In Germany, it's a state-by-state process: small museums in Brandenburg are reopening this week, with Thuringia next week, Saxony and Berlin in early May and the rest of the country followin…
As we know, American society and politics (especially in Congress) are very different in 2020 than they were in 1934. Even then, there was political opposition to the very idea of arts fundi…
What, the guy who wrote all those pops-concert pieces like The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock, and Sleigh Ride? Yes, says Anthony Tommasini: "Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with …
"With his fellow quartet members, he toured all over the world, specialising in works by Czech composers " many of them contemporary " and winning several prestigious prizes, including Diapa…
Considering his long, illustrious career as an art scholar and museum director, not to mention his generosity in sharing his deep insights with others (including me), I'm puzzled as to why t…
Do you consider your organization's deepest responsibility to be to art or to people? I don't mean what is your mission. Rather, in extreme instances, what is most important? If many in your…
Journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis looks into the young phenomenon's background and meteoric rise, teases out how he got to the point of selling artworks to several different clients at once,…
Dwight Garner: "With so many hours to obliterate, I've found myself turning to the experts. I've pushed away the Tootsie Roll wrappers and empty root beer cans and gathered around my bed wha…
"Although its museums have been closed since February, commercial galleries were allowed to remain open. Several have done so, some throughout the crisis, putting South Korea alongside Taiwa…
Folium, an ink with hues ranging from blue to purple that was used extensively to illuminate manuscripts, was derived from the small fruits of an unassuming weed native to southern Portugal.…
Seriously? But Merce is hard. "And yet, this is what Patricia Lent, the director of licensing at the Cunningham Trust, is proposing. In a new online series, she has been systematically break…
"Abigail Disney, an Emmy award-winning film-maker and a granddaughter of the company's co-founder Roy Disney, launched a Twitter tirade against the world's biggest entertainment group … fo…
"Attempts to remove books from libraries across the US rose almost a fifth last year, with children's books featuring LGBTQ characters making up 80% of the most challenged books," according …
Just a couple of months ago, there were articles suggesting that the streaming service may have tapped out its pool of potential customers. But, as with most things on Earth, everything chan…
"Roberto Cicutto, president of the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film festival, confirmed it would go ahead on 2 September as planned. Meanwhile, the Biennale's theatre and dance festi…
"Sound like quackery? It's not. Numerous studies … have found that both performing and listening to music can have a significant impact on the immune system" " including one review that fo…
The once-mighty, now-struggling comedy improv institution is giving up the leases to both its theater and its training center on Manhattan's West Side. Nothing about the company's Los Angele…
How often can you say that the Metropolitan Opera rocks? That happens in much of this new recording, taken from live performances of the Met's hit production. But the price of capturing that…
Critic Ben Read went looking for the source of the bizarre allegations that have had the right-wing internet in a lather for a few weeks. He found a 77-minute YouTube video about a pair of f…
David Patrick Stearns: "The carefully-curated public images of the past … have, ironically, faded away in this era of social distancing. Any exterior glamour that creates psychological dis…
Helen Shaw: "After five weeks of valiant internet productions that looked a lot like readings (even when they weren't), Buyer & Cellar" " with Michael Urie, live from his living room, hi…
"No one in live comedy is thrilled about moving shows online. 'Doing standup without an audience is like sex without an orgasm,' quipped Felicia Madison, the booker for West Side Comedy Club…
"Less than a month after canceling its spring season because of the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Ballet is back with a six-week slate of online programming. The company announced on M…
In addition to performing and recording a great deal of early keyboard repertoire, he prepared and published a new edition of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, became the first North America…
This is especially true at (now-online) universities, reports Emma Pettit, for students and professors alike. And as professors find themselves unable to focus on the reading they need to do…