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Before the shutdown, the museum had around 960 staff members, director Glenn Lowry said. Through a combination of voluntary retirement packages and general attrition, the new staff count wil…
Durante Verzola, isolating with his family in Kansas City, has set on four dancers in Miami City Ballet a new piece titled A Dance for Heroes, commissioned by MCB artistic director Lourdes L…
"I thought it was really bad that they called for an international competition," says another heritage architect, Charlotte Langlois. "The message it sends is we need international architect…
"Formed in 1970 by Mr. Schneider and Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk was credited with bringing synthesizers, drum machines, preprogrammed tapes and sequences to the fore, developing a sonic templat…
Peter Florence: "In the last three weeks we've reshaped the programme we'd been planning for the last 18 months into just 80 online events and we've been experimenting with tech platforms to…
"As dancers, we are taught to problem solve in real-time, so it came as no surprise when," once the coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of almost all live dance, "streamed performan…
Two international operations culminated last fall in the arrest of 101 suspects and seizure of trafficked objects in Spain, Argentina, Latvia, and Afghanistan. Among the items were ancient c…
On top of the obvious difficulties of staging a televised ceremony to promote Broadway shows when theaters are closed until god-knows-when, there may be no fair way, at this point, to vote f…
Difficult times are a form of truth serum. They force clear priorities. For me, that's meant reaching out nationally to offer, at no charge, a webinar for nonprofit leaders: "CRISIS ENGAGEME…
What has interested me right now are online videos in which dancers, sequestered in their homes, keep in shape. Their charm lies in how the dedicated, witty performers interact with their lo…
I fear that the rampaging growth of income (and most other) inequality is going to be a raw wound on the other side of this crisis and that the nonprofit arts industry could be caught up in …
Among the key elements of the proposal outlined by President Macron are a full-year extension of unemployment insurance for gig workers in the performing arts (known as "intermittents du spe…
Until I truly loved, I was alone.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, "The Lady of La Garaye"
Continue reading Almanac: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton on love and loneliness at About Last Nigh…
Actors' Equity Association is rethinking almost every direction: How can more space be added to dressing rooms? Which costume fabrics resist the virus better? How many people need to touch a…
The scenario that pays off in the end is the Leviathan Scenario, where everyone makes sacrifices and is mobilized to develop local solutions, creating bottom-up experimentation with governme…
When at last the chamber was empty, the team was surprised to discover that it wasn't a tomb. The room had a raised, table-like area and shallow channels cut into the bedrock along the base …
To date, the company's outstanding debt stands at $467 million (plus interest), according to the latest documents. It has to pay more than one quarter of that"$119 million"in interest and pr…
"The Music Box in Chicago has a kind of tip-line where people can call in and describe what streaming services they have and their programmers will recommend what to watch. It's been wildly …
Without touch, humans deteriorate physically and emotionally. "We know from the literature that lack of touch produces very negative consequences for our wellbeing," says Alberto Gallace, a …
The covid-19 crisis has forced a sacrifice of so much of what makes opera so powerful " the massive casts, booming orchestras, elaborate staging and singular thrill of being present to exper…
"Cancellations [due to the pandemic] have now been extended from 31 May to 28 June. 'This does not mean theatres will reopen on 29 June,' [the Society of London Theatres] stressed in its sta…
"To continue offering dance despite the pandemic," Melissa Turnage, a dance artist in residence at several hospitals in Birmingham, Alabama, "[has] made DVDs for each of the units she works …
"The claims filed by arts groups, from movie theaters to concert halls, have become a particularly intense battleground, in part because the virus ended a primary source of revenue " ticket …
ABS-CBN, for years a target of President Rodrigo Duterte for its reporting, was shut down on May 5 as its broadcast license expired. The network's application to renew, which must be renewed…
"A leading Russian avant-garde expert says he has identified dozens of works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova languishing in [the Yaransk Museu…
