Some better than others. The big, building-based, high-overhead companies in England, the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Co., are "haemorrhaging money," while their smaller count…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I consider the New York Philharmonic's plan to renovate the interior of David Geffen Hall, its home, and suggest an alternative. Here's an …
"Tate has announced 313 redundancies across its commercial enterprises, which include staff who work in publishing and in gallery shops, cafes and restaurants in London, Liverpool and St Ive…
Joana Mallwitz: "I'm still amazed about all the situations where it's still possible to be 'the first woman ever.' … I've conducted Mozart operas my whole life at major houses, and I wasn'…
Not to worry (yet): the papers will continue to publish. But since most newsroom employees have been working from home for months and the timeline for safely returning to offices isn't clear…
"Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result." C.S. Lewis, "Is Criticism Possible?" Continue reading Almanac: C.S. Lewis on what c…
At the peak of his popularity he was asked by guitar manufacturer Gibson to design two models, the Trini Lopez Standard and the Lopez Deluxe, owners of which include Dave Grohl and Noel Gall…
Decades, even centuries, of history and tradition are disappearing because of market forces, and the pandemic that we are all suffering through has sped matters up. " The Critic
Google is, as Joanne McNeil writes, "the intermediary between my ideas and action forward, the glue between my questions and answers, a placeholder for thoughts and a way to sort my desires.…
In reality, museums merely reflect the massive inequalities in society at large. After the pandemic, museums may represent an even greater concentration of wealth in fewer hands. The America…
On one side of the debate, there were those who said the low prices were a way of coping with the prevailing circumstances in our economy. On the other were those who want art to claim its v…
"The important idea here is this " there is a sharp difference between the meaning of the concept of art (which certainly doesn't need you to be indispensable) and the meaning of the purpose…
History of Medicine in California, a 1938 ten-panel fresco by Bernard Zakheim, is in a building at UCal-San Francisco that the school is going to tear down and replace. UCSF gave Zakheim's f…
In his too short, too fast, too hard, too brilliant 34 years, Parker transformed an art form, no less than Mozart or Chopin or Gershwin did in their similarly brief time among us. Like those…
"It's a transition that has taken on particular urgency given the fact that the speaker pool for the world's threatened and endangered languages skews older " precisely the population most a…
When someone chooses not to follow public health guidelines around the coronavirus, they're defecting from the public good. It's the moral equivalent of the tragedy of the commons: If everyo…
The ghazal "is an intimate and relatively short lyric form of verse from the Middle East and South Asia. The form thrives in such languages as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and now English." Claire…
The company " which operates its U.S. headquarters out of Los Angeles and hired Disney veteran Kevin Mayer as its CEO this spring " said it has been working with the government for nearly a …
"We can all agree that systemic racism should be eradicated at all levels on all fronts (in every employment sector and other areas), but the arts presents a particularly challenging arena,"…
"In Goethe's 1810 treatise on color he wrote, 'red-yellow gives an impression of warmth and gladness.' He added that 'the feelings they excite are quick, lively, aspiring.' His idea that vis…
"Examining the period between April 1 through July 31," the Brookings Institution paper by Richard Florida and Michael Seman "estimates that some 2.7 million creative Americans were fired an…
"In interviews with more than 20 past and present performers, staff members and others, as well as with the leadership, the challenge of making these enormous changes becomes clear. This is …
"Theatres are entering a critical stage in their fight for survival, with the cancellation of the 2020/21 pantomime season expected to cost the industry more than £90 million in lost reve…
"The Senate of the City of Berlin has announced a decision to allow choral singing in closed spaces to resume, under very strict and precise regulation." (Very strict and precise, in fact.) …
According to reports on the Russian broadcast network RBC, one dancer at the Bolshoi (where rehearsals for the fall are underway) has gotten sick and 59 dancers and rehearsal pianists have b…