The COVID-19 crisis has devastated the Berkshires, where tourists flock for theater, art, music, and dance, as well as yoga, spa treatments, and hiking and biking amid wooded hills. One afte…
The artist, who spent $350,000 to make and install the sculpture as a guerrilla artwork in 1989, had argued that moving it would transform it into an advertisement for the stock exchange,…
Much of the social media debate has been over whether a historical figure who took a morally objectionable positions must be understood as "a man of his time." The response of activists has …
"For a number of weeks, we have been talking about what would it take to be able to bring people back, how seating in the theaters could be with social distancing and thinking about the perf…
"What online services lack in quality, they make up for in convenience"and as they get more popular, they're only going to get better, which in turn could unbundle the prevailing model of hi…
Eric Schaeffer, founding artistic director of the Tony-winning Signature Theatre, resigned late Tuesday after an actor made public his allegation that Schaeffer sexually assaulted him during…
The current crisis is also a policy crisis. It illuminates the need to support artists more fulsomely and creatively throughout the various stages of their careers. Central to this is imagin…
"I could not help but wonder about the institution of the Western canon. Were my colleagues and I right to think that the institution to which we had given much of our professional lives cou…
Part of what illness does is to unsettle both the sense of ourselves that emerges from our patterned and effortless doings, and our capacity to project this sense outwards, into the social w…
According to the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, film, TV, theater, music, advertising, publishing, and digital content in New York provide 305,000 jobs, and an annual economic ou…
The 78-year-old renowned conductor said the coronavirus had ''destroyed music,'' with shuttered venues depriving the world of ''spiritual food" as it faced a pandemic that still threatens un…
The release, sent from an email address that appeared to be the same as that used by the organization's public-relations department, looked like the real thing " but it was fake. " Seatt…
In the statement announcing her resignation, Jill Snyder did not refer to the apology, saying, "I came to this decision with the understanding that the world at large, and our museum in part…
Arts lecturers tend to be employed on casual contracts. With universities closing in-person classes, these lecturers are being laid off en masse. " The Art Newspaper
"Doing digital isn't a quick-fix Band-Aid for anyone," says Kathleya Afanador, Marquee's co-founder and head of content. "It's a fundamental layer of their overall business that needs to be …
Gone are the days of monolithic support. The philanthropic field is diverse, dispersed, and interconnected. As such, funders must collaborate in order to move forward. These alliances should…
It is easy to destroy; it is hard to build. The American edifice that imperfect men and women have built over the past two centuries is a solid foundation for the just nation in which we liv…
The Gran Teatre del Liceu filled its 2,292 seats with plants for a performance by the UceLi Quartet, which it called a prelude to its 2020-2021 season. The string quartet serenaded its leafy…
Much like those nervously gathered to listen, the program was a little all over the place; but the intimacy of the experience " and our collective hunger to hear just about anything " gave t…
At $6.01m after fees, the guitar is the most expensive ever sold at auction, Julien's Auctions said. Bidding in Los Angeles opened at $1m and was won by Rode Microphones founder Peter Freedm…
Up and down the country, drive-ins are opening as canny entrepreneurs see a business opportunity. It's going out but staying in at the same time, and only a cynic (that'll be me) would sugge…
One problem is that our arts palaces lock in comparably palatial costs. In this grave new world, bigness, in fact, is actually a bug, not a feature. Producing in mega-venues like Portland5 o…
"I had worried that the just-for-me performance would be awkward. The prospect triggered flashbacks of unwanted serenades by accordionists and fiddlers playing for tips on European restauran…
According to Governor Andrew Cuomo's timetable, theaters and concert halls will be part of the fourth and last phase of reopening, but even the brand-name institutions wonder how easily they…
Only a public agent can speak in our name. So mass privatisation doesn't simply shift decision-making away from public institutions to unaccountable, private entities; it also undermines sha…