In places such as Georgia (the first state to reopen), Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah, independent cinemas are operating again. (The chains are staying closed for now.) Yet attendance is g…
"Archaeologists were astonished by the find as it came almost a century after the remains of a villa, believed to date to the 3rd century AD, were unearthed in a hilly area above the town of…
"[The] Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom plan to open again on July 11, while Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios will resume business on July 15. SeaWorld, meanwhile, will reopen to the pub…
Charles McNulty: "Stuck indoors with little to distract us from the bewilderment of our metaphysical predicament, we are like one of his immobilized characters, not scrunched into trash cans…
"The July 18 attack on Kyoto Animation, a famed anime studio that produced popular 'slice of life' shows and movies," killed 36 people and was the worst mass murder in Japan in decades. "Off…
"A cache of 2,400 letters between the poet and his long-time lover and muse, Monica Jones, … reveal[s] the full extent of her fury, fears and frustrations over a painful four-decade-long p…
At least two-thirds of eligible employees have signed authorization cards to request that the National Labor Relations Board oversee a union election, according to organizers. The union at t…
Saying "I do not think that making everything safe for the audience " although that is important " and leaving the the people on stage to be epidemiological guinea pigs is the right answer,"…
"For the past two months, he has experimented with making dances using Zoom and Final Cut Pro. Four of these short works will premiere on 'Dance On!,' to be shown on the Mark Morris Dance Gr…
A staff conductor at the Met for 21 years, Revzen served as artistic director of Arizona Opera (2003-2012) and Berkshire Opera (1991-2005) and was, from 2012, the founding artistic director …
The piece, titled Game Changer and showing a boy leaving his other superhero action figures behind for one of a nurse, had been in Southampton General Hospital in England for all of two days…
"A New York Times/Siena College Research Institute poll, administered [last week], sought to gauge how soon New Yorkers would be comfortable attending live performances like Broadway shows. …
No specific program has been announced yet, but "look for some combination of performances presented online, outside, or in other ways that maintain social distance. The festival will contin…
That's the grim figure that the Milan opera house's new superintendent, Dominique Meyer, will present to its board of directors on Thursday. Under the law that Italy's parliament passed last…
"[He] devoted his career to studying how some of the fundamental elements of art could be manipulated to create perceptual effects. His experiments with color led him to make paintings of ge…
The broad cupolas in Italian churches of the era were constructed by laying bricks in a "complex cross-herringbone spiraling pattern" called a double loxodrome, according to a team of engine…
"For decades, [the piece] seemed, to Mr. Glass's circle, to exist only as fragments in his archive. Then the final manuscript for Music in Eight Parts resurfaced near the end of 2017. … No…
Carmina Burana. Bolero. Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel. Even The Rite of Spring. They're good pieces, they work for dance, and audiences are familiar with them. "Still, many choreographers …
"[He] came from a family of griots, the dynastic West African musicians whose songs carry news and chronicle history. Steeped in those traditions, he electrified the kora, the traditional gr…
"Booksellers around the country say they're experiencing 'Christmas' levels of demand post-lockdown, as many readers have sworn off shopping offshore following the Covid-19 crisis, which cla…
"Bucking the trend of the vast majority of international festivals and opera companies that have been forced to shutter due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Salzburg Festival announced today…
"Hyperallergic reached out to several art schools in California to see how they are planning to address the need for social distancing while maintaining the integrity of their arts curriculu…
"The UK's largest arts and cultural organisation, the Southbank Centre, has warned that it will have used up its financial reserves by September, forcing its closure until April 2021 unless …
The controversial documentary " produced by Moore, directed by Jeff Gibbs, criticized by many mainstream scientists, and championed by parts of the far right " incorporates a clip from the p…
Some time ago, I wrote on Rifftides, "The Czech Frantisek UhliÅ™ is one of the greatest bassists in the world." Leading his septet on his new release, Story of my life, he is as powerful …