Michael Andor Brodeur: "Lately, my social media feeds are filled with musical experiments that take a head-on approach to the current crisis, or works composed before the outbreak that reson…
"Mr. Ales was one of [Berry] Gordy's most indispensable executives throughout the 1960s, when Motown became a ubiquitous force in American pop culture and a prime symbol of black enterprise …
"The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project … has found an uptick in posts on Facebook groups involved in buying and selling looted objects from the Mid…
"The proposed addition of hand-washing stations and health screening areas means that theatre lobbies will have to grow. The whole theatre building will have to grow, in fact. If social dist…
AMC has announced that, in both its U.S. outlets and its Odeon Cinemas abroad, "it will refuse to show movies released by Hollywood studio Universal. The latter had just declared it would co…
"For every private development project of $500,000 or more in the city of Los Angeles, the developer must pay an arts fee to the city based on the square footage of the building or a percent…
"The salaries of 89 senior-level executives " all nonfederal employees " will be cut by 10 percent for 12 months, starting May 24, with Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III and Deputy S…
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Alaska "cited 'sexually explicit material' and "anti-white' messaging' in [Maya Angelou's] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, … [and] languag…
"South Korea, which has a burgeoning theatre economy with a size and scale to rival the West End, has become the big player in Asia. … Its theatres were given the choice, rather than deman…
"The Brooklyn-based artists and designers behind MSCHF purchased a $30,000 Damien Hirst spot print and cut out all 88 of its dots. Starting today, they're selling the dots for $480 each." (T…
The albums released by London-based Electric Recording Co., "assembled by hand and released in editions of 300 or fewer " at a cost of $400 to $600 for each LP " are made with restored vinta…
"An iconic yet tortured female painter. A mistress wrapped up in a witch hunt in an early American colony. A talented cellist whose life ended prematurely after her battle with multiple scle…
"With many staffers on furlough, and operations grinding to a halt, fundraising efforts (and a boost of morale) can be more important than ever. And while there's some debate over how well s…
"The Barrington Stage Company, … responding to the coronavirus pandemic, will give up the ambitious musical productions for which it is known (it's the birthplace of The 25th Annual Putnam…
After an unsatisfying early career in Indian TV serials and films (his acting was too subtle and his looks too unconventional for a traditional Bollywood lead), he found acclaim in the Briti…
"During a meeting on Tuesday, the [Academy's] board of governors approved a temporary hold on the requirement that a film needs a seven-day theatrical run in a commercial theater in Los Ange…
With both the timing and the conditions of the return of live performances uncertain, organizations are considering numerous possibilities, from outdoor shows (free or ticketed) with spectat…
Yes, she's been dead for 34 years. She started writing the book, titled The Inseparables and based on her best friend (who died at 21), in 1954, the year she won the Prix Goncourt for The Ma…
"Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Harrell performed as a soloist with just about every major orchestra in the U.S. and Europe. Within the classical music world, Harrell was also w…
He was part of the first generation of American musicians to work seriously on the revival of historical keyboard instruments and their repertoire. He used the Institution's instrument colle…
"Bookshop launched in January with the intention of offering independent bookstores an improved online commerce hub that will help them woo customers away from Amazon. … The site has seen …
Robert Garland, the company's resident choreographer and director of its school, "for all of his talent, is still one of the most underused choreographers working today, which is odd in a ti…
His name was Vicente Lusitano, he was son of a Portuguese father and African mother, he worked in Italy and (later) Germany, and his first book of motets contains daring chromaticism and dis…
"The governor proclaimed that all retail outlets, as well as restaurants, movie theaters, museums and libraries, are free to reopen May 1 " but with occupancy no greater than 25%. That's exp…
"[Archaeologists'] study of the three oldest stone enclosures at Göbekli Tepe" " a site in present-day Turkey whose monoliths are thought to be 11,500 years old " "has revealed a hidden geo…