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ASHTAR Theatre had made its home in a Gaza City cultural center that was destroyed last August in an Israeli airstrike (launched to retaliate for rockets from Gaza fired at Beersheva). Never…
I've found strikingly few resources available in any media about the craft, practice, and management of arts organizations in the live performing arts (beyond the usual-suspect books). So I'…
It's not a real iguanodon tooth, I don't think. Though in a story about how to interpret the material world and humanity's place within it, identification is an unusually fraught subject. " …
Dominic Miller: Absinthe (ECM)Abetted by producer Manfred Eicher's canny guidance and ECM's flawless sound and studio presence, Miller draws on inspiration from painters of France's impressi…
There has been plenty of disagreement about whether the painting of Judith beheading Holofernes that turned up in Toulouse in 2016 is an original Caravaggio or a copy. But the people selling…
"After a five-month search, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has hired Brian Kennedy as its new director and CEO. Kennedy, now 57 years old, was born in Dublin and has worked for museums on…
Aaron Shulman revisits the weeks that led up to that early morning in the summer of 1937 when the poet, dressed in pajamas and a blazer, was murdered by paramilitaries just off a dirt road i…
At the Ross School, a very pricey K-12 institution in the Hamptons, faculty have worked hard to create what CJR calls "the best media literacy program money can buy." Alexandria Neason looks…
"In her research and teaching, she pored over the records left by women who received little if any public attention during their lives but whose diaries, letters and other writings vividly r…
TK: "I've always been a little skeptical of the notion that there's something sort of shamanistic or medicinal or restorative about theater in a kind of mysterious way, but I really felt tha…
Soderbergh has made a feature for Netflix and released his work in all sorts of ways; he says "I really don't care how people see my movies, as long as they see them." Spielberg is trying to…
"Paramilitary groups, the most active of which is called C14, have existed as a form of 'art critics' since 2009, when they first burnt down the Gudimov Centre for its presentation of a book…
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden's master plan involves a makeover of the main building, including its beloved Great Hall and Main Reading Room, to add exhibition space. But some staffers …
"The good thing is that the actual material we are dealing with on a daily basis is fantastic " [some of] the best things humankind has ever produced." So what are the problems? Two, Salonen…
Last week, ballet's perpetual problem child had his manager summon a non-dance journalist to hear him "explain his recent activity on social media" " a series of Instagram posts that basical…
"As his work for seven dancers moves from darkness (the staid and somber Assyrian Court) to tranquility (the meditative Chinese Garden Court) and finally lightness (a bright court in the Ame…
David Patrick Stearns talks with the youthful 37-year-old composer about his new organ concerto (titled Register), the operas he's written already, the massive amounts of music he's churned …
A pair of British professors write about the AIR Network, a program they set up with colleagues to work with residents of Mukuru, a poor neighborhood in the Kenyan capital, using theatre, ph…
"Directors with whom AFP spoke describe a paradoxical atmosphere in Russian theatre, in which pressure from authorities co-exists with a burgeoning of opportunities. Actress and director Mar…
"Serebrennikov, the enfant terrible of Russian theatre, cinema and ballet, has been shuttered in his apartment for two years, accused of embezzlement in what his followers consider political…
"Created by Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, with original music by Ellen Reid and curation by Yuval Sharon, the tour reveals little of the Concert Hall's history, ins…
The power and imagination in his composing and arranging have made Ed Partyka a major contributor to the European big band scene. The Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra's two most recent albums refle…
"Including drama and music, creative arts degrees are studied by approximately 37,000 young people in England each year. Taxpayers provide more to students who study these courses because th…
"We have considerably increased the marketing for our organization and have rebranded the company entirely. We have tripled our seasonal programming, created a series of special performances…
"The unfortunate thing about [stage] fights is the more you practice them, the better they get, the more out of control they can seem. … We have to work really hard to make sure we actuall…
