"A new study finds that about 80 percent of the shows presented around the country are by white writers, and 85 percent of the productions are led by white directors. Also of concern: Much o…
"Founded at the end of May 2019 by a 'nonhierarchical group of arts and museum workers who are friends and colleagues,' Art + Museum Transparency prefers to answer questions collectively. AR…
This week book retailers in England have reopened to the public (with limits on how many people may be on the premises at a time) for the first time since the pandemic-induced shutdown began…
"Any attempts to decipher the manuscript's unique text, made up of a mixture of handwritten Latin letters, Arabic numbers, and unknown characters, have so far failed. … Now, after three ye…
"Basically," he says, "we needed to create something like ESPN or The Food Network." You mean, I ask, you talk to chefs about the politics of food, but you don't do the cooking? "Exactly, th…
Tazewell Thompson, creator, with composer Jeanine Tesori, of Blue, which the Music Critics Association of North America has named best new opera of the year: "I wrote it from an obsessive ne…
"With most of the room cut out, there are fewer distractions. When three dimensions collapse into two, there's a weird intimacy. You can get up close, like ballroom dance partners. You can d…
From prosperous Germany (a €1 billion rescue package) to destitute Madagascar (distributing bags of rice to out-of-work artists), here's what ten countries are doing to mitigate the da…
Jill Robinson, CEO of TRG Arts, said that in North America there is an active "engine of income" from new subscription purchases and philanthropy that has limited some of the financial impac…
Jessa Crispin: "Despite being pretty in a Getty-stock-image kind of way, and despite being a successful holistic health and beauty expert, Kristy has not yet found her fantasy husband. So sh…
Weekly library e-book lending across the country has increased by nearly 50 percent since March 9, according to data from OverDrive, a service used by many libraries to let patrons check out…
"Movers & Makers sits down with Founder & Artistic Director Joan Myers Brown for an engaging discussion on how she dealt with overwhelming bias to attain success in the world of danc…
Culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has announced a £1 million interest free loan and £149,000 in funding from a "resilience" fund for the Fringe Society, which runs the official website, b…
It might seem an extraordinary thing that a late 19th/early 20th century French composer " and one whose music has had a history of having been dismissed for its seeming simplicity, seeming …
"We have an extraordinary opportunity to still mount a show in a way that we fully expected to, not only without compromise, but actually potentially even with enhancements. We're able to do…
It is a neurological event where excitation of one of the five senses arouses a simultaneous reaction in another sense or senses (the Greek roots for "synesthesia," also spelled "synaesthesi…
"Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen." Michel de Montalgne, Essays (trans. Donald M. Frame) Continue reading Almanac: Montaigne on the propens…
Schott/EAM, a publisher of contemporary composers, recently posted an inspiring list of works from its catalog appropriate for social distancing. Universal Edition put out an intriguing sele…
This is part of the traditional dance of the Mari, the region's indigenous nation. Its sudden intrusion into an otherwise classical production is no coincidence. It is part of an experiment …
Publishing such authors was once uncontroversial. The conservative publishing industrial complex has been a mainstay ever since Allen Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind topped the best…
As statues fall around the world in symbolic revolt against the histories of slavery and colonialism, city and town leaders, museum officials and historians faced with these toppled monument…
The airline is known for its collection of at least 1,500 pieces that includes esteemed works by artists such as Richard Deacon, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Callum Innes, Anish Kap…
The choreographer created Immediate Tragedy in 1937 as Franco's Fascist campaign raged on. Before the COVID-19 shutdown, the Martha Graham Dance Company had been working on a reconstruction …
"Young people who break the rules, who don't want to conform, are natural social scientists. They're natural philosophers, questioning what's around them. You might not be channelling that i…
The town of Sligo, specifically, and the dire cholera outbreak there in 1832. Dracula author Bram Stoker's mother lived through that epidemic, and there's evidence, circumstantial but convin…