"Payroll reductions of 35% in the aggregate will include the layoffs of 94 part-time employees and pay cuts of more than 35% for the leadership team, the orchestra said. Orchestra members wi…
"A wide variety of non-profit organizations can apply for a share of the money, including 'arts organizations, local arts agencies, statewide assemblies of local arts agencies, arts service …
Two pots of hot tar took flame at an entrance to the old palace that's being rebuilt to house the ethnographic collections of Berlin's various museums. The incident sent black smoke through …
Iván Fischer, who founded the ensemble and led it to become one of the most admired in the world today, has been a vocal critic of the increasingly autocratic rule of Hungary's prime mini…
"Disney has taken an especially hard hit from the pandemic, with its theme parks shuttered, movies postponed and ESPN cable channel without live sports to televise. But the company on Wednes…
"The French antitrust agency gave the Alphabet Inc. unit three months to thrash out deals with press publishers and agencies demanding talks on how to remunerate them for displaying their co…
"So far, nothing has approached the embarrassment factor of the quarantine meditations from Madonna's bathtub. But is this classical music's brave new world? A temporary novelty? A dead end?…
The first wife of Fort Worth oil billionaire Sid Bass, she ultimately "became one of New York's most respected philanthropists, supporting, in large but unflashy ways, the New York Botanical…
"Even though the [Broadway] League has extended the shut down, many Broadway insiders don't expect performances to resume until July at the earliest, with some predicting that theaters will …
This Mahler 8th arrives some four years after the live performances, and it signals not only a high-water mark in Nézet-Séguin's relationship with the orchestra but a certain evolution in …
Too much of museums' existing online content, now being repurposed, reminds me of "park and bark" " the great opera stars of yesteryear, standing stock-still at center stage and belting out …
"To their legions of fans, the groups give voice to the bilingual vernacular of a multicultural city, marinated by its past French and British rulers, the forces of globalization and success…
At the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland, conservators working to preserve the remains of an ancient priestess or noblewoman named Ta-Kr-Hb opened her sarcophagus and found two painti…
Last week it was one by Yvonne Rainer. This week it's Trisha Brown's 1971 Roof Piece, in which "dancers scattered themselves across the roofs of SoHo and played a dance version of the game T…
"[The series is] the latest and most acute iteration of a Netflix trend toward extreme storytelling; the more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better. The point is virality " content …
The Australia Council for the Arts' four-year funding program for 2021-24 has reduced the number of organizations included by a quarter, from 128 to 95, and has cut the planned grants for th…
The announcement of this year's awards had been scheduled for April 20, but, as administrator Dana Canedy said in a statement, "The Pulitzer board includes many high-level journalists who ar…
"The deal [with the musicians' union] includes immediate pay cuts until early September, a wage freeze and a delayed pay increase and extends the current contract for a year, to 2024, accord…
"In a bold attempt to salvage its shows, the festival … has decided to develop, rehearse, and record all seven of its planned productions and release them in audio form on Audible … [wit…
"The Philharmonic dismissed the players " its principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey " in September 2018. Both men denied wrongdoing, and the players' …
"London's theatres first shuttered their doors on March 16 in the wake of the escalating coronavirus pandemic. The mass closures, in an effort to curb the spread of the virus, mirrored those…
"A onetime Army mechanic and mail carrier who wrote songs rooted in the experiences of lower-middle-class life, Mr. Prine rose to prominence almost by accident. He was at a Chicago folk club…
Journalist Lorraine Boissoneault looks into the effort " using classroom lessons, software, and the memory of one of five native speakers left " to revive and teach the Menominee language of…
Recent thefts of van Gogh and van Dyck paintings indicate that the answer is no. "Alarm systems and uniformed guards are still in place, of course, and the sale of museum-famous stolen art h…
Says the Head of Performance Health at Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, "They've been using everything from bench tops, to tables to ironing boards as well as ballet barres, and practicing on …