That Long-Awaited Final Sondheim Musical? It’s Not Coming
The show, titled Buñuel and based on that filmmaker's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, had been in development with...
Florida Boosts Arts Funding by 24%
"The 2021-22 budget plan agreed to by the Florida House and Senate and sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis includes $26.7 million in two of...
As Western Museums Prepare To Return Benin Bronzes, Nigeria Prepares Their New Home
"The Legacy Restoration Trust … was set up by Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments, the Edo State government and the royal court...
Medieval Treasures Stolen In 1989 Recovered In Sicily
"After being stolen more than 30 years ago from a village in Italy's Tuscany region, a group of stolen medieval artifacts has been located...
Paul Kellogg, Director Of Glimmerglass Opera And New York City Opera, Dead At 84
Over 27 years at the helm of the summer opera festival in Cooperstown, NY, Kellogg raised standards, doubled the productions per season, built a...
Why Modern Science Is Vulnerable To Science Deniers
Turns out this Science entity doesn’t have a single voice, and in many cases hearing what it has to say isn’t straightforward. As intellectual...
Where Threats To Academic Freedom Are
The example of Socrates has always been both an inspiration and a warning. Heterodox gadflies tend to get swatted. In the 21st century, however,...
The Rise Of Group Curation — A New Model?
‘We believe in a polyphonic time. Essentially the problem has been about dominant narratives and to get a much wider perspective. It is appropriate...
AI Routinely Misreads Emotion In Human Faces. Should We Worry?
Today affect-recognition tools can be found in national-security systems and at airports, in education and hiring start-ups, in software that purports to detect psychiatric...
A Philip Roth Bio Is Canceled — A Sea Change In Whether Books Are...
"I think this week marks a sea change in publishers’ interest in their authors’ behavior. The cancellation of Bailey’s books came just a day...
Back From The Brink Of Collapse, Australia’s Leading Professional Vocal Ensemble Is Hard At...
Just two years ago, out of cash, The Song Company entered liquidation bankruptcy; it was rescued by a donor a month later. Then came...
Engagement Readiness Quiz
The verdict in the George Floyd murder trial provides your arts organization with an opportunity to take a very simple quiz to determine its...
CultureGrrl, the Metropolitan Museum & the Bomb Scare
At this writing, the Metropolitan Museum is safe and so am I. That said, for a brief time during my visit there Monday afternoon,...
The Biographer Has Been Accused Of Abuse. Should We Ignore The Book?
"If an artist is a bad person, should that change the way audiences interact with his art? In this particular case, if the author...
Honkaku: The Japanese Detective Novels Catching On In English
"Honkaku translates as 'orthodox', and refers to the crafting of fiendishly clever and complex puzzle scenarios – such as a murder in a locked...
Big Bump In UK Book Sales In 2020
UK consumer book sales climbed 7% to £2.1bn last year as people "rediscovered their love of reading" in lockdown, the industry body says. -...
The Forgotten Female Playwrights (150 Of Them!) Of 17th- and 18th-Century France
"Now a growing movement within French theater is reclaiming the work of forgotten female artists, and reviving a lost concept along the way: le...
Liam Scarlett, Death, And How The Dance World Deals With Scandal
"Scarlett’s death raises many issues. Foremost has been a widespread unease about the way that many dance companies in recent years have seemed to...
Why Viewers With Thousands Of Options Are Choosing To Stream Old TV Series
The Office and The Sopranos were two of the biggest hits of 2020, according to streaming services, which have recently paid hundreds of millions...
YouTube On Pace To Be Bigger Media Company Than Netflix
In its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, Google parent company Alphabet said YouTube brought in revenue of $6.01 billion in advertising revenue during the quarter —...
Indian-American Calls For Paris Opera Ballet To Cancel ‘La Bayadère’
Rajan Zed, an advocate and the founder of the Reno-based Universal Society of Hinduism, has previously called on other companies, including Houston Ballet, the...
The Birth Of The Paid Claque (Annals Of Opera History)
Back in the early 19th century, "the directors of the Paris Opera saw no reason to leave the success of their performances up to...
Theodore Lambrinos, Prolific Baritone, Dead Of COVID At 85
A longtime soloist at the Met and a mainstay of New York Grand Opera's summertime productions in Central Park, "over his 60-year career he...
Using Origami To Create Emergency Shelter For Disasters
A team of applied mathematics specialists at Harvard spent three years of calculations and trial-and-error to design a lightweight plastic structure that's about the...
Trial Indoor Performance With Audience Of 4,500 Shows Little Indication Of COVID Transmission
The event, a rock concert at an arena in Barcelona on March 27, required attendees to have an antigen test beforehand and to wear...
