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Entire Board Of New Zealand’s National Organization For Museums Resigns
"The entire board of Museums Aotearoa has abruptly quit after concerns about its governance and management. The organisation’s remaining executive director, Phillipa Tocker, is...
The Walkie-Talkie, Big Underpants, And The Bathtub: What Modernist Architecture’s Abhorrence of Imitation Has...
For centuries, great architecture involved innovation and invention within the context of established, tried-and-true styles, materials and techniques — and the result was buildings...
The Pursuit of Equity
The intent is to overcome the very real danger that the nonprofit arts industry’s “equity statements” could easily become like the “thoughts and prayers”...
Literary Scholar And Critic Denis Donoghue Dead At 92
"First at University College Dublin and later at New York University, Professor Donoghue carved out a middle ground in the contested landscape of late-20th-century...
Here’s A Landmark For A Growing Company: Indianapolis Ballet Hires Its First Executive Director
"More than three years after its 2018 debut, the professional company … announced April 6 that longtime Indianapolis arts leader Don Steffy will take...
Anthropology Museums Start Reckoning: What To Do With Bones Of Enslaved Africans In Their...
It started last summer with the Morton Cranial Collection at Penn, spread to Harvard's Peabody and Warren Museums, and, in recent weeks, has come...
The Rise And Fall Of ‘Florida Man’, Once The Internet’s Favorite Laughingstock
Tyler Gillespie, author of The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State and Florida Man: Poems, traces the course of this icon of the...
Why Did Scott Rudin Step Back From Broadway? Maybe Not Just Because He’d Seen...
The key seems to have been Rudin's high-profile, high-stakes production of The Music Man, set to start previews in December. While some of the...
At The RSC, ‘The Winter’s Tale’ Is Finally Coming Together After Two False Starts
The COVID lockdown hit Britain just days before this production was to open and put the company's entire operations on hold; the show was...
Has NPR Recovered From COVID Cutbacks? ‘Not Completely’, Says CEO
"NPR cut spending in areas including staff and executive pay to offset a decline in revenue spurred by the pandemic, particularly in corporate sponsorship....
Two Senior Staffers Quit MOCA In L.A. Over ‘Hostile Environment’ And Resistance To Diversity...
One of the departing execs, the director of human resources, left over conflict with his boss, the deputy director, and alleged retaliation which he...
The Cutting Edge In Breathing Therapy For Recovering COVID Patients? Opera Singing
Last June, English National Opera and a branch of the NHS launched ENO Breathe, a program that offers what are basically online voice lessons...
Beijing, Hong Kong, The Streisand Effect, And The Oscar For Best Documentary Short
" Hammer is bemused at the lengths to which China has gone to stop its citizens catching even a brief glimpse of his latest...
Jazmin Morales Talks About Being an “Intrapreneur”
The Assistant Director of the Colburn School’s Center for Innovation and Community Impact shares the impact of Colburn’s EDI initiatives and strategies on being...
A Soldier’s Tale for Today
The pertinence of A Soldier’s Tale today is self-evident. It is a COVID diversion: compact, flexible, rejecting Romantic symphonic upholstery in favor of a...
‘Navy Twerking’: Why All Australia Is Arguing About A Dance Clip
"A video of dancers twerking in hotpants at … went viral when it emerged on Wednesday. But the music video-style choreography — featuring...
Now We Know This Wax Bust Is Definitely Not A Leonardo. How Do We...
Back in 1909, a couple of very prominent German art historians decided, for various reasons, that a wax figurine of the goddess Flora that...
A Dance Critic On How The Pandemic Has Changed Her Work
Deborah Jowitt: "Inevitable distractions occur when filming (or viewing) dances in this climate. Dog walkers may intrude. A pet cat may decide on a...
How The 1918 Flu Pandemic Changed America’s Public Libraries
"Public libraries in the United States started to proliferate in the late 1800s and early 1900s, often founded by women's clubs and other social...
Key Arts Figure In Belarus Freed From Prison After International Campaign
"Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Watch Docs Film Festival in Belarus, has been released from prison and had charges against her dropped following...
Through Assassination, Official Harassment, And Right-Wing-Media Smears, A Theatre In A West Bank Refugee...
The Freedom Theatre, founded in the Jenin camp in 2006, has as dual missions "to build back Palestinian identity destroyed by years of brutal...
Singapore’s First Independent Arts Complex Is Closing, And The Arts Community There Is Worried
"The Substation was founded as Singapore's first independent arts centre in 1990 by theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun. The careers of some of Singapore's...
Wouldn’t It Have Made More Sense For Netflix To Just Buy Sony Pictures Outright?
Last week the video-rental-service-turned-streaming-giant paid an estimated $1 billion for five-year exclusive U.S. rights to Sony's theatrical releases and right of first refusal for...
Key Missing Link In History Of Alphabet Identified
"Archaeologists digging in the ancient Canaanite settlement of Lachish have unearthed a 3,500-year-old pottery shard inscribed with what they believe is the oldest text...
French Court Rules Art Galleries Must Remain Closed (Never Mind The Auction Houses)
Gallerists, angry that their competitors at auction houses were allowed to continue operating during France's ongoing pandemic lockdown, and arguing that online sales don't...
