The money was to go toward developing a Carpathian "heritage" trail" in Poland's Podkarpackie region. After a local activist brought to funders' attention a resolution passed by the regional…
What makes washtubs sound best? How about coffee cans? For the answers, check out Lou Harrison's instructions for his Concerto for Violin and Percussion. So far as I am aware, it is the most…
"As they announce plans for the spring and summer " mostly digital, garnished with a little outdoors and in-person " many New York dance presenters spoke in recent interviews about what they…
In fact, he was a very promising art student, excelling at plants in particular, but a professor who worried that he couldn't support himself as an artist suggested he go into botany " and t…
Alisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the Turkic literary language used all over Central…
"The museum tells a chronological story of Black music starting in the 1600s through present day and framed around major cultural movements including the music and instruments brought by Afr…
"Many workers regarded it as a positive step this summer when numerous leading institutions released detailed diversity, equity, and inclusion issues (DEI) plans. But more than six months la…
"A Bosnian-born guitarist and accordionist, [she] brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic [Jewish] ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American audiences through pe…
"Louis Aliot, the right-wing mayor of Perpignan, a city in the south of France, will let four museums begin welcoming visitors once more, effectively disobeying countrywide COVID-19 safety g…
"The Frick Collection will open in the Breuer building as the Frick Madison on March 18, the museum announced on Tuesday, beginning a two-year stay in the Brutalist space while its 1914 Gild…
Social distancing is easier outdoors and there's more air circulation, not to mention the fact that, as one director puts it, "Outdoor arts is more accessible because it's in democratic open…
"Paramount has a screenplay for a new movie, according to court papers. But Alan Schwartz, Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, has been shopping a television series, and has gotten …
"The J. Paul Getty Trust initiated the fund, to be officially announced Tuesday, and the California Community Foundation is administering it. Struggling arts organizations with an annual ope…
He wrote the screenplays for a remarkable number of important films: Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, and That Obscure Object of Desire; The Tin Drum; T…
"In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine and August von Platen, which amused and disgus…
In the network's motion to dismiss the voting company's defamation lawsuit " which alleges that Fox News and three of its hosts knowingly spread a false conspiracy theory that Smartmatic's t…
Once the AAMD, looking at the financial carnage wrought by COVID, relaxed its strict rule about museums selling their art only in order to acquire other art, the sales started " with major m…
Her project, called Rising Sun Music, "is a series of newly recorded works written by black composers " including many works that have never been recorded before " performed by Downes with g…
"[She] remains best known for her breakthrough 1994 feature The Silences of the Palace, a lyrical study of a woman's return to an abandoned royal residence, which tackled the themes of explo…
The Louvre Conservation Center, located in Liévin (20 miles or so southwest of Lille), "has six storage areas, including dry, low-humidity areas for metalworks, a photography studio, worksh…
"By one count, Broadway is directly responsible for nearly 100,000 jobs in New York City alone and, as a leading attraction for people who travel to the city, it has an economic impact of ne…
"'There will be no blackface, or yellowface,' [Paris Opera artistic director Alexander] Neef told reporters, but works like La Bayadère and The Nutcracker would remain, with possible furthe…
And, given the notorious personal relationship between the two men, it's no surprise that their plans are entirely separate. Governor Cuomo's scheme, called NY PopsUp, will consist of 300 fr…
"This marks the second chapter of the so-called 'Neustart Kultur' program (New Start Culture), which was first launched last July with a bailout of €1 billion dispersed across cultural…
The president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music speaks about the school's historic acquisition of Opus 3 Artists. " Aaron Dworkin