Does Duke Ellington Need A Revival?
Ellington’s legacy — as large and as meaningful as that of any artist in American history — remains enigmatic. We honor him, put him...
James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is 100 Years Old. What, Exactly, Are We Celebrating?
"That Ulysses was an event nearly everyone will agree. However, can we say even now, a century later, what kind of event it really...
Canada Debates New Canadian Content Law For Streamers
The Online Streaming Act, introduced Wednesday, would force web firms to offer a set amount of Canadian content and invest heavily in Canada’s cultural...
In The Face Of Black Lives Matter And Ongoing Violence, Is Creating Dance A...
Choreographer David Roussève has always situated his work at "the intersection of choreography and social activism," finding that he can help create empathy with...
John Williams At 90: Still Underrated?
A 28-film, nearly 50-year collaboration with Spielberg. Fifty-two Oscar nominations – the most for a living person and second only to Walt Disney –...
It’s Taken Six Years For Miami City Ballet To Get Its Full-Length “Swan Lake”...
The company, always oriented more toward the abstract works of Balanchine and his artistic successors than toward story ballets, has performed only an abridged...
Hollywood Will Be Sending Fewer Movies Into Theaters Next Year (And Perhaps Well After...
The studios have 71 features scheduled for theatrical release in 2022 — considerably more than in pandemic-plagued 2021 and 2020, but down from the...
Following A Difficult Summer And A Staff Revolt, Williamstown Theater Festival Is Making Big...
Those changes include better pay equity and HR, safety training, hour caps, and, crucially, ending the ambitious seven-production summer season. The Festival's statement says...
San Francisco Art Institute Is Saved: It Will Merge With A University
The 150-year-old art school, which has had longstanding financial problems and nearly shut down in 2020, will integrate with, and ultimately be acquired by,...
Confirmed: The First Native American To Head The NEH
Shelly C. Lowe, a Navajo who grew up in rural northern Arizona, was nominated by President Biden as chair of the National Endowment for...
England’s Arts Funder Says All New Funding In Its Next Budget Will Be Spent...
Arts organizations in the rest of England have been complaining for years that, with respect to national funding, they are shortchanged in favor of...
Local Government Funding For Culture In England Down By 50% Over The Last Decade
Research by the Public Campaign for the Arts "found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services – including public libraries, entertainment venues, museums,...
Artists On Strike, A History
As artists become more politically active today, it is worth remembering that John Reed Clubs and New York’s Artists Union organized strikes to negotiate federal arts programs during...
A World Without Spotify? Really?
As welcome as the protests are, they do not address the fundamental injustice of the streaming economy. - The New Yorker
Dutch Publisher Stops Printing Of Book Claiming Identity Of Man Who Turned In Anne...
The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, released on Jan. 18, caused a sensation when it said investigators had named Arnold van den Bergh as the main...
A Crossroads For LA’s Largest Theatre
This Los Angeles cultural institution is at a crossroads as it goes through its first leadership change in 17 years, and confronts questions about...
Yale To Reevaluate Donor Influence
Concerns about inappropriate donor influence at Yale rose after The New York Times reported in September that Beverly Gage, a professor of history, had quietly resigned...
Revealed: Millions Of Dollars Of Art Laundered Through Shell Companies
More than 1,600 works of art by some 400 artists were quietly shuffled through shell companies in tax havens according to records from the...
Cleaning Week At (Perhaps) Europe’s Most Beautiful Church
Every January, Dresden's Frauenkirche closes for seven days, "and dozens of carpenters, painters, and other craftspeople and cleaners get to work. The crew repairs...
The Woman Who Can See 100 Million Colors
Concetta Antico is a tetrachromat, which means she has a fourth colour receptor in her retina compared with the standard three which most people...
Boycotting Joe Rogan Is Probably Futile
"If the protest succeeds in getting him booted, he can go back to making his podcast available on other platforms or launch his own....
Literature’s Greatest Year: 1922
The response of artists and writers was to remake their work: a way of seeking either to control the strange and uncontrollable, or simply...
Where Method Acting Was Born
In an excerpt from his new history of Method acting, Isaac Butler looks at the American Laboratory Theatre, where, in the 1920s, two of...
How Your Culture Determines How You Hear Music
While commonalities certainly exist the differences were astounding. How could it be that Rossini’s humorous comic operas, which have been bringing laughter and joy...
The Black Fiddlers Of Monticello, Led By The Sons Of Sally Hemings
Beverly, Madison, and Eston Hemings seem to have inherited musical talent from both their mother and their enslaver/father, Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong violinist. The...
