Blanka Zizka, who founded the company with her ex-husband Jiri about 40 years ago and has been sole artistic director since a couple of years before his death in 2012, "has recruited three n…
As rumor has had it for months, Legris, a 55-year-old former étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet who has been at the helm of the Vienna State Opera's ballet company since 2010, will become bal…
"[He] was a master of shaggy-dog stories set on the American frontier or just beyond the Southern border, where his characters journeyed to recoup a debt, mete out justice or track down a ru…
"Arts organisations and museums in England are being warned they will lose public funding unless they meet 'stretching' targets to create and attract more diverse workforces and audiences. �…
She began her professional career in her native Melbourne at age 9, went to England and joined the RSC at 26, and was a founding member of Tyrone Guthrie's theatre company in Minneapolis. Th…
It's not an elevated park, and it's not on disused train tracks (in fact, it's tied in with a new light rail line), but Destination Crenshaw (as it's called) will be a 1.3-mile-long public s…
In an excerpt from "Take 30," originally telecast by the CBC in 1967, Leonard Cohen talks about why he writes poetry: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos tha…
"Is it not miraculous that tears are given only to humans? Surely there is something divine in them, expressing as they do compassion, sorrow, love, anxiety and all feelings that associate u…
Since 2010, urban inner rings, including central business districts, accounted for barely 10 percent of population growth in the nation's 53 largest metropolitan areas. More revealing still,…
A conductor, pianist and composer who became the Netherlands', and one of Europe's, leading specialists in new classical music, de Leeuw founded what is now the Asko | Schönberg ensemble in…
"All 12 tapestries designed by Raphael have been hung on the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel as part of celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. … All 12, made w…
"Experts have discovered a cave full of prehistoric carvings in northern Spain. Among the hundreds of rock carvings, some believed to be 15,000 years old, are vivid depictions of horses, dee…
When the ever-provocative protest artist put online sexual images and messages sent to a woman by former Macron aide Benjamin Griveaux, thus driving him from the race for mayor of Paris, Pav…
"All along, while standard American English was busy convincing everyone that it was a superior dialect, it's Black English that's been a true cultural and linguistic force in contemporary s…
As the Shakespeare scholar Todd Borlik has pointed out, the triumph of Romanticism throughout Europe by the mid-1800s meant that Shakespeare (though not so much Pope) was seen as a universal…
The organization has about half the members it did in the 1970s. But it has failed to address claims of sexual abuse for decades, and the claims have mounted up. The bankruptcy is an attempt…
The mission of Benoit Swan Pouffer, formerly artistic director of the now-closed Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and now at the helm of Rambert, "is to reinvigorate a repertory company founde…
Founded in 1992, the Kunsthalle Wien is a large exhibition space with no permanent collection. How does a triumvirate lead such a venue in practice? Surely much more time is spent on meeting…
"Following the release of the six-part documentary Who Killed Malcolm X? " which launched on the streaming platform on 7 February " the Manhattan district attorney will look into the case of…
The idea, floated by the city's mayor, is to redesign urban life so that all the essentials " for work, play, shopping, culture " are within 15 minutes of every resident of the city. It woul…
"What you get in a period orchestra are three things: greater individuality of timbre, more transparency of texture and an increased dynamism once all the instruments are stretched to their …
"It seems to me that the only solution commensurate with the scale of the problem is fundamentally changing the way musicians work. We have to stop seeing it as reasonable that we'd play in …
Perhaps the forger's best tool is the desire of buyers to want something to be real. No matter how improbable. " The Daily Beast
The arts advocacy group says these are the trends that will inform its work over the next few years. " Americans for the Arts
Yuval Sharon: "If there was a straightforward message, there would certainly be simpler and more direct ways to communicate it than by creating this enormous operatic experience. Opera's pow…