Tim Schneider: "An art market justifiably paranoid about frequent international travel is an art market incentivized to fracture into regional and local interests. Short distances won't just…
Jason Boog recounts how his experience as a (non-)working writer during the Great Recession moved him to rediscover the story of the publishing industry's first strike. " Literary Hub
Gov. Brian Kemp has said that cinemas in the Peach State may begin welcoming customers again beginning April 27. People actually in the business of showing movies say there's no way things c…
"For Roosevelt, it was not superfluous to the country's most exigent needs. And in a move that remained decidedly controversial with his conservative congressional adversaries, he made the r…
As a generation of jazz elders leaves our world " some hastened by the pandemic " their faces as photographed by Sánta István Csaba become even more luminous, haunting, iconic. " Howar…
Pina Bausch's work has been a delight and compulsion throughout my theatregoing lifetime. I've seen every piece I can, several of them more than once. And it turns out I've written quite a b…
Of course, I had to grow, pluck my own and juice them. I even bit one on the vine like an animal " I am an animal " and sucked and chewed, thinking of another writer who acted on the same im…
Alexis Soloski got texts from Romeo (who's a bit of a jerk), helped someone held hostage in Venezuela undo handcuffs, failed to help a pilot land a 747, told an inspector for the Misplaced K…
"Posing in her most glamorous handmade outfits, ArtActivistBarbie has been calling into question the representation of women on gallery walls" " the blonde doll is photographed in front of a…
Artistic director Oskar Eustis said that "there's no way we can responsibly prepare, build and rehearse to get shows open in a timing that might match the quarantine's timing." 70% of full-t…
"Standing 6-foot-3, Mr. Dennehy had a booming voice and an often intimidating screen presence. … [He] was celebrated for his work as a character actor in Hollywood and on television, where…
With demand for its content soaring as people are self-isolating due to COVID, the streaming giant's total market value on Wall Street has risen to $196 billion. Meanwhile, with demand for i…
"[WBUR in Boston] had planned to return to a full eight-day campaign in 2020, after doing a marathon-themed 26.2-hour version for the past few years. … Months of planning for the original …
"In many ways, we'll have to start from scratch. So why not learn from this moment and rebuild our community on a stronger foundation? Why not use this opportunity to enact the desires, the …
"It's bizarre to be this busy and not presenting music," said an official at one festival; "We've had to unravel a pretty huge ball of yarn while transitioning to working remotely," said ano…
If you don't want to be a covidiot, spend some of your quatorzaine at home boning up on the new words about Miss Rona, from the Chinese tagline for social distancing to the German term for s…
"Bach is undoubtedly music's supreme companion of extreme distress. … But, on the plane to D.C. that night, Bach would have been too raw, too dire. With Brahms, everything passes through l…
"In one of the strangest art controversies in recent memory, a group of right-wing internet users and blogs have begun targeting Marina Abramović, accusing her of being involved in a Sat…
Every year since the mid-17th century, when a freak snowstorm stopped the shogun's enforcer and saved them from a death sentence, the people of the mountain hamlet of Damine have performed a…
Earlier this month, with the Netherlands under COVID lockdown, raiders broke into a small museum and took van Gogh's Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring. Writer Daniel Dumas talks to two ex…
"An exemplar of modern jazz improvisation, and arguably the most influential alto saxophone soloist after bebop progenitor Charlie Parker, … Konitz was one of the last jazz musicians of hi…
In the Ohio University School of Dance program, "students can specialize in specific populations, such as seniors or children in schools. The program aims to prepare grads for a range of car…
"Nothing will happen until jurisdictions relax regulations that currently don't allow gatherings of 20 or more people. Anticipating that will happen in a month or two, here are some of the k…
"To get one example of all that goes into self-producing a show, we asked dancemaker DeAnna Pellecchia of KAIROS Dance Theater to break down the finances of her company's most recent full-le…
A musicologist named Remo Giazotto wrote a monograph on Albinoni in which he claimed to have discovered manuscript fragments by the Venetian Baroque composer, fragments from which he reconst…