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André Gregory: What I Learned From Brecht (And His Wife)
"As I was at the beginning of my education as a young director, as well as a nervous, nerdy intellectual, I asked Helene Weigel...
City Of Austin Announced Major Overhaul Of Its Arts Funding Program, And Local Arts...
"Staff with the city's Cultural Arts Division unveiled an entirely new funding system in mid-December that, among other changes, lowers the funding cap for...
Metropolitan Opera Hires Harvard Law Dean As Chief Diversity Officer
"Marcia Sells — a former dancer who became an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn and the dean of students at Harvard Law School —...
Milwaukee Ballet Plans Return To Mainstage Performance In June
As it did with its abbreviated Nutcracker in December, the company will do its first two productions of 2021 before an in-person audience of...
While Lockdown Keeps The Hordes Away, The Louvre Is Fixing Itself Up
"The world's most visited museum — a record 10 million in 2019, mostly from overseas — is grappling with its longest closure since World...
Paris’s Pompidou Centre Will Close For Three-To-Four-Year Renovation
"'We no longer have a choice, the building is in distress,' Centre Pompidou president Serge Lasvignes told Le Figaro of the extensive upkeep needed...
Looking for a Fugitive Rainbow — A Very Transient “Gift” to the Bidens
Laura Baptiste, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s always-helpful chief of communications, found herself dealing with misinformation disseminated in a number of news reports after...
Joseph Conyers on Being an Artist Entrepreneur
The Philadelphia Orchestra bassist and entrepreneur shares the passions that have fueled his success. - Aaron Dworkin
What It Took To Program Robots To Dance The Twist And The Mashed Potato
A video which became a viral hit last month "shows two of Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas research robots doing the twist, the mashed potato...
Why I Make Undergrads Read Unfinished Novels
Matthew Redmond teaches this class at Stanford in part "to disrupt what seems an obvious distinction between development and result, closure and continuity. On...
The Lonely, Mysterious Death Of A Science Fiction Pioneer
"This past Saturday, about a dozen people from across the United States and Canada held a Zoom memorial for a man whose remains have...
Pandemic Lockdowns Were Supposed To Be A Chance To Rethink The Ways Theatre Operates....
To an extent, yes, it has. Reporter Natasha Tripney talks with theatremakers around Britain about the positive developments — the success of streaming, increased...
Mirga Will Leave City Of Birmingham Symphony After Next Season
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the young Lithuanian woman whose considerable reputation began developing while she was an assistant conductor at the L.A. Philharmonic, became music director...
Audiences Won’t Come Back Until Folks Are Vaccinated (But They Still Want Masks): Study
The survey of 3,300 frequent attenders (most over 60 and almost all over 40) found that, now that COVID-19 vaccines are being given to...
Manet Painting Unseen For 140 Years Headed To Auction
"The oil on canvas painting, named after the dog, a griffon called Minnay, is one of a series of eight dog paintings Manet produced...
Salonen And San Francisco Symphony Open Streaming Platform
"The new on-demand streaming service, dubbed SFSymphony+, is scheduled to launch on Feb. 4 with a chamber program curated by Salonen as part of...
Biden Axes Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’ On History Curriculum
"President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order to dissolve the 1776 Commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump … as...
Art Basel Postponed To September 2021
"In another blow to Art Basel and its owner, MCH Group, the art fair's organizers have postponed its flagship edition in Switzerland for the...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Will Happen, But May Be Postponed To July
"With the Cannes Lions still on track to run June 21-25, it’s feasible that the Cannes Film Festival could be assembled in time...
‘Moulin Rouge!’ — An Oral History Of A Broadway Smash Snuffed Out By Disease
"Set in fin de siècle Paris but supercharged by 75 pop songs, it opened to a rave from The New York Times ('This one's...
Ominous Juxtaposition? Biden Flanked by Duncanson’s “Rainbow” & Statue of a Murdered President
Am I the only one who gasped at the photo in this tweet? - Lee Rosenbaum
Roger Mandle, Who Ran RISD And Co-Founded Qatar’s Museums, Dead At 79
As director of the Toldeo Museum of Art, he organized a pathbreaking (and record-breaking) El Greco exhibition. As president of the Rhode Island School...
When They Make A Movie About Your Wife’s Illness And Death, And Critics Hate...
Journalist Matthew Teague made his career covering war and disaster zones, but it was a longform essay for Esquire about his wife's terminal cancer...
Google And France Make Deal To Pay News Outlets For Content
"Google and a French publishers' lobby said on Thursday they had agreed a copyright framework under which the U.S. tech giant will pay news...
Glastonbury, UK’s Largest Rock Festival, Cancelled For Second Year In A Row (Thanks, COVID)
"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth," the organizers said in a statement, "it has become clear that we simply will...