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Arts Venues In Britain See “Catastrophic” Attendance Declines Because Of Omicron
"Nathan Pearce from theatre ticket agency Seatplan said: 'As soon as Omicron was reported as a serious threat we saw a 30% drop in...
The 16 Defining Art Events of 2021
In-person gatherings return, NFTs (or the people involved) go nuts, $20 billion-with-a-b worth of art donated in South Korea, major new museums in Paris...
A New York Times Entertainment Reporter Remembers His Childhood As A Real-Life Carny
As Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley hits screens, Brooks Barnes takes the occasion to write about the corn dogs he dipped and unlimited snow...
A Major Black Theater Company In An Unlikely Place Bounces Back From The Pandemic
COVID arrived at a bad time for Sarasota's Westcoast Black Theater Troupe: it had just opened a new venue in February 2020. Luckily, "one...
Taking On, And Having At, The Ballerina Mystique
Rachel Kapelke-Dale: "In the end, Ballerinas turned out to be about the violence that emerges from the rage of being trapped in someone...
Spain’s Most Un-Francoist Filmmaker Finally Takes On The Franco Era
Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers starts out with a very Almodóvar situation, two single women about to give birth, but the movie’s really about the...
Doesn’t Seem Like It After 20 Years, But Peter Jackson’s “Lord Of The Rings”...
He'd made some comedy-horror mashups and one arthouse hit when he set to work on the Tolkien adaptations, so he wasn't someone you'd think...
Britain’s National Lottery Gave Blighted Towns $330 Million To Spend As They Wished. What...
While the specifics differ (as do outcomes, somewhat), the common thread seems to be that these towns built gathering places — community centers or...
The Bookstore That’s Helping Mosul Recover From Three Years Under ISIS
The Mosul Book Forum, which offers concerts and events along with books, opened three months after the city was liberated. Said cofounder Fahad Sabah,...
Robert Indiana’s Foundation Sues Publisher For Forgery
The Morgan Art Foundation's filing in US federal court accuses publisher Michael McKenzie of "allegedly forging Indiana's artwork, defaming the foundation, and intentionally interfering...
Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music Will Rebuild Itself In Portugal
On Monday, 273 teachers and students from the school flew from Qatar, where they landed at a US base after fleeing the Taliban, to...
Cleaning Staff At Guggenheim Bilbao Stage Performance Art To Protest Appalling Wages
The artist Lorenzo Bussi (alias "Art Builders Group") and the workers devised the action, titled "Is Everyone's Work Equally Important?", at the top of...
Why Didn’t Lyric Opera Of Chicago Tell Anyone It Renewed Its CEO’s Contract?
Anthony Freud's term was to have expired this year; in October, LOC's board extended it for five years with no public announcement. When asked,...
Bramwell Tovey Makes It Official: Artistic Director Of Rhode Island Philharmonic
The longtime music director of the Vancouver Symphony (2000-2018) has been the RI Phil's artistic advisor since 2018, and he is also music director...
Device After Device Promises To Save Writers From Their Own Distraction And Procrastination. Could...
"Could the new wave of Zen editors and e-ink tablets, tempering tech solutionism with analog nostalgia, reverse this trajectory — and give writers a...
Five Years After Her Death, Composer Pauline Oliveros Is Finally Getting Her Due
Her music has been more widely performed, some of her sonic meditations — for example, "Take a walk at night. Walk so slowly that...
AI-Powered Robot Could Help Rebuild Pompeii’s Ancient Frescos
"The project … melds robotics, AI and archaeology in an attempt to reconstruct architectural features of Pompeii that would otherwise remain incomplete, because they're...
How Could Circus Oz Shut Down So Suddenly? Perhaps It Wasn’t All That Sudden
The Company Members (current and former artists who are the legal owners of the troupe) say they never intended Circus Oz to close. The...
Choreographer Nai-Ni Chen, 62, Dead In Swimming Accident
For 30 years her dance company performed both traditional Chinese styles and contemporary works. She had been on vacation in Hawaii last week; her...
Main Theatre At Jacob’s Pillow Will Be Reopened For Festival’s 90th Season
The renovated Ted Shawn Theatre will have a new ventilation system and stage housing. The festival's other indoor venue, the Doris Duke Theatre, burned...
Piet Mondrian’s Heirs Sue Philadelphia Museum Of Art Over Painting They Say Was Looted...
The suit by the descendants of Harry Holtzman, the artist's heir and executor, argues that Composition With Blue (1926), having been seized from a...
Louvre Agrees To Undo Renovation Of Room With Cy Twombly Ceiling Mural
When the museum changed the color of the walls and floor of its Salle des Bronzes, the Cy Twombly Foundation sued, arguing that the...
“Belfast”, “The Power Of The Dog”, “Succession”, “Ted Lasso”, “The Morning Show” Lead Golden...
In the film categories, Belfast and The Power of the Dog got seven nominations each; on the television side, Succession received five nods, with...
Dying American Shopping Malls Are Obviously Symbolic. But Of What?
"A dead mall, while eerie and odd, is strangely difficult to interpret. Tempting to see it as an Ozymandias-like portent of the collapse of...
Opera’s Three Laws Of Gravity (There’s No Escaping Them)
"In opera, the external is the internal." 2. "In opera, all speech is dream speech, whether it wants to be or not." 3. "Opera...
