A Marble Bust, Bought For $35 At Goodwill In Texas, Is 2000 Years Old...
How did a 2,000-year-old sculpture of a Roman general’s head wind up in a Goodwill in Austin, Texas? - KUT
Adapting A Hit TV Series For A Different Country Can Be A Tricky Matter
Take, for instance, the hit French series Call My Agent: "(The French) argue stylishly, they fall in love stylishly. It's all said, they tell...
Why Are Arts Instagram Accounts Being Targeted By Hackers?
Why are people in the art world being hacked? Criminals are not just looking for accounts with thousands of followers and the signature blue...
NY Mayor Appoints Nightclub Owner To Met Museum Board
The unconventional appointment — previous mayoral designees were political and philanthropic heavyweights — gives the club owner an entrée into one of New York’s...
Nijinsky’s Sister Was Even More Revolutionary Than He Was
And she was revolutionary in more than one way. Not only did Bronislava Nijinska embrace choreographic aesthetics that were radical for her day, she...
Actors’ Equity Launches Fight To Unionize All National Tours Of Broadway Shows
The union has ended or expanded (depending on how you look at it) its proceeding against a nonunion tour of Waitress to petition the...
Thousands Of Unseen Andrew Wyeth Works Have Become Available For Public Viewing
"The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is turning over its collection of nearly 7,000 Wyeth pieces to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in...
“I Have Been Canceled”: Frank Langella Writes An Angry Rebuttal To Allegations Of Sexual...
In a guest column, the 84-year-old actor gives his account of the on-camera move that led to his firing from the lead role in...
American Orchestras, Still Largely White, Are Trying To Diversify. It’s Slow Going, But Here’s...
There are blind auditions, special fellowships for Black musicians in particular, prep and financial aid for auditions as well as other programs from the...
The Publishing Industry Starts Campaigns Against The Book-Banning Trend
Penguin Random House has partnered with a raft of advocacy organizations on a public campaign called "Open Books Open Doors", while the Authors Guild...
After 900 Years, St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Letting Girls Into The Choir
Well, strictly speaking, they're being admitted to the choir school; there will be separate boys' and girls' choirs. Music director Andrew Carwood: "I accept...
The Books That Are Poisonous If You Touch Them
These toxic books, produced in the 19th century, are bound in vivid cloth colored with a notorious pigment known as emerald green that’s laced...
Senior Citizen Mistakenly Takes Picasso Jacket From Museum And Has It Tailored
When a certain 72-year-old woman explored the exhibition in March, she reportedly didn’t realize the jacket was anything other than someone’s actual jacket—and she...
Irving Rosenthal, Beat Scene Publisher, 91
He was fond of the Beat writers who had emerged on the West Coast and elsewhere and began publishing them. The spring 1958 issue...
Netflix’s Swoon Fuels Hollywood Anxiety
One pervasive concern: that the streaming-fueled content bubble has finally burst, with more consolidation on the way. - Variety
Ballet Performances Resume In Lviv
An abnormal announcement. "Dear guest, our event will be suspended in case of air raid alert. Dancers and spectators must go to the bomb...
A Tale Of Two Opera Companies: Houston V. Dallas
Houston Grand Opera’s history of 70 world premieres — “readier to take chances” — certainly puts the Dallas Opera’s handful of new works to...
Jacques Perrin, Star Of French And Italian Cinema Who Became Award-Winning Producer, Dead At...
Known early on for his "bright vanilla hair" and youthful mien in films by Jacques Demy, Vittorio De Seta, Claude Chabrol, and others, he...
Meet The “Architectural Terrorist”
Having been stamped with the label of postmodernism – out of favour since the 1990s, when his work was described as “architectural terrorism” –...
Former Paris Opera Ballet Star Who Fled Moscow Lands As Artistic Director In Munich
Laurent Hilaire, who was an étoile in Paris since Nureyev's days, became director of dance at the Stanislavsky Theatre in 2017; he left Russia...
I Was In A Broadway Show. I Found Out I Was Fired On Social...
My agent didn’t know anything about it either, until he checked his email and saw he’d received a message less than half an hour...
Charlotte Ballet’s New Artistic Director On How Newcomers Can Appreciate Dance
Alejandro Cerrudo: "One of the most common thoughts I've heard from audiences is, 'Sometimes I feel like I don't understand it.' You don't have...
What The Met’s Out-Of-Touch Gala Says About Where We Are
Even the Met’s own head of costume has said; “I think the power of fashion is that it can reflect the zeitgeist.” So what...
How Abortion Has Been Handled In US Movies And TV
"Culture is not linear cause and effect, ... (but) film and television portrayals of abortion ... do offer an imperfect mirror to a culture...
Questions About The Quality Of The Rebuilding Of The Glasgow School Of Art
The rebuilt of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building "favours the cheapest over the most suitable bid" according to a Glasgow architect. - Glasgow Live
