Italian Museums And Historic Sites Begin To Reopen
Among the venues receiving the public this week are the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, and the Duomo in Florence " each with its own limits on visitor traffic, b…
Among the venues receiving the public this week are the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, and the Duomo in Florence " each with its own limits on visitor traffic, b…
Time and again while listening to the new recording of David Hertzberg's opera, I asked myself, What zeitgeist did this arrive from? What cultural phenomenon contributed to why it was writte…
"It behooves us to spend some time considering how we might prepare not just for a new financial reality but for a new social one. It will be important to be and be seen as partners in makin…
The 3,600-year-old, 6×5-inch clay fragment contains the section from the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the hero recounts his dreams to his mother. The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security seized…
Beth Morrison and her company have produced dozens of new operas and music-theater works since they launched in 2005, including such prize-winning, audience-thrilling pieces as Missy Mazzoli…
"[A new course at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts] pairs students with professional technologists and artists to explore questions about the future of live performance and tec…
"A Spanish court has dismissed an appeal from a psychic who claimed to be Salvador DalÃ's long-lost daughter after DNA results debunked the outlandish theory. Pilar Abel has been ordered …
In recent years Chinese developers have been putting up, and opening to buyers and renters, reproductions of such attractions as an English village, a lakeside Austrian town, and a Paris nei…
"In Venice, a city famous for being visited by too many and home to too few, … [locals] hope the crisis has also provided an opportunity to reimagine one of the world's most fragile cities…
The company, which performs in Fort Worth and Dallas, is reducing its total budget from $10.8 million to $8.5 million, reducing dancer and staff pay on a scale from 5% to 20%, changing dance…
"Executive director Mark Masuoka resigned from his position effective immediately after seven years leading the Ohio institution. The news came less than three weeks after ARTnews published …
At the State Theater of Hesse in Wiesbaden, bass Günther Groissböck and pianist Alexandra Goloubitskaia gave a recital of Schubert and Mahler before about 200 people in a 1,000-seat audito…
Here's a look at the safety measures which the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has put in place for receiving visitors beginning this Saturday. The San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts is following …
"The corporation is actively exploring reviving the broadcast channel, four years after it was taken online-only, … after enjoying a run of hits " from Fleabag [and Killing Eve] to lockdow…
One of the most controversial acts in the ever-controversial life of Dmitri Shostakovich was his tortured decision in 1960 to join the Communist Party. It is not mentioned in Testimony (1979…
"Long ago, both jobs and respect were hard to come by for choreographers and dancers. This was especially true for women of color, as well as for modern dance. Respect went more easily towar…
The moisture that comes out of singers' mouths and into the air that their fellow singers are breathing seems to be a very efficient way of transmitting coronavirus, as several cases of mult…
"Youths see [in speculative fiction] examples of young people grappling with serious social, economic, and political issues that are timely and relevant, but in settings or times that offer …
Violinist Jennifer Koh has been commissioning more than 40 pieces for herself to play unaccompanied on her weekly Facebook Live show. So are other musicians and organizations, from the New J…
"For about 10 years, between the era of Shirley Temple in the 1930s and before Jerry Mathers appeared on TV's Leave It to Beaver in the late 1950s, Joel Kupperman may have been the most famo…
"Digital juggernaut Pornhub has offered itself as a streaming partner to Germany's Oldenburg Film Festival, a 26-year-old indie movie event known for edgy programming and quirky celebrity tr…
"Even when he was a big name, Piccoli was never too proud to play small supporting roles or even bit parts if he liked the screenplay. But whatever the size of the role, whether playing a go…
On the 1910 version of the painting, housed at the Munch Museum in Oslo, the cadmium yellow in the sky and the lake has been fading to off-white and flaking off for years, with light believe…
"North Texas arts organizations tuned in eagerly at 2 p.m. Monday to hear Gov. Greg Abbott's address regarding 'Phase Two' of the effort to reopen the state's economy, which, they thought, w…
"Despite being well-managed, well governed, and " crucially " able to operate without public subsidy," says the statement, "we will not be able to survive this crisis," the coronavirus epide…