Riccardo Muti Speaks Out About Met Opera’s Treatment Of Its Orchestra Musicians
“My appeal is to give back to the musicians of the Met the dignity which we all deserve and the hope that they...
Negro Ensemble Company: A Brief History Of A Pathbreaking Theater Group
The NEC's roots lay in a drama workshop for Harlem youth that founder Robert Hooks ran in a makeshift theater in his apartment until...
Global Culture? It Won’t Really Ever Happen
"Populations across the globe today may devour Starbucks, KFC, and Coca-Cola. They may enjoy Italian opera, French couture, and Persian carpets. But no matter...
Why Horror Films Were So Popular In 2020, The Most Horrible Year In Recent...
"The past year … saw the horror genre take home its largest share of the box office in modern history. In a year where...
Needed: A Historic Plan For Rebuilding The Arts In America
The Biden campaign promised that America could “build back better,” and throughout 2020 the president-elect extolled F.D.R.’s New Deal as a blueprint for American...
Robert Cohan, Who Brought Contemporary Dance To Great Britain, Dead At 95
"A New Yorker who performed with Martha Graham's dance company, often partnering Graham herself, Cohan moved to London where, in 1967, he became the...
What We Need Is Artificial Intelligence That Explains Itself
A computer that masters protein folding and also tells researchers more about the rules of biology is much more useful than a computer that...
Here’s How A Few Other Countries Have Been Aiding Arts Workers Through The Pandemic
"In December, owners and operators of theaters and music halls across the United States breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the latest...
While He Was Being Impeached, Trump Gave Two People The National Medal Of Arts....
The awards to country music stars Toby Keith and Ricky Skaggs weren't even officially announced; word went out in a tweet from Bloomberg News....
45,000-Year-Old Painting, World’s Oldest Non-Abstract Art, Found In Indonesia
"Four years ago, scientists came upon the purplish pig adorning the walls of a cave hidden in a highland valley on the Indonesian island...
Caligula’s Pleasure Garden Has Been Unearthed And Will Open To Public
The remains of part of the notorious emperor's Horti Lamiani (as it was then called) were excavated from under the rubble of a derelict...
Concert Halls Can be COVID-Safe At 50% Capacity: German Study
The research, commissioned by and conducted at the Konzerthaus in Dortmund, used dummies that simulated breathing, with and without masks, placed at various points...
Dallas Symphony Hangs On To Fabio Luisi Through 2028-29
"The five-year contract extension comes amid Luisi's first full season as artistic head of the orchestra. … vision for his first full season...
Paris Opera Ballet Says It Will Get Rid Of Racial Stereotypes, And Conservatives Flip...
Talking to Le Monde about diversity, racial equity, and blackface/yellowface in the ballet company, the world's oldest, new Paris Opera chief Alexander Neef said,...
The Important Privilege Of Being An Absolute Beginner
"For most of us, the beginner stage is something to be got through as quickly as possible, like a socially awkward skin condition. But...
France Guarantees Unemployment Funds For Artists
In the U.S., some artists have turned to philanthropic or community support to get by. But in France, dancers, musicians, even the set-builders, costumers...
How One Arts Funder Is Trying To Diversify Its Selection Process
“The ‘X-factor’ that drew me to an organization was their organic feel. Anyone with money or political ambition can rent a space, start a...
Why We’re Still Fascinated By Gatsby
"Were you to lay this thing out by the sentence, it’d be as close as an array of words could get to strands of...
The Best-Selling Books Of 2020 – Obama Tops The List
"A Promised Land, the first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs, was the top print title in 2020, moving nearly 2.6 million copies at...
For 100 Years, Magicians Have Been Sawing People In Half
On January 17, 1921, in a north London theatre, "an English magician called Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously sawed through a sealed wooden...
Connect
The viability of our industry depends upon developing relationships — making connections — with many new communities. The bases for success are respect and...
Is Simon Rattle’s Departure From London A Sign Of Things To Come Post-Brexit?
Although glamorous plans were unveiled in 2019 , the new hall is looking more and more like a fantasy. And now it is losing...
New Memoir’s Accusations of Incest Rattle French Intelligentsia And Its Culture Of Silence
In the book, La familia grande, prominent attorney Camille Kouchner, the daughter of Bernard Kouchner, former foreign minister and co-founder of Doctors Without Borders,...
Is This Finally The End Of Broadcast TV?
How much of the telly you watch this year will be on a live, linear channel, at the scheduled hour, with millions of others...
Loose Lips Sink Ships: Nina Ananiashvili Loses New Job One Week After She Announced...
Last week the former prima ballerina of the Bolshoi, ABT, and the Houston Ballet told the Georgian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that...
