Woolly Mammoth Theatre Calls On Other Theatres To Protect Artists And Artistic Mission
The Victory Gardens crisis was unsettling enough to spark conversations among board members at other nonprofit theaters, worried about the message sent to artists...
Beneficiaries Of The UK’s Arts Funding Readjustments?
Disabled people often face barriers in the arts world, and this funding will help the organisation in supporting creatives at all levels, including those...
The Luxury Of Believing That Nothing Is True (Tired Yet?)
Thinking that some things are true would no longer be an unquestioned assumption: we would understand why we ought to think that some things are true....
Dancer Has Leg Amputated, Then Carries On Dancing
"After my amputation, it's kind of the same way. I don't look the same as other 21-year-olds my age, but I can still make...
New AI Tools Are Changing How We Think About Images
Our machines have crossed a threshold. All our lives, we have been reassured that computers were incapable of being truly creative. Yet, suddenly, millions...
Brazil’s National Museum, Destroyed By Fire Four Years Ago, Is Overhauling Its Approach To...
The historic Rio de Janeiro building had, alongside its natural history materials, large holdings of Indigenous artifacts — collected in another era, usually plundered...
One More Reason To Hate TicketMaster: Site Shuts Down After Being Swamped By Taylor...
Millions of fans were locked out. In a later deleted blog post published by Ticketmaster on Thursday, the company said that 3.5 million people registered for...
Condé Nast’s CEO Talks About How He Wants To Make The Venerable Magazine Publisher...
"Roger Lynch ... inherited a company of fiefdoms (which) competed with one another for advertisers and cover stars. ... Three-and-a-half years into the job,...
Gentle Ukrainian Film Critic, Become Soldier, Become Vivid Chronicler Of A War
War has always provoked remarkable writing. Anton Filatov’s blog posts on Facebook are a 21st-century version of this, and they have gained him a...
Audie Cornish Talks About Her Not-What-She-Had-Expected Transition From NPR To CNN
"The piloting process has been fun, but it's complex when you're navigating an incredibly interesting moment in our business. Even if CNN wasn't having...
Composer Ned Rorem, 99
"By the time he was 40, he had written more than 400 art songs, as well as three symphonies, several one-act operas and a...
Fort Worth Opera Has Another New General Director
"In a surprise announcement that comes one week before Afton Battle's last day as Fort Worth Opera general and artistic director, the company has...
New York State Starts A Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Basic Income For Arts Freelancers
"The Creatives Rebuild New York initiative has announced that it is spending $43.2 million to distribute monthly payments of $1,000 to 2,400 artists and...
Curtis Institute Of Music Is Launching Its Own Record Label
Curtis Studio, as the label will be called, will feature artists in residence as well as student ensembles. The inaugural album, to be released...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Just Making The Problem Worse, Says Art Historian/Climate Activist
"Do these attacks not reveal the fragility of what we hold dear? Do they not make us think about what we want to save...
English National Opera Will Close Next April If It’s Not Given Money To Stay...
"There is no relocation," Harry Brünjes told a group of MPs this week about Arts Council England's decision to defund the company unless it...
Jacob’s Pillow Will Rebuild The Burned-Down Doris Duke Theater
The dance festival's second stage was destroyed by a fire almost exactly two years ago. A lead grant of $10 million grant from the...
Award For Playwright Caryl Churchill Is Withdrawn Because Of Her Pro-Palestinian Views
Last April, a theatre in Stuttgart named Churchill the winner of its 2022 European Drama Award, worth €75,000. When the jury discovered that she's...
We’ve Reduced Communication To Stories (And That’s A Problem)
There is a growing trend in American culture of what the literary theorist Peter Brooks calls “storification.” We’ve relied too heavily on storytelling conventions...
The Vietnam Memorial Changed The Way We Think About Monuments. Subsequent Memorials Didn’t Follow
It was the most consequential monument of the 20th century, and it reinvigorated the making of monuments and memorials in Washington. And yet, despite...
Inside The Museum Of Broadway
“Through the history on the timeline, we have tried to show the idea of Broadway’s consciousness and American consciousness. The issues are all there,...
Was Classical Music’s Racial Awakening A Mirage?
Performing arts spaces must be saturated with music by diverse composers and performers, but we cannot do this in a performative way. - I Care...
Joan Didion’s Estate Auction (Sunglasses for $27,000?)
Among the 224 items up for grabs, both the photograph (a 1968 portrait of Didion by Julian Wasser) and the table (an oak desk...
Why Andy Blankenbuehler, Choreographer Of “Hamilton”, Decided He Had To Create A Musical Of...
"There's a lot of storytelling ability in dance, but in musical theater, people champion words first. And so many times as a dancer, you...
Analyzing How Visitors See Cultural Heritage Sites Through Their Social Media Posts
Tourists have often registered their experience by posting reviews, photographs, and comments on social media. Such data offer an unprecedented, though particular, view of...
