A number of longtime employees at the opera house have told NPR that they are furious that the New York company is continuing its association with Domingo. These staffers believe that their …
Public life has become like a play whose audience is unwilling to suspend disbelief. Any utterance by a public figure can be unpicked in search of its ulterior motive. As cynicism grows, eve…
The report, commissioned by the Global Cultural Districts Network, urges cultural districts to plan, deliver and evaluate their social impact more effectively. It says there is "more that cu…
Together, between the late 1960s and the 2008 financial crisis, they tore down the model of activist government intervention in the economy and replaced it with the simple idea that markets …
Yes, Wright peacocked around Chicago, and later Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in dandyish bespoke clothes, leaving unpaid creditors in his wake. He busted up two families…
With an avalanche of streaming platforms on their way to compete with Amazon as well as Netflix, what can Amazon's very successful Emmys Sunday tell us about the future of the streaming wars…
"It makes me crazy reading sloppy, typo-strewn copy. Ditto for readers, as has been made clear by the hundreds of emails I receive complaining about errors and inexcusable typos. The takeawa…
Pavel Ustinov had been arrested during anti-government protests last month. The backlash against the case came largely from Moscow's theatre community, which carries plenty of social capital…
"Like many phrases and ideas in 2019, this one has been appropriated, bastardized, and misused to the point of not only betraying its original definition and its usefulness in checking the a…
The road to dictatorship is depressingly predictable. Once power is stolen, the problem is to keep it. Anyone who might develop a separate power base must be struck down. Eradicate rivals, r…
"While the Internet was meant to allow you to reach out to any- and everyone without a hint of the cruel discriminations that blight our world, it turned into the opposite, a forum where ind…
"These findings challenge one of the most compelling narratives to have emerged within the art world in recent years: that of progressive change, with once-marginalized artists being granted…
"We've made enormous strides. A decade ago, a third of the BBC was based outside London and two-thirds was in London. Today, that balance is 50/50. We've moved from less than 10% of our netw…
Anthony Tommasini: "When Mr. van Zweden's appointment was announced, it was questioned whether he would prioritize cultivating living composers, commissioning major works, bringing in a new …
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The story just got better " Papillon meets The Goldfinch meets The Great Train Robbery. But it had also gone cold. "I thought: oh, I've missed it." " The Guardian
From the late 1980s onward, Bruce was recognized as an expert on cutting-edge Canadian art. He knew all the artists and got all the jobs"well, not quite"and was repeatedly invited to curate …
"We've never had anything kind of like the splash that Ben has made, for better or for worse," said Ben Johnson, performing arts program director at the city of L.A.'s Department of Cultural…
The service may very well allow artists to become less beholden to the unpredictable algorithms, turbulent monetization policies, and stingy revenue-sharing of behemoth distribution platform…
Equity describes the policy as one that aims to "promote sustainable, optimistic and fulfilling careers" for its members and other arts workers. To achieve this, it claims a "radical overhau…
The Playwrights' Center, located in Minneapolis, MN, is currently accepting applications for two positions, General Manager and Director of Marketing and Communications.
Blumenthal's Mission: To present the best in the performing arts and in partnership with others, share and employ the arts as a major catalyst to strengthen education, build community cohesi…
There are two ways of telling the story of celebrity, and both are true. The first narrative holds celebrity to be a modern invention. There were always famous people, but they made their na…
"We look at cathedrals returning to being the cultural hubs that they once were. Each cathedral around the country is desperately looking for a cultural agenda for their own sustainability."…
"It was a balancing act of extraordinary deftness that only someone with strong self-discipline and steely ambition could pull off. Yet history has not dealt kindly with Gropius, especially …