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Though the organizers of the fund wanted to start with New York because of the city's importance as a cultural center, they know the need spans the country, extending to individuals as well …
Box office revenue limped to a historic low of $300,000 or less on Wednesday as the vast majority of cinemas in North America closed their doors indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis. T…
It seems all too obvious to compare flamenco virtuoso/a Manuel Liñán's all-bio-male show Viva! to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. But, writes Marina Harss, the dancing here is q…
The letter notes that museums annually contribute $50 billion to the US economy, generate $12 billion in local, state, and federal tax, along with supporting 726,000 jobs, expressing worry t…
"I think of it a little bit like if a house was burning, and you had the opportunity to run in and save a piece of humanity," says Industry founder Yuval Sharon. "That's what we're doing." "…
"Even as they try to reclaim what was lost, they and others are also taking advantage of a rare scientific opportunity. The cathedral, laid bare to inspection by the fire, is yielding clues …
They were made by sculptor George Tsutakawa. The theft was discovered Thursday morning when gardeners arrived for work and discovered the gates missing and bolt cutters on the ground, said R…
Young Jean Lee, Lauren Gunderson, and Jaclyn Backhaus are among those who have begun leading playwriting lessons and seminars on the web since coronavirus sent almost everyone home. Gunderso…
There was a time when listeners treated the mere existence of recorded sound as a miracle. A wonder, a kind of time travel. Priests warned of early wax cylinders being tools of the devil. Vi…
"The idea came from the dancer Miranda Quinn: The opening sequence of The Brady Bunch popped into her head. 'How they're all in little squares,' she said. 'That made me think of how we're al…
Consider all the ways arts and cultural groups earn money: from ticket sales and admission fees; participation in educational programs; renting spaces for galas and gatherings; investments a…
"[She] won the top directing prize at the Cesars in 2000 for her movie Venus Beauty Institute, a romantic comedy starring Nathalie Baye and Audrey Tautou that recounts the quest for fulfillm…
In a national survey by Americans for the Arts, 91% of responding arts organizations have cancelled one or more events. Many arts organizations have closed their doors for months to come. Mo…
A very few cinemas in far-flung cities are back in business already (though few customers are coming just yet), and the major cities are making plans. The big problem: nothing exciting to sh…
Michael Brodeur: "The plan was to spend my first week … seeing concerts and shaking hands. (Just typing that makes me want to sanitize.) The goal was to go big," with five performances in …
"The festival made the news public on Thursday, saying that 'several options are [being] considered in order to preserve its running' " its preferred one being a shift of the festival to the…
"To take Cannes out of the equation for even one year would have massive reverberations throughout the world of international cinema. It is, simply put, the most important film event of the …
The company will pay its chorus members, orchestral musicians, and unionized backstage staff through the end of March but maintain their health insurance. Upper-level administration employee…
"Organisers will struggle to recoup the large infrastructure costs they have already committed to, as 70% of the festival's income comes from ticket and book sales on site. In a statement on…
"The orchestra musicians voted [unanimously] to take a '10 percent cut of our weekly salary for the next seven weeks that had been canceled,' said [violist Amy] Hess. 'Then the dollar amount…
With America's theaters shuttered, I plan to devote some of my upcoming Wall Street Journal drama columns to screen versions of important stage plays of the past. I'm starting off with Jo…
Mrs. T's recovery from her double-lung transplant surgery has been agonizingly slow. For me, the agony was compounded when New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where her surgery took place and in…
The opening sequence of This Is Cinerama, the original 1952 demonstration film for Cinerama, the multiple-projector widescreen film process. The narrator is Lowell Thomas:
(This is the late…
"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their con…
It's tempting to ask if we can learn to be more creative. Creativity does have some genetic heritability: talent " mathematical, musical " runs in families. For example, the Dutch identical …
