"When a team of archaeologists deep in the deserts of Sudan arrived at the ancient site of Jabal Maragha last month, they thought they were lost. The site had vanished. But they hadn't made …
What if adaptation is not what is needed? What if we are asking the wrong questions? We are asking how to integrate our structures: staff, collections, exhibition schedules, board membership…
The New Zealand Symphony, Royal New Zealand Ballet, and Auckland Philharmonia all say that key members of their companies, foreign nationals who were abroad when the COVID lockdown began, ar…
"The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize, taking the award for their 'visceral and virtuosic' debut nov…
When Canadian Opera Company general director Alexander Neef accepted the appointment to run the Opéra national de Paris from 2021-22, he was cutting short his Toronto contract by four years…
"The men, who have been charged with copyright infringement conspiracy, were accused of being members of the Sparks Group, a sophisticated piracy outfit spanning several continents … [that…
"The incident took place on December 28, when Shakeel Massey, a Spanish architecture student, punched Picasso's 1944 painting Bust of a Woman numerous times. He held metal padlocks and wrapp…
"If a successful cultural transformation can be defined as the moment when you can finally stop counting heads, the first sign of that may be when you realize that at least there are heads t…
Current licensing rules for free-to-air commercial TV broadcasters in Australia require a set number of hours of original, locally produced drama, nonfiction/news and children's programming …
We should be deeply skeptical of Trumpian fantasies of business-as-usual on the horizon. There is evidence that the pandemic, when it comes to attending live entertainment events, is changin…
After thirty years at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, Hetty Berg is taking the helm of an institution which is, thanks to history, both highly visible and loaded with baggage. The…
"Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" Continue r…
My goal as guest editor of Lynne Conner's blog for the next six months is to share and respond to what I'm seeing happening during this crisis through the lens of the audience. Every day the…
Either Max Hollein and Daniel Weiss, the director and president of the Metropolitan Museum, were knowing participants in Yoko Ono's mischievous potshot at their august institution, or they f…
The Lewis Prize for Music seeks applicants to provide a range of communications services, particularly around public and media relations. This includes engagement for its third round of fund…
Mr. Perlman has been so ubiquitous that it is easy to take for granted his status as "the reigning virtuoso of the violin," as his marketing materials put it. But with his 75th birthday arri…
Connery nonetheless celebrates his advance on a tenth decade as an avatar of old-fashioned masculinity. His role as James Bond " hating the Beatles at the height of the their success " helpe…
Under the plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to hold august institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall accountable for hiring more members of historically marginaliz…
"The organization plans to celebrate its 35th anniversary … with a reimagined season of new commissioned digital works, outdoor performances and online premieres of some of the company's m…
According to producer Edward Snape, the current situation "will stop work happening in the first place", because producers will not be able to proceed with planned projects uninsured. "Witho…
"The book, titled Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story [and now dropped by Bloomsbury India], claims that the riots were the result of a conspiracy by Muslim jihadists and so-called 'urban nax…
Virtual conventions are long. People are watching at home, in their rooms, instead of in giant ballrooms packed with other excited fans. Trying to bring some of that convention energy to peo…
The world power that is 21st-century China likely wouldn't exist as we know it if an ingenious and tenacious computer programmer named Wang Yongmin hadn't solved that very basic, very compli…
Of the removed videos, 3.8 million were taken down for child safety reasons, 3.2 million for spam or scams, 1.7 million for nudity or sexual content, 1.2 million for violence and 900,000 for…
"There's a language there, and the language comes out of so many years of study. And the idea that the orchestra can't move a couple of paces in a certain direction toward what they would do…