Back in 2014, Alarm Will Sound " the contemporary music ensemble Person founded at Eastman and has been leading ever since " played the world premiere of John Luther Adams's Ten Thousand Bir…
For now, it's a small-scale relaunch: only 600 audience members in a roughly 2,000-seat house (so social distancing can be maintained) and chamber music rather than full-fledged opera. There…
"[Roselyne] Bachelot, 73, is returning to politics after eight years working as a commentator in radio and television. Prior to that, she served as the minister of ecology and sustainable de…
A native of Bermuda who settled in the UK after World War II, he performed " "against the odds," he once said " to perform in 40 feature films as well as numerous TV movies and series. "His …
"The union, which represents 51,000 actors and stage managers around the country, said it had given the green light to two summer shows in the Berkshires region of Western Massachusetts: an …
"An alumnus has filed a suit to save a fresco at the University of Kentucky that depicts enslaved people; a Black artist whose work is shown with it also wants the mural to stay." " The New …
Elizabeth Alexander of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: "We were going to do it anyway, [but in] this moment … it seems very clear … that we all need to be thinking very sharply about ho…
"Our sales go up with political and economic turmoil and down during times of prosperity," says Jake Stevens of Verso. "It's really amazing to see all the different types of books that we ex…
"In September 2018, a devastating fire ravaged Brazil's National Museum [in Rio de Janeiro]. Now, yet another Brazilian cultural institution " the Federal University of Minas Gerais' Natural…
"San Jose Dance Theatre [has] announced that it [is] launching a professional ballet company, as well as a trainee program and a new pre-professional training division. This is good news for…
"Avatar: The Last Airbender … first ran from 2005 to 2008 on Nickelodeon, and swiftly made a name for itself as a politically resonant, emotionally sophisticated work " one with a sprawlin…
If we are experts in music, we need to know about now. Imagine a scientist who said: 'You know I only repeat the experiments of the 19th century. I've really worked at them. I get fantastic …
FDR's Works Progress Administration was the closest Washington had come to emulating European arts subsidies. At the same time, the New Deal made a devil's pact with race " and the WPA was n…
Among the at-home dances I've seen recently, one strikes me as truly suitable to performers who have to be isolated: Anna Sokolow's 1955 Rooms, recreated for the pandemic as Rooftop Rooms. "…
"[She] brought glamour to the organ console thanks to her extraordinary dexterity at the keyboard and her love of life in the fast lane: she swore like a trooper, drank like a fish, smoked l…
"The bill's vague provisions make it easy for the state to target artistic and creative productions, especially critical, satirical or protest forms it subjectively deems as anti-government …
The Byzantine emperor built it in the sixth century to be the flagship cathedral of Eastern (and perhaps all) Christianity. When the Ottoman sultan conquered Constantinople in 1453, he conve…
"The study … found that only 11,000 people were habitual Gaelic speakers, after a rapid decline during the 1980s when the density of native speakers fell below 80%. … The language is rar…
"I believe very strongly that museums have a social justice role to play. … I'm not expecting museums to engage in partisan politics. What I'm expecting museums to be is driven by scholars…
After six weeks of "fantasy Proms" consisting mostly of rebroadcasts from previous years' festivals, the hope is to present live performances (without live audiences) in the Royal Albert Hal…
A "synthetic actor" called Erica "has been cast in b, a $70 million science-fiction movie … about scientists who create an AI robot named Erica who quickly realize the danger of this top-s…
"Todd London reflects on why and how we gather, and looks at the canons-in-the-making of four African-American playwrights " Jackie Sibblies Drury, Aleshea Harris, Anna Deavere Smith, and Da…
Jennifer Stahl, who juried this year's Boston semi-finals of Youth America Grand Prix: "Putting exact numbers to qualities like 'musicality' and 'épaulement' is just as tricky as it sounds.…
"In a broadcast career that spanned more than a half-century" " he began in radio in 1939 and was on television within a decade, ultimately hosting or co-hosting The Tonight Show opposite Ja…
"Tate, the British museum network that facilitates it, reconstituted the prize in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In lieu of the main £25,000 ($32,200) award, 10 artists and collective…