The new rules were evident inside the Met, where staff have installed an elaborate routing system designed to shuffle visitors from room to room without much crossover. Entrance into the Egy…
"John Cheever [once] told [an] audience he was 'one of perhaps ten American writers who are known as the American Chekhov'. The description isn't unhelpful because it's used carelessly, but …
Voice recognition, like that used by Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, is a step toward more seamless integration of human and machine. The next step, one that scientists around the world are …
As protests against the latest rigged election of Alexander Lukashenko continue to rock the former Soviet state, "will the theatre, which has won increasing acclaim on tours abroad but puts …
"What Alexander Neef failed to do spectacularly is build an audience. It is a failure that one might attribute to the vagaries of the economy, the advent of livestreaming, the price of parki…
"Exploitative and degrading" is how one Iraqi newspaper described the current draft Memorandum of Understanding between the Iraqi government and the Museum of the Bible along with the family…
"[Ruth] Mackenzie was sitting in her office when she learned to her astonishment that she had been sacked for 'bullying'. She was even more shocked, when [general director Thomas] Lauriot di…
The CEO chose to take it, that's how. "Spirit of the Confederacy, a bronze sculpture of an angel holding a sword and palm branch, was removed from Sam Houston Park in June … and is now on …
"Pritzker Prize-winning architect and high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has retired from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded in 1977. … He is perhaps best …
"The Vienna Philharmonic was one of the first professional orchestras to return to rehearsals and performances since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it wouldn't have been possible if…
"The BBC has looked at whether the licence fee [paid by each household with a television] could ultimately be replaced with a new special income tax, based on the Swedish model for funding p…
Audience demand for First Nations performing arts is growing. yet, aside from one superstar company (the dance troupe Bangarra), "many independent Indigenous dance and theatre artists are st…
From 2006: I went to the new Snapple Theater Center Fiftieth and Broadway to see a press preview of the new revival of The Fantasticks. As anyone who knows anything about theater can tell…
"One of the jobs of art is to go to the impossible places that history must avoid." Steven Spielberg, speech on the 149th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address Continue reading Almanac: Stev…
"Orchestras are better than ever" " if you mean that, literally, you mean that in terms of the role the institution plays in Minneapolis or Philadelphia or Boston, it has a bigger and more i…
While the persistent lag in hiring minorities is arguably a manifestation of museums' systemic racism, it is also a "pipeline problem" " the relative scarcity of well-trained minority candid…
OK, so, the Center for the Arts' "Studio 551 initiative was conceived to create opportunities for visual and performing artists in an increasingly expensive city, offering a range of tempora…
Here the map of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. And the recent uptick (well, massive increase) in business "is both 'lucrative' and 'bittersweet,'" say some owners. " Oprah Magazine
Despite a thunderstorm that caused administrators to hold umbrellas over a slightly tressed trio, the musicians didn't want to stop playing. "It's a charge. … This is the thing, to groove …
The thing is, "Suddenly, an awful lot of work can be done from home and, once you get that idea in their heads, it stays." What will happen to all of that office space in the central busines…
One of the most powerful agencies in the classical music industry, Columbia Artists Management Inc. sent a statement to its clients on Saturday saying that, due to the "prolonged pandemic en…
Writer Akwaeke Emezi and photographer Texas Isaiah, with the help of many couples, try to figure it all out. "I have never spent this much time with myself;to become my own favorite companio…
The boat ran into trouble over the weekend " every refugee aboard was rescued by another boat " because it was overloaded, but: "Named after Louise Michel, the 19th century French feminist a…
That's a hard task for any actor, and Boseman had to " got to " play Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and Jackie Robinson (not to mention embodying the fictional King of Wakanda, T'Challa). "…
Some ideas: "Study the chokepoints, bottlenecks, and pinch points that museums share"such as the entrances, queuing zones, and access area for exhibits. … Look at ways that all food may be…