"A Border Force officer at Heathrow Airport discovered the hundreds of clay figurines, pots, and tablets covered in cuneiform script in a pair of metal trunks last July. Intercepted en route…
"In partnership with the Los Angeles Times and Vice News, This American Life won for an episode called 'The Out Crowd' " which illuminated the personal impact of the Trump Administration's '…
"[Festival management] had previously cancelled all performances up to and including July 14, but the festival was due to continue until August 30. A virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open Hous…
Sotheby's new leaders, who took the publicly traded company private, are understandably eager to reopen their New York saleroom for post-pandemic business. Having disclosed a $71.2-million n…
"The jury said Knight's work demonstrated 'extraordinary community service by a critic' through the application of 'his expertise and enterprise to critique a proposed overhaul of the L.A. C…
The point of the exercise is to wean the young artist off result-oriented copying from photos. 'Taking the line for a walk' lets the drawing come about in the process of drawing. " Jan Herman
The dictionary defines equation as "the act of making equal." In his engrossing new solo album, pianist Matthew Shipp creates eleven new pieces of music in which the equality of his powerful…
Yes, the COVID lockdown has deprived most museums of nearly all their income, which is why the Association of Art Museum Directors has given qualified approval for members to "use the procee…
We learned a lot of things about Singin' in the Rain during the Lockdown Theatre Club group watch. Here are 20 of them " from dubbing the dubbers to Gene Kelly's buttock-framing trousers. " …
Reacting to a scene partner's body language and expressions is an integral part of learning how to act. Zoom, clearly, isn't optimal in that department. But … students were finding ways to…
Movie theaters in Norway will reopen on May 7 with a mandatory minimum of one meter of space between each audience member and no more than 50 patrons total in any one space. (These rules fol…
"The primary lesson of plague literature, from Thucydides onwards, is how predictably humans respond to such crises. Over millennia, there has been a consistent pattern to behaviour during e…
"Since its release in 2017, TikTok has become a wildly popular global platform for dance, especially among teens, with tools that make it easy to film yourself dancing to music, integrate sp…
"The performers … feel abandoned by the Met. … The sense of drift has been compounded by what musicians call a lack of communication and leadership from the Met's management. Music direc…
The offerings, open only to subscribers, include a "virtual reading" of a new adaptation of Chekhov's Seagull (available May 14-27); a radio-play version of Arthur Miller's The American Cloc…
"In 1967,[he] wrote a lasting page in art history when, as a 27-year-old curator in Genoa, he mounted an exhibition of five young Italian artists making provisional assemblages of humble mat…
"The Forbidden City, past home to China's emperors, is allowing just 5,000 visitors daily, down from 80,000. And parks are allowing people to visit at 30% of the usual capacity. … Large-sc…
"Facing his own burgeoning budget problems, Gov. Tom Wolf has directed some state agencies to rescind grant money previously awarded to arts groups. The decision surfaced Monday when numerou…
When I visited dish-besotted Bill Stern in his apartment in Los Angeles, we would make tea for breakfast in a gray pot designed in the 1960s by Edith Heath. At some aha moment, Bill decided …
My beloved Hilary died a month ago tonight. I could not begin to thank enough people for saving my life, which is what all of you did by reaching out to me, generously and unhesitatingly. " …
He was a renowned expert on American Impressionism and 19th-century American still-life painting as well as author of more than 20 books on American art, notably his three-volume Art Across …
Kate Craddock, founder and director of the Gateshead International Festival of Theatre in northeastern England, "is keen to point out this isn't just about taking a stash of pre-recorded wor…
Given the scale of the national crisis facing all sectors of the economy in the months and years to come, the pandemic is a historic disruption that represents an existential crisis. What to…
Sarah Kaufman: "They can serve as guardian angels of the evening, controlling the musical universe and its atmosphere, smoothing over mishaps and delivering well-timed thunderbolts with a wa…
"The hosts [of the radio show A Way with Words], Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, are the Click and Clack of word talk. Barnette is a writer who has studied Latin and Greek (her books incl…