Spain’s Drive-In Movie Theaters Plead For Exemption From COVID Curfew

The country is already one time zone ahead of where it should be geographically (Spain is on Central European Time rather than GMT), so...

3,000-Year-Old Bronze Bull Unearthed By Rainstorms At Site Of Ancient Olympic Games

An archaeologist working at Olympia noticed what turned out to be one of the horns of the bull figurine sticking up out of the...

Britain’s Biggest Theatre Owner Buys Three Venues In San Francisco And Detroit

Ambassador Theatre Group is purchasing from the Nederlander Co. the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatres in San Francisco and the Fisher Theatre in Detroit,...

Black Composer Says Tulsa Opera “Decommissioned’ Him Over Line ‘God Damn America’

For a program commemorating the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (the one in which the area known as "Black Wall Street" was...

A COVID-Safe Mask Opera Singers Can Really Sing In

Dr. Sanziana Roman, an endocrine surgeon at UCSF who was once a voice major at Cornell (and who can sew as well), worked with...

Under Pressure, Chair Promises That Hong Kong’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Will Obey...

The chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, the Lincoln Center-like complex under construction on the harbor, publicly pledged that curators at the...

Australia Promises More Arts Relief Money, But Still Hasn’t Given Out Most Of What...

"Australia's arts and entertainment industry will receive an additional $135m in the next federal budget to ease the pain in one of the sectors...

How Broadway Is Connecting With Fans Through A Virtual Stage Door

Old platforms have pivoted, new ones have emerged. And now any fan, with just a few smartphone taps, can arrange a video message, a...

UK Vinyl Record Sales Hit Highest Level Since 1980s

UK record labels enjoyed a 30% boost in income from the sale of vinyl records last year to £86.5m, the highest total since 1989,...

Unprecedented: The Smithsonian Is Searching For Six Museum Directors

The institution has never searched for six directors simultaneously — although it has never had to develop two new museums at once, either. The...

The Unusual Places Dance Went Out This Year

From parking garages to lakes and rooftops, outdoor performances can be exhilarating for artists and audiences alike. Vistas that would be impossible to re-create...

Are We At A Creative Reckoning?(It’s All Good)

Deborah Cullinan: "When we finally arrive in this future, we, the people, will be brazen about the power of artists and of art and...

Screens Versus Pages – How We Read Depends On What We Read On

Because we use screens for social purposes and for amusement, we all — adults and children — get used to absorbing online material, much...

Science Fiction Was Depicting Climate Change More Than A Century Ago

"For a few decades in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, authors from across ideologies and genres published stories that today would be...

Warner To Start Theatrical Release Of Its Movies Again

But the window between theatre debut and release to streaming will be shortened. The shortened theatrical window matches recent changes from other studios instigated...

Dance Was An Integral Part of Christian Worship For Centuries

In the earliest period of Christianity, dance was frowned upon as pagan. (St. Augustine, in his typical way, was particularly scornful.) But when folks...

Jean Nouvel Wins Competition For Dramatic New Opera House In Shenzhen

The design of the Opera House takes on unconventional forms, opening up the space and integrating the opera house into the Greater Bay Area....

3,000-Year-Old Gold, Silk, Jade Discovered In China Could Rewrite History

"The treasures unearthed at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan, belonged to a highly-developed civilisation that may have lasted for thousands of years but...

COVID Shutdown Has Wiped Out Entry-Level Hollywood

"While the pandemic overturned the lives of workers industrywide, those just beginning to establish their careers in an industry that is notoriously difficult to...

Advertisers: If We Can’t Put Commercials On Netflix And Amazon Prime, We’ll Just Have...

"With more people home and glued to their streaming services, many of which don't allow advertising, companies are finding they need to be creative...

How Our Stories Frame Our Issues

"Why should storytelling matter so much? Because it conditions us to respond to society. Artists teach us what to take notice of and what...

The Best Character Actors In The Business (Well, Most Of Them)

" the results of an industrywide survey we conducted to answer one simple question: who are the most memorable character actors working today? To...

Actors’ Equity Faces Rebellion Of Its Own Members Over COVID Restrictions

"Quietly simmering frustrations erupted publicly last week, when more than 2,500 union members signed a letter, circulated by a Broadway performer and signed by...

Paris Review Names New Editor (The Second Emily In A Row)

The magazine, co-founded and long run by the late George Plimpton, "has a new editor, only the sixth since being founded in 1953, but...

Mills College Will Shut Itself Down

The 169-year-old liberal arts college in Oakland, which has left an extraordinary legacy in American arts (especially contemporary classical music), is one of the...