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French Arts Workers Are Protesting So They Can Reopen. Americans’ Attitudes Are Different
The pandemic has been a disaster for the theater, of course, potentially more damaging to performing arts industries than to any other. And yet,...
Quebec Says Performances Can Resume — But There Are Strings
“My initial reaction was, ‘That’s great. Then I saw the fine print. Basically it’s the same rules and regulations as last summer — a...
Bowl Bought For $35 At Yard Sale Auctions For $722,000
An antiques enthusiast came across the Ming Dynasty-era piece and thought it could be something special when browsing a yard sale in the New Haven area...
DesertX Cancels Judy Chicago Smoke Piece Over Environmental Concerns
The two-month-long Coachella Valley biennial known as Desert X will not include a relocated Judy Chicago piece, the artist has told The Times, and...
LA Movie Theatres Reopen And Sell Out Of Tickets
The No. 1 circuit’s Burbank location sold out 22 of its 32 showtimes, while Century City sold out 18 of its 30 showtimes yesterday....
How To Trust Art “Experts”?
We seem to have an insatiable appetite for finding "masterpieces" and consequently may readily believe in "expert" judgment. But what is the value of...
UK’s Telegraph News Site Plans To Pay Reporters By How Popular Their Stories Are
“I’d call the mood mutinous. If you’re writing royal stories or big political news or coronavirus stuff or you’re famous then you’re going to...
Moving Beyond The “New World” Symphony
To help break this inertia, we must confront a work that has left indelible marks on music in this country: Antonin Dvorak’s “New World”...
Report On The State Of The Art Market
For all the talk of robust online viewing rooms and hybrid auctions, with sales reportedly doubling in 2020, all market segments “experienced declines last...
How Freelance Musicians Have Been Coping This Past Year
“It took 25 years for me to reach a point in my career where I was constantly preparing for the next orchestra concert, opera...
Is It Finally Time To Get Rid Of Your CD’s?
"Here millennials sit, following begrudgingly in the boomers’ wake, at the centre of a generational Venn diagram: in the unique position of having CDs,...
California Museums And Theatres Are Reopening; I’m Going To Wait
"I’m taking my cues from the health experts, who are preaching a different message from state, city and municipal officials. While COVID-19 new infections,...
Afghanistan Bans Girls From Singing
In a letter to school boards last week, which was leaked to the media, Kabul’s Education Department said girls aged 12 and above would...
James Levine Dies at 77
Levine had been in precarious health for more than a decade, canceling many of his performances after 2008 and undergoing spinal surgery. Even when...
$69 Million For A Digital File? It Isn’t About Art
Sebastian Smee: "No painting by Titian or Raphael has ever fetched as much as “Everydays.” So of course this is big news. But it’s...
Lost Music, Lost Books, Lost Culture
"Most music from the past is lost. Written, performed, then fading into obscurity, like the millions of books in our libraries that no one...
NFT’s Are Making Artworld Problems Worse
It turns out the NFT craze has many parallels to the art world. After even a few short days in the aftermath of the...
Will NFT’s Revolutionize The Art Market?
Once data is “on-chain,” it cannot be deleted, and it can be reviewed forevermore by anyone with access privileges and enough technological know-how. This...
Study: One Quarter Of UK Theatre Freelancers Have Quit
Theatres have collectively reported losses of nearly £200 million following a year of closure, according to a survey which also reveals that a quarter...
How The Arts In Australia Have Been Slowly Undermined
The last thirty years have seen management displace the creators to become the powerful figures of the arts world … Increasingly, even the section...
A Political Winner In Boston — The Arts?
"As it happens, this year’s wide-open mayoral race — a political rarity in Boston — offers the cultural sector a golden opportunity to flex...
Wayne Shorter And Esperanza Spalding Turn To Crowdfunding For Their Opera
"Iphigenia is not an adaptation of the Greek myth as much as it is an intervention into myth-making itself," reads an explanation on the...
The Indigenous Choreographer And The Presenter — A Dispute Spirals
The dispute burst into the open earlier this year when Emily Johnson severed her connection with Peak Performances and wrote about her decision in...
NFT’s Explained: A New Funding Model?
Known as NFTs, such tokens have taken off in recent weeks in what’s either an ecologically destructive speculative bubble or a promising new funding...
Irish Dance As A Sport (On Tik Tok)
The brothers frequently refer to Irish dancing as a “sport”. “It’s not that we don’t consider Irish dancing an art form because obviously it...