Art Basel 2020 Postponed But Not Cancelled
"Art Basel has now moved its Swiss edition " which regularly convenes nearly 300 galleries and is considered to be among the biggest art events each year " to run from September 17"20, with …
"Art Basel has now moved its Swiss edition " which regularly convenes nearly 300 galleries and is considered to be among the biggest art events each year " to run from September 17"20, with …
"The employees who are to be paid and receive benefits through the dark season include the dancers, musicians, stagehands, costume designers, security personnel, ushers and administrators. â…
Said festival founder Martin T. Engstroem, "There were far too many uncertainties. Our audience and our musicians come from all over the world with a large population mix. We could not take …
"Dance curators do a lot more than program a season. They spot raw talent, develop and shape careers, identify trends and create context around what they are presenting. But what does it tak…
Bret Stephens pays tribute to Annette Nancarrow (the composer Conlon was the third of her four husbands), a genteel, well-to-do Manhattan Jewish girl who ran off to Mexico City, became besti…
"Book festival Wordplay, originally slated to take place in Minneapolis in May, will now happen virtually in April and May in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All of the original 100+ part…
"First, you should know that neither group is on the brink of institutional disaster. The Playhouse has $10 million more to raise [out of almost $50 million] before the fall. The ballet's pr…
"[Online conference calls] come with problems " technical, cultural, and practical. And a lot of the challenges we have with [them] come down to the many small quirks of the internet. … De…
"Since March 16, the [Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale's] four ensembles have been hosting nine Zoom rehearsals every week, while its sister organization, Philadelphia Girls Choir, is run…
"The opera company's drivers have been using their cabs to help deliver food to Tesco stores in Scotland, as supermarkets face unprecedented demand from shoppers during the coronavirus crisi…
Yes, 50 billion-with-a-b. The package, which covers both small enterprises and the self-employed, "will come in the form grants designed to help with overhead costs like venue rentals and ar…
"Arguably the most widely read film critic in the town most associated with the making of movies, … Turan is known as a soft-spoken gentleman … in a [city] filled with brash and attentio…
"We are deeply troubled by the far-reaching repercussions of [the school's closure]," wrote the students to the dean, "which has … severely curtailed the viability of the unrivaled visual …
"Earlier this month, the theater industry announced that Broadway venues would go dark through April 12, and as the pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, that date is expected to be pushed…
At a moment when museums around the country are shattered, shuttered and bracing for hard times, what could be more shockingly tone-deaf than Holland Cotter's 3,000-word "manifesto"? " Lee R…
I am ecstatic to report that I just got off the phone with Mrs. T. It was, of course, a one-way conversation, since she's intubated, but her nurse informed me that she is now fully conscious…
To find out, you have to go back 102 years to the 1918 influenza epidemic. "Even when people knew in advance the closures were imminent and that deaths were surging, they didn't relinquish t…
Laura Cappelle has plenty of good things in her profile as well, but yes, this happened: "In a matter of seconds, Huppert is on her feet and walks away from me, manifestly irked. 'Listen, he…
"Art spaces … are doing their part to meet the needs of medical professionals, packing up crates of gloves typically used to protect artworks from oil and dust on the hands of those touchi…
"The [American Library Association] urged the FCC to waive E-rate restrictions so libraries could not only offer [free] Wi-Fi access via local libraries, but could also provide broadband ser…
Brian Seibert: "She calls it Passing and Jostling While Being Confined to a Small Apartment. It's a dance history exercise [for Seibert's class at Yale], but it occurred to me that it might …
"Born colorblind and with six fingers on each hand, [he] became one of the world's most acclaimed cartoonists, known for drawing characters that ranged from the sword-wielding Astérix " wit…
Zach Finkelstein does not sugar-coat the situation: "The tragic irony of this crisis is that, in the post-COVID era, the person most likely to have a performance career will be the one that …
The nearly 150-year-old school, which counts Ansel Adams, Richard Diebenkorn, and Dorothea Lange as former faculty, says that it can't continue to operate in the near term unless it joins a …
"After spending about $4.5 million that can't be recovered, [the] Festival now must cope with a projected $756,000 deficit for 2020. (It did manage to avoid spending another $4.5 million tha…