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“Nobody Dances In Prison.” But In This One, They Do.
Dance is far rarer than other art forms in prison arts programs: it "goes against prison-culture codes of masculine behavior." But two inmates decided...
A Safeway Blasted Classical Music At Top Volume Nonstop For Days, Driving The Neighbors...
A Safeway in San Francisco has been playing classical music from a speaker in a parking lot security tower for months in order to...
The Job Of A Museum Director Has Changed Enormously
In addition to knowing art history and being a good administrator and fundraiser, a museum director these days may have to address diversifying her...
London’s Donmar Warehouse Names A New Artistic Director
"Tim Sheader …, who currently runs Regent's Park Open Air theatre, will take over from Michael Longhurst in March 2024 and will also be...
A Big, Multicolored Outdoor Artwork Near San Francisco Bay Has Vanished
"A colorful collection of wooden slats woven into a fence along the Richmond Parkway near the Chevron refinery, titled 'Fencelines: A Collective Monument to...
Lincoln Center Plans To Renovate Its Western Edge So It No Longer Looks Like...
The Amsterdam Avenue façade of the campus has always seemed sterile and forbidding, the tall, blank walls of the building giving the feeling of...
Marin Alsop Has A New Job: Artistic Director Of The Polish National Radio Symphony
She first conducted the orchestra, based in Katowice, a bit over two years ago; since then, she's led them in 15 concerts at home...
Françoise Gilot, The Only Lover Who Dumped Picasso And An Accomplished Artist Herself, Is...
"She also published graceful, incisive memoirs and poetry collections, even as she spent decades battling with those who sought to define her by the...
A Young Polio Survivor And Refugee Heals Herself And Others Through Dance
"Chantal-Iris Mukeshimana came to Belgium as a child after fleeing the genocide in Rwanda. Decades later, she founded a dance school where fellow wheelchair...
Design Unveiled For Planned Holocaust Museum In Boston
"The Boston-based Holocaust Legacy Foundation has unveiled renderings of its proposed Holocaust Museum Boston, to be located along the Freedom Trail, by the intersection...
Why The French Military Hires Science Fiction Writers
The job? "To imagine future threats to national security. So far, sci-fi novelists from the Red Team Defense project have written more than a...
Each Side In The “Here Lies Love” vs. Broadway Musicians’ Union Dispute Makes Its...
"The union is demanding a 19-piece live orchestra, as mandated by contracts, barring 'special situation' exemptions. Producers want the show as it has been...
Speranza Scappucci Named Covent Garden’s First Principal Guest Conductor In 25 Years
"It will mark a new era for the (Royal Opera House) at a critical time, amid an arts education crisis, government funding threats and...
Putin Moves Russia’s Most Famous (And Fragile) Icon From Its Museum To The Church,...
The 15th-century icon of the Trinity by Andrei Rublev, Russia's most revered icon painter, was moved from Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery into Christ the Savior...
After Years Of Protests And Bad Press, The British Museum Has Ended Its Sponsorship...
"BP's sponsorship of the British Museum has ended after 27 years, new disclosures make clear, bringing to a close one of the highest-profile and...
With 98% Of The Vote, SAG-AFTRA Authorizes A Strike
"The 'yes' vote does not trigger a strike, but allows the union's top negotiators to potentially call a work stoppage once their TV/theatrical contracts...
Nashville Symphony Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero Will Step Down — Partly — In 2025
After a Grammy-winning 16-year tenure, the Costa Rican conductor will finish his term as full-time music director, but he will lead the orchestra part-time...
The Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Exhibition Broke Records (Of Course It Did)
"The Rijksmuseum said the exhibition that drew on collections around the world to bring together 28 of the 37 paintings generally ascribed to Vermeer...
Astrud Gilberto, Who Sang “The Girl From Ipanema,” Is Dead At 83
In 1959, she accompanied her husband, bossa nova star João Gilberto, and Antônio Carlos Jobim to a New York recording session with Stan Getz....
Composer Kaija Saariaho, 70
She first came to notice in contemporary classical circles in the 1980s with atmospheric modernist music which frequently incorporated electronics; she achieved stardom with...
Watching A Master Craftswoman Make A Mask For Noh Theater
"The artisan Nakamura Mitsue employs her four decades of experience as she cuts, carves and paints, gradually forging an eerily lifelike human face from...
The Architect Of Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Designed A Curved-Keyboard Piano
Rafael Viñoly was at a dinner party with Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim, who complained about the challenges of a standard keyboard for someone...
A 15th-Century English Manuscript Gives A Rare Glimpse Of A Real-Life Traveling Minstrel’s Routine
"The manuscripts were copied by cleric Richard Heege, a tutor to the Sherbrooke family, part of the Derbyshire gentry. … Dr. Wade concluded that...
Warning The National Art Museum of China, Xi Jinping Uses The Phrase “Politically Correct”...
In a letter last month on the institution's 60th anniversary, the Chinese president said NAMOC should "be persistent in upholding a politically correct direction,...
Collaboration Gone Wrong, Vicious Feud, Or Performance-Art Prank? The Drama Between Author Michel Houellebecq...
It certainly started as a collaboration, with the collective KIRAC making a documentary about France's reigning literary provocateur (age 67 and married, as if...
