"At the start of the second world war, Vera Lynn … was an up-and-coming dance band singer. By 1945" " thanks to her hits "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover" " "this working-…
"A new study finds that about 80 percent of the shows presented around the country are by white writers, and 85 percent of the productions are led by white directors. Also of concern: Much o…
"Woodstock 50 organizers are suing their former financial partner Dentsu Group and several of its affiliates, accusing the company of 'destruction of the festival' and 'sabotage.' … The [e…
"Founded at the end of May 2019 by a 'nonhierarchical group of arts and museum workers who are friends and colleagues,' Art + Museum Transparency prefers to answer questions collectively. AR…
"Any attempts to decipher the manuscript's unique text, made up of a mixture of handwritten Latin letters, Arabic numbers, and unknown characters, have so far failed. … Now, after three ye…
This week book retailers in England have reopened to the public (with limits on how many people may be on the premises at a time) for the first time since the pandemic-induced shutdown began…
Tazewell Thompson, creator, with composer Jeanine Tesori, of Blue, which the Music Critics Association of North America has named best new opera of the year: "I wrote it from an obsessive ne…
From prosperous Germany (a €1 billion rescue package) to destitute Madagascar (distributing bags of rice to out-of-work artists), here's what ten countries are doing to mitigate the da…
Jessa Crispin: "Despite being pretty in a Getty-stock-image kind of way, and despite being a successful holistic health and beauty expert, Kristy has not yet found her fantasy husband. So sh…
"Movers & Makers sits down with Founder & Artistic Director Joan Myers Brown for an engaging discussion on how she dealt with overwhelming bias to attain success in the world of danc…
The choreographer created Immediate Tragedy in 1937 as Franco's Fascist campaign raged on. Before the COVID-19 shutdown, the Martha Graham Dance Company had been working on a reconstruction …
The town of Sligo, specifically, and the dire cholera outbreak there in 1832. Dracula author Bram Stoker's mother lived through that epidemic, and there's evidence, circumstantial but convin…
"For more than a half-century, Ms. Linklater taught vocal technique to A-list stars like Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland and Sigourney Weaver; to students at New York University, Emerson …
British researchers found that subjects could bear a painful stimulus for 33% longer by repeating the f-word than by repeating a regular or a made-up word. Why? They think (for now) that it'…
"Center Theatre Group announced on Tuesday that it would remain dark until spring 2021 to help curb the spread of COVID-19 " an unprecedented, more than 56-week closure period. The largest n…
"Opened in 1920 as a silent film nickelodeon, the movie theater would undergo several retail business incarnations in the decades that followed. … It 'reopened' in 2011 under the current o…
"The mossy and somewhat eroded form of a granite statue of the Virgin Mary and child that could date from the 14th century … was discovered 11 days ago in the Sar River on the outskirts of…
Well … "As long as there are no further pandemic-related hold-ups or lockdowns, the first parts of the complex will open on the ground floor and first floor in December, the Humboldt Forum…
New South Wales was slow to establish a fund to aid struggling arts organizations, not even announcing a plan until May 24, about 10 weeks after shutdowns began. Even as Australia begins the…
American Public Media, the Minnesota-based public radio network that produced the shows, announced the layoff of 28 employees and the immediate end of the weekly program that was heard on ro…
"The report predicts that the country's creative sector will be hit twice as hard as the wider economy in 2020, with one in five creative jobs expected to be lost. The loss could have a deva…
A tribute to the brash, quick-talking, brilliant, no-nonsense scholar, writer, colleague, and friend whom I once taught, worked with, and learned from. " Deborah Jowitt
"Could repurposed coal-mining sites in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky become an art-world destination and hub for a burgeoning arts scene? That is the ambitious proposition un…
"The police are a reflection of a society. They're not a rogue alien organization that came down to torment the black community. … [They] are, in some respects, a border patrol, and they p…
"Restoration work funded by Germany has begun on the Al-Aghawat mosque, houses are being refurbished with the aid of the European Union, and the rehabilitation of the Dominican Al-Saa'a chur…