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Arts Groups Get Snagged In Facebook’s Australia News Ban
As the Australian government pushed the social media giant, along with Google, to pay news outlets there for use of their material for links,...
ABT Alum Takes Reins At Uruguay’s National Ballet
In 2012, a different ABT alum, Julio Bocca, was named director of the Ballet Nacional del Sodre in Montevideo with the remit to raise...
12th-Century Moorish Bathhouse Uncovered In Seville Beer Hall
There had always been rumors, and a few hints in surviving records, that there had been a hammam where the Cervercería Giralda now stands,...
(Un)Daunted: Crystal Pite On Choreographing For The Paris Opera Ballet
"You feel the weight of the famous Palais Garnier opera house itself, and the history and legacy of the legendary dancers who have performed...
The Woman Who Saved Samba, Back When It Was Outlawed
"A century ago, samba becoming synonymous with Brazil's cultural identity would have seemed impossible. In the early 20th century, Rio's ruling elite were ashamed...
U.S. Newspapers Are Starting To Accept The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
Back in 2014, when the EU passed a law allowing people to petition Google to de-index old news stories about them (e.g., criminal convictions...
Why It’s Time To Reopen Movie Theaters
"Despite being indoors (a red flag), the sort of behavior engaged in at the movies is, relatively speaking, benign. Patrons who can and should...
For First Time, Boston Symphony Will Have Female CEO
"In picking , the orchestra looked west, to one of the most successful American orchestras of recent years" — the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where...
Marfa, Texas Is Getting An(other) Arts Center
"For the last year, Michael Phelan — a contemporary artist who has lived in Marfa full time since 2014 — has been quietly planning...
UK’s National Theatre Ends Tours To Europe
Yes, it's because of Brexit: a statement from a company spokesperson said that "the potential additional costs for visas and current uncertainty around social...
Did The Louvre Just Ruin Its Cy Twombly Mural?
"After a renovation of a storied gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Cy Twombly Foundation has claimed that a monumental ceiling painting...
This Summer’s Glyndebourne Opera Festival Will Happen (Almost) As Normal
Says managing director Sarah Hopwood, "We are determined to present a festival this summer in whatever form is possible. We consider this essential to...
‘Like The Metro At Rush Hour’: Vatican Museums Reopen To The Public, And It’s...
"Museumgoers took to social media to complain about the institution’s failure to implement effective social-distancing measures in some of its most popular spaces last...
Indianapolis Museum/Newfields CEO Resigns After Week Of Outcry
"We are sorry. We have made mistakes. We have let you down. We are ashamed of Newfields' leadership and of ourselves," the board said...
Getting A Grip On Australia(s) Through Graphic Novels
"Comic creators have been wrestling with contemporary Australia and its identities in a series of publication coming out this year. What they show is...
The Five Flavors of Strategy
As the chaos and confusion of the global pandemic shows distant glimpses of something less chaotic, the question of “strategy” is emerging once again....
How The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Dance Crews Have Kept On Through COVID
"When the first COVID-19 lockdown rippled across the Bay Area last March, the dance community reeled. … But as the pandemic unfolded, the crews...
Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79
The Detroit Symphony's assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign,...
Hollywood’s Hottest Young Director Is A Chinese Woman Who Makes Westerns
Chloé Zhao came to L.A. from Beijing to finish high school and go to college, got a poli-sci degree from Mount Holyoke, went to...
What Better Use For An Empty IKEA Store Than As An Arts Center?
That's what could happen in the English city of Coventry: the Swedish furniture chain closed its store there last year, Coventry is the UK's...
Why Disney Really Fired Gina Carano From ‘The Mandalorian’
It wasn't just because she likened being a conservative in America today to being a Jew in 1930s Germany on Instagram. "Carano had become...
Opera Singers Help Long-Term COVID Patients Get Their Breath Back
"Called E.N.O. Breathe and developed by the English National Opera in collaboration with a London hospital, the six-week program offers patients customized vocal lessons:...
Second City Has A Buyer
Last summer, after the pandemic led to the layoff of two-thirds of the company's staff and accusations by alumni of color of serious race...
San Francisco Opera Is Returning To Live Performance With A Drive-In Show
The company's first staged presentation, set for April and May, will be a 90-minute English-language adaptation of Rossini's Barber of Seville on an outdoor...
French Mayor Ordered Museums Reopened, COVID Be Damned. French Court Orders Them Closed Again
An administrative court in Montpellier ruled that Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan (and Marine Le Pen's number-two in the far-right party National Rally, and...