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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…
From Taiwan to Germany to Spain to Quebec, lockdowns are lifting and orchestras are figuring out ways to make music again. David Patrick Stearns looks into what they're trying, from Yannick …
"The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals … says that additional evidence, including expert testimony, is needed to weigh similarities between the Academy Award-winning film and a play by the…
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…
One might say that they're conflicted. Barnes & Noble says that The Room Where It Happened is already at the top of its bestsellers list. "In contrast, a survey of participants in PW's B…
"The U.K. public broadcaster is also putting into place a mandatory 20-percent diverse-talent target for all new commissions as it plans 'bold steps that will help make the BBC an instrument…
"Offenbach's 1858 Mesdames de la Halle is the first opera to be announced. It will be staged with 12 singers but no chorus, with 13 orchestral musicians instead of the usual 40, and with a l…
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…
"When he painted it, Leonardo used an experimental technique using egg tempera and oil paint on plaster, so it began to fade soon after it was completed. Luckily, Leonardo's pupils created a…
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…
First there was the world-famous fiasco "Beast Jesus," then there was St. George painted to look like a toy. Now an early copy of Murillo's Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has been w…
"City Council has put money for the arts back into the administration's revised COVID-19-ravaged 2021 budget, including full restoration of the subsidy for the African American Museum in Phi…
"A journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in St. Elmo's Fire and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in Batman Forever …
"With the usual model of theatregoing currently out of the question most everywhere, a handful of theatres have taken a cue from an old concept: medieval pageant wagons. Only this time, inst…
"We all know it's safer to be outside and socially distanced, but that doesn't mean we are confined to an outdoor stage with chairs placed six feet apart." Here's a look at what companies in…
From 2005:
Very few people who don't write for a living understand that writing is work, much less that a writer who is sitting in a chair, reading a book or staring absently into the dis…
"Any innocent pleasure is a real good; there are not so many of them."
Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain
Continue reading Almanac: Patrick O'Brian on pleasure at About Last Night.
I knew that my contrarian suggestions about what to do with the controversial sculptures of Confederate leaders on Richmond's Monument Avenue would provoke some pushback, but I hoped for the…
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…
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…
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…
Since the very first Butoh performance, in 1959, "queer themes and imagery have been reoccurring, if not instrumental, in Butoh. The concepts of otherness and ambiguity, particularly with re…
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…
