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This Year’s Tony Awards Show Was In A Difficult And Delicate Position
Helen Shaw: "Looking back while looking forward was the impossible job of this year's (ceremony). Instead of razzle-dazzling us, the host Audra McDonald (and,...
The Late-Period Pietà Michelangelo Intended For His Own Tomb Has Been Restored
What's more, conservators and scholars involved say that the restoration has put to rest the big myth surrounding the sculpture: that Michelangelo went at...
London’s Barbican Centre Is Hemorrhaging Staff: Report
Current and former employees are using terms like "mass exodus", "freefall", and "climate of fear" to describe the situation at the central London venue....
Pittsburgh Symphony Keeps Manfred Honeck For Six More Years
The 63-year-old Austrian conductor has extended his contract as the orchestra's music director through the 2027-28 season, which will be his 20th at the...
A Preview Guide To The Oddest Tony Awards Anyone Can Remember
"Originally scheduled for June 7, 2020, the awards have been delayed — and delayed again, after nominations were announced last October — in an...
“Where True Authority Resides” — Oprah Winfrey And The Power Of Confession
"What sets Oprah apart … is her understanding that we crave not only the thrill of seeing secrets exposed but also the pretense that...
Joint Acquisition: Some Museums Are Starting To Purchase Art Together
As museums struggle to regain financial stability after pandemic lockdowns, answer calls to diversify their collections, and watch art prices soar ever higher, the...
E.M. Forster’s Most Influential Novel Was The One He Couldn’t Publish
As it circulated in manuscript (it was only published posthumously) from the author to Christopher Isherwood and onward, Maurice "became first an open secret...
You Can Now 3D-Print Yourself A Whole Gallery’s Worth Of Miniature Historical Statuary
A user of the 3D-printing platform Sketchfab has assembled digital renderings, ready to download and print fabricate, of artworks ranging from an ancient Egyptian...
The Only Degree Program In Dance In The State Of Arkansas Has Been Axed
The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock formally voted last week to eliminate the school's BA in dance. A formerly tenured...
Ebony Magazine’s Former CEO Committed Fraud To Keep It Alive, Alleges SEC
Willard Jackson, who was forced out in 2020, is one of several men accused of diverting crowdfunded investment money raised for marijuana-related business ventures;...
Last Suspect In Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery Dead At 85
Robert Gentile, a mob figure who did several stints in prison on unrelated charges, refused for decades to speak with FBI agents about the...
London Arts Orgs And Audiences Are Jeopardizing Their Comeback By Being Lax About COVID
Mark Pullinger finds that, while venues' staff may be masked themselves, they're not requiring patrons to have face coverings or proof of vaccination (to...
It’s Just Too Much Trouble For EU Groups To Hire British Musicians Post-Brexit, Warns...
"People who are normally hired by organisations abroad are being told, 'I'm sorry, we just don't have the capacity to bring somebody from the...
Riccardo Muti Extends Chicago Symphony Contract For One More Season
His term as music director was set to expire next summer, but with the pandemic having shut down CSO concerts for the period when...
How An Opera By A Black Composer Finally Made It To The Met
The company's certainly had opportunities before: William Grant Still submitted scores in 1919 and 1935; both were casually dismissed. So Terence Blanchard was astounded...
Was An Exploding Space Rock The Inspiration For The Story Of Sodom And Gomorrah?
Archaeologists report that the destruction, circa 1650 BC, of the city of Tall el-Hammam was caused by a large meteor disintegrating in the atmosphere...
How Jasper Johns Changed Modern Art — And My Life: Jerry Saltz
"Looking at Johns's work, I sometimes almost no longer feel like a person. I wonder if I have died in the instants between synapses...
Elia Kazan’s Annotated Script For The First Stage Production Of “A Streetcar Named Desire”
The script, along with 100 pages of unusually detailed notes for the actors, comes from the pre-Broadway New Haven tryout in the fall of...
Somalia Gets Its First Public Movie Showing In 30 Years
"The event was held at the National Theatre of Somalia, whose history reflects the tumultuous journey of the African nation. It has been targeted...
For the Second Time In Two Years, America’s Chinatowns Are In Danger
"(The delta variant surge has) worsened a host of additional issues, like technology and language barriers and pandemic-stoked xenophobia. Community organizations fear that the...
Dutch Police Arrest Suspect In Thefts Of Van Gogh And Frans Hals Paintings
DNA evidence at the crime scenes, museums in suburban Amsterdam (van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring) and Leerdam (Hals's Two Laughing...
Kerry James Marshall To Design Stained Glass Windows For Washington National Cathedral
The new work, which will replace windows depicting Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson which were removed in 2017, will be Marshall's first in...
Pennsylvania School Board Reverses Ban On Black Authors’ Books, Children’s Bios Of MLK And...
The vote by the Central York district board came after weeks of protests by students and unflattering reports in national media. The list of...
Melvin Van Peebles, Dead At 89, Was So Much More Than The Maker Of...
Over 60 years, he was a master of self-reinvention: Air Force navigator; cable-car operator in San Francisco; indie filmmaker; author (in English and French);...
