"Deborah Dugan, who took over as Recording Academy president/CEO on Aug. 1, has been placed on administrative leave just over a week before the 2020 Grammy Awards due to 'serious concerns' b…
"Gov. Larry Hogan has asked the Maryland General Assembly to rescind a promised $1.6 million for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra " the second time in two years the governor has attempted to…
"A basketball-player-size wooden idol that allegedly escaped destruction by the Spanish conquistadors is real " but it may not be quite what people suspected. The statue is even older than t…
While his father was alive, he drew many of the maps of Middle-earth in the original edition of The Lord of the Rings; after JRR's death, "his son was left to sift through the files and note…
"It has been mocked and pilloried as a 'festival of Brexit', but the newly appointed boss of the £120m nationwide celebration planned for 2022 has said he is going to embrace the cynics "…
"When it comes to acting, neurodiversity " a term embraced by many people with intellectual, social and other disabilities arising in the brain and nervous system " involves more barriers an…
"Though they are ostensibly meant for conversation about the shows themselves, actual episodes are seldom discussed. Instead, members get sidetracked and end up on tangents, talking about th…
"'He has coherently brought classical African dance into conversation with all that is contemporary,' said [South African dance scholar] Jay Pather, … long-established practices of Zulu, X…
"In July, the audiobook company owned by Amazon announced Captions, an additional function for the existing app that would allow customers to read the text as it was read, as well as looking…
From some of North America's largest cities to a roving truck in rural California, instrument-lending programs are proving so popular that the biggest challenge is meeting demand. Reporter J…
"Ms. Gatliff developed a new method for facial reconstruction in the late 1960s, then spent nearly five decades refining her technique and teaching it to hundreds of students, including at t…
"The thieves who stole priceless jewels from the Dresden Green Vault treasury at the end of last year are allegedly trying to sell some of the loot on the dark web. Investigators from an Isr…
There have been rumors in London's government and business circles that the Conservative government will make major changes to the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport next month " and th…
Just after New Year's, ARTS San Antonio, one of the city's top presenters of touring music, dance and theater artists, sent a message to donors and subscribers saying that the organization w…
"The four-year extension … maintains what has proved a winning formula: the pairing of a conductor whose fame extends beyond the classical music world and is a powerful audience draw with …
"Between 1992 and 2017, archivist Greg Priore smuggled some 300 documents worth more than $8 million out of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, where he served as sole manager of the rare bo…
On stages and film/video sets alike, the practitioners of this new profession help actors feel secure physically and emotionally " which, naturally, help the actors do their jobs better. Wha…
"Decades before becoming New York's Pied Piper for nonobjective art, he had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image." " Hyperallergic
When the choreographer and her company debuted Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók's "Duke Bluebeard's Castle", audiences who'd never seen anything like it did …
"The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced Tuesday that it has been promised pivotal gifts totaling $7.25 million that officials say will allow the beleaguered organization to pay its outst…
"One after another, Star Wars movies have flopped in China, defying efforts to bring one of the most successful franchises in history into a market that has printed money for the heroes, mon…
"Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, would have made the Top 10 list and might have topped it, the library notes, but for the fact that 'influential New York Public Library children's li…
After having worked as a publicist for some of rock's all-time greats, she discovered two of the English comedy troupe's LPs and began encouraging her contacts at FM radio stations to play t…
"Unlike Hollywood, where actors and filmmakers have [frequently] spoken out against governments, A-listers in Bollywood " the world's second-best paying film industry " have largely remained…
"As he lay bleeding on his kitchen floor in Bedford, the snow blower that lopped off the tips of three of his fingers still sputtering outside, the same question kept rattling around in Murr…