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Psychiatrists In Brussels Are Legally Prescribing Museum Visits
"From this month, psychiatrists in one of the city's largest hospitals have been able to offer patients 'museum prescriptions', a free visit with a...
What Do We Do With All The Broken-Down, Unrepairable Musical Instruments If We Don’t...
"What should we be doing with those pummelled remnants of a drum kit? The electric guitar with a broken neck? The leaky Chinese saxophone...
Some Arts Organizations Are Turning To Real Estate Development, Building Mixed-Use Complexes
The Newark Museum of Art, National Black Theater in Harlem, Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx, EastSide Arts Alliance in Oakland, and Arte...
The Dance Data Project On Its Upcoming Gender Equity Index
This introduction to the project and invitation for dance companies to participate explains the questions to be asked on the survey, how the rankings...
The Streaming Companies Are Turning Documentaries Into Big Business
"While the streamers' appetite for documentary content has created a new golden age for nonfiction filmmaking, it's come with transformations that many find worrying:...
The Most Interesting Opera In America Right Now, Says The New York Times, Is...
Joshua Barone pays a visit to, and is thrilled by, Barrie Kosky's production of Fiddler on the Roof at Lyric Opera of Chicago and...
The Royal Shakespeare Company Names Two Artistic Co-Directors
Daniel Evans, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, and Tamara Harvey, artistic director of Theatr Clwyd in North Wales, submitted a joint application...
Dance Magazine Awards For 2022: Here Are The Winners
This year's honorees are choreographers Lucinda Childs, Kyle Abraham, and Dianne McIntyre; dancer Herman Cornejo, a principal at ABT; and historian of African-American dance...
Painting Stage Scenery The 17th-Century Way
Historical stagecraft expert Wendy Waszut-Barrett paints backdrops and wing pieces with the same material that European craftsmen used four centuries ago: distemper paint, made...
Filmmaker Alain Tanner, A Leader Of Switzerland’s New Wave, Is Dead At 91
"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known...
Spotify Makes A 300,000-Title Bet On Audiobooks
"After spending the past few years teasing its literary ambitions and acquiring the audiobook platform Findaway for $119 million, Spotify has formally launched its...
Hollywood’s Masters Of Prosthetics Talk About Their Craft
Kazu Hiro, who turned Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill and Bradley Cooper into Leonard Bernstein: "I hate to see 'This actor is unrecognisable.' It's...
Constipated Scorpions, Moose Crash-Test Dummies, And The Best Way To Turn A Doorknob: The...
Other winners included a study of why ducklings swim in a straight line formation (the physics prize), research on ritual enemas in Mayan pottery...
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Is Returning Its Benin Bronzes. Is It Irredeemable Nevertheless?
The German capital's ethnological museum has started displaying videos or modern copies of the works it has returned to the countries from which they...
A Dance Critic Considers The (Extensive) Choreography Of The Queen’s Funerary Ceremonies
"Like the classic 19th-century ballets that display massed ranks of identically costumed, identically moving dancers, the rituals have shown us many military units from...
Why Does Having A Royal Patron Matter For British Arts Groups?
With the queen's death and the ascension of a new king (who won't have time for all the causes he supported as Prince of...
Did Woody Allen Say He Was Going To Stop Making Films Or Not?
The Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia printed an article this weekend quoting Allen saying that his next movie (his 50th) would be his last; on...
Byzantine Floor Mosaic Uncovered By A Gaza Farmer Trying To Plant A Tree
"Salman al-Nabahin unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, six months ago while working in his...
Russian National Orchestra Dumps Its Founder, Mikhail Pletnev
The pianist-turned-conductor founded the RNO in 1990, as the USSR was collapsing. Now the orchestra has refused to renew Pletnev's contract, saying that "since...
This Little Architectural Gem Was Built To Be An Italian Fascist Utopia
In the mid-1930s, Mussolini's minister of agriculture(!), Edmondo Rossoni, worked to turn his home village, marooned in the marshes of Emilia-Romagna, into a model...
Catherine de’ Medici — Was She Really “The Serpent Queen”?
She was certainly a canny operator, but she was working to maintain safety and authority for herself and her sons (all three of whom...
The Granddaddy Of Topical TV Dramedies: M*A*S*H At 50
"M*A*S*H is in some ways the most contemporary of its contemporaries. Its blend of madcap comedy and pitch-dark drama — the laughs amplifying the...
Alan Alda, Who Directed And Wrote As Well As Starring, Talks About M*A*S*H At...
"I was looking for stories, each in a different way, that showed how everybody left the war with a wound of some kind. ......
From “Groomer” All The Way Back To “Miscegenation”, American Politicians Have Turned Words Into...
"Where groomer has a pedigree as a legitimate term of opprobrium, ... miscegenation was invented out of whole cloth, intended as a bludgeon to...
The Real-Life Female Army Depicted In “The Woman King”
The story enacted by Viola Davis and her colleagues is fictional, but the Agojie did actually exist: a troop of women warriors, founded in...
