One local company head says that the "wild ovation" man can be very helpful, as can the step below, but anything lower stops single-ticket sales dead. The Chronicle's arts editor grants that…
The 1632 Portrait of a Young Woman was attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn when it was given to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, but during the 1970s the attribution was changed to a student f…
The 1916-17 Portrait of a Lady, stolen from an art gallery in Italy in 1997, was discovered hidden in a wall of that very museum this past December. Now an entry in the diary of the gallery'…
The Uruguay-born conductor will be 63 when he departs in the summer of 2021 after 18 seasons. He raised the profile of the orchestra considerably during his tenure, most notably with a very …
The world's oldest ballet competition, held every second year on an outdoor stage in the Bulgarian seaside resort town of Varna, simply hasn't raised enough money to go ahead this summer. " …
No details about money or the length of the season have been announced yet; the first will probably come out later this month, and the second will be addressed in this year's contract negoti…
Bette Davis appears as the mystery guest on What's My Line? The panelists are Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Tony Randall and the host is John Daly. Davis' segment b…
"It is audacity to write about anyone from the past. One can never know what their jokes were, their sophisticated nuances. One will take seriously what they laughed at and laugh at what the…
Factors contributing to a "noticeable gap in critical coverage" include a crisis in mainstream arts criticism, a lack of diversity within mainstream theatre critics and a reluctance to be cr…
For the first time, the Berlinale has separated the functions of artistic and executive director. "Many hope [the new management structure] will help reinvigorate the Berlinale, which is con…
Viktor Frankl argued that literature, art, religion and all the other cultural phenomena that place meaning at their core are things-unto-themselves, and furthermore are the very basis for h…
Ruins excite our imagination with the lesson that our greatest structures will one day return to the ground, while reminding us that in their fallen states these sites are endowed with beaut…
"There's a rich history of thinking about how we learn across our lifespans in library settings and other community-based arts programs. But museums have only started to look at this arena p…
"There are more and more people that are really, really good at their instruments, and the amount of competition has certainly gone up. It's getting increasingly challenging to win a job eve…
A groundbreaking musician who had been one of only four women in the BSO in the mid-1960s, Ms. Schaefer was 95 when she died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Jan. 31 in Sequim, Wa…
The poet laureate tradition is long. Poet laureates were first recognized in Italy during the fourteenth century. Ben Jonson became England's first poet laureate in 1616, although the first …
"I wasn't attempting to create a generationally defining work of theater that spoke for the entire queer experience. I think that if I had started with that intention, I never would have fin…
When asked about cultural programming, the streaming services are tight-lipped. Both Netflix and Apple TV+ declined to say if they plan to produce more original content and whether visual ar…
It's going to be a series of apps, in fact " and they'll be free. The first one, now out, features the General Prologue, with text and audio in the original Middle English, a modern English …
"After beginning her artistic life as a painter, Ms. Pepper was known from the 1960s on as a sculptor of towering forms of iron, steel, earth and stone, often displayed outdoors. … [Yet he…
Cultural institutions are a kind of technology " a social technology. Just as physical technologies " agriculture, the wheel or computers " are tools for transforming matter, energy or infor…
Yorgos Loukos, director of the Lyon Opera Ballet for 33 years, was sacked by unanimous vote of the company's board of directors. The reason was discrimination: in 2014, he had fired then-34-…
"Since 2012, scientists based in New York and experts at the Munch Museum in Oslo have been working on this canvas " which was stolen in 2004 and recovered two years later " to tell a story …
Starting this month, London's Battersea Arts Centre is making all its events "relaxed performances" " at which audience members may enter, leave, move around, and sometimes make noise, and f…
Back in 2005, as they were nearing retirement from Pennsylvania Ballet, Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan decided to put together a little group to dance at the Philly Fringe. They hoped that…