How On Earth Do These People Improvise A Shakespeare-Style Play On The Spot?
That's exactly what the five-member Improvised Shakespeare Company does: take a suggestion from an audience member and invent an entire play, complete with tragedy,...
Fake Twitter Accounts Tease Dream Sondheim Broadway Opening (Not Happening)
The problem is, Square One is not coming to Broadway (for now, anyway) and the announcement was a hoax. A representative who worked with...
Well That Didn’t Last Long. Boston Symphony CEO Steps Down After 18 Months
Gail Samuel, who came to the BSO from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in June 2021, will formally leave the orchestra on Jan. 3 — an...
Rare Early Self-Portrait Of Cézanne Discovered Underneath Still Life
Cincinnati Museum of Art chief conservator Serena Urry was inspecting the artist's Still Life with Bread and Eggs this past spring when she saw...
The Museum Of Sex Will Open Its First Satellite Branch In Miami
"Bringing to mind the oft-debated adage 'bigger is better,' the Miami institution, which will occupy a repurposed warehouse in the city's Allapattah district, will...
The Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2022
The list is broken out into the top 20 large communities and the top 10 each of medium-sized and small communities. Because of the...
NPR Cancels Next Year’s Summer Internship Program
"(The decision comes) amid $10 million in budget cuts, close to 3% of NPR's annual budget, linked to an anticipated $20 million decline in...
Wales’s Leading Concert Hall To Be Leased To Private Operator
A committee of Cardiff's city council has approved in principle an operating lease of St. David's Hall — which hosts the BBC National Symphony...
The Metropolitan Opera Is Back Online
"The website was restored at around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, and ticket sales have resumed after more than a week of chaos. Met Opera...
English Is A Global Language. New Words Are Coming From Everywhere
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has documented many of the words that these new communities of English speakers have added to the vocabulary. - The Guardian
Australia’s National Gallery On The Edge Of A Financial Cliff
The National Gallery of Australia is headed for a financial cliff next year and contemplating drastic measures including forced redundancies, the closure of the...
Are Public Protests Undemocratic?
The fact that people protest when they don’t accept the outcome of the democratic process is a rather clear sign that protests are a...
Museums Are Trying To Make Their Collections More Inclusive. Why Is Progress So Slow?
Why haven’t we seen greater change after all that effort? The simple answer is that most institutions have thousands of works in their collection...
Yet Another String Quartet Calls It Quits
The Orion quartet was formed in 1987 by violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips, brothers who share the first violin chair equally, and cellist...
A Great Year For Books About Dance
Biographies of Nijinska, Balanchine, Graham and others. Wendy Perron's annual survey points you to the must-reads. - Wendy Perron
How George Balanchine Made Classical Ballet American
Jennifer Homans: "He was absorbing modernism from Europe and interest in the motorcar, the airplane, the train, the speed, ... the idea that there...
AI-Created Art — Democratizing Creativity Or Replacing Artists?
A reasonable reaction to generative AI is concern; if not even the imagination is safe from machines, the human mind seems at risk of...
“Flimsy, Paper-Thin Architecture Held Together With Tape”: The Guardian’s Architecture Critic Has At The...
"The ruptured, splintered aesthetic goes beyond the sculptural moves alone. Sheets of buckled steel are screwed crookedly against the edge of the undulating façade,...
Artists Revolt Against AI Images On Artist Platform
To many artists on ArtStation, the juxtaposition of AI-generated images with their own work is degrading and undermines the time and skill that goes...
Every Autumn, Madrid Is Littered With Sculpture Knockoffs Of “Las Meninas”, And Madrileños Are...
"The fifty figures scattered throughout the city include a Menina Wonder Woman, a military Menina, a Menina painted with skulls, another wrapped in aluminum,...
Is The Familiar Cable TV Model Simply Reorganizing Itself Around Streaming?
Short for “free, ad-supported television,” FAST is a live, linear and growing area of the streaming universe that has emerged as a complement to on-demand offerings....
For The First Time, There’s Sondheim, In Spanish, In Spain, Courtesy Of Antonio Banderas
In 2019, in his hometown of Málaga, Banderas founded a nonprofit company called Teatro del Soho to produce musicals more serious than the blockbuster...
Library Acquires Archives Of The Famously Secretive Thomas Pynchon
The archive includes correspondence relating to the publishing process, the library said, but no private letters or other personal material. And no, there are...
Lula Brings Back Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Which Bolsonaro Dissolved, And Appoints A Musician To...
Jair Bolsonaro, the mercurial right-winger whom President da Silva succeeds, abolished the culture ministry on his first day in office. Lula wasted no time...
Despite Its Paralyzed Box Office, The Met Opera Keeps Going, And Audience Members Keep...
A week after the cyberattack which has paralyzed its ticketing and payroll operations, the company has not missed a single performance. And with its...
