Literature Of Contagion: When Writers Tell Stories Of Plagues, How Do They End?
Edgar Allan Poe ended his short story with "Darkness and Decay and the Red Death illimitable dominion over all." Others, from Daniel Defoe...
The STEEP Road Back
The many threats and threads around reopening social spaces for live performance can easily blur together. Focused problem-solving and readiness require that we tease...
Michigan Opera Theatre Charts A Bold New Course
"This is a moment for change. Casting singers of color is really easy, but my focus has been on composers, librettists, conductors. I’m thinking...
China’s Architects Turn Attention To Ailing Villages
After a couple of decades of enormous urban growth led to thousands of emptied-out villages, both Chinese government policy and the mood of ordinary...
The Metropolitan Opera Crashes Into Social Media
Either way, the Met’s tweet (sent out to an audience of over 243,500 followers, roughly 304 times Wu’s audience) drew more attention to Jennifer...
Modernist Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen Dead At 91
"His residences had signature touches like 45-degree pitched roofs, clean lines, minimal ornamentation, masterful use of lighting and windows, and décor that included his...
How Architecture Reinforces Racism
“The logic of the ghetto is to limit you. It says you cannot go here, or do this. If freedom is about that ability...
She Took Over A Ballet Company In The Middle Of The Pandemic
Susan Jaffe was announced as the new artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre last April, near COVID's first peak in the U.S., and she...
Berlin Philharmonic Sells Out Tickets In Three Minutes For First Concert Back
At the Philharmonic’s concert, strict rules were in place to reduce the risk of contagion. Spectators were required to give their names when purchasing...
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...
