Regal Theatres Owner Cineworld Posts $3 Billion Loss
The U.K.-based company also said it has secured binding commitments for $213 million in additional cash via a bond to boost its financial flexibility...
Cancel Philip Johnson? MoMA Tries
Opened 27 February and running through to the end of May, a new exhibition, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, challenges and seeks to...
Director James Darrah: You Can’t Design Yourself Out of Something That Doesn’t Work
The new director of Long Beach Opera talks about making more with less. "There are people who are really comfortable with being very elite...
More Fun With NFTs: Virtual House Sells For $500k
Mars House—which is staged on Mars in the promotional video—was designed in May 2020 using what is called “Meditative Design” principles. Jeff Schroeder, guitarist...
We Need To Stop Treating Literature As Self-Improvement Projects
"We experience art as a repository of our humanity, a representation that tries to capture the meaning we seek in our lives. Treating art...
How Playwriting Competitions Help The Entire Field Of Theatre
Despite the fact that they can sometimes feel like (as one literary manager put it) "the Hunger Games of playwriting," prizes do help bring...
Tony-Award-Winning Lighting Designer Pat Collins Dies
"She was brilliant, funny, warm, and sometimes quite daunting. I have a memory of Mark Lamos and John Conklin hiding from her at one...
Restored Ghent Altarpiece Is Finally Back Home — In A $6 Million Bulletproof Display...
The van Eyck masterpiece is the most stolen individual artwork we know of (one panel is still missing after 87 years), and its Flemish...
Dream Big, Sure. But It Can Paralyze You
Sure, audacious goals can be energizing. But a fixation on them can lead to big disappointments. Worse, when your eyes are constantly on the...
Google Podcasts Has An Extremism Problem
"Even in the world of podcasting, Google Podcasts … stands alone among major platforms in its tolerance of hate speech and other extremist content....
How The Pandemic Has Changed Audio Quality On Public Radio
Producers and engineers have come to rely on specialized apps, and they’ve developed workarounds for the shortcomings of Zoom’s recording functions, among other solutions....
Author Larry McMurtry Dead At 84
"Over more than five decades, Mr. McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels and many books of essays, memoir and history. He also wrote ...
LA’s Music Center Is First Arts Center To Get “Healthy Building” Designation
The Music Center in downtown Los Angeles says that it is the first performing arts organization in the country to receive a UL “healthy...
Those Unknown Sappho Poems Discovered Back In 2014? There’s A Problem
Don't worry: so far, there's no evidence that they're forgeries. But "the editors of a scholarly volume in which the circumstances of the discovery...
‘It Was Bloody Cheek Of Me To Even Try’: The Musicologist Who Dared To...
Timothy Jones's completion of several fragmentary violin-piano sonatas by Mozart "is unusual, though, in its choose-your-own-adventure approach. Jones, testing different aspects of Mozartian style,...
San Francisco Starts Program Providing Guaranteed Basic Income To Artists
"More than 100 San Francisco artists will be guaranteed $1,000 a month for six months under a pilot program set to launch in May,...
Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, 79
"The filmmaker, cineaste and critic who emerged in the wake of the French New Wave with such classics as The Clockmaker of St. Paul,...
After Three Decades As Artistic Director, Kevin McKenzie To Retire From ABT
"The company announced on Thursday that McKenzie, 68, will continue to oversee programming and performances through 2022 while a search for a successor begins...
Germany Tries To Figure Out How To Go About Returning Benin Bronzes
"On the heels of a German state visit to Benin City, … the culture ministry and museums are now playing catch-up. … Culture minister...
Actor Jessica Walter Dead At 80
"Walter's six-decade acting career spanned across film and television, from Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, to the voice of Malory Archer...
Connecting Dance And Nursing
Devynn Emory, 40, sees nursing as “not so far away from dancing,” they said in a video interview. “It’s really just another understanding of...
NYC Mayor Orders Vaccinations For Theatre Workers
At a news conference, Mr. de Blasio said that in addition to the Broadway vaccination site, there would be a mobile vaccination unit to...
Debates Are Roiling The Translation World — Who Gets To Translate?
Debates ensued about whether the choice of a translator should be only merit-based or whether identity should play a part. Another thread was about...
UK Arts Organizations Have Bled Memberships During COVID. What To Do?
The decline in cultural memberships has undoubtedly been accelerated by Covid-19. Just this month, the Royal Academy (RA) reported a loss of 18,000 members...
Can We Preserve Brains? Can We Preserve You?
The implications surrounding a human brain-preservation technique that can keep the entire connectome intact are profound. If indeed, you are your connectome, defined by...
