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Jazz Venues In New Orleans Weren’t Hurt Too Badly By Hurricane Ida — But...
One historical site was blown to bits, but most performance spaces came out with only some roof and water damage. Yet the performers themselves...
As Sea Levels Rise And Floods Proliferate, Museums Spend Millions To Protect Themselves
Some museums, like the Whitney, learned the hard way (during construction, Superstorm Sandy dumped six million gallons of water into the basement); others (like...
Alberto Vilar, High-Profile Arts Donor Turned Famous Fraudster, Dead At 80
He proudly (extremely proudly) donated millions to the Met, Covent Garden, Kennedy Center, and others, his name prominently displayed — until the tech stocks...
Police Disassemble Hong Kong’s Tienanmen Massacre Museum
The June 4 Museum, as it's called, had been closed to the public (presumably on Beijing's orders) since June. This morning, police were seen...
The Awesome Power Of TikTok To Sell Backlist Books
"A large community of TikTok users have carved out a corner called 'BookTok'. BookTok influencers are predominantly teenagers and young women, … (and) when...
Broadway’s Costume Shops Rush To Prepare For Reopening Nights
"As Broadway rolls out its return, costumers are again busy with the meticulous, mess-making handiwork that makes the industry sparkle onstage. … 'When you...
Making Sound Art From The Bells Of Notre-Dame De Paris
"Artist Bill Fontana is currently working to record the sounds that the (cathedral) 'hears' through its ten monumental bells, with plans to livestream the...
Adult Swim At 20: How The Cartoon Network’s Cheapo Experiment Made Good
"By all accounts, it was a minor miracle that Adult Swim ever made it off the drawing board. … It seems right that one...
This Woman Dancing In A Park Is The Actual Poster Girl For NYC’s Reopening...
The City Hall commissioned poster, captioned "NO STOPPING NEW YORK," shows Kanami Kusajima dancing in Washington Square Park. But she uses a small speaker,...
Ancient Chinese Heritage Sites In Henan Imperiled By This Summer’s Floods
The province has five UNESCO World Heritage sites and 420 sites with national heritage status. Record rain in July led to floods that killed...
The Motion Picture Academy’s Museum Is Opening Way Past Schedule — Thank Goodness
"After spending more time in development hell than any other project in Hollywood, the museum was plagued by more production and budgetary setbacks than...
Houston Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Departing After Three Decades
After more than 30 years as Resident or Associate Choreographer with the Houston Ballet," said Christopher Bruce in a statement, "both the company and...
Richard Wagner’s Great-Granddaughter, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, In Coma Following Near-Drowning
The 76-year-old former administrator, who worked at (among others) Covent Garden, the Paris Opera and the Met and was co-director at Bayreuth 2008-2015, was...
Chinese Communist Party Warns Celebrities About Moral Behavior
At a meeting in Beijing titled "Love the party, love the country, advocate morality and art," officials told entertainment and media figures that they...
Pianist Maria João Pires Injured In Fall
The 77-year-old was to perform on Sunday at the Riga Jurmala Festival, but she tripped and fell in the street, injuring her shoulder. After...
The 111-Page Poem From The (Previous) Roaring Twenties That Feels Like A Warning For...
Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party "doesn't seem very far from our collective desire, in 2021, to lose ourselves in a throng of sympathetic...
After Decades, Francis Ford Coppola Is Set To Shoot His Passion Project — With...
Megalopolis is "an ensemble piece involving an architect rebuilding New York City after a financial crisis cripples the metropolitan hub. … And he seems...
Plus-Size Ballerina Fights The Good Fight For Body Positivity
Colleen Werner is continuing to dance as she works toward a degree in mental health counseling, and she's collected thousands of Instagram followers and...
Conductor Michel Corboz Dead At 87
Over 50 years as the director of the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne (which he founded) and the Gulbenkian Choir in Lisbon, he built up...
COVID May Finally Be Ending The Plague Of Audience Coughing
Fear of COVID, to be more precise. "Even before you realise what you have done, anxious sideways looks will have been exchanged, the seeds...
This 39-Year-Old Biracial Female Composer Is The Future Of America’s Classical Canon
So argues Joshua Barone about Jessie Montgomery, whose works are set to get a total of 400 performances this calendar year and who's just...
We Can’t Address The Problems With Classic Musicals Just By Casting A Few Nonwhite...
"It would be absurd to call for them to be abandoned entirely. But if they're going to be embedded in the fabric of musical...
As Performances Start Up Again, Critics Are Being Too Generous
"Is there perhaps a clandestine pact to encourage audiences back out with some concerted cheerleading? If so, then the critics are doing us a...
‘A Symphony In Glass’: Nick Cave’s Latest Public Artwork Takes Shape In The New...
Every One, a glass mosaic that's the first of three to be installed in the pedestrian tunnel for the 42nd Street Shuttle, depicts vividly...
Michael K. Williams, Known For Playing Omar In ‘The Wire’, Dead At 54
"(He) was celebrated for delivering nuanced performances as swaggering street toughs, charming family men and smooth-talking gangsters," most famously as Omar Little, the stickup...
