The event drew 98,000 attendees last year and, as COVID-19 spreads in Washington state, many are worried that a large public setting such as ECCC may be a breeding ground for infection. Nota…
"I had not noticed anything strange, but then I walked through the historic center, and it hit me: in the past few weeks, as the virus spread, the city emptied out. The crowds lining up to e…
"It's used because it sounds fashionable. It sounds like it's for … the aesthetically conscious." As zeitgeisty as other oddly specific and much hashtagged words like "wanderlust" or "jour…
This was going to be one of the busiest summers ever for festivals and stadium shows, so any disruption is going to have an impact," said Dave Brooks, senior director of live and touring for…
It is unclear how much ViacomCBS, which has owned the publisher for more than 25 years, might fetch from the sale. Book publishing is no longer a growth business but its revenue has been rel…
Helmed by the Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones, NCI is a two-week boot camp for early and mid-career arts writers to strengthen their skills. Apply by April 2. Full scholarships available, no f…
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, America's premier contemporary dance company, seeks a dynamic, strategic, and results-oriented leader for the role of Director of Marketing and Communications.
"From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre's bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight." " The Guardian
In the late 19th century, few believed that anyone, literate or not, could have memorized something as long as the Iliad or Odyssey. (The main argument at the time was whether "Homer" was on…
The event was already set to be a ghost town when it opened its doors, after publishers and rights agencies began withdrawing en masse over the last week. Some of the world's biggest, includ…
For The Washington Ballet, Dr. Natalie Rouland studies the history of great Russian story ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, going all the way back to the written stage direction…
The country's cinema has a redoubtable history (think of KieÅ›lowski and Wajda), famous auteurs at their peak (PaweÅ‚ Pawlikowski, Agnieszka Holland), and an impressive younger generat…
"The common line among museums and theaters is that they are monitoring the situation and planning to operate as usual, unless told otherwise by county or state health departments, the Cente…
For essentially the same reasons that some people wanted the murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco to be covered over or removed. " Artnet
His various art "actions" (as he calls them), along with his apparently high pain threshold, have earned him international notoriety and a good deal of sympathy. Yet he seems to have squande…
"The movie in question is the documentary Shakedown, from filmmaker and conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub. It hails from the upper echelons of the art world, where the project enjoyed a pres…
Where they came from in the first place, how they're made (and laundered), and why they got Nijinsky fired. " The Stage
"While jazz-inspired music by the likes of Stravinsky and Weill has never been forgotten, the similar efforts of dozens of other composers from the same period have fallen into obscurity. No…
The more we learn about genetics and the brain, the more impossibly complicated both reveal themselves to be. We have picked no low-hanging fruit after three decades and $50 billion because …
Billy Joel performs "New York State of Mind" on The Mike Douglas Show. This episode was taped on August 9, 1976: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that …
"Even for spirits less fastidious than Strachey's, there is, even at the best of times, a great charm in the past. Time, that sedulous artist, has been at work on it, selecting and rejecting…
I'm overjoyed to report that her condition has improved significantly since yesterday. The internal bleeding has stopped, she is resting comfortably, and her doctors are completely satisfied…
When dealing with new communities, staff and board members of nonprofit arts organizations are sometimes puzzled when things they thought would work crash and burn. Often, there is really no…
The amazing feats achieved by computers demonstrate our progress in coming up with algorithms that make the computer do valuable things for us. The computer itself, though, does nothing more…
The effect on the UK's artistic landscape is more worrying. For a European artist, it changes whether they decide to base themselves in the UK rather than just sometimes performing here. And…