Liesl Olson investigates the strange and stirring history of La Guiablesse, an almost entirely lost 18-minute dance work based on French Caribbean folklore, with a white choreographer/star (…
"[She] did not publish her first collection, Too Bright to See (1981), until she was almost 40. But once she did, she drew quick attention in poetry circles. … {and she] taught poetry at C…
Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde) and Greer Grimsley (Wotan) talk about working on, with, and around director Robert Lepage's big, complicated contraption " and how it's been changed in the six…
University of Michigan researchers found that "reading print books together generated more verbalizations about the story from parents and from toddlers, more back and forth 'dialogic' colla…
"Like their peers all over the US, students at California Institute of the Arts … face increasingly high tuition bills each year, and they're reaching a breaking point. Students have both …
"In its sprawling nearly mile-long loop of galleries, the museum tells the story of how this tiny nation of nomadic Bedouins and pearl divers became, with the discovery of natural gas, the m…
"Performing arts exports to Europe … are worth £360 million to the UK, but that and numerous jobs are under threat from a disorderly departure from the EU. Mark Shenton talks to senior …
"One of [its] first acts will be to introduce a scheme for theatregoers to buy extra tickets for those who cannot afford them. … The theatre will also offer 10,000 €10 tickets a year…
Fan Bingbing's place atop China's movie pantheon is hard to describe to Westerners; she's sort of a combination Jennifer Lawrence-Nicole Kidman-Julia Roberts-Sandra Bullock. (In the West, sh…
Filial piety may be the paramount Confucian value, and flouting it is still rare in Chinese real life, let alone on state-controlled television. This is likely why All Is Well, broadcast onl…
"Richard Burbage was the go-to leading actor for the greatest playwrights of the 17th century. RSC artistic director Gregory Doran assesses the legacy of the first man to play Hamlet and Lea…
Marko Remec's 2018 piece Vertebrate Progression (Field Totem), commissioned for the grounds of a Long Island art museum, has already been damaged by visitors sitting on parts of it. One take…
"Japan's largest airline, All Nippon Airways, has taken that literally, with actual kabuki performers in its newest in-flight safety video. … Kabuki actors stow their elegantly lacquered b…
"He persuaded architects, developers and public officials to let him immortalize their buildings and monuments on film in altitudinous detail. He would scale precarious perches with construc…
Protests against the Israeli government's policies toward the West Bank and Gaza have become almost routine outside (and occasionally inside) Batsheva's performances abroad. "But why target …
When a huge earthquake killed 140,000 people in Japan in 1923, written and radio reports could get around the world quickly, but film footage couldn't. That didn't stop the makers of newsree…
"To hear more about [Madeline] Hollander's role in the film's production, ARTnews spoke with the artist, whose background in ballet helped her supply the Nutcracker-inspired choreography in …
The struggle is over how the talent agencies negotiate pay for the writers they represent and whether there's a conflict of interest. As David Simon (The Wire, Tremé, The Deuce) put it to a…
Sebastian Lang-Lessing will finish up a successful, admired (if sometimes difficult) ten-year tenure at the end of next season. But he says he means to stay involved with the orchestra in hi…
"The ruling came just over a year after the Met fired Mr. Levine, who had been its music director for four decades and who had recently assumed an emeritus position … Mr. Levine, who has d…
When conservators at the Tate Britain removed the frame on The Oise at Auvers, a corner of the canvas that hadn't faded from exposure to light revealed what color van Gogh meant that sky to …
"A curator who accused MoMA PS 1 of gender, pregnancy and caregiver discrimination has settled the claim she brought against the museum saying it had rescinded a job offer upon learning she …
"Infuriating Chicago's mayor and police chief, prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett on Tuesday after the Empire actor accused of faking a racist, anti-gay attack …
"The British Museum has lost its crown as the UK's most popular visitor attraction for the first time in a decade, overtaken by Tate Modern. Almost 5.9 million people visited the Tate Modern…
More than 6,000 staffers at Waterstones have signed a petition for the chain's in-store staff to be paid a starting wage of £9 per hour (£10.55 in metro London), and 1,340 authors have…