"For more than a half-century, Ms. Linklater taught vocal technique to A-list stars like Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland and Sigourney Weaver; to students at New York University, Emerson …
Why did most of New York's largest museums botch this chance to connect to a younger audience"one that has grown distrustful of their boards, labor practices, executive salaries, and even th…
British researchers found that subjects could bear a painful stimulus for 33% longer by repeating the f-word than by repeating a regular or a made-up word. Why? They think (for now) that it'…
Banes was the first dance critic to write about the exciting new urban form known as break dancing. Her article "To the Beat Y'All: Breaking is Hard to Do," in the Village Voice in April 198…
"Opened in 1920 as a silent film nickelodeon, the movie theater would undergo several retail business incarnations in the decades that followed. … It 'reopened' in 2011 under the current o…
"Center Theatre Group announced on Tuesday that it would remain dark until spring 2021 to help curb the spread of COVID-19 " an unprecedented, more than 56-week closure period. The largest n…
Well … "As long as there are no further pandemic-related hold-ups or lockdowns, the first parts of the complex will open on the ground floor and first floor in December, the Humboldt Forum…
"The mossy and somewhat eroded form of a granite statue of the Virgin Mary and child that could date from the 14th century … was discovered 11 days ago in the Sar River on the outskirts of…
Some wonder whether Bookshop will remain a viable player in the online retail ecosystem as stores begin to reopen, and customers who turned to the site during the shutdown revert to in-store…
New South Wales was slow to establish a fund to aid struggling arts organizations, not even announcing a plan until May 24, about 10 weeks after shutdowns began. Even as Australia begins the…
"The report predicts that the country's creative sector will be hit twice as hard as the wider economy in 2020, with one in five creative jobs expected to be lost. The loss could have a deva…
American Public Media, the Minnesota-based public radio network that produced the shows, announced the layoff of 28 employees and the immediate end of the weekly program that was heard on ro…
Mark Knopfler is interviewed by Michael Parkinson on Parkinson, originally telecast by the BBC in 2000: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in…
"I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog's-ear place of these pages the warning, 'Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes…
A tribute to the brash, quick-talking, brilliant, no-nonsense scholar, writer, colleague, and friend whom I once taught, worked with, and learned from. " Deborah Jowitt
Long derided as a crutch, something we fall back on when the appeal of the present dims, nostalgia is a surprisingly sturdy launch point into the future. Not only does it ground us mentally …
While both publications have a long history of reporting on local arts events happening in Toronto and Vancouver, Media Central is looking to shift editorial focus towards newer, more lucrat…
Australia's news outlets have seen their advertising models collapse, and regulators propose charging social media platforms when they carry news stories. "In its submission to the watchdog,…
For the last several decades, that "feel-good" TV cop story has shaped our understanding of law enforcement. Dozens of police procedurals dominate TV networks, with millions of viewers tunin…
"Could repurposed coal-mining sites in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky become an art-world destination and hub for a burgeoning arts scene? That is the ambitious proposition un…
For years now activists have been attempting to cancel the Confederate flag and eliminate other monuments to the fallen Confederacy, along with removing the names of former slave owners and …
"The police are a reflection of a society. They're not a rogue alien organization that came down to torment the black community. … [They] are, in some respects, a border patrol, and they p…
Levels of trust in social media companies to make the right decisions about what people can say or post on their websites and apps are low, with more than 8 in 10 Americans saying they trust…
"We want to make sure the [tourism] industry has a more positive impact on a broader group of locals, not just a few big companies, to improve environmentally friendly mobility and consumpti…
"Restoration work funded by Germany has begun on the Al-Aghawat mosque, houses are being refurbished with the aid of the European Union, and the rehabilitation of the Dominican Al-Saa'a chur…