Impromptu Arts Relief Funds That Sprang Up In Pandemic’s Early Days May Be Around...
As lockdowns arrived and spread, many mutual aid networks, mostly small-scale, were put together on the fly to help the many thousands of suddenly...
An Entire 3,000-Year-Old City Has Been Uncovered In Egypt
Excavating in an area between large temples at Luxor, a team led by famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass found the ruins of an entire working...
There’s Still A Tyranny Of Thinness In Ballet. It Just Gets Worded Differently.
"Today's ballet teachers and company directors know that they can no longer simply instruct their dancers to lose weight. But that doesn't mean they've...
First Day For Performance Venues To Apply For Federal Pandemic Relief Was A Disaster
"As the government prepared on Thursday to start taking applications for a $16 billion relief fund for music clubs, theaters and other live event...
One Of Philadelphia’s Leading Pianists Held For Trial On Sexual Assault Charge
" now-21-year-old Temple student said that Mikhail Yanovitsky, 56, hugged, kissed, and fondled her while she practiced piano in a classroom at Temple's...
This $1,780 Painting May Actually Be A Caravaggio
The 44"-by-34" depiction of Christ with the crown of thorns was thought to be by José de Ribera, a minor 17th-century Spanish artist, and...
Study Science, Fine. But Arts And Humanities Are The Future Of Work
With the rise of artificial intelligence, machine programming, and the ever more rapid automation of technical skills, many companies are seeking just the creative...
Canada’s New Opera Champion Bob McPhee, 65
As head of Calgary Opera he was one of the most innovative champions of the art form. “I think he truly changed opera in...
Diversity Lessons From The 1990s Culture Wars
"What David Lang wrote in 1989 was not wrong: no senators took to the floor to tear up scores by Philip Glass or John...
How American Theatre Marginalizes Asians
"Just as Asian shows are seen as exotic oddities rather than universal, Asian American theatres aren’t considered national theatres by funders, even though it...
George W. Bush, Painter (What Does His Art Say About Him? About Us?)
"Bush’s painting style is inelegant: his subjects’ eyes are often misaligned, his colors are sometimes muddied, and even though he attempts to create depth...
Rock Musicians Are Getting Into NFTs. It’s Going To Be Messy.
"At the end of February, Grimes sold 10 pieces of digital artwork as NFTs for $6m, while Deadmau5 has offered bundles including music and...
Science: Turns Out Musical Taste Corresponds To Personality
It turns out that there is more to the question than appears on the surface, and multiple psychological studies have supported the idea that...
Choreography With Water And Fire (This Is Not A Metaphor, This Is Actual Fluids...
Billy Bell, who is a visual spectacle designer and computer engineer as well as a dancer and choreographer, combines movement, architecture and computer code...
Prices For NFTs Swoon (Collapse?)
Perhaps, according to recent figures published by Nonfungible.com, which show that the average price of NFTs plummeted almost 70% from a peak of around...
Why Wouldn’t Saudi Arabia Lend ‘Salvator Mundi’ To The Louvre? Spite, Basically
History's most expensive artwork, purchased by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2017 for $450 million, was supposed to be part of the...
Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Anounces A Fifty Percent Expansion
The expansion would add nearly 100,000 sq. ft to the museum's current 200,000 sq. ft pavilion complex, which features concrete walls, bands of red...
Wisconsin School Works To Save Ojibwe Languages Before Native-Speaker Elders Disappear
On the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation, near Lake Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, is a K-8 school called Waadookodaading ("a place...
Valery Gergiev, Politics and Putin
By arranging himself with the powers that be, Gergiev has maneuvered his way to a singular position in Russian cultural politics. On January 30,...
The Black Violinist Who Premiered Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata
"Born in 1778, in Biała Podlaska, Poland, Bridgetower started playing the violin at an early age. His father John Frederick Bridgetower (probably of...
Hong Kong’s New M+ Wants To Be One Of The World’s Great Contemporary Art...
"The has set M+ the target of being the first museum of its kind in Asia and to be ranked among the top...
Lois Kirschenbaum, New York’s Most Beloved Opera Superfan, Dead At 88
Night after night, through multiple performances of a production's run at the Met or New York City Opera, Lois (the city's entire opera community...
What Killed L.A. Stage Alliance? It Wasn’t That One Dumb Mistake
Los Angeles sound designer and playwright Howard Ho — the boyfriend of actress Jully Lee, who was the subject of the dumb mistake at...
Enormous Golden Modernist Mobile Removed From Lincoln Center Will Be Installed At LaGuardia Airport
There was a minor uproar in December when Lincoln Center announced that Richard Lippold's Orpheus and Apollo, which had dangled in the multi-story upper...
It’s 2021, And Italy Is Finally Abolishing Film Censorship
"It will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers...
