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Despite the long tradition of anti-urbanism in the U.S. that always seems to see the demise of cities just around the corner, they will survive because they are one of humanity's greatest in…
Since this year's 78 contestants from 20 countries can't travel to Switzerland, they're submitting pre-recorded videos. The jury members (masked and socially distanced, of course) will meet …
Before the pandemic, in-person classes offered by the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company tended to be small, with only 8 to 10 students. But over the last months, the theater has dropped prices bet…
"The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion the current boom for non-fiction audio series, was set in the Cleveland justice system. Unlike the first two seas…
After the open letters are published, the articles are out, and the declarations are made on social media, what happens to the people behind them? Artnet News spoke with a number of whistleb…
For two months, many thousands of farmers have been staging a massive sit-in with their tractors on the highways around New Delhi, demanding that the Indian government withdraw a package of …
The V&A partnered with the Factum Foundation to create the high-resolution color, infrared and 3-D scans in 2019. And last year, in honor of the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, the…
In DANCELIVE by Herman Cornejo, shot by Steven Sebring using his specially developed in-the-round camera system, viewers can "watch [dancers] from up close and see their movements from all s…
"In many ways, the Book Review's history is that of American letters, and we'll be using our 125th anniversary this year to celebrate and examine that history over the coming months. In essa…
If the owner is explicitly saying the business itself won't survive, keeping the building around as a cultural monument raises additional questions about what culture, exactly, is being pres…
The announcement means the departure of one of Washington's longest-serving theater chiefs and an opening in a company with a prestigious literary pedigree: It is an arm of one of the world'…
Until the arrival of the coronavirus, the prevalent model was not particularly friendly to rapid response. Symphony orchestras did a good deal of planning two or three years in advance, alth…
Trump failed to purge all the old élites, largely because he was forced to depend on them, and the Proud Boys never came close to matching the ferocity and reach of the Red Guards. Neverthe…
There is ample absurdity to wring from the fine-art ecosystem, where hierarchies and quid pro quos rule. Players ruthlessly engage in an unspoken competition for limited opportunities and re…
Perhaps it's better to say the culture wars have been brought to the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic in the Alps, courtesy of prime minister Janez JanÅ¡a, now in a third term as prime minister. …
With ongoing uncertainty about the future course of the pandemic, Cannes organizers decided they had no choice but to change this year's dates from May 11-22 to July 6-17. "The move, while e…
"[She] began her astonishingly prolific eight-decade career performing radio plays as a child in Iowa. She appeared in Shakespearean comedy and Eugene O'Neill melodrama on Broadway in the 19…
Except in the countries where they aren't: the Uffizi in Florence welcomed all of 800 visitors when it reopened last week, and Belgium declared museums essential and let them keep operating.…
Here are reports from Taiwan ("Shows go on " with precautions in place"), Italy ("A sharply divided theatre world"), the U.S. ("Struggling on despite lack of leadership"), Sweden and Denmark…
"The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction includes some 1,800 separate entries, from actifan and aerocar to zero-gravity and zine. … A historical dictionary devoted to the history of s…
"The complex will include a dozen buildings, including two separate museums " one for Ukrainians and Eastern European Jews killed in the Holocaust, and one specifically memorializing those w…
"With digital, there is no such thing as authenticity. You are trusting that it is what it is. I feel eventually no matter how convincing it may seem, what we are experiencing through media …
The performances " by such well-known artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Steven Isserlis, and the choir Stile Antico " cost about £3,000 each for personnel and copyright payments, and that doesn'…
"If you're a prodigy with a great gift for something, you can simply do it " yet might not be aware of why and how. And you don't ask questions. Indeed, the geniuses I met seemed too preoccu…
It's a messy enough business that the first commercial choreography for a pop music video (an industry where you'd think there's enough money involved to have figured this out years ago) to …
