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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.
The online dramas that so many theatres have made available, from the RSC to the National Theatre, have had a hugely democratising effect on an art form that is often accused of being elitis…
Online, that is. "Every day at sunset, Artist " an anonymous conceptualist who legally changed their name to question the biases built into the phrase 'American Artist' " will replace every …
"Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Island" " an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea where Australia maintain…
It was a one-time pilot project, performed in front of 640 people spread out through the Palladium, one of London's biggest theatres. The program: one singer, Beverley Knight, doing two half…
Pandemic permitting, the Center and its resident companies, the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, plan to present performances for full audiences n its three large v…
"TikTok is launching a program to fund its most popular creators directly for their videos " with an initial $200 million earmarked for the U.S. … How much individual creators will be elig…
"Career opportunity on Broadway doesn't begin at the box office, but in the front office. And that's where T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams and their fellow advocates have set their sights in a …
"How to Use the Dial Phone," a silent informational short made by the Bell System in 1927:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each…
"Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
Continue reading Almanac: Saul Bellow on imaginati…
Already battered financially by the pandemic, many art museums now find themselves barraged by attacks from aggrieved staffers and former employees accusing the higher-ups of racism, harassm…
For many professors, the sudden transition was a struggle. For Malan, it was the natural extension of a decade's worth of experimentation. "Our team is fortunate to have been doing this blen…
The workers " public-facing staffers who watched over galleries and answered questions about art " had announced plans to unionize with AFSCME in early November over concerns related to wage…
No one has had time to truly refine their ideas about personal life in a state of widespread isolation and existential dread, and literature, even when political, is a fundamentally personal…
"It's the first time in my position that I feel like I'm truly being heard," she explains of how she's using her voice to raise awareness, later adding, "This has been my life's work as a da…
Now that the matter of a contemporary spire or roof for the medieval landmark has been settled, here's an update on removing the (partially melted) scaffolding around the outside of the cath…
"Interviews with artists and producers suggest that there are more than a dozen plays and musicals with Black writers circling Broadway " meaning, in most cases, that the shows have been wri…
"In a survey released Wednesday of 760 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a 'significant risk' of closing permanently by next fall or that they didn't know if their institut…
"1. The old song 'Rip it up and start again' applies to sardine-seating business models not only for airlines but also theatres. …5. International touring productions will be reimagined…
"As part of the Times, Serial Productions will independently commission and edit its own stories, which 'will now be amplified by the Times,' the company said." (The price was reportedly $25…
Clive Gillinson: "What would it mean to close Seventh Avenue from 47th to 57th streets to vehicular traffic, creating a pedestrian mall for the arts, anchored by Carnegie Hall to the north a…
So far, at least, this isn't as bad as many people had feared. A presidential spokesman, talking about plans to turn the historic Istanbul monument back into a mosque, said that Christian im…
Her departure has unleashed a tempest in the art circles of Canada, where the Montreal museum is viewed as something of a national treasure; the debate over why Nathalie Bondil was let go ha…
A child star who was once dubbed "the Scottish Shirley Temple," she "grew up to become one of the most dynamic jazz artists of her generation, writing lyrics and electrifying audiences with …
