Never heard of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation? It's the body that manages Berlin's Museum Island complex and all the other state-run museums in the German capital, along with the …
What's more, says artistic director Kevin Buist, "It's not clear if there will be an event in 2021, and if there is, it's not clear who will run it." The largest contemporary art exhibition …
"A measure of relief may come from a century-old system set up by Rodin himself allowing the museum to sell up to 12 replicas of select sculptures every year. The bronzes are cast in special…
"In what's billed as one of the largest arts and culture studies ever done in the US, the new report Culture and Community in a Time of Crisis has surveyed some 124,000 people to take a look…
For months now (starting before COVID), American Repertory Theater head Diane Paulus and professor Joseph Allen of Harvard's Chan School of Public Health have been working on this issue, and…
"The prominent fall events, all positioned six weeks from each other, [will] collaborate rather than compete in a spirit of post-pandemic solidarity. The statement announcing this alliance p…
"Government-required public notices have been published in newspapers since colonial times. … But the advent of websites operated by federal, state and local governments gave politicians a…
"For me, his work stands with Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Ellington and Stravinsky in achieving that rare fusion of heart and mind. … His meticulous craftsmanship and ear for orchestration, har…
Laura Collins-Hughes: "All that frenzy of streamable online activity " the virtual readings and talk shows, the archival videos and topical new plays " is part of keeping the candle lit. ……
"Though we are still miles and months away from a resuscitation, who would have guessed that, in the meantime, the savior of the stage might turn out to be its perpetual enemy, the screen? â…
It's Swan Lake Bath Ballet, "a contemporary take on the classic featuring 27 A-list ballet dancers performing from their own bathtubs. The BBC commissioned the project from choreographer Cor…
"[He] brought a wry, genial sense of humor to nearly 700 cartoons published in The New Yorker over 35 years. They were set in conference rooms and homes, on desert islands and roadsides, at …
The Mellon Foundation's announcement that its grant-making will focus entirely on social justice is not a wakeup call. The alarm has been sounding for years. Business as usual (that is, we d…
Librarians understand that patrons are nervous about catching or spreading the coronavirus. But not only will paper catch fire when it gets really hot, the scannable security tags on library…
"COVID-19 has caused more than 1,000 deaths and 6,600 confirmed cases of infection in the province of Cremona … and it is now putting a strain on its economy. In particular, it is threaten…
"[The] monthly, location-specific Instameet … brings together top dancers, interesting architecture and elite movement photographers " the intersection of which results in truly exquisite …
Jesse Green: "For months I've been waiting for industry groups to galvanize themselves into meaningful action, as they did in Britain " and as Black theater artists have proved can be done h…
Adrian Searle: "Visitors … have to follow one of three designated routes through the galleries, all of which are signposted, with arrows on the floor pointing up the prescribed flow. Quite…
While the Czech-but-now-French author is known in much of the world for his pointed depictions of how the Communist regimes of Europe twisted the lives of regular people, he's been viewed am…
Justin Davidson makes the case that New York City's overburdened, underinvested-in school buildings simply can't fit students in at a COVID-safe distance, but the currently-dark performance …
"In the lawsuit led by the National Association of Theatre Owners of New Jersey, naming Gov. Philip Murphy and New Jersey's health commissioner, …, the plaintiffs" " which include AMC, Cin…
"The letter, which was published by Harper's Magazine and will also appear in several leading international publications, surfaces a debate that has been going on privately in newsrooms, uni…
"The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is…
"The final collection of early stories from the late Terry Pratchett, written while the Discworld creator was a young reporter, will be published in September. The tales in The Time-travelli…
"MacDowell Board Chair Nell Painter … acknowledged that the word 'colony' can mean a country or given location under the control of an outside power or, as would apply to MacDowell, a comm…