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Abu Dhabi, Hoping To Become Cultural Tourism Destination, Pumps More Billions Into Arts
The capital of the United Arab Emirates, whose government wants to diversify its economy away from oil and catch up with Dubai as the...
Stuart Silver, Museum Designer Who Pioneered Blockbuster Shows, Dead At 84
"As the inventive design director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1960s and '70s, turned the presentation of art into...
King Philip II’s Raphael Tapestries Are In Danger — From Pigeons
"The exquisite set of Raphael tapestries currently on display in the grand gallery of Madrid's royal palace has survived five tumultuous centuries of wars,...
Choreographing The Social Distancing At Dance Parties
"SOCIAL! the social distance dance club advertised a COVID-conscious rave this spring, where people were free to let loose together in the Park...
Princeton’s Classics Department Dropping The Latin And Greek Requirement May Not Be A Disaster...
Graeme Wood, who studied both languages himself, talked with a Princeton professor (who did not wish to be named) who says that the department...
In Vegas, The Shows Are Coming Back. Will The Tourists Come To See Them?
"The change since last spring, as measured by the return of surging morning-to-midnight crowds, is head-snapping. While just 106,900 tourists visited Las Vegas in...
Performance Venues Are COVID-Safe At Full Capacity If Audience Wears Masks: Study
"According to the results, the wearing of masks cuts the spread of aerosol droplets by 99 per cent, with those transmitted also travelling much...
2,000-Year-Old Roman Building Discovered On Israeli Coast
"Located just a few meters from the seashore , the structure, a public building" — known then as a basilica (not to be confused...
After Four Centuries, Oxford University Press Is Shutting Down Its Printing Business
"Oxford University's right to print books was first recognised in 1586, in a decree from the Star Chamber. But the centuries-old printing history of...
Another US Classical Radio Station To Leave The Air
Northeast Indiana Public Radio purchased the license for 94.1 FM in 2002 for $1.8 million and has been operating it since then as Classical...
How Has Technology Changed Orchestras? — My Talk for the League of American Orchestras...
I’m not sure how smart it is to attack the premise of the session you’ve been asked to be part of, but I was...
How Did We Finally Get To A Consensus On Repatriating The Benin Bronzes? (A...
"To better understand this critical turning point, Artnet News brought together three key figures for a conversation about the restitution of the Benin bronzes:...
Alvin Ailey ADT In The Age Of BLM: Artistic Director Robert Battle
"The foundation is the experiences of African Americans in this country — and knowing that is not monolithic. Within the diversity in African American...
Graeme Ferguson, Co-Inventor Of IMAX, Dead At 91
After he and his brother-in-law, Roman Kroitor, created documentaries for Expo 67 in Montreal that used multiple screens and projectors, they decided to invent...
TV’s Tricky Question: To Include COVID In Storylines Or Not?
"It was an issue, if not the big issue, that writers across Hollywood had to face: how to plan a season amid an evolving...
‘Come To The Theatre And Arrest Us’: Andrew Lloyd Webber Says He’ll Reopen His...
In response to news that Boris Johnson's government is considering postponing the full reopening of performance venues scheduled for June 21, the musical theatre...
Staffers At ‘The New Yorker’ Threaten Strike, Picket Anna Wintour’s House
The magazine's salaried employees formed a union three years ago and have been negotiating for higher pay (at a publication known for low wages)...
New York City Mayoral Race: What The Candidates Have To Say About The Arts
"As the June 22 primary draws near, we rounded up the top six contenders" — in alphabetical order, Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Dianne Morales,...
New York’s $25 Million City Artist Corps: Here, At Last, Are The Details
"Just over a month ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that as part of NYC's post-pandemic recovery, the city will be investing $25 million...
Kirill Serebrennikov Barred From Leaving Russia To Attend Cannes Festival
The award-winning, beleaguered dissident — famous recently for his dance and opera productions — is also a filmmaker, and he has a new title,...
Where That Hudson River School Painting Sold By The Newark Museum Will End Up
Thomas Cole's Arch of Nero wound up being one of the symbols of the ongoing argument about US museums' deaccessioning of artworks in order...
Uncertain But Hopeful, Carnegie Hall Announces Reopening Plans
"The upcoming season will be more modest than usual: about 90 concerts, compared with a typical slate of 150, though more may be added...
Mehretu’s To-Do, “Day’s End” & Diller-Dally: Inside & Outside the Reopened Whitney
As CultureGrrl readers will remember, my first post-pandemic visit to a museum — the Metropolitan — did not end well. Happily, things went more...
Queering ‘Giselle’
Katy Pyle and her company, Ballez, have a new work called Giselle of Loneliness (click here if you don't get the reference) "that grapples...
How Podcasts Became Substitutes For Friends During The Lockdown
"The number of podcasts … ballooned, filling voids in the professional lives of the hosts and the social lives of the listeners, and in...
