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It Seems We Do Know What Shakespeare Looked Like — ‘A Self-Satisfied Pork Butcher’
That choice phrase from a 20th-century critic was about the effigy installed above Shakespeare's grave in Stratford-upon-Avon. The general presumption had been that the...
How Did This Ballet Company Keep Its Dancers Working Throughout The Pandemic? Giving Them...
The St. Paul-based Ballet Co.Laboratory has " dual-contract structure provides its dancers with administrative employment, whether in management, communications, development or teaching —...
Two New York Times Critics Discuss Whether They Dare Go To An Indoor Play...
Laura Collins-Hughes: Alexis, when you saw the invitation, what went through your mind?Alexis Soloski: Panic, basically. … I won't be vaccinated for months and...
Scavenging For A Library From The Ruins Amidst Syria’s Civil War
"In a town under siege from Assad's regime, a small group of revolutionaries found a new mission: to build a library from books rescued...
The Return Of Tower Records?
Inspired by the vinyl LP revival, new CEO Danny Zeijdel thinks he can make a go of the online business and, ultimately, brick-and-mortar....
COVID Has Changed The Way Hollywood Works For Good
"'People are fooling themselves if they think we're going back to a pre-pandemic work lifestyle,' says Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films. … To...
World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture Is Far More Ancient Than We’d Thought — 12,500 Years
That's more than twice as old as Stonehenge and the Giza Pyramids and by far the oldest surviving piece of ritual art. The new...
Germany In Talks To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
As the issue of repatriating art and artifacts looted by European colonizers came to the fore over the past few years, Berlin came under...
Adam Zagajewski, ‘Poet Of 9/11’, Dead At 75
Already known and admired in his native Poland, he came to the English-speaking world's attention when The New Yorker published his "Try to Praise...
Berlin Does Series Of Dry Runs For Reopening Performance Venues
"The pilot project, backed by Berlin Culture Senator Klaus Lederer, includes a series of nine events, held at seven different venues, including theaters, opera...
Rare Book Collecting: Connecting Brion Gysin and Paul-Armand Gette
To rate collectors by the use they make of their collections rather than simply by completeness or the rarity and excellence of individual items...
Clive Gillinson Talks Leadership in a Digital World
The Executive & Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall shares the importance of the digital landscape and leadership teams. - Aaron Dworkin
Could A Joint Dictionary Unify North And South Korea? (Well, No)
Being that the South has been open to the rest of the world while the North has been sealed off for seven decades, the...
The Royal Shakespeare Company At 60
"In 1960 Peter Hall created a theatrical revolution. He turned a summer Shakespeare festival in Stratford-on-Avon into a year-round enterprise based on a permanent...
IKEA Has Turned Its Catalog Into An Audiobook
"When IKEA canceled its beloved print catalog last year, it hinted at plans to venture into new formats to better reach an increasingly internet-dependent...
Streaming Classical Music: Where The Money Really Goes, And Where It Ought To Go
"In the first two articles in the series, we looked at the streaming industry's revenues, how they're shared out between the music we listen...
Beijing Leans On Hong Kong’s Arts Funding Body To Curb ‘Anti-Government’ Work
"The campaign has forced the Arts Development Council into stating it might suspend grants to artists who advocated independence, while additional cultural venues have...
Oh Great, Now They’re Turning Dance Into NFTs, Too
With Non-Fungible Tokens taking the visual art world hostage by storm, it was only a matter of time before other art forms turned to...
Exec Who Saved Capitol Records, Bhaskar Menon, Dead At 86
The record label was reeling in 1970: its cash cow, The Beatles, had disbanded, and it lost $8 million that year. Parent company EMI...
Arts In Chicago Set To Restart After IL Governor Raises Capacity Limits
"The new 'phase 4A' will allow for 25% fixed seating capacity in indoor and outdoor film, theater and performing arts venues of 200 seats...
Many Museums Want To Remove The Sackler Name From Their Campuses. State Attorneys General...
"Following court filing in New York, the attorneys general from 23 states issued a statement calling for amendments to the plan, which they...
Russia Is Investigating Its Own Eurovision Song Contest Entry For ‘Illegal Statements’
Following criminal complaints by a veterans' group and the Russian Union of Orthodox Women that the pop tune's words "aim to seriously insult and...
Bollywood’s Biggest Legend Leads Fight To Preserve India’s Oldest Films
Amitabh Bachchan, who's been a superstar in India for 50 years, has campaigned for years for the preservation of film from Indian cinema's early...
Is it possible to mourn James Levine?
Yes, but with an enormous asterisk.May 4, 2011. If only it had stopped there. - David Patrick Stearns
What Should Be on the Syracuse Symposium’s Agenda: The Urgent Need for Museum Deaccession...
Museum professionals have instinctively recoiled at the thought of government interference in their activities, insisting that they can police themselves. But that hasn’t worked...