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After An Artists’ Rebellion And Board Troubles, New York’s Flea Theater Is Trying Something...
"Now, the Off Off Broadway nonprofit theater is fighting to come back — this time with a new hybrid structure built to give complete...
Maine’s Largest Museum Plans A Big Makeover
"The Portland Museum of Art has embarked on an $85 million project leaders say will fundamentally transform the museum, bolstering its endowment and unifying...
“The Father Of Computer Art”, Charles Csuri, Dead At 99
"While he may never have been the subject of a proper survey at a major museum, Csuri's status within the history of digital art...
The Ballet World Faces The (Early) Fallout From The Invasion Of Ukraine
It's more than resignations and cancellations. The Kiev City Ballet , on tour in France when Russian forces attacked, is now stranded. A principal...
World Monuments Fund’s 25 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites
Awkwardly, the list was finalized before Putin's forces attacked Ukraine. The locations included range from world-renowned (Teotihuacán) to very ancient (cave paintings in the...
Proposed Idaho Law Could See Librarians Jailed For Lending “Harmful Materials” To Kids
The state House of Representatives has approved an amendment that removes the exemption libraries, museums, and schools had from a longstanding law against exposing...
Getty Trust Sues Investment Firm Over Loss Of $71 Million From Endowment
"The J. Paul Getty Trust, a nonprofit that oversees the Getty museum complex in Los Angeles, is suing the financial services firm Allianz Global...
Staffers At Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Scramble To Protect Collection In Case Of Attack
"In one partially empty gallery of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum (in Lviv), employees placed carefully wrapped baroque pieces into cardboard boxes. A few...
Amsterdam Hermitage Art Museum Cuts Ties With The St. Petersburg Mother Ship
"Due to our carefully built relationship," said a statement from the Dutch satellite, "we had access to one of the world's most famous art...
Does Every Broadway Show These Days Have To Grapple With The World’s Pressing Issues? ...
"Critic Hayley Levitt ... now finds herself in a state of bafflement when a comedy is just for laughs. Critic Zachary Stewart loves a...
One Of The World’s Largest Pipe Organs, Once A TV Star, Has Been Taken...
"Hazel" (formally, the Hazel Wright Organ) was the instrument of the Crystal Cathedral, from which Rev. Robert H. Schuller once hosted the Sunday morning...
If You Find Dickens’s Novels Too Melodramatic, Try Reading Them The Way He Read...
"His health was failing, but he gave every reading his histrionic last ounce. ... As Ruskin explained it, Dickens 'chooses to speak in a...
2,000-Year-Old Sculptures Smashed By ISIS Restored And Returned To Ancient City Of Hatra
The ruins of the Parthian city, located 70 miles southwest of Mosul, were occupied by ISIS from 2015 to 2017; as usual, they destroyed...
For The First Time, A Ballet Company Brings In An Intimacy Coordinator
Consultants who "choreograph" sex scenes and ensure actors feel safe performing them are becoming common in film, TV, and theatre, but this production at...
This May Be The World’s Largest Puppet
"Percy the Porcupine, the two-story creation, is covered in 2,000 foam quills and has an articulated nose the size of a 2-ton Volkswagen. And...
The Times Of Trouble Are Not Over At New York Public Radio
After several years of well-documented turmoil, WNYC had a new president and needed a new top editor. The newsroom badly wanted someone, preferably of...
Saving Atlanta’s Independent Arts Journalism Website When The Board Wanted To Shut It Down
Executive Editor Scott Freeman: "In the summer of 2020, we were in another bad spot and it became obvious that our board planned to...
Putin’s Government Shuts Down Russia’s Last Independent TV And Radio Stations
"Russia has blocked TV Rain (also known as 'Dozhd,' Russian for 'rain'), its last independent news network, along with Echo of Moscow, one of...
Clement Crisp, Doyen Of Dance Critics, Dead At 95
"For more than 60 years, his prose distinguished the arts pages of the Financial Times, always with eloquence, panache, expertise and astounding wit." His...
For John Cameron Mitchell, There’s Acting And “All The Other Stuff”
"'Acting is what pays the bills,' he says." (In fact, it just paid for a house in New Orleans.) "'All the other stuff is...
After A Stroke, Choreographer Ronald K. Brown Is Making Dances Again
The event happened late last April, though Brown is only now speaking about it publicly. He's had to relearn to walk and to choreograph...
What Can, And Can’t, We Really Expect Gergiev And Netrebko To Say About Putin’s...
"At what point does cultural exchange — always a blur between being a humanizing balm and a tool of propaganda — become unbearable? What...
Met Opera Cancels Anna Netrebko’s Engagements
"'It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,' Peter Gelb, the company's general manager, said in a statement. 'Anna is...
“Rain Bomb” In Australia Floods Brisbane’s Arts District
An extremely slow-moving low-pressure system dumped about 60 inches of rain on the Queensland capital in three days. Most of the city's major cultural...
Podcasts And Radio Are More Persuasive When Listened To Through Headphones: Study
"Researchers from (three University of California campuses) have found that when people listen to auditory messages – like podcasts, audiobooks, and radio news –...
