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Stratford Festival Will Open This Summer, But With A Short Season Held In Tents
In a regular year, it's North America's largest summer theatre festival, but with the pandemic only barely starting to subside, Stratford is planning to...
Unknown Titian Painting Identified In English Village Church
"The Last Supper was gifted to St Michael and All Angels Church in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1909. Art historian Ronald Moore believes he has...
‘Lamborghini’ Of Ancient Roman Chariots Unearthed At Pompeii
"The chariot is preserved in remarkable detail, officials say, with four iron wheels, metal armrests and backrests, and a seat perched atop that could...
UK To Spend Another Half Biillion For Arts Sector’s COVID Recovery
The government is topping up the £1.57 billion ($1.9 billion) Culture Recovery Fund announced last July with an extra £300 million ($416 million), with...
Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage Show
The Met's premature revelation that it might take advantage of the AAMD's relaxed deaccession standards, selling art to pay for "care of the collection,"...
Rajie Cook, Who Designed The Pictograms We See Everywhere, Dead At 90
"In 1974 Cook & Shanosky Associates, a design firm started by Mr. Cook and Don Shanosky a few years earlier, won a contract to...
The History Of ‘Madama Butterfly’ In Japan
"It was not the 'alien' music that disturbed the Japanese audience" at the Tokyo premiere in 1914 (there had been a Western music school...
The World’s Largest Bach Website, Brought To You By A Computer Engineer In Tel...
The Bach Cantatas Website, founded 20 years ago by Aryeh Oron, includes texts from Bach's sacred works in multiple languages, discographies, history and analysis...
Literature Is A Technology, And It Should Be Taught Like One
Neuroscientist-turned-English-professor Angus Fletcher: "It's a machine designed to work in concert with another machine, our brain. The purpose of the two machines is to...
A New York Times Reporter Tries To Learn ‘Podcast Voice’
Alexis Soloski: "It’s recognizable enough that Portlandia and Saturday Night Live can parody it. It suggests intimacy, a rumpled authenticity. Because if someone were...
Podcasting Is Becoming Big Business. Will That Ruin It?
Even as media companies pour billions into the industry, "its formats and business practices are still developing, leading producers, executives and talent to view...
Lessons From The Explosion Of Online Dance During The Pandemic
"With audiences and funders generally letting dancers decide what (and how much) to produce while distancing requirements are in place, the incentive to go...
California Lost 175,000 Creative Sector Jobs In 2020
The latest edition of an annual study from the Otis College of Arts & Design found that "the creative economy lost more than 13...
Lincoln Center To Open 10 Outdoor Spaces This Spring
"The broad initiative, known as 'Restart Stages,' … plans for a cabaret-style stage, a dedicated area for families that will feature arts activities...
Was This Picture Painted By A Human Or By AI? Most Folks Can’t Tell,...
"A majority of respondents were only able to identify one of the five AI landscape works as such. Around 75 to 85 percent of...
Major Layoffs Coming At London’s V&A Museum
"Vast cuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum are feared to be imminent, with curators and conservators in the line of fire. … Details...
Stage Actors In Paris Offer ‘Poetic Consultations’ By Phone
"'I am calling you for a poetic consultation,' said a warm voice on the telephone. 'It all starts with a very simple question: How...
The Nobel Winner Who’s Not All That Crazy About Writing
Kazuo Ishiguro: "In some ways, I suppose, I'm just not that dedicated to my vocation. I expect it's because writing wasn’t my first choice...
Gov’t Shuts Down Hungary’s Last Independent Radio Station
"When the faithful listeners to Klubrádió, a talk radio station that has been a beacon of free speech in Hungary, tuned in last Monday,...
Whatever The Pandemic May Have Thrown At You, There’s A German Word For It
"Over the past year, German has coined some 1,000-plus new terms endemic to the Now Times. … And that's thanks to the language's rules...
Daughter Of Israel’s Most Famous Author Accuses Him Of ‘Sadistic Abuse’
In the opening lines of her new memoir, the second daughter of Amos Oz, Galia, wrote, "In my childhood, my father beat me, swore...
As They Stream Their Work, Theater Companies Find A New, Far-Flung Public
"Across the country, and beyond its borders, many theaters say new audiences for their streaming offerings has been an unexpected silver lining — one...
Silas Farley, 26, Will Be Dean Of Dance At Colburn School In L.A.
Farley raised eyebrows last June when he retired from New York City Ballet at such a young age, but he had already been choreographing...
Collection Worth $400 Million Donated To Seattle Art Museum
" 19 20th-century abstract expressionist and European masterworks — including those by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — from the Lang Collection, once...
Union Is Actively Campaigning Against Donations To Met Opera
As the pandemic and the consequent furlough of Met employees drag on, and as negotiations over a new contract have broken down (the old...