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After 18 Months Dark, Metropolitan Opera In Mad Dash To Reopen
As the head of the makeup and wig department puts it, "I would love about six months. We have six weeks." - The New...
RSC Chief Gregory Doran Steps Down Temporarily
The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director is taking indefinite compassionate leave (the UK equivalent of family/medical leave) to care for his husband, actor Antony...
NPR ‘Weekend Edition Sunday’ Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro To Depart
After working as an international correspondent starting in 2004, she became host of the Sunday morning flagship in 2017. She made the announcement on...
M+, Hong Kong’s Long-Delayed Contemporary Art Museum, At Last Has An Opening Date
It's been 18 years since the project was first proposed, and there have been messy conflicts over costs and content (notably over the inclusion...
Cellist Sebastian Hess Dead At 50 Of Brain Aneurysm
A student of William Pleeth and Mstislav Rostropovich, he made his solo debut at 18 with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and developed...
What’s The Latest Dangerous Distraction For Drivers? Infotainment Screens On Their Dashboards
"With American traffic fatalities recently hitting a 15-year high, an infotainment arms race seems like the last thing we need right now. The car...
Katherine Dunham Was More Than A Choreographer And Ethnographer. She Was An Entrepreneur.
Her Ballet Nègre in Chicago, founded in 1930, was only the second ballet company of any kind in America. Her revues Tropics and Le...
How On Earth Did Experimental Downtown Drama Land On Broadway?
"An unusually large proportion of the 10 plays opening this fall are what one producer calls ‘formally inventive’ and others might label downtown, avant-garde,...
A Choreographer’s Podcast Examines How The Hell You Can Eke Out A Living In...
Miguel Gutierrez's Are You for Sale? explores "the ethical entanglements between art and money": the convoluted systems of philanthropy and grant applications, the good...
The Secrets Of 1,000-Year-Old Riddles
The oldest surviving collection of riddles assembled in English is in the Exeter Book, copied around the turn of the first millennium CE. They...
Writing Good Trivia Questions Is Even Harder Than Answering Them
Thorsten A. Integrity (né Shayne Bushfield) of the trivia site LearnedLeague explains what he has to consider: Is this too hard? Too easy? Is...
Phil Schaap, 70, Who Knew About Jazz History Than Anybody
From his teens, he astonished the great musicians he met with his recall of details, and for five decades he shared that knowledge as...
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...
