California Museums And Theatres Are Reopening; I’m Going To Wait
"I’m taking my cues from the health experts, who are preaching a different message from state, city and municipal officials. While COVID-19 new infections,...
As Ballet Companies Move Toward Reopening Without Knowing What The Rules Will Be, How...
"'What would you do if you had no idea when a season would begin, what venue capacity you could perform in and what the...
America Will Get Performing Arts Back This Summer — In Open-Air Spaces
"All around the country, companies that normally produce outdoors but were unable to do so last year are making plans to reopen, while those...
Protests By Arts Workers Demanding Reopening Spread All Over France
"Some 30 theatres and concert halls are occupied in Strasbourg, Lille, Nantes, Châteauroux, Toulouse, Besançon, Marseille, and Saint-Etienne. All of the culture workers inside...
Afghanistan Bans Girls From Singing
In a letter to school boards last week, which was leaked to the media, Kabul’s Education Department said girls aged 12 and above would...
James Levine Dies at 77
Levine had been in precarious health for more than a decade, canceling many of his performances after 2008 and undergoing spinal surgery. Even when...
Is MoviePass About To Return From The Dead?
The "Icarus of subscription services" seemed too good to be true when it started selling $9.99-a-month memberships that would let you see a movie...
More Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Found, The First In 60 Years
"The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scroll, written in Greek, is actually a missing part of the “Book...
AAMD (Barely) Rejects Extending Lenient Rules On Deaccessioning Art
"In an informal poll, members of the Association of Art Museum have voted 91-88 against asking its trustees to explore a controversial change in...
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Approves Musicians’ Contract With No Pay Cuts
"The pact, announced this week, was passed unanimously by the musicians, the SPCO board and the board of the American Federation of Musicians Local...
Yet Another Director Forced To Resign From Berlin’s Volksbühne
Three years after Chris Dercon ended his brief, dissension-plagued tenure at the theatre, his successor as artistic director, Klaus Dörr, quit after it became...
‘Poetry Out Of Pragmatism’: An Assessment Of Pritzker Prize Winners Anne Lacaton And Jean-Philippe...
Oliver Wainwright: "It is a fitting moment for a prize once reserved for flamboyant sculptors of icons to be awarded to a practice that...
Pritzker Prize Goes To Architects Whose Motto Is ‘Never Demolish’
More fully stated, the professional creed of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal is "Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!"...
$69 Million For A Digital File? It Isn’t About Art
Sebastian Smee: "No painting by Titian or Raphael has ever fetched as much as “Everydays.” So of course this is big news. But it’s...
Lost Music, Lost Books, Lost Culture
"Most music from the past is lost. Written, performed, then fading into obscurity, like the millions of books in our libraries that no one...
NFT’s Are Making Artworld Problems Worse
It turns out the NFT craze has many parallels to the art world. After even a few short days in the aftermath of the...
Theatre Leaders In Five Countries Talk About How Their Companies Have Coped With The...
Ivo van Hove at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Stéphane Braunschweig at the Odéon in Paris, Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Kajsa Giertz...
Will NFT’s Revolutionize The Art Market?
Once data is “on-chain,” it cannot be deleted, and it can be reviewed forevermore by anyone with access privileges and enough technological know-how. This...
Study: One Quarter Of UK Theatre Freelancers Have Quit
Theatres have collectively reported losses of nearly £200 million following a year of closure, according to a survey which also reveals that a quarter...
Will Russians Have To Run All Cultural Programming Past Censors Again?
"Over 1,000 cultural figures, including artists and curators, have addressed a letter to President Vladimir Putin and parliamentarians expressing fears that law is...
How The Arts In Australia Have Been Slowly Undermined
The last thirty years have seen management displace the creators to become the powerful figures of the arts world … Increasingly, even the section...
‘Little Did I Know’: A Theater Critic Considers The Anniversary Of The COVID Shutdown
Helen Shaw: "The pandemic has been a period of getting a lot of 'little did I know' stuff out into the open, including (but...
A Political Winner In Boston — The Arts?
"As it happens, this year’s wide-open mayoral race — a political rarity in Boston — offers the cultural sector a golden opportunity to flex...
Wayne Shorter And Esperanza Spalding Turn To Crowdfunding For Their Opera
"Iphigenia is not an adaptation of the Greek myth as much as it is an intervention into myth-making itself," reads an explanation on the...
The Indigenous Choreographer And The Presenter — A Dispute Spirals
The dispute burst into the open earlier this year when Emily Johnson severed her connection with Peak Performances and wrote about her decision in...
