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Germany Earmarks Another €1 Billion In COVID Relief To Its Arts Sector
"This marks the second chapter of the so-called 'Neustart Kultur' program (New Start Culture), which was first launched last July with a bailout of...
Can a New LACMA Rise from the Rubble? Quaffing Michael Govan’s Kool-Aid
The doubts engendered in me by the shifting ground (related to the proximity to the La Brea Tar Pits) under the cranes being used...
David Stull Discusses Acquiring Opus 3
The president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music speaks about the school's historic acquisition of Opus 3 Artists. - Aaron Dworkin
Why Quarterbacks Say ‘Hut’ And ‘Hike’
Back in 2009, the NFL itself was wondering about that very question. So they asked Ben Zimmer, America's most famous lexicographer, to look into...
While Bela Lugosi Slept, They Made A Whole Other ‘Dracula’ On The Set —...
"Shot in half the time the Lugosi vehicle was allotted, and on a much smaller budget, Drácula" — yes, it's the Spanish version —...
Video Opera And ‘Relevance’: Where They Meet And Where They Miss
"Recent case histories are alternately breakthroughs and models of artistic self-defeat. Which was which?" asks David Patrick Stearns. "The reverse of what I expected."...
How Do Great Cities Die? So Slowly That Most People There Barely Notice
It's not usually after a disaster: in those cases, great cities tend to rebuild and often become grander. (Think of London and Chicago after...
Who Was Mike Nichols When He Wasn’t Playing Mike Nichols? It’s Not An Easy...
"Making stories was how Nichols coped with the world. The biographical question is: why was there a need to cope? The answer is not...
With Their Theatres Closed, The French Turn To Puppet Shows
Performances for kids in schools are the only ones allowed under current COVID restrictions, so puppet shows are the only live theatre happening in...
Intimacy Coordinator Says She Gets More Resistance From Female Actors And Directors
"'My hunch is that, for some women, having me present means they have to examine their past experiences on set without an intimacy coordinator,'...
‘Salvator Mundi’ May Be by Leonardo, But Its Hand May Not Be
Two different studies — one by the Louvre, the other by an independent art historian and her AI researcher husband — find that the...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Has A New Director (And She’s An Alum)
Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell dropped out of Juilliard at age 19 to join the company, where she danced for three years before moving on to 13...
Remember That Fake Gauguin The Getty Bought? They Were Warned
"The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was privately warned in 2002 that a Gauguin sculpture it had just bought for around $4m...
Furloughed Staff To Waterstones: Please, At Least Pay Us Minimum Wage! Waterstones: That ‘Would...
Britain's relief package for businesses closed by COVID provides 80% of a furloughed employee's salary, even if that salary is only minimum wage. Workers...
When Dancers Form COVID Bubbles
A look at how small groups of (properly tested and quarantined) dancers and choreographers got together (at long last!) to make work this past...
Build Back Better
At this point I would implore arts organizations not to return to pre-pandemic practices with nothing more than modest tweaks. This is a time...
A “Unique Addition” to the Whitman Repertoire
When PostClassical Ensemble undertook our world premiere recording of the 1944 radio play Whitman, we did so believing that Bernard Herrmann's Whitman setting is...
Should Prime-Time TV Series Work In COVID Storylines? Or Is That The Last Thing...
"In rooms all over the internet, hospital dramas, first-responder shows, situation comedies and courtroom procedurals were having similar debates. To ignore the events...
Archaeologists Discover Stone And Bronze Age Burials At Site Of Stonehenge Tunnel
"Bronze age graves, Neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the...
How Did A Book Of New Poetry Get Passed Off As The Work Of...
Matty Weingast's The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns was marketed by America's leading Buddhist publisher — and hailed by many...
Could We Really Revive The Federal Theatre Project? How Would That Work In 2021?
The short answer is that it couldn't work the way it did in the 1930s: the legal and theatrical landscape then was too different....
Libel Lawsuit In Poland Could Derail Holocaust Research, Observers Fear
"Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial over a book examining Poles' behaviour during the Second World War, a case whose outcome is...
U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Suit Over Guelph Treasure
The collection of ornate medieval reliquaries is now held by Berlin's state museums; the American heirs of German Jewish art dealers, claiming that the...
Poetry Magazine Faces Down Furor Over Printing Work By Sex Offender
" has doubled down on its decision to publish a poem by a convicted sex offender as part of a special edition dedicated to...
Was Philadelphia’s Leading Classical Radio Host Just Fired?
Gregg Whiteside, who for 17 years hosted weekday morning programming and the Philadelphia Orchestra concert broadcasts at WRTI, abruptly disappeared from the air last...