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Reimagine Yourself
The failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source...
COVID Has Shown Us That Theatre Is Too Dependent On Its Buildings
Lyn Gardner: "At their best, are creative powerhouses, community hubs, a place of inspiration, succour and sanctuary. But often they come with self-perpetuating,...
Jorge Morel, Classical Guitarist And Composer, Dead At 89
" added a vast repertoire to his instrument and performed to packed concerts around the world. … In between classical concerts, Mr. Morel paid...
‘A Thunderclap”, Says Publisher: Unknown Work By Proust Coming This Spring
"The texts in The Seventy-Five Pages were written in 1908, around the time Proust began working on In Search of Lost Time, which...
‘Drenching Richness’: Alex Ross Revisits The Films Of Andrei Tarkovsky
Ross fell under the director's spell upon seeing Andrei Rublev in college. "The long pandemic months seemed a good time to burrow back into...
Black Dancers And Dance Companies Worry They Won’t Be Able To Survive Pandemic
Broadway dancer NaTonia Monét says that, even when theaters finally start up again, "you have your few Black shows that come along, but other...
Keeping Up Live Performance As The World Goes Virtual
"We have a total commitment to live performance. That's what we do. We're not a film company," says the director of the Annenberg Center...
Santa Fe Opera Hires New Boss With New Title
With the previous artistic director, Alexander Neef (who was shared with the Canadian Opera Co.), having left for the Paris Opera, Santa Fe decided...
Johnny Pacheco, Giant Of Latin Jazz And Salsa, Dead At 85
"Pacheco, a Juilliard-trained multi-instrumentalist who'd found success recording with his band, Pacheco y Su Charanga, sparked a musical revolution when, in 1964, he met...
Here’s What A British Musician Now Has To Go Through To Work In Europe
While the UK was in the EU, a British musician could pretty much just accept a gig and go. Now she has to apply...
Italy’s Art Museums Emerge From Lockdown, And They Have Lessons For The Rest Of...
"'We are now where you will be in a few days,' wrote novelist Francesca Melandri in a piece for the Guardian newspaper in late...
Liz Lerman Talks Movement & Discord
The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. - Aaron Dworkin
Empty Movie Theaters Are Being Rented Out To Video Gamers
The cinema chain Malco has been doing this in six Southern states since November, and the South Korean chain CGV started it in January....
Choreographer Annie-B Parson Says The Pandemic Has Made Us All Dancers
"I realized right away with COVID that people were becoming dancers, in that their spatial awareness was growing. We were literally afraid of each...
Now That ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is In The Public Domain, Will It Be Understood...
The novel has been misinterpreted for a long time: just after it was published, Fitzgerald complained to Edmund Wilson that "of all the reviews,...
Did The BBC Censor This Play About Buckingham Palace?
"Peter Barnes had 14 soliloquies on BBC Radio 3 under the umbrella titles Barnes' People and More Barnes' People. They attracted remarkable actors,...
Orchestras Must Overthrow The Tyranny Of Subscription Programming, Says NY Times
Anthony Tommasini: " locks them into standard-issue, week-after-week programs loaded with the classics and sprinkled, at best, with unusual or new choices. … Why...
They’ve Found The Emperor Hadrian’s Breakfast Room, And It Was Quite Something
"Researchers discovered the breakfast area within the ruins , and it reveals how the emperor and his wife began each day with an impressive...
Whatever Became Of Shelley Duvall? This.
A sting of Robert Altman films in the 1970s made her into a major movie star with a Best Actress win at Cannes. Then...
Netflix And Dave Chappelle Make Peace, And His Show Is Back
"I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did," he told an audience in Austin. "You made...
L.A. MoCA Is Restructuring, Will Hire New Executive Director
"Museum of Contemporary Art Director Klaus Biesenbach will take on a new role as artistic director … will focus on programming, collections and...
Jazz Pianist Chick Corea, 79
"Since the 1960s, Mr. Corea had been a prolific and dynamic force in music, building on his early training in classical music, Latin jazz...
Southern Hemisphere’s Largest Arts Festival Watches And Waits As COVID Restrictions Come And Go
"Adelaide Fringe festival is scrambling to determine how the sudden closure of South Australia's borders to Melbourne residents may affect dozens of its shows....
Robert L. Herbert. Who Changed The Way We Look At Impressionism, Dead At 91
"When Professor Herbert began delving into Impressionism, the field was threatened by a kind of anemic gentility, arid formalism and French literary theory. His...
In Praise Of The Most Underrated Punctuation Mark
"That semicolons, unlike most other punctuation marks, are fully optional and relatively unusual lends them power; when you use one, you are doing something...