The male-female binary is built into the formalized structures of dance at just about every level, from the very beginning of training through the conventions of professional-level choreogra…
"[A] pianist and educator, [he] became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz. … Photogenic, erudite and fabulously talented, Mr. Marsalis's children and many othe…
"Amid the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus pandemic, … domestic ticket sales turned in a combined $1.81 billion from Jan. 1 through March 19, the day when Comscore stopped reporting …
"In a March 31st letter to alumni, Dean Robert Blocker outlined an ambitious plan to provide aid, including 'a one-time stipend of $500' to all students to assist with travel and expenses; f…
The Edinburgh International Festival, the Fringe, Book Festival, Art Festival, and Military Tattoo, which transform Scotland's capital for the month of August, have been called off for 2020.…
"Imagine you are a small businessperson or freelancer suffering a deep financial loss as a result of your city's lockdown. You apply for a grant from the government on a Friday, submitting n…
"Michael has a clean burial in the far north, by the grace of the Almighty God. Bartley will have a fine coffin out of the white boards, and a deep grave surely. What more can we wa…
Faced with mounting pushback against its plan to consider cutbacks beginning Apr. 5, the Met has now postponed any such changes until May 2. The Frick's plans, including a temporary move to …
I've also been watching with great interest the number of arts organizations making content available online, providing virtual experiences to help us get through this. At the same time, I w…
Covered in screens these past few weeks, I have noticed some positive changes. I FaceTime my friends so much that I know them better than I did before. I decided to learn what TikTok was, an…
"At issue is the aspect of copyright law that allows authors to terminate copyright grants to publishers. The putative class action was brought by John Waite and Joe Ely, musicians who alleg…
"The internet may be exploding with resources for virtual classes, from top dancers teaching barre to free warm-ups courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Foundation, but in academia, teachers fac…
China's 70,000 theaters shut down in January amid coronavirus concerns during the weekend of the Chinese New Year, which is typically the country's busiest moviegoing time. Piracy data compa…
And shows, where a Dreamworks show took honors. Repeating this year as most-trafficked museum is the Louvre in Paris, which welcomed 9.6 million visitors, easily beating No. 2, the National …
"This is Pieter Bruegel's circa 1562 world-masterpiece painting The Triumph of Death, a panoramic pandemonium of an army of skeletons laying waste to a barren burning landscape while murderi…
Los Angeles is full of odd and quirky cultural enterprises, many of them precarious in the best of times. Mandatory closures that may extend for weeks, if not months, might end up converting…
She helped create the series Live From Lincoln Center, Dance in America, and Live From the Metropolitan Opera. And in 4½ years as PBS's senior vice president for programming in the late 1…
The debate here echoes similar ones going on throughout the art world. What is the purpose of the encyclopaedic museum: to present a rational version of the world in discrete categories, as …
"Timur Bekmambetov, best known outside Russia for making the Angelina Jolie thriller Wanted, was midway through filming his second world war fighter-ace film V2: Escape from Hell when the co…
Unlike so many other institutions, the major music schools of America were uniquely prepared to make the transition to online instruction. The fact is, they've been preparing for it for year…
Locked out of the concert hall because of global coronavirus concerns, endangered in physical and financial terms, classical music is fighting to survive and finding more paths than ever to …
As the covid-19 disease has escalated, turning New York into a crisis epicenter, the resolve of a multibillion-dollar arts community has intensified to try to temper panic and pool advice. A…
"The imprint at Penguin Random House [is] responsible for publishing some of history's most canonical authors, from Homer and Marcus Aurelius to James Joyce and George Eliot. Elda Rotor, who…
This summer's event would have included the premiere of a new Ring cycle staged by Valentin Schwarz with Pietari Inkinen conducting; that production will "probably" be postponed until 2022. …
The five-week furloughs, announced days after all National Symphony musicians were laid off with a week's notice, cover administrative employees in education, marketing, and development as w…