I regret that I can only offer you my camcorder's sound complete with audience noise. But there is enough spirit and inspiring artistry to make up for that, I think. " Michal Shapiro
From early March on, there have been increasing demonstrations of the jazz community taking care of itself and its own. " Howard Mandel
Elizabeth Kendall remembers: "SoHo was dance spilling out into life. It was a grimy laboratory of the future. … In SoHo you could get a turnip soup with an asymmetrical bread chunk at an e…
Back in the late 1960s, Charlie Perrière was a struggling young musician in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, and about to leave for Congo when he was personally summoned by …
They're showing movies in their auditoriums (social distancing observed, of course), opening their cafes and bars, presenting art exhibits " anything that can offer a place to (safely) gathe…
"This story is about reckless journalism. About one desperate Murdoch newspaper that sacrificed tried and true practice to grab a scoop. About the damage inflicted on two people, their famil…
The Wilma in Philadelphia plans to construct and install what it's calling The Wilma Globe. "It would be built within the current Wilma Theater and would place audience members, individually…
"Three Federal Court judges ruled that articles published by Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper in 2017 conveyed the imputation that Rush was a pervert and that the trial judge had corre…
Andrei Filatov, a rail transport and investment magnate (who is also chairman of the Chess Federation of Russia), has offered to purchase the long-controversial statue in front of the Americ…
Hank Stuever: "As soon as one Karen flames out across the Internet, another apparently more unhinged Karen rises in her place. … Amid a culturally fractious and largely failed attempt to q…
"[She] enthralled audiences around the world with a combination of classical rigour and romantic warmth " the mix of 'ice and fire … simply mind-blowing' that one reviewer found in a recor…
Sarah Kaufman: "Artistically, The Nutcracker is a big playing field where dancers can achieve breakthroughs, because over the unusually long run of performances, they are typically cast in m…
"Scholars in the work of surrealist Frida Kahlo have searched for more than six decades for The Wounded Table, a 1940 oil painting illuminating her pain over the breakup of her marriage to m…
"Deputies voted to allow a one-off deduction of up to €50 (£45) to households subscribing for the first time, and for at least 12 months, to a newspaper, magazine or online news ser…
Sotheby's "LIVE GLOBAL AUCTION EVENT" was, per yesterday's post-sale press release, "an unprecedented live-streamed event, with banks of telephone-bidding colleagues beamed in from around th…
Stephen Russell at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed the course "Prescribing Art: How Observation Enhances Medicine" to teach students to slow down and observe without worryi…
Yes, they has been used in the singular since the late Middle Ages, but people complained about it, and looked for a different solution, back then and ever since. The effort to come up with …
Natalia Boesch: "Living-room ballet has always been a big part of my life, whether I was working out choreographic ideas or just giving myself barre. But, as I write this, living-room ballet…
Belarus Free Theatre " outlawed by its homeland's dictatorship, forced to rehearse and perform in secret, and with its artistic directors living in asylum abroad " has years of experience us…
I don't know how I've managed to survive the simultaneous losses of my beloved spouse and the art form to which I have devoted more than a decade and a half of my life. But I'm still here, a…
"[Terrence] Orr's vision included growth for the entire organization. Ticket sales, PBT School enrollment and the organization's physical footprint in the Strip District all increased while …
In Barcelona, they performed for plants. But at Madrid's Teatro Real, it's a real staging for a real (though smaller) audience. "The opening scenes of merriment have taken on a sombre tone, …
The budget passed by the City Council cuts municipal support for the arts citywide by 40% to $5.84 million, and even that amount is $1 million more than the mayor proposed as he attempted to…
It's a bit of welcome news after major cuts from the city government: "467 Philadelphia-area arts and culture groups plus more than a thousand individual artists are receiving a total of $4 …
"Ava DuVernay, Stanley Nelson, Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis have all made movies that help explain our nation's current efforts to face hundreds of years of inequity. Here's what they said…