Funding nonwhite creators to make work using stories from their own underrepresented communities may seem a self-evidently good thing, but there are potential dangers " to the artists themse…
As COVID-19 gets more and more contained on the island, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan is moving back into live performance, gradually increasing the numbers of both musicians and…
The streaming platform's trademark for "Space Force" dates back to January 2019. The US military's space warfare service of the same name was founded in December, eleven months later, withou…
The research by TRG Arts and Purple Seven found that, compared to the same period in 2019, ticket revenue fell by 71% in North America and by 92% in the United Kingdom over two weeks in Marc…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Folger Shakespeare Library's webcast version of a 2008 revival of Macbeth co-directed by Aaron Posner and Teller. Here's an excerpt. *  *Â�…
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Bill Fabric perform "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught," from the score of South Pacific, in a newsreel clip commemmorating the 1952 National…
"The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooki…
George Floyd art gathered May 31 " June 11 in Over-the-Rhine and downtown Cincinnati " Margy Waller
The arts offer an evidence-based solution for promoting mental health. While practising the arts is not the panacea for all mental health challenges, there's enough evidence to support prior…
Mellon's commitment comes as part of a broader partnership between major U.S. foundations " Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and John D. & Cath…
The modern genre of pop cosmology began with the big bang of Stephen Hawking's 1988 megabestseller, A Brief History of Time. Since then, world-class physicists like Michio Kaku, Steven Weinb…
"[Marc] Restellini's lawsuit against the institute asserts that it is in possession of roughly 89 boxes and various other containers of research materials that he had amassed over the years …
From the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to schools and government ministries, few concepts in popular psychology travelled as far and wide as lateral thinking. Garnering in excess of 20…
"Indexing Gentileschi's oeuvre back to the rape and trial reinscribes the painter as an adolescent sex object, rather than an eminent adult artist with a 40-year career across major European…
Elliot Bostwick Davis came to the Norton from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, after spearheading the addition of its groundbreaking Art of the Americas Wing. She joined the Norton in March …
With three of the four works accessible without a boarding pass, Terminal B just may be the best indoor space for contemporary art " no appointment needed " that the public is welcome to vis…
George Floyd's murder may ultimately be a catalyst for positive change in Minnesota and beyond, but in the short-term, the local dance community has lost vital spaces and resources, includin…
Amanda Hess: "It's a joke, but it's also not. As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. Even big-hearted ca…
In fostering greater identity complexity, the American theater today is realizing more of its mimetic potential " a potential long curtailed because of the restricted access of artists on th…
"Ballet companies are in a bizarre holding pattern right now. With studios and theaters shut down indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, how do they keep the repertoire alive and danc…
The move followed an article in the LA Times by John Ridley, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of 12 Years a Slave, in which he described it as "a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of …
The memorial to the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Paris rock club was painted at the venue in 2018 and was stolen by thieves using angle grinders the following year. French and…
Just a few days after a letter, written by 30 prominent poets and now co-signed by roughly 2,100 people, called for the resignation of the $250 million foundation's president and board chair…
The long-running cartoon series was given the Peabodys' Institutional Award along with (less of a surprise here) the PBS documentary series Frontline, while actor Cicely Tyson, 95, receives …
"The vast majority of the 349 recipient groups from the 2020 fiscal year are small, their audiences mostly neighborhood audiences who often see themselves reflected on the stages or in the g…