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By The Numbers: Who Are The Bosses At US Ballet Companies And What Are...
" that the position of Artistic Director is held by far more men than women, while the position of Executive Director is much more...
Scottish Government Gives Multi-Million Rescue Package To Edinburgh Festivals
"The Edinburgh festivals have been offered millions of pounds in emergency funding in the face of widespread fears they may never fully recover from...
Kim Jong-Un Is On The Warpath Against K-Pop
The Dear Respected Leader has "called it a 'vicious cancer' corrupting young North Koreans' 'attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviors.' His state media has warned that...
Two Unknown Artemisia Gentileschi Paintings Have Turned Up In The Wreckage Of A Beirut...
Art historian Gregory Buchakjian did his Master's thesis at the Sorbonne on the art collection of the Sursock Palace, where he identified two unattributed...
Britain Now Has Its First All-Black-Female Shakespeare Troupe
Says actor Gabrielle Brooks, one of four co-founders of the Mawa Theatre Company, "Shakespeare remains a staple of British theatre. He's still the most...
The Truck Is One Of India’s Great Art Media
"Most drivers are on the road for weeks, sometimes months at a stretch, living a nomadic life and often sleeping and eating in their...
Sampling Beats and Youth Research Participants – in Real Time
In research terms, a convenience sample is a group of folks who feature in a study because — well, they happened to be there....
From “Cole Toll” to Turnpike Toll: Newark’s “Arch of Nero” Relocates 87 Miles South...
I hope that officials of the Newark Museum of Art felt at least a twinge of seller’s remorse (if not a rush of shame)...
How You Perform A 75-Minute Score In Complete Darkness
Percussionist Sam Wilson of Riot Ensemble writes about Georg Friedrich Haas's Solstices, in which he has the hardest job: "A pianist can feel where...
Abu Dhabi, Hoping To Become Cultural Tourism Destination, Pumps More Billions Into Arts
The capital of the United Arab Emirates, whose government wants to diversify its economy away from oil and catch up with Dubai as the...
Stuart Silver, Museum Designer Who Pioneered Blockbuster Shows, Dead At 84
"As the inventive design director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1960s and '70s, turned the presentation of art into...
King Philip II’s Raphael Tapestries Are In Danger — From Pigeons
"The exquisite set of Raphael tapestries currently on display in the grand gallery of Madrid's royal palace has survived five tumultuous centuries of wars,...
Choreographing The Social Distancing At Dance Parties
"SOCIAL! the social distance dance club advertised a COVID-conscious rave this spring, where people were free to let loose together in the Park...
Princeton’s Classics Department Dropping The Latin And Greek Requirement May Not Be A Disaster...
Graeme Wood, who studied both languages himself, talked with a Princeton professor (who did not wish to be named) who says that the department...
In Vegas, The Shows Are Coming Back. Will The Tourists Come To See Them?
"The change since last spring, as measured by the return of surging morning-to-midnight crowds, is head-snapping. While just 106,900 tourists visited Las Vegas in...
Performance Venues Are COVID-Safe At Full Capacity If Audience Wears Masks: Study
"According to the results, the wearing of masks cuts the spread of aerosol droplets by 99 per cent, with those transmitted also travelling much...
2,000-Year-Old Roman Building Discovered On Israeli Coast
"Located just a few meters from the seashore , the structure, a public building" — known then as a basilica (not to be confused...
After Four Centuries, Oxford University Press Is Shutting Down Its Printing Business
"Oxford University's right to print books was first recognised in 1586, in a decree from the Star Chamber. But the centuries-old printing history of...
Another US Classical Radio Station To Leave The Air
Northeast Indiana Public Radio purchased the license for 94.1 FM in 2002 for $1.8 million and has been operating it since then as Classical...
How Has Technology Changed Orchestras? — My Talk for the League of American Orchestras...
I’m not sure how smart it is to attack the premise of the session you’ve been asked to be part of, but I was...
How Did We Finally Get To A Consensus On Repatriating The Benin Bronzes? (A...
"To better understand this critical turning point, Artnet News brought together three key figures for a conversation about the restitution of the Benin bronzes:...
Alvin Ailey ADT In The Age Of BLM: Artistic Director Robert Battle
"The foundation is the experiences of African Americans in this country — and knowing that is not monolithic. Within the diversity in African American...
Graeme Ferguson, Co-Inventor Of IMAX, Dead At 91
After he and his brother-in-law, Roman Kroitor, created documentaries for Expo 67 in Montreal that used multiple screens and projectors, they decided to invent...
TV’s Tricky Question: To Include COVID In Storylines Or Not?
"It was an issue, if not the big issue, that writers across Hollywood had to face: how to plan a season amid an evolving...
‘Come To The Theatre And Arrest Us’: Andrew Lloyd Webber Says He’ll Reopen His...
In response to news that Boris Johnson's government is considering postponing the full reopening of performance venues scheduled for June 21, the musical theatre...
