"Silkroad has to exist outside of Yo-Yo, but Yo-Yo is an inalterable part of Silkroad," said the singer/banjo player/fiddler/opera composer. "Both of those things have to exist at the same t…
"A new report [by the RAND Corporation] claims that … the true size of the market in illicit antiquities may be 'much smaller' than is regularly reported. Perhaps more controversially, the…
"Dancers are harming themselves trying to achieve the look. The continued preference for ultrathin bodies seems particularly out of step with current cultural conversations around body posit…
Joseph del Pesco, International Director of KADIST: "Sales of art in the US reached $29.9 billion in 2018 … Imagine if just 2 percent of that $29.9 billion did some good. That's 600 millio…
While a student in Moscow in the late '60s, he became passionately interested in William Blake, going on to translate his complete works into Russian and write the first Russian-language bio…
"There is real concern that at a time when the need to insure for [COVID risks] is even greater, venues and organisations will not be able to obtain or afford appropriate coverage. This is n…
"In a move expanding the news outlet's presence in Hollywood, The New York Times has named Caitlin Roper executive producer for scripted projects. Roper, who has been a senior editor at The …
Jeremy Reynolds, responding to New York Times chief critic Anthony Tommasini's argument that U.S. orchestras will never become more racially balanced without affirmative action, points out t…
A statement released jointly by the musicians and management said, "We recognize the challenges presented to the ISO by the pandemic and unforeseen economic. For those reasons, the 2020-21 i…
Historically, the purpose of monuments, says Ken Lum of Monument Lab in Philadelphia, "has been to activate or even sustain a certain narrative of memory which people of influence have deeme…
Kahlil Ashanti began his performing career as part of an elite U.S. Air Force unit that did shows for servicepeople at military bases and in battle zones all over the globe. One thing he hea…
"In conversations about the future with 14 dance professionals, feelings of anguish, hope, fear and resolve emerged, along with ideas about adaptation and innovation. … Here are some glimp…
Christine Walevska got her one-eighth-size 1834 Bernardel cello when she was eight years old, and even as she went on to study with Gregor Piatigorsky, win a first prize at the Paris Conserv…
"As the decades passed, [David W.] Forbes [has] painstakingly tracked down archival portraits of people alive in that era, in libraries and private collections throughout the islands. That s…
Online, that is. "Every day at sunset, Artist " an anonymous conceptualist who legally changed their name to question the biases built into the phrase 'American Artist' " will replace every …
"Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Island" " an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea where Australia maintain…
It was a one-time pilot project, performed in front of 640 people spread out through the Palladium, one of London's biggest theatres. The program: one singer, Beverley Knight, doing two half…
"TikTok is launching a program to fund its most popular creators directly for their videos " with an initial $200 million earmarked for the U.S. … How much individual creators will be elig…
Pandemic permitting, the Center and its resident companies, the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, plan to present performances for full audiences n its three large v…
"Career opportunity on Broadway doesn't begin at the box office, but in the front office. And that's where T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams and their fellow advocates have set their sights in a …
Already battered financially by the pandemic, many art museums now find themselves barraged by attacks from aggrieved staffers and former employees accusing the higher-ups of racism, harassm…
Now that the matter of a contemporary spire or roof for the medieval landmark has been settled, here's an update on removing the (partially melted) scaffolding around the outside of the cath…
"In a survey released Wednesday of 760 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a 'significant risk' of closing permanently by next fall or that they didn't know if their institut…
"Interviews with artists and producers suggest that there are more than a dozen plays and musicals with Black writers circling Broadway " meaning, in most cases, that the shows have been wri…
"As part of the Times, Serial Productions will independently commission and edit its own stories, which 'will now be amplified by the Times,' the company said." (The price was reportedly $25…