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Jörg Widmann is a composer, clarinettist, and conductor of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. What did the musician and conductor to do during lockdown? "I always wanted to have some months off, …
Some images of New York's abandoned schools: The final, haunting date on the calendar that says "Today is … "; lessons still up about the coronavirus on science classroom whiteboards; all …
The Kilroys list this year goes beyond what should be in the future to commemorate what we lost this year. It's "a heartbreaking timeline of lost art, necessary art, groundbreaking art, u…
How will the online Artist Alley affect their chances at recouping at least some of what they've lost by not being there and at other canceled cons? " The New York Times
Podcasts were hot before the virus killed the commute, but even as their popularity takes a perhaps momentary break, true crime remains popular among listeners (yes, yes, Serial, but there a…
Sure, sure, Arthur Conan Doyle died long ago, and both the BBC and CBS versions of modern Holmes have hung up their deerstalkers, but there's always new Holmes material out there. Except ……
De Havilland died at her home in Paris. "The striking brunette won best actress Oscars for The Heiress and To Each His Own in the late 1940s, and was Oscar-nominated for Gone With the Wind, …
The Paycheck Protection Program is drying up, unemployment checks are about to stop (without a miracle from Congress), and 12,000 arts organizations in the U.S. say they may not survive at a…
The school's recently fired artistic director, students say, "abused his position of power, touching them inappropriately or making sexual overtures that include inviting one student to a se…
The school said in March that it was likely to close, but after more than $4 million in donations, the 149-year-old institution says it can open in the fall for one more full year. But it wi…
The cuts are needed to address the financial challenges of the pandemic-related shutdown, Kennedy Center president and chief executive Deborah Rutter said in an interview. The arts center pr…
Writing today in the journal Science, dozens of researchers from around the world show that the seismic activity from our civilization plummeted as lockdowns went into effect. This "anthropo…
Historically, the purpose of monuments, says Ken Lum of Monument Lab in Philadelphia, "has been to activate or even sustain a certain narrative of memory which people of influence have deeme…
There was a time, not that long ago, when"like most of America"publishers thought that this Trump boom would end when the president left office. It increasingly seems like it could outlast T…
"In conversations about the future with 14 dance professionals, feelings of anguish, hope, fear and resolve emerged, along with ideas about adaptation and innovation. … Here are some glimp…
Kahlil Ashanti began his performing career as part of an elite U.S. Air Force unit that did shows for servicepeople at military bases and in battle zones all over the globe. One thing he hea…
Some of these people have taken the opportunity to begin a radical rethinking of their operations. Others are doing their best to maintain a connection with their patrons and audiences that …
Christine Walevska got her one-eighth-size 1834 Bernardel cello when she was eight years old, and even as she went on to study with Gregor Piatigorsky, win a first prize at the Paris Conserv…
If, as I gloomily expect, this pandemic mushrooms into a huge, epochal shift in the social, economical and political landscape of the United States, then history teaches us perfectly clearly…
"As the decades passed, [David W.] Forbes [has] painstakingly tracked down archival portraits of people alive in that era, in libraries and private collections throughout the islands. That s…
After months of monotone condolences and a vague "five-step roadmap" from culture secretary Oliver Dowden, the British government Beyoncéd the arts community on 5 July by announcing a surpr…
German scientists are planning to equip 4,000 pop music fans with tracking gadgets and bottles of fluorescent disinfectant to get a clearer picture of how Covid-19 could be prevented from sp…
Far from being embraced as a high-minded salute to free speech and the bracing effects of political discourse, the letter was blasted for messages its authors swear were never intended. " Wa…
Dancers, unlike baseball players, may not be known for virus-spreading habits like spitting, but their job poses multiple risks. They work in studio spaces with varying degrees of ventilatio…
The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Flynn) is located in downtown Burlington, Vermont, and has been at the center of Vermont's cultural landscape throughout its 90-year history.
