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For Her First Piece As Choreographer, Tamara Rojo Remakes Petipa’s “Raymonda”
Says the artistic director of English National Ballet, "I am by no means Petipa, but what I'm trying to do with Raymonda is what...
The Lucille Ball Almost No One Saw
The first woman to run a TV studio (a job she never liked and only did after she and Desi Arnaz divorced), Ball was...
Nielsen Confesses It’s Been Undercounting TV Audiences For A While Now
"The media-measurement giant informed TV networks and other clients Wednesday that it has, since September of 2020, undercounted so-called 'out-of-home' audiences — the people...
Omicron Is Keeping Older Viewers From Going Out To The Movies
A YouGov poll of 1,000 Americans found that roughly 56% of 18-to-44-year-olds weren't deterred by the new, rapidly spreading coronavirus variant, with only between...
Baltimore Is Becoming A Matisse Capital
The Baltimore Museum of Art has roughly 1,200 works by the artist, and it's just opened the Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies,...
Millennials And Gen Zers Are Flocking To The Metropolitan Opera
A set of young New Yorkers seems to have decided that the Met is cool. Sure, many of them appear more interested in the...
Spain Declares Export Ban And Formal Interest In Possible Caravaggio
The Madrid regional government has given the painting of the scourged Christ official bien de interés cultural status, which legally requires the current owners...
Belgium Shuts Down Its Performing Arts, Too
Following the lead of the Netherlands and Denmark as the Omicron coronavirus spreads, Belgium is ordering theatres, concert halls, and cinemas to close beginning...
Was Don Quixote (And Was Cervantes) Nostalgic For Muslim Spain?
"Cervantes knew that after the terrible, dogmatic reality in which he lived, there would be imagination. But" — having spent years in Algiers —...
Thirteen (Or More) Ways Of Looking At Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
2021 is the 300th anniversary of the six extraordinary works. Mark Swed looks at the slew of recordings marking the occasion, from a spectacular...
Andy Warhol As Faithful Catholic
"Religion and sincerity go hand in hand, and neither one is particularly associated with Andy Warhol, whose name is synonymous with ironic, detached irreverence....
The Abrupt Closing Of Circus Oz Reflects A Bigger, Wider Problem In Australian Arts
The larger issue is the years-long attempt by (mostly conservative) federal and state governments to make funding of arts groups contingent on corporate-style board...
The Ways “The Matrix” Has Bled Into Real Life
Those ways aren't pretty: incels glommed onto the "red pill" idea; "free your mind" has been adopted by far-right populists; "post-truth" is now regularly...
Met Museum Slashes Visitor Capacity As Omicron Continues To Spread
Attendance will be limited to about 10,000 people per day, half the normal number during the December holidays. - The New York Times
What Bob Iger Achieved In 15 Years As Disney’s CEO
He achieved quite a lot — far more than he, or skeptical observers, expected: rejuvenating the animation studios; acquiring Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st...
All These Canceled Performances Are Really Hurting Broadway In The Pocketbook
Box office grosses are down by one quarter just from the previous week by nearly one half from Christmas week in 2019, the last...
Baltimore Art Museums Close Through Christmas Due To COVID Surge
The Baltimore Museum of Art won't reopen until Wednesday, Dec. 29 (although its gift shop and restaurant will keep running), and the Lewis Museum...
Britain Adds Another $40 Million To Arts COVID Relief
"U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has … an additional £30 million in funding will be made available through the existing Culture...
Germany Hasn’t Canceled Performances Because Of Omicron, But …
… you can't go and see them. No live audiences allowed. - Variety
Just As With People, Orchestras With Co-Morbidities Get Hit Hardest By COVID
In particular, symphony orchestras, such as those in San Antonio and in Springfield, Mass., which have the twin problems of long-term financial distress and...
The Most Adapted Of All Modern Ghost Stories (Excepting “A Christmas Carol”)
Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) has inspired many a movie and television adaptation as well as a major opera. Adam Scovell...
The Real-Life Inspiration For “The Exorcist” Identified Publicly
He was known to a small group of Jesuits and reporters, but he spent his life afraid that more people would learn about his...
Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch In 2022
Choreographers and performers from Africa and its diaspora have a notable presence on the coming year's list, as do dancers blurring gender boundaries and...
A New Sequel To “West Side Story” Will Take Maria Back To Puerto Rico
Long Wharf Theater in New Haven has commissioned Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and Steven Sapp of the company Universes to create a musical, titled Maria, that...
Maybe The Problem With Spielberg’s “West Side Story” Is That Movie Audiences Are Tired...
Not sequels: people obviously love new installments in a franchise. The difference seems to be that fans want the characters they already know in...
