"Actors and directors led Monday evening's rally in Budapest against a bill that they say threatens artistic freedom and extends the nationalist government's reach into areas that should be …
"A civil engineer named Tamim Kasmo, 73, has joined a team of architects and engineers, stonemasons and woodworkers who have taken on the task of rebuilding the [12th-century] mosque. … Ka…
Just a few years ago, he was getting intrigued, often admiring press for his rocker persona, uninhibited commentary, and astonishing technical skills. (Video of his manically flying feet at …
"By the 1980s, Soviet political jokes had become so widely enjoyed that even the US president Ronald Reagan loved to collect and retell them. But, 50 years earlier, under Stalin's paranoid a…
"At stake [in Thessaloniki, Greece's second city,] is not one building or artefact but the entire central junction of the city as it existed in late Roman times: a covered, colonnaded space …
"Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the BBC's 'Bouncing Botanist' was a television regular, leaping over 'wocky pwotuberwances', enthusing over 'twee pherns' or plunging his hands lovingly into …
Howard Reich: "Step into Orchestra Hall or the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, Carnegie Hall or the Village Vanguard in Manhattan, Palais Garnier or Duc des Lombard in Paris, and you are entering …
"The 4.5-metre-long panel … seems to depict wild pigs found on Sulawesi and a species of small-bodied buffalo, called an anoa. These appear alongside smaller figures that look human but al…
"After hearing about this, I couldn't stay silent. I wrote an op-ed for our regional paper, The Berkshire Eagle, describing how Jacob's Pillow, like many cultural institutions, is working to…
"For a while we were told that books were going to be a thing of the past. A new century had dawned, our lives were being digitised and surely there was no longer any reason to lug the press…
"Tired of dreadful scripts and degrading magazine spreads, the Oscar-winning actress, producer, entrepreneur and activist built an empire on her own taste and work ethic. Now she plots proje…
"[Biography] was once thought, as Michael Holroyd called it, 'the shallow end of history', unable to provide sufficient context and with a tendency to exaggerate the role of individuals in t…
"The theatre, which has a current operating budget of $4.5 million, stopped producing last year to focus on tackling its [$2.6 million in] debts … As they planned to reopen, … the board …
Early in my career, I had two contrasting contacts with Donald Marron, the much admired art connoisseur, philanthropist and financial-markets professional, who died on Friday at age 85. Both…
Emily Cass McDonnell, who stars as Hilda in the New York premiere of Lucas Hnath's The Thin Place, knows that it works because of magic. An important part of the experience happens near the …
A succinct statement and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to arts organizations for internal and external reasons. This post is a response to the increasing number …
"Even now, 70+ years since John Cage's seminal Suite for Toy Piano from 1948, the toy piano still feels like Duchamp's upside-down urinal (Fountain): out of place on stage, it elicits giggle…
"Dance/Movement Therapy goes beyond simply dancing. DMT uses dance and movement to promote insight, integration and well-being, as well as to diminish undesirable symptoms in various clinica…
"Dutch asylum court is not exactly a well-trodden topic within performance art, but last week in Amsterdam, a one-off staging of a refugee trial asked the public to determine the fate of an …
"In the '60s, estimates suggest that fewer than 2,000 people could speak Hawaiian fluently, and just a few dozen of them were children. But then something remarkable happened. An unlikely Ha…
"The location of Portrait of a Lady, one of the world's most sought-after missing artworks, has been a mystery since it was stolen in 1997. On Tuesday, a gardener clearing up ivy on an exter…
"This stirring performance, titled 'Un violador en tu camino' ("A Rapist in Your Path), was first brought to life by the feminist art collective called Lastesis at a protest in the port city…
Yes, he looted much of the statuary at the ancient Greek monument (his booty now sits in the British Museum), but he also had Athenian craftsmen take plaster casts of much of what he left in…
"A recent study by Northwestern University … found that 26% of independent Arab filmmakers are women … In Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon, 25% of all new directors are women. In Egypt, this…
"Protesters stormed the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City on Tuesday over a painting showing revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata striking an unconventional pose. They shouted 'burn it, burn …