Sebastian Smee: "Let's be clear: the idea of moral purity in the arts is a fantasy. We are not going to return to innocence by hanging out with like-minded people at the Whitney as we contem…
Egyptian President Nasser's Aswan Dam project involved flooding an area full of ancient monuments, including Ramses II's famous temple complex at Abu Simbel. So, in 1960, UNESCO and the Egyp…
"[He was] a well-regarded book and magazine editor who had his own moment as a literary cause célèbre in 2015 when he published Bettyville, a memoir about caring for his aging mother that …
"It would follow an era of hope that fizzled even as casinos hosted megawatt art collections from the Guggenheim and the Smithsonian to draw tourists to the Las Vegas Strip. … There's fund…
"[Keitaro] Harada will replace founding Artistic Director Peter Shannon, who resigned last year. Harada, who has signed a multi-year contract, is set to conduct the opening and closing conce…
Chris Jones: "At your typical large Las Vegas casino, gambling only accounts for 34 percent of revenue. The rest of the money comes from hotel rooms, fancy restaurants, cocktail bars and, of…
I love food, but I love cooking even more. So it was remarkably upsetting to see food repeatedly announced yet never enjoyed in Jack Thorne's new play the end of history… at the Royal Cour…
Here's a list of problems that sounds way too familiar to me in my work attempting to get arts organizations to understand the long road that needs to be walked to build relationships. " Dou…
"According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, it was When Harry Met Sally that popularized the term high-maintenance in American culture. … An assessment that is …
That line at the bottom of the screen of a digital music player that shows the length of the recording at the right and has a cursor showing how far along you are? That's the scrubber bar. A…
With public libraries open to the entire public, librarians in recent years have been seeing needs for services that their MLS programs didn't train them to provide " from aiding job seekers…
"On the day before the California premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over, a play about the harsh realities facing black men in America, Echo [Theater Company] staff on July 12 sent an ema…
"Merz was the lone woman among a loose coterie of men who came to be grouped in late-1960s Italy under the banner of Arte Povera " 'poor art' " a term [denoting use of] humble, raw materials…
"CONTINUOUS Network, originally a partnership between Siobhan Davies Dance in London and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead," and now expanding to include two more dance companies…
"[His] erudite, acerbic and elegantly crafted writing about dance and classical music filled the pages of The Chronicle and countless other local and national periodicals for more than 40 ye…
"The initiative, artistic director Jen Zeyl explained, is about more than the standard theater problem of getting 'butts in seats.' (Though, of course, there's that.) It's about getting the …
"The investors filed lawsuits this week in federal court in Manhattan claiming incomplete and misleading disclosures about … the planned $2.7 billion purchase of the auction house by Frenc…
The inquiry follows a long-term decline in lottery ticket sales as well as a report that the company which operates the Lottery diverted £39 million that was supposed to go to the arts an…
"The Louvre Museum has partnered with French luxury cruise company Ponant to organize two culture cruises in 2020: one across the Persian Gulf, and one of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic,…
I'm a longtime Rossini skeptic, but his rock-star status during his lifetime couldn't have been a fluke. Could the key to making his operas (beyond the two or three popular comedies) appeali…
Williams's stage direction describes it as a canvas hammock, but in Rae Smith's design it is all rope " knotted, unstable, full of holes, an anchorite's flail, a nest and a cage. Williams's …
"Last year, The Spark Arts for Children launched Vital Spark, a four-year programme with an ambitious aim: to address the lack of diversity in the children's arts sector. … At that point, …
"As a sanitised version of The Magic Flute opens in Glyndebourne, Rebecca Franks asks its creative team if this modern reworking is worth it." " The Times (UK)
"About five years ago, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art determined that only 11 percent of the artists with works in its collection " those identified by name, as opposed to …
"Modern classical and electronic music is still dominated by stars who are largely 'pale, male and stale', leading industry figures have warned, after learning of a major new compilation alb…