Just a few days after a letter, written by 30 prominent poets and now co-signed by roughly 2,100 people, called for the resignation of the $250 million foundation's president and board chair…
The memorial to the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Paris rock club was painted at the venue in 2018 and was stolen by thieves using angle grinders the following year. French and…
"The vast majority of the 349 recipient groups from the 2020 fiscal year are small, their audiences mostly neighborhood audiences who often see themselves reflected on the stages or in the g…
The long-running cartoon series was given the Peabodys' Institutional Award along with (less of a surprise here) the PBS documentary series Frontline, while actor Cicely Tyson, 95, receives …
"Just as the coronavirus crisis has stimulated a surge of digital theatre on our screens, it has also sparked a wave of theatre via our headphones, the latest, unexpected development in an a…
Peter J. Kuo of ACT: "With the ability to gather in person on freeze, many of us in the theatre industry collectively held our breaths, waiting to exhale. Now, we find ourselves gasping for …
"[The orchestra's] 2,854-seat Musikverein, considered by many the world's most beautiful concert hall, was filled with only 100 people Friday for the first of three days of programs with Dan…
"A world-class saxophonist with a big sound, a big presence and a capricious improviser's imagination, [he] sometimes seemed more at home playing pub gigs in his Croydon birthplace than chas…
My essay, "To What End Permanence?," seeks to get beyond the question of economic solvency to examine other signs that it may be time to shut a thing down and other motivations for closing. …
After initially resisting the resisters' demands that it halt its production of napalm, Dow stopped making it in 1969. Now Warren Kanders, who resigned under political pressure last July fro…
"The limitations of relaying opera from stage to online are subtle. It's the difference between an experience that's mesmerizing and one that's merely impressive." David Patrick Stearns cons…
Teotihuacán, which had a population of around 100,000 at its height circa 500 CE, seems to have had no system of writing and left behind no known written records. But musical instruments …
"[He] was 'an antique guy in a modern world,' appearing in a derby and vest and performing illusions from the vaudeville era: classic tricks with steel rings or handkerchief, dividing an ass…
The museum, one of Southern California's leading venues for photo exhibitions, had been closed for three months because of the coronavirus lockdown and was unsure when, and under what rules,…
Affirming warnings it gave last week, the world's largest movie theater chain reported that it lost $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020, a period that saw the beginning of the coronavi…
"The Red Lion is thought to have been built around 1567 and probably played host to travelling groups of players. … Archaeologists are as certain as they can be that they have found its re…
"More than 1,800 people have signed on to an open letter criticizing the Poetry Foundation's response to the protests sweeping the United States, pledging not to work with the organization u…
The Electric Slide in Harlem and the Cupid Shuffle in Newark; the bomba in Puerto Rico and voguing in Chicago; Ojibwe and Nuhua dances in Minneapolis and haka in New Zealand " those are just…
"Frontline booksellers are the first people customers see when they set foot in bookstores across America. They also do physically demanding work, from carrying heavy boxes to shelving thous…
"Half of all music venues and 70% of theatres across the UK face permanent closure as a result of the coronavirus crisis, industry leaders have told a committee of MPs." Testified one exec, …
Long ago Barry Hessenius charged us to move from thinking of the pursuit of equity as a "issue" to making it an obsession. So, if "doing" is where we go now, what does the doing look like? "…
"To mark his farewell, Mad's 'Usual Gang of Idiots' will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be the magazine's final regular issue to offer new material, including Jaffee's…
"Long was the right man at the right time in 1957, when he came to Houston to establish Meredith Long & Co. With less than a million residents then, the city had two art museums, three g…
"Museum exhibitions take an exceptional amount of planning " from curatorial conception to filling out loan forms and insurance, to shipping, hanging, and displaying works. Getting a show on…
As the novel coronavirus spread, the machinery of live classical performance ground to a halt months ago, putting thousands out of work; the industry will be one of the last to return to ful…