"Theatres are entering a critical stage in their fight for survival, with the cancellation of the 2020/21 pantomime season expected to cost the industry more than £90 million in lost reve…
According to reports on the Russian broadcast network RBC, one dancer at the Bolshoi (where rehearsals for the fall are underway) has gotten sick and 59 dancers and rehearsal pianists have b…
"The Senate of the City of Berlin has announced a decision to allow choral singing in closed spaces to resume, under very strict and precise regulation." (Very strict and precise, in fact.) …
"Raised in a Boston tenement with a shared bathroom, … Sumner Redstone [was] a combative and daring dealmaker who in his 60s turned his family's movie theater chain into one of the world's…
"Shedding the Fox name entirely from 20th Century Fox Television in the wake of the Disney-Fox merger, that studio will now be known as 20th Television. … Nixing 'Fox' from 20th TV was par…
For a lot of us, these last few months have provided an opportunity to clean out and organize our closets, cupboards, garages, and workshops. (Stick with me, there will be a point to this.) …
It was only a short time after Breton gave her her first solo show in Paris that she left the artistic movement he spearheaded, developing a muscular, energetic approach to abstract art. Rou…
A stage on the beach in Brighton with audience groups at picnic tables. A solo show in a Belfast shopping mall and another amid the Narnia sculptures in C.S. Lewis Square. And, of course, op…
Dana Naomy Mills: "The theme of the universality of grief, as well as the tension of confinement and expansion that echo throughout Graham's performance, acquire a double meaning by being vi…
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz wrote more than 60 books on subjects from philosophy to zoology, including a classic on the Kabbalah. But his major achievement is what he called his "hobby": a 45-volu…
That's the argument being made by a growing number of nonwhite actors and observers such as critic Diep Tran: "Color-blind casting is dangerous in the same way the phrase: 'I don't see race'…
That's what worked " shockingly well " when Dutch public broadcaster NPO tried it: when it eliminated cookies, and thus the means to target ads to particular users, revenue soared. Here's wh…
The Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) …, curated by London-based art dealer Lee Cavaliere, will feature masterpieces on loan from international institutions such as Musée d'Orsay, Whitn…
"J.J. Yore … presided over big increases in revenue and membership since the Marketplace co-creator arrived at the public radio station in 2014, but the end of his tenure began with a publ…
Arthur Kaptainis: "[He] managed to forge an entente with an orchestra still reeling from the public resignation of Charles Dutoit and a provincial government that took culture more seriously…
"In 2017 [sic], two Americans attempted something unconventional … a musical about a subject even Afghans would consider too sensitive and unsettling " 'bacha bazi' or 'boy play'." Turns o…
"Almost £1m has been given out to nearly 700 authors since the end of March, to help those facing financial crisis through the coronavirus pandemic. But the Society of Authors has warned …
One stands back and marvels how horizons have kept expanding in the music before J.S. Bach, with modern premieres of 400-year-old works by names you've barely heard of " and leave you wantin…
Having listened to recent online offerings from North America and Europe (where concerts are carefully starting to move back into halls), David Patrick Stearns predicts that "innovation and …
"In addition to their pioneering role as women on the jazz circuit, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were an interracial band in the era of Jim Crow. Their extensive itinerary through…
Aleshea Harris's Is God Is was the last show of the season at theWilma Theater in Philadelphia, and when the shutdown came, there was still time to figure something out. "We then went throug…
"The more text to which an algorithm can be exposed, and the more complex you can make the algorithm, the better it performs. … The model that underpins [the AI software] GPT-3 boasts 175b…
Here's one instance from last month: "Standing at the base of the three-story pedestal supporting the Confederate general's likeness, [Janine] Bell, the artistic director of Elegba Folklore …
"'Sold down the river.' 'Cakewalk.' 'Master and slave.' American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd by police in M…
"In recent months, several people working on the committee to revise the body's definition of what a museum is have resigned, and there have been accusations of 'back-alley political games.'…