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John Eliot Gardiner Withdraws From All Concerts For The Rest Of This Year
After making headlines worldwide by punching a bass soloist after a performance last week, the conductor says, "I am taking a step back in...
The Myth That Has Let Conductors Like John Eliot Gardiner Get Away With Punching...
"Replace charismatic leadership with technocratic good manners and the whole edifice comes tumbling down," wrote one London critic. Responds Michael Brodeur, "This brings us...
Can Visual Design Defeat NIMBY? (On The Aesthetics Of Wind Farms)
"How can developers appease locals worried about supposedly industrial wind farms taking over their idyllic landscapes? If other forms of infrastructure offer any clues,...
Bookstores’ Author Events Are Changing In The Post-Pandemic Era
"Many publishers have scaled back on national author tours, … (so there's) a different kind of thinking about store programming: bookstores are scheduling earlier,...
A Cut Or Just A Rearrangement? New England Media Moves Its Flagship Radio Stations...
The two highest-power frequencies in the western Massachusetts network, one FM and one AM, are moving to the news/talk format familiar on most NPR...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Strikes Canada’s National Gallery
"Climate activists have once again targeted a famous work of art, with a member of the group On2Ottawa throwing pink paint on Tom Thomson's...
New Jersey Symphony Cuts Staff And Concert Dates
The weeks of core classical programming will be reduced, 15% of administrative staff jobs will be eliminated, remaining staff are getting mandatory furloughs, and...
“Collaborative Metamorphosis”: An Author And A Translator Talk About How They Work Together
Author Carlos Fonseca: "I now always say that I have a little (of translator)Megan McDowell in my mind, even when I write in Spanish."...
Recovering, After Five Centuries, The Music Of Europe’s First Published Black Composer
Vicente Lusitano had been dimly remembered, largely by music historians, for "a notorious dispute which he won, then lost, but is now winning again."...
Street Dancers All Over L.A. Are Bringing New Excitement To The Shuffle
"A passionate cohort of dancers (have) repackaged the footwork for a new generation. MC Hammer's running man and underground raves in the '80s popularized...
Britain’s Obscenity Law Vs. Nabokov’s “Lolita”
Once Graham Greene reviewed the novel (in its original printing from Paris) in the The Sunday Times in 1955, George Weidenfeld knew he wanted...
Putin’s Government Brings Its Ukraine War Propaganda To Russian Cinemas
A recently released film titled The Witness, about a touring violinist, caught in Kiev as the invasion begins, who sees (entirely fictional) atrocities committed...
The Collateral Damage Of The Hollywood Strikes
"From studio rentals and set construction to dry cleaning for costumes and transportation to sets, it's hard to find a corner of the Los...
Playwright Tina Howe, A Tony And Pulitzer Finalist, Is Dead At 85
Her breakthrough was 1981's Painting Churches, which won an Obie and, after its 1983 Broadway transfer, became a Pulitzer finalist. Also a Pulitzer finalist...
What’s The Delay With Building Philadelphia Ballet’s New Headquarters?
"Nearly a year after a ceremonial groundbreaking for (the company's) new headquarters on North Broad Street, no actual ground has been broken and construction...
Toronto’s Leading Provider Of Affordable Rehearsal And Studio Space Declares Bankruptcy
"Artscape, which manages over a dozen buildings in the city that include both homes for artists to own or rent and studio spaces for...
The Subscription Model Is Collapsing At American Theaters
"Subscribers were long the lifeblood of many performing arts organizations — a reliable income stream, and a guarantee that many seats would be filled....
Did They Just Catch The People Who Stole The Solid Gold Toilet Sculpture?
"Authorities are reportedly on the brink of charging seven suspects in the September 2019 theft of Maurizio Cattelan's America, a functional solid gold toilet...
The Architects Returning To Wood, Stone, And Brick
Two separate developments are driving the trend: the advent of computer-controlled robots which can drill ornate designs quickly, precisely, and relatively cheaply; and the...
Frank Rich Gathers The Oral History Of How Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical Was Created
It was a big surprise when word came down that not only had Sondheim finished his long-rumored adaptation of two LuÃs Buñuel films, he...
Gustavo Dudamel Reunites With The Orchestra He Grew Up Conducting
He became director of the Simón BolÃvar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela when he was 18, and he's known many of the players since they...
Have US Ballet Companies Been Performing More Works By Women Choreographers? Yes And No.
Dance Data Project's research on this past season found that 32% of ballets presented by the largest 150 classically trained companies were by women,...
Anna Wintour Is Raising Money To Offset Cuts To Arts Funding In London
Wintour, who organizes the annual Met Gala in New York, has planned an event called Vogue World for the start of London's Fashion Week...
Some Of The Objects Stolen From The British Museum May Never Be Located. Here’s...
"Ittai Gradel, (the) antiquities dealer who uncovered the suspected thefts of items such as gold jewellery, semiprecious stones and ancient glassware, said he had...
Suddenly, There Are Big Questions Around Hilma af Klint, From Control Of IP Rights...
There's a struggle in Sweden over control of her foundation, and recent discoveries suggest that one of her fellow mystics painted some of the...
