"Fears are growing over Hong Kong's artistic freedom, including instances of self-censorship, as China rolls out its Greater Bay Area integration scheme. The controversial plan aims to merge…
"This year's [EIF] will explore gender politics, racism, masculinity and homophobia in a response to political challenges around the world. The festival's director, Fergus Linehan, said many…
Oboist Ashley Ertz started the group 5th Wave Collective especially to perform and promote music written by women. "Since April 2018, the volunteer-based group of more than 115 musicians has…
"How does our work reflect on, and respond to, the challenges brought on by a warming climate? How can we participate in the global conversation about what the future should look like, and d…
"The Recovery Orchestra was set up by Bristol Drugs Project (BDP) to help individuals using their services. It encourages people to take up an instrument or use the skills they already had i…
"Yet the mechanisms required … " loan agreements, insurance, packing, couriering, shipping, handling, installation " are delicate, expensive and complex. Behind every exhibition is an intr…
Earlier this month I highlighted three factors fueling a growing international interest in community engagement and the arts: economics, demographics, and funders' demands for much broader c…
The jazz bands of the United States military services have long histories of impressive achievement. Let's see and hear the veteran Los Angeles trombonist Andy Martin with the US Air Force's…
She co-wrote the famous documentary Ordinary Fascism, which was seen by millions of ordinary Soviet citizens (and got past the censors because it was, on the surface, about the Nazis), but s…
"It is not composed simply of a single distortion, but rather a slew of mischaracterizations bent on representing one's opponents in the worst light. … In deploying the burning man fallacy…
There were the NATO jets overflying the filming location. The prostate infection that took out the lead actor. The woman who claimed she could get financing from the deposed president of Tun…
"Campaigners have hailed a 'seismic shift' in US children's publishing after statistics showed that the number of kids' books featuring African-American characters has more than doubled over…
Charlotte Arrowsmith, who's played Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida, Curtis in The Taming of the Shrew, and Audrey in As You Like It, writes about integrating sign language into her perform…
This season, the Washington Wizards introduced the Wizdom, a 20-member squad, all women 50 and older, who dance during timeouts. The crowd loves them. And a dozen other teams in the league h…
Philip Kennicott: "What matters is that sometimes lightning strikes, and there is hell to pay, and suddenly a name is blackened forever. That kind of justice may be terrifying and swift and …
Mark Lawson: "What would count as an acceptable way of having become rich enough to have some spare to dish out to the arts? Sponsorship by BP and Nestlé has been questioned because of envi…
Arthur Brand, a/k/a "the Indiana Jones of the art world," has recovered Buste de femme (Dora Maar), a 1938 painting which was stolen from a Saudi sheikh's yacht on the French Riviera in 1999…
"I know, because I teach at an elite American university " one of the oldest and best-known … In this setting, where teaching quality is at a premium and students expect faculty to give th…
Veach, who founded CDT in 1998, quietly stepped down in October, and he told the press in January that the reason was health-related. In fact, he was accused of "improper behavior" with two …
"Several minutes of footage were edited out of the film, including scenes of two men kissing and the word 'gay'. There has been significant reaction to the film's release online. … Though …
He was the first in Britain to stage operas for mass audiences in arenas, and his Sunday concerts at the Royal Albert Hall (though they irked critics) drew many newcomers to classical music.…
Mike Fox, a 56-year-old comedy promoter in London, was fined a total of £500 and sentenced to 50 hours of community service for shoving one of the actors in a 36-seat-theatre production o…
"Rather than fading deferentially into the terrain that surrounds them, the houses that best exemplify the new Chilean architecture are, like Neruda's impure poetry, emphatically man-made " …
"The daughter of a diplomat, born in Copenhagen in 1949 and raised in Buenos Aires, de Guébriant was introduced in 1975 to the artist's daughter and archivist, Marguerite Duthuit, and becam…
"Last September, after nearly 30 years as the company's artistic director, [Naharin] handed the reins to Gili Navot, a former dancer with the company, while he assumed the position of house …