"[He was] one of the four founders of Visual AIDS and an organizer of the first Day Without Art … [and] his nearly four-decade career in museums included tenures at the Grey Art Gallery at…
"This rural compound in India's southern tip is one of the few places where professional dancers can still do what the rest of the performing arts world can only dream about. At Nrityagram, …
Here's an ingenious 45-minute film by Behrouz Jamali that revealingly juxtaposes the music Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky wrote in response to World War II. The video artist Peter B…
"[He] rose to national prominence on a barrage of one-line jokes and sly ethnic humor, with his Jewish background and [wife/partner Anne] Meara's Irish Catholic heritage forming a comic moti…
"A former principal dancer for Martha Graham, Ms. Erdman first came to wide notice as a choreographer in the 1940s, and she remained in the vanguard of the field for decades. She later creat…
With Miguel Harth-Bedoya stepping down after 20 "transformational" years, Tim Diovanni talks to musicians and observers about potential successors and finds that there is, as yet, no clear f…
"In a kid's world, cooties and other similar contagions may not be real " but they're deadly serious. The North American children's lore of cooties is 'a social contaminant that pass[es] fro…
"[Worldwide Ballet Class] stands out for offering dancers of all levels the opportunity to take open company class alongside professional dancers, six days a week … taught by the likes of …
"Officials from Egypt's antiquities ministry recently announced that [four] ram-headed sphinxes had been taken from the Karnak temple in Luxor to the capital's busy traffic roundabout, where…
Some, like A24 and Sony Pictures Classics, are sticking with the existing theater-first model and waiting the COVID lockdown out; says a top Sony exec, "Without theatrical, the business disa…
"Since mid-March more than 70,000 extra creators have joined Patreon, which allows fans to give monthly payments to artists in exchange for exclusive content or simply out of a desire to sup…
Kara Swisher: "I am not trying to be glib here, because solving the problem of how to deal with speech across the largest and most unwieldy communications platform in human history … may b…
A 5.4 magnitude temblor hit the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in late March. "Over 80% of [the city's] museums are in buildings that date from before the Second World War and most of them have r…
One gallery owner said, "Art is so important. We're more important than other businesses. I want to be taken seriously." Another said, "We refuse to die here in the tunnel. We're pushing thr…
"The 'nominal' payment will apply to all the productions the National has been streaming on YouTube since early April. The venue said it was up to the artists whether they chose to accept it…
"[Maria Forteza's documentary] Mallorca, an eight-minute, black-and-white sweep across the Balearic island inspired by the music of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, was donated to the na…
"Although [Steve] Paxton is credited with inventing, or initiating CI, it was Stark Smith who became the chief educator and organizer. … Whether springing up out of the floor or boomerangi…
Years of preparation " conservation, research and catalog writing, loan negotiations, insurance, shipping arrangements, and more " went into the big Van Eyck show that opened in February in …
"Performances in front of an audience are still out of the question for now. But on May 18, Austria will become one of the first countries on the continent where theater troupes can return t…
Durante Verzola, isolating with his family in Kansas City, has set on four dancers in Miami City Ballet a new piece titled A Dance for Heroes, commissioned by MCB artistic director Lourdes L…
"Formed in 1970 by Mr. Schneider and Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk was credited with bringing synthesizers, drum machines, preprogrammed tapes and sequences to the fore, developing a sonic templat…
"As dancers, we are taught to problem solve in real-time, so it came as no surprise when," once the coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of almost all live dance, "streamed performan…
Peter Florence: "In the last three weeks we've reshaped the programme we'd been planning for the last 18 months into just 80 online events and we've been experimenting with tech platforms to…
Two international operations culminated last fall in the arrest of 101 suspects and seizure of trafficked objects in Spain, Argentina, Latvia, and Afghanistan. Among the items were ancient c…
On top of the obvious difficulties of staging a televised ceremony to promote Broadway shows when theaters are closed until god-knows-when, there may be no fair way, at this point, to vote f…