While the persistent lag in hiring minorities is arguably a manifestation of museums' systemic racism, it is also a "pipeline problem" " the relative scarcity of well-trained minority candid…
One of the most powerful agencies in the classical music industry, Columbia Artists Management Inc. sent a statement to its clients on Saturday saying that, due to the "prolonged pandemic en…
Bach isn't exactly the kind of composer for which Lang Lang became famous. In fact, he's known the Goldbergs for a long time now, and the piece fits him better than you might expect. " David…
In 2011, Hallberg joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal, the first American (and one of the few foreigners) ever to do so. In 2019, he danced what would turn out to be his final performan…
"Without widespread consumer awareness that most books are not fact checked, or about which imprints publish which books, there's no real reason for publishers to care about fact checking. I…
A number of students playing in it thought so " and they felt dismissed, stonewalled, and sometimes threatened when they brought their concerns to festival management. (One student, not long…
Richard Lawson: "If the reason for my hesitancy to go to a restaurant or, when New York theaters are open, go see a movie is safety, then is it a bit, I don't know, morally compromised to re…
Among the artists whose works he bought, exhibited, and donated to museums (and to some of whom he paid regular stipends) were Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Mose Tolliver,…
"We do not think we should exist, because we do not believe prisons should exist," says a member of Liberation Library, founded in 2015 in Chicago and serving incarcerated young people in Il…
"So reflexive is applause, it can be easy to forget how powerful it is, what makes it important enough to fake" in performances and sports events without live audiences. "Applause is a marve…
"Jujamcyn Theaters, the operator of five Broadway houses, has sued its insurers for denying it millions of dollars that the theater company says it deserves as payment for the losses suffere…
The Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo houses more than 250,000 rolls of film and employed some of the continent's best film-restoration technicians. Over the 19 months since Bolsonaro ab…
"Just over a year ago, San Diego Opera gathered 40 opera industry artists and cutting-edge technology designers from around the country for a first-of-its-kind Opera Hack weekend, with the g…
Frans Hals's Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer (1626) was taken by robbers from a small museum south of Utrecht in 1988 and was not recovered for three years; it was pilfered again in 201…
One of the primary benefits of this pandemic is that artists and arts organizations were all forced to experiment " even though they didn't feel ready. This wide-spread spirit of experimenta…
"More Americans are buying Bibles they read less " if ever " and reading Bibles they didn't buy because they're dipping into verses here and there online …, according to the findings in th…
The Richmond Ballet is foregoing its annual cashflow lifeline because the piece simply involves too many people to be done safely while the pandemic continues. But the company's Studio Serie…
"When a team of archaeologists deep in the deserts of Sudan arrived at the ancient site of Jabal Maragha last month, they thought they were lost. The site had vanished. But they hadn't made …
"The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize, taking the award for their 'visceral and virtuosic' debut nov…
The New Zealand Symphony, Royal New Zealand Ballet, and Auckland Philharmonia all say that key members of their companies, foreign nationals who were abroad when the COVID lockdown began, ar…
"The men, who have been charged with copyright infringement conspiracy, were accused of being members of the Sparks Group, a sophisticated piracy outfit spanning several continents … [that…
When Canadian Opera Company general director Alexander Neef accepted the appointment to run the Opéra national de Paris from 2021-22, he was cutting short his Toronto contract by four years…
"The incident took place on December 28, when Shakeel Massey, a Spanish architecture student, punched Picasso's 1944 painting Bust of a Woman numerous times. He held metal padlocks and wrapp…
Current licensing rules for free-to-air commercial TV broadcasters in Australia require a set number of hours of original, locally produced drama, nonfiction/news and children's programming …
"If a successful cultural transformation can be defined as the moment when you can finally stop counting heads, the first sign of that may be when you realize that at least there are heads t…