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The Tories’ Culture-War Politics Have Britain’s Museums Confused And Worried
Administrators and staffers are "'taken aback' by the apparent cognitive dissonance between directives ... to increase diversity and improve access both in their programming...
Annie Flanders, Who Founded Details Magazine, Dead At 82
"In a way, she formed that '80s culture, which became not just an American phenomenon but an international one. We who were in the...
Would Chekhov Weep? A Drama Critic On Russia’s Bombing Of The Mariupol Theater
Peter Marks: "Russia is a nation of passionate theater-, music-, and dance-lovers. ... It is beyond comprehension that terrified women and children could turn...
There Are 200 Priceless Artworks From Moscow On View In Paris. Will They Make...
The exhibition from the Morozov Collection — estimated to be worth $2 billion, with pieces by (among others) Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, and some...
Can The Art World Live Without Its Fixes Of Russian Oligarchs’ Money?
The Russian robber barons' colossal fortunes have had an outsize effect not only on the commercial market, but on museums and not-for-profit galleries and...
UK Revokes RT/Russia Today’s Broadcast License
The media regulator Ofcom's announcement said, "Following an independent regulatory process, we have found that RT is not fit and proper to hold a...
What’s The Most Fortified Building In Odessa? The Opera House
"The barricades blocking the path to the Odessa Opera and Ballet begin three blocks away. Two more walls like that further protect the entrance....
Researchers Use Thoreau To Study Climate Change
The copious notes the author made the springtime arrivals of flowers and birds provided valuable data to a team of Boston University scientists investigating...
An Excellent Question: “When Will Publishing Stop Starving Its Young?”
Molly McGhee, an assistant editor at the Macmillan sci-fi imprint Tor Books, just saw her first acquisition hit the NYT Bestseller List at #3...
A Young Belarusian Conductor Reports From The Polish-Ukrainian Border
Vitali Alekseenok's had been expecting to spend March and April working in Ukraine, including at the Kharkiv Music Festival, which he directs. Instead, he...
Meet The Consultant Who Rescues Hollywood Execs From Cancel Culture — Meaning From Their...
"At some point during the pandemic, Hollywood's creative underclass realized it had power — on Slack, on Twitter, and in blind quotes to a...
After 11 Years, Rubens’ Massive (And Very Heavy) “Baptism Of Christ” Is Brought Out...
The 13½-by-22-foot, 1,225-pound painting is back in place at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, which is about to reopen after a...
From Vaccine Rules To Visas To Shipping Delays, The Dance World Is Having A...
Sarah Kaufman: "To better understand the pressures facing these artists and how they'll affect audiences, I spoke with presenters, consultants and company leaders about...
Youth America Grand Prix Finds Ballet Schools To Take In Ukrainian Contestants
Academies at top companies all over western and central Europe have given refuge to more than 60 young dance students since the war started,...
Museums In Shanghai And Shenzen Close Again As China Faces Another Wave Of COVID
At least seven major institutions in Shanghai's West Bund and Pudong districts shut their doors on March 10, just before local schools were closed....
Strike At Chicago’s PBS Station
"Broadcast technicians and other employees at WTTW-Channel 11 went on strike Wednesday at the ... public television station shortly before the start of the...
France Creates €1 Million Emergency Fund For Refugee Ukrainian Arts Workers
"The emergency reception program will finance Ukrainian artists and cultural professionals and their families for a period of three months (with) residencies within the...
Russian Air Force Bombs Theater Where More Than 1,000 Ukrainians Were Sheltering
Very luckily, it appears that most of the civilians inside the Mariupol Drama Theater were able to get down to the building's bomb shelter...
Paul Taylor Dance Company Chooses Classical Ballet Star As Resident Choreographer
"Until the fall, Lauren Lovette was an esteemed principal at New York City Ballet, but now she has crossed over into modern dance and...
Museums Are Re-Examining Their Security Arrangement Following MoMA Stabbings
"Given the rarity of violence within museums, most are protected by security guards who are typically unarmed and capable of detecting and responding to...
The Design For Melbourne’s Huge New Contemporary Art Museum Is Revealed
The nearly 200-foot-tall NGV Contemporary — which, at 323,000 square feet (140,000 of display space), will be Australia's largest art museum when it opens...
Philosophers On TikTok (Yes, It’s A Thing)
Search the hashtag #Philosophy and you could find a tenured professor discussing Aristotle or Hannah Arendt, Plato or Peter Singer. If you're lucky, you...
Ballet-Class Pianists Fess Up
"It's better now. Back in the day, I might as well have been a radio in the corner." "Sometimes I see a dancer who...
L.A.’s Underground Museum Closes Indefinitely As Co-Directors Step Down
The free-admission space, founded in a minority neighborhood in 2012 by a prominent Black artist family, had reopened only a month ago following its...
This Public Library Was Unlocked And Unstaffed, But Patrons Checked Items Out Properly And...
You've got to hand it to New Zealanders. The main public library in Christchurch was closed for the national holiday on Feb. 6, but...
