Waiting For
Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu) and Rutherford Falls (Peacock) "are both Native stories told largely by Native actors, writers, producers and directors. The upshot...
Indigenous Young People Are Using The Internet To Revive Their Languages
From TikTok to Spotify to rap videos to new apps, youth from Mexico to Ecuador to Australia are coming up with new ways to...
Public Art Show In South Florida Falls Apart After Mayor Goes McCarthy On Artists
"Illuminate Coral Gables," an outdoor exhibition of light art that launched only this past winter, has imploded after the Miami-area city's mayor accused two...
New Generation Of Leaders Tries To Resurrect Chicago Improv
Even without the pandemic, 2020 was a difficult year for Second City and the iO Theater, two of Chicago's flagships for improv, and both...
“West Side Story” Revival Won’t Be Returning To Broadway
The controversial staging, directed by Ivo van Hove, co-choreographed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and produced by Scott Rudin, barely made it past 100...
Visitors Are Flocking Back To Berlin’s Museum Island
Free admission on Sundays certainly helps: tens of thousands are showing up on weekends. - Bloomberg CityLab
The Death Of The Author? Er, In Which Sense?
Kristen Roupenian ("Cat Person") considers two superfans, Annie Wilkes in Misery and Harry in With a Friend Like Harry, who completely lose the distinction...
Members Of Pussy Riot Flee Russia And “Constant Arrests”
"Citing a campaign of sustained harassment by the Russian government, … Alexander Sofeyev, Anna Kuzminykh, and Veronika Nikulshina announced via Twitter that they left...
Actor Arthur French, Founding Member Of Negro Ensemble Company, Dead At 89
He started studying acting when he happened to be in the building where Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler taught — and went on to...
In Cuba, Dance And Politics Have A Long History Together
"The history of dance in Cuba" — from the Alonsos' national ballet company in 1948 to today's protests — "shows us how artists not...
Traveling Talkies: India’s Itinerant Cinema Tents Are Fading Away
Starting in the 1950s, small companies would roam the village festival circuit, setting up tents and showing old films with aging projectors cast off...
Bringing India’s Folk Musicians Back Into The Mainstream — And Getting Them Paid
"Seventy percent of India's musicians practice folk, but they earn only 2% of the industry's revenues. … Many listeners today only hear the genre...
What Does US Theater Need? Shared Leadership, Salaried Jobs For Artists, Continued Digital Exploration:...
The survey of 75 leaders also found a need to safely discuss big ideas. "Right now we do not have an ability to have...
