The 3,600-year-old, 6×5-inch clay fragment contains the section from the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the hero recounts his dreams to his mother. The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security seized…
When new temporary rule changes for Oscar eligibility were announced in April because of COVID-19, Academy president David Rubin told Variety it was too soon to know how the 2021 Oscar telec…
Beth Morrison and her company have produced dozens of new operas and music-theater works since they launched in 2005, including such prize-winning, audience-thrilling pieces as Missy Mazzoli…
A Cambridge spokesman told LBC News: "The University is constantly adapting to changing advice as it emerges during this pandemic. Given that it is likely that social distancing will continu…
"[A new course at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts] pairs students with professional technologists and artists to explore questions about the future of live performance and tec…
"I came to love this image, this mysterious, nameless village by a famous but nameless artist, long before I knew anything about art or criticism. I often wonder whether I would even pause f…
"A Spanish court has dismissed an appeal from a psychic who claimed to be Salvador DalÃ's long-lost daughter after DNA results debunked the outlandish theory. Pilar Abel has been ordered …
Charles McNulty: "While no virus can defeat this art form, the theater will have to change to meet the challenges of a transformed world. While we're mourning the loss of playgoing among the…
In recent years Chinese developers have been putting up, and opening to buyers and renters, reproductions of such attractions as an English village, a lakeside Austrian town, and a Paris nei…
"In Venice, a city famous for being visited by too many and home to too few, … [locals] hope the crisis has also provided an opportunity to reimagine one of the world's most fragile cities…
"Executive director Mark Masuoka resigned from his position effective immediately after seven years leading the Ohio institution. The news came less than three weeks after ARTnews published …
The company, which performs in Fort Worth and Dallas, is reducing its total budget from $10.8 million to $8.5 million, reducing dancer and staff pay on a scale from 5% to 20%, changing dance…
Here's a look at the safety measures which the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has put in place for receiving visitors beginning this Saturday. The San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts is following …
At the State Theater of Hesse in Wiesbaden, bass Günther Groissböck and pianist Alexandra Goloubitskaia gave a recital of Schubert and Mahler before about 200 people in a 1,000-seat audito…
"The corporation is actively exploring reviving the broadcast channel, four years after it was taken online-only, … after enjoying a run of hits " from Fleabag [and Killing Eve] to lockdow…
Buddy Rich and his big band play Bill Potts' "Big Swing Face" at Holland's Northsea Jazz Festival in 1979: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in…
"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions…
One of the most controversial acts in the ever-controversial life of Dmitri Shostakovich was his tortured decision in 1960 to join the Communist Party. It is not mentioned in Testimony (1979…
Theatre Calgary is on the search for its next Executive Director
"Comparing the Covid-19 pandemic with the second world war is a perilous and largely ridiculous game. Yet in purely practical terms, the war was the last time cultural organisations ground e…
Theater owners are the most eager to get Broadway back in gear; top producers are more cautious, since they are the ones who lose their shirts over diminished demand. All acknowledge that th…
"Long ago, both jobs and respect were hard to come by for choreographers and dancers. This was especially true for women of color, as well as for modern dance. Respect went more easily towar…
"Our images don't often depict the pandemic explicitly, say with an ambulance or an unusually empty street, but they likely convey how you are feeling through this. Anxiety, grief, boredom, …
Der Tagesspiegel, a local newspaper, saw the departure of the Flick collection as "further proof of Berlin's gradual metamorphosis from a creative hub into a stronghold for property speculat…
There is a growing body of scientific evidence showing that our internal mental states, including our emotions, might also be socially transmissible. Understanding the nature and dynamics of…