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Central, Eastern European Governments Take Aim At Museums
Hungary, Poland, and now Slovenia are assembling and executing a “playbook” to shift cultural institutions to the right. Often, the rhetoric around this has...
Composer Anthony Davis At 70
Awards don’t help us quantify these qualities, but for a composer who burst onto the operatic scene so spectacularly with X: The Life and...
The Comedy Industry’s Alt-Right Problem
"The mobs that descended on Washington, D.C., last month have intellectual roots in many places, going back to the bloody beginnings of this country....
What “Hamlet” Suggests About Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Rereading “Hamlet” after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, I was struck by how fears of insurrection permeate the play. Every...
Why The California Attorney General Is Investigating The San Francisco Art Institute
The attorney general does not comment on ongoing audits, but Hyperallergic has acquired documents raising questions about board member self-interest and misuse of tax-exempt...
Indie Bookstores Invested In Online Sales… And It Has Paid Off
Their embrace of internet sales appears to have paid off, allowing them to meet surging demand spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement and...
Our Inner Critics – Ignore Or Be Guided?
"The inner voice, which is also an inward-turning voice, tends to linger over negative content. What’s more, it can call our attention to processes...
In Seattle, Music Venues Can Now Reopen. Few Are Choosing To Do So
Thus far, only a few local music venues have signaled their interest in reopening under present conditions. In a statement on its website, the...
Famed Broadway Restaurateur Joe Allen, 87
In a city that devours restaurants the way diners down hamburgers, Mr. Allen founded and ran not just one successful New York restaurant but...
NY Governor Cuomo Says Broadway May Reopen Soon
“Would I go see a play and sit in a playhouse with 150 people? If the 150 people were tested, and they were all...
California’s Gig Worker Law Is Hurting Artists
Used to hiring artists who work as independent contractors in exchange for program or project fees, it’s been tough for these small nonprofit arts...
The Problem With Hygiene Theatre
If hygiene theater were actual theater, it would exist in the genre of catastrophic improv. Hundreds of millions of people are ad-libbing their way...
Robert Spano Appointed Music Director The Fort Worth Symphony
Spano, 59, is best known for his 20 seasons as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, a position he’s leaving in June. Since...
Broadway’s Master Hair Maker Packs It In
From “The Elephant Man” to “Chicago,” “Cats” to “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” Huntley was the designer behind the wigs and often-elaborate locks that helped define...
The Professional Dancer Who Also Runs A Dairy Farm
Jean-Daniel Bouchard said although his twin passions may seem like something of a contradiction — farming can be gruelling physical labour and involves plenty of financial mathematics, versus...
Amanda Gorman Has Quickly Become A Superstar Poet
Her inaugural poem made her a superstar. And while her rise may seem swift and meteoric, Sharon Marcus, an English and comparative literature professor...
Reimagining “Live” Performance During COVID: Will Any Of It Stick?
By emptying stages and dancefloors, the pandemic has generated an urgent need to reimagine the live music experience - both for artists and the...
SF School Board Chief Explains Why Lincoln And Washington Names Were Removed From Schools
"There’s this idea that because we’re removing the names we’re somehow removing the stories in what we’re learning, and that in fact is not...
The Man Who Realized Attention Was A Precious Commodity
His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what...
How Did Arts And Culture Respond To Trump?
The internet is healing, I would say now, but we should all know better: a garbage vortex of such scale doesn’t just disappear, but...
The Purpose Of Playing
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once described play as ‘ecoming and dissolution, building and destruction without moral implication, in eternal innocence’ – as an act...
Minnesota Orchestra Posts A Record Deficit
On Thursday morning, the orchestra released its operating results for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 2020. The big news: a deficit of $11.7...
Charles McGee, Dean Of Detroit Artists, 96
McGee, the prodigious dean of Detroit’s visual arts scene whose works can be seen everywhere from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Broadway...
Hachette Pushes Out The Last Of The Mainstream MAGA Publishers
Kate Hartson, a fit 67-year-old who once ran a small press specializing in dogs, had all the trappings of a liberal book editor, including...
Montclair University Cultural Official Accused Of Verbal Abuse
"Emily Johnson, an Indigenous self-described dancemaker and choreographer published a letter she sent to the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday detailing what...