The polymath Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was only one of numerous women in Spain and its New World colonies who became accomplished authors during the 16th and 17th centuries (and who should b…
What the lens of the Piazza di Spagna webcam reveals, in its own intimate way, is that so-called bucket-list destinations are, and always have been, real places where real people live. With …
"Maybe I've missed the more nuanced views, but if feels like the only people out there " in my echo chambered world at any rate " who admit that they can't be sure are those with the most wi…
Even when there is no pandemic to worry about, most of these places have pared existence for the long-lived back to its grim essentials. These are places nobody would choose to die. More imp…
When the museum reopens, 70 percent will be accessible, including the large galleries of French and Italian paintings, the sculpture courtyards and the Egyptian antiquities section. But with…
"Perhaps one reason why America's national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes. Of the 69 scripted…
This is in part because Hamilton is a sung-through musical, meaning there aren't any scenes of spoken dialogue in between the songs. Everything in the show is right there on the album"with t…
"At great personal risk [he] documented the dark side of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, producing powerful black-and-white images that remain a rare visual testament to the brutality of t…
Former Atlanta Ballet dancer Kiara Felder: "The ballet's audience, typically, are overwhelmingly white. "It's important to engage with the community, and it's tough when the community looks …
Until just a few years ago, the august Florence museum "acted like the internet didn't exist": it didn't even launch a website until 2015 and only got itself a Facebook page after the COVID …
The Catalyst Fund, a three-year, $2.1 million program launched in 2019 by the national support organization, is designed to help its members identify, confront and ultimately correct what Je…
The 50-year-old Russian, celebrated at home and overseas for his productions of theatre, film, and opera, is artistic director of the Gogol Center, Moscow's most celebrated stage for avant-g…
Steven Brosvik comes to Utah from the Nashville Symphony, where he was Chief Operating Officer. He has previously worked in management at the Baltimore, Houston, and San Antonio Symphony Orc…
"As states ease restrictions, many museums and animal attractions are next in line to reopen, if they haven't already. Like other businesses, they must enforce social distancing rules and re…
When the Flea Theater was founded by Sigourney Weaver, playwright Mac Wellman and two others in 1996, it was intended to have no stable location and to shut down after five years. Twenty-six…
"Classical musicians of African descent have existed on the margins of obscurity for centuries " in the classroom, the concert hall, the record industry, and on the radio," says Terrance McK…
"On Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published the five-stage plan for a 'phased return', which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances to fol…
I've written an essay for Saturday's Wall Street Journal about the history of summer movies in America. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Summer is here"but there are no movies to mark …
In today's Wall Street Journal I review an Original Theater Company/59E59 Theaters webcast of Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art. Here's an excerpt. *  *  * Except for "The Histo…
Richard Burton talks about Dylan Thomas and Under Milk Wood in a BBC interview originally telecast on February 15, 1971: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related vide…
"Depression is the inability to construct a future." Rollo May, Love and Will Continue reading Almanac: Rollo May on depression at About Last Night.
Jon Batiste, the jazz pianist and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" bandleader, has spent the last three weekends marching in the streets of New York, leading musicians and protesters thr…
"The case concerns 'the sale of hundreds of pieces for tens of millions of euros', which were allegedly looted from Egypt, Syria and Yemen as well as zones in Libya under Islamic State contr…
We're introducing Arts Reach New Ways Forward " a comprehensive package of breakthrough strategies to help you navigate uncertain times and be fully prepared for the future opportunities tha…
In consultation with art world professionals"artists, dealers, curators, museum administrators"we identified dynamics and ideas on the horizon, some with trajectories tracing into the past, …