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Gabriela Muñoz Speaks About the Importance of Collaboration
The Senior Program Coordinator of the National Accelerator at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts speaks about the impact of collaboration and...
The West’s First Superstar Composer (His 500th Anniversary Is This Year)
Josquin des Prez was, in his day and for more than a century after his death in 1521, the most influential and most revered...
Vincent Van Gogh Was His Own Worst Enemy (Just Read His Letters)
"The tone of the letters consistently is that of a man still aflame after a violent argument, gradually subsiding into a hot puddle of...
Blackface Didn’t Start With American Minstrel Shows. It’s Been Around For Centuries
"The origins of blackface minstrelsy are much older than most people know, with deep roots in the English medieval and Shakespearean theatrical traditions. Understanding...
If You Don’t Start Until Your Teens, Can You Still Make It In Ballet?
"The ballet world is filled with stories of dancers who first pointed their toes as toddlers and became professionals as teenagers. But what about...
How Kate Winslet Went About Mastering The Notoriously Tricky Philadelphia Dialect
"Few sounds are as difficult to master as the rounded Os, erratic As, dropped consonants and smushed syllables of the Philadelphia accent — or...
These $63 Million Paintings, Literally Kidnapped And Held For Ransom, Are Now The Subject...
The Shchukin Gallery, which sells Russian art in Paris and New York, is suing a Russian oligarch for damages and attorney fees of $950...
How Pixar Pushes The Boundaries Of Color To Push The Buttons of Moviegoers
"In a way, every filmmaker is really just playing with moving light and color on surfaces. That's the whole ball game, a filmic given....
Germany Takes Care Of Its Opera Houses, Even Through COVID — But There’s A...
"'What we learned in the crisis was that the public purse was very much willing to keep alive in Germany,' says Dieter Haselbach,...
Amsterdam Branch Of The Hermitage In Danger Of Closing Permanently
"After laying off 25% of its full-time staff, including those who had been there since opening day," the only Western European satellite of the...
France’s Cultural Venues Get An Official Reopening Date
"Museums, theatres, cinemas and concert halls will reopen on May 19, along with non-essential shops and outdoor seating at cafes and restaurants, Macron...
Scottish Government Ordered To Reconsider Six-Foot-Distance Reopening Rule After Arts Groups Rebel
Following a personal intervention by the culture minister, "controversial new guidelines which will force Scotland's arenas, concert halls and comedy clubs to impose two...
Is Music Universal Or Not? Depends On What You Mean
Kevin Berger: "In the past two years, the debate over whether music is universal, or even whether that debate has merit, has raged like...
The Young Pipsqueak Professor Who Changed The Way Everyone Thought About Homer’s Epics
"Milman Parry was arguably the most important American classical scholar of the 20th century, by one reckoning 'the Darwin of Homeric Studies.' At age...
Because Of COVID, TV Production Had To Change The Way It Works. Some Of...
"It has been a year of struggle and experimentation for the television industry, which has had to learn on the fly while trying to...
Play Something, Netflix’s New Weapon Against Viewers’ Decision Fatigue
"Today, the company is launching Play Something, a new viewing mode designed to make it easier for the indecisive among us to quickly find...
Even Square Dancing Has Gone Onto Zoom
"Contra and square dancing involve lots of other people, not just a single partner. Dancing involves live music, played with precision. It involves callers...
‘Live Shows Are About To Come Roaring Back To Full Houses’, Says One Critic
Chris Jones: "There's real evidence now of pent-up demand. Consider what is happening in Las Vegas. Cirque du Soleil, which has emerged from bankruptcy...
That Long-Awaited Final Sondheim Musical? It’s Not Coming
The show, titled Buñuel and based on that filmmaker's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, had been in development with...
Florida Boosts Arts Funding by 24%
"The 2021-22 budget plan agreed to by the Florida House and Senate and sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis includes $26.7 million in two of...
As Western Museums Prepare To Return Benin Bronzes, Nigeria Prepares Their New Home
"The Legacy Restoration Trust … was set up by Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments, the Edo State government and the royal court...
Medieval Treasures Stolen In 1989 Recovered In Sicily
"After being stolen more than 30 years ago from a village in Italy's Tuscany region, a group of stolen medieval artifacts has been located...
Paul Kellogg, Director Of Glimmerglass Opera And New York City Opera, Dead At 84
Over 27 years at the helm of the summer opera festival in Cooperstown, NY, Kellogg raised standards, doubled the productions per season, built a...
Back From The Brink Of Collapse, Australia’s Leading Professional Vocal Ensemble Is Hard At...
Just two years ago, out of cash, The Song Company entered liquidation bankruptcy; it was rescued by a donor a month later. Then came...
Engagement Readiness Quiz
The verdict in the George Floyd murder trial provides your arts organization with an opportunity to take a very simple quiz to determine its...
