The Cathedral Climbers Working On Salisbury Cathedral
It is neither practical, nor desirable, to keep erecting scaffolding. “Scaffolding can be intrusive. You have to attach it to the building and you...
After 51 Years, A Boston New Music Institution Calls It Quits
Boston is losing an essential purveyor of invigorating new music — after 51 years, 109 commissions, 20 recordings, and 243 world premieres. Until now,...
Movie Theatres Have An Aging Audience Problem
Older audiences will only be around so long. If you teach the rising generation that the theatrical experience is completely extraneous, that experience probably...
How Lilith Fair Changed Music 25 Years Ago
For the artists and fans who experienced it, Lilith Fair felt revolutionary. It's success upended concert industry norms and created a new place where...
Seattle To Remove Two “Culturally Inappropriate” Totem Poles From Pike Place Park
“They don't tell a story about me or my people, and it really makes me feel less-than because we are being represented by totem...
How MacIntosh’s Iconic Glasgow School Of Art Was Recreated After The Great Fire
Reflecting on the row over the second rebuild plans he describes how an academic, from the school. Professor Ray McKenzie, had said publicly that...
How Exactly Do They Get Fireworks To Create Fancy Shapes In The Sky?
No longer must holiday fireworks look like either meteors or weeping willows. Pyrotechnicians can make the shells show smiley faces, words, and even dandelions...
A Great Writer/Editor Partnership: Robert Caro And Robert Gottleib
When Caro was almost finished with “The Power Broker,” he got an agent, Lynn Nesbit, and she matched him up with Gottlieb. If there...
Refugee Ukrainian Dancers Have Formed A New Ballet Company In Europe, And They Have...
United Ukrainian Ballet, as the company is called, have set up a headquarters in the former Royal Conservatory building in The Hague. Their next...
YouTube Has Grown Its Own Critic Class
Importantly, these commentators were not professional journalists, concerned experts or onlookers from outside the YouTube world. They, and their audiences, come from the same...
At A Comedy Club In Lviv, Finding Humor In The War
When some local comedians realized that one basement comedy club is a designated bomb shelter, they started a regular show there. They call it...
What Will Be The New Australian Government’s Arts Policy?
The new Labor government's Arts Minister is also the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations: Tony Burke. He indicates particular interested in job security...
Remembering Flame-throwing Musicologist Richard Taruskin
Dr. Taruskin was said to have grown gentler in his later years and he befriended many young critics and scholars, the same sorts of...
Jim Oestreich Remembers Richard Taruskin
His keeper, not his editor, I used to call myself in affectionate jest — and with enormous pride and respect. - The New York...
HBO Max Will Stop Making Original Programming For Large Swaths Of Europe
"As the (new Warner Bros. Discovery) media conglomerate looks to recalibrate its streaming priorities, it will no longer produce originals for HBO Max in...
Peter Brook’s Death “Marks The End Of A Theatrical Era”
"His work, weaned on modernism, liberated by postmodernism and forever revisiting the classics, cared little about aesthetic ideology but was deeply rooted in history....
Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” Has Been An Orchestra Favorite For The Fourth Of July. But...
"Some groups decided to skip it, arguing that its bellicose themes would be offensive during wartime. Others, eager to show solidarity with Ukraine, added...
Paris Reveals Planned Overhaul Of Outdoor Space At Notre-Dame
The redesign by landscape architect Bas Smets will include expanded plazas in front and in back of the cathedral; more plantings, including shade trees...
16th-Century Frescoes Which No One Knew Were There Uncovered In Monaco
Wall and ceiling paintings, believed to be by Genoese artists, were found and conserved in three rooms of the Prince's Palace: the Gallery of...
Mariupol’s Drama Theater Is Destroyed, But Its Theater Company Is Still Working
"In all, 13 members of the Mariupol troupe survived the weeks of bombardment of their city. ... In recent weeks, the group has reconvened...
Stage Director Peter Brook, 97
"He explored the interior world of the self and the nature of reality in dramas of every description – Shakespeare, opera, Asian epic and...
Met Museum Raises Admission Price To $30
New York state residents, along with tri-state students, will still retain the option to pay as they wish but for all other visitors, tickets...
Your Fitbit Is Only A Materialistic Delusion Of Who You Are
In a world flooded with such new devices, it is not at all surprising to find that many people now are not even aware...
Musicologist Richard Taruskin, 77
An emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a specialist in Russian music, Mr. Taruskin was the author of a number of...
Australian Museums Struggle With Framing Truths About First Nations History
‘Ultimately, it’s about laying the foundations to encourage students’ awareness that multiple perspectives of history exist, and trying to do that in the...
