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…
"A game of 'international chess' is how Maxime Cottray describes the current state of the global production business. 'Right now, everyone's moving their pieces around the board, trying to f…
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 …
As one development exec for a major company puts it, "During a crisis, it's not really the time to go out and ask for those five-year campaign pledges. It's the time to say, 'how are you' an…
"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…
"With more crossover than ever, the line between the two once-distinct career paths feels increasingly blurred. Broadway shows now feature every style from hip hop to ballet to the work of c…
"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…
Johnny Mnemonic. The Net. Hackers. Strange Days. "It's hard to know what's most dated about these mid-'90s curios: the primitive-looking effects, the funky fashions or the clunky technology …
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…
"Colleagues say his legacy includes dismantling multinational looting and trafficking rings; recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts from secret storehouses; and compelling wha…
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…
"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…
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art plans to open its doors on Aug. 29, after more than five months of pandemic shutdown … If everything goes smoothly with New York's phased reopening, museums…
After an investigation by the BBC and a Syrian-American archaeologist found a network of groups trading in ancient objects stolen from Middle Eastern war zones " including loot-to-order offe…
"As Americans grapple with the country's history of racism, many of them have turned to books, propelling titles like How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and So You Want to Talk About …
When things shut down in March, Mercury Theater proprietor L. Walter Stearns " one of the few commercial theater producers in the city to own the real estate they operate on " thought he'd b…
"Whether it's the artist Tschabalala Self discussing the fraught experience of seeing her paintings be sold, like her ancestors, at auction or the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael R…
"I survived the gun-to-the-head modernism, back when I was a student " you know if you weren't crunching elbows on the keys and counting up to 12 all the time, you weren't being much of a co…
"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny." Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) Continue reading Almanac: Edward Abbey on wit at About Last Ni…
Whenever someone of visibility in the music industry proclaims that what the pandemic lock-down world needs now is this (whatever that is), the chances are good that it's here already. " Dav…
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 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…
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…
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…