Art and Culture

Metro Arts and its embattled director have finally parted ways. The Metro Arts Commission voted on Friday to pay Metro Arts Director Daniel Singh $200,000 in return for his resignation.  The agreement is the product of…
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The Hay literary festival has dropped its principal sponsor after boycotts from speakers and performers over the firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel companies.The singer Charlotte Church and the comedian Nish Kumar were among the…
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“Les tringles des sistres tintaient” –Clémentine Margaine as Carmen in act two of Bizet’s “Carmen.” (The truck tires rotate.) Photo: Nina Wurtzel / Met Opera Two veteran opera-goers of my acquaintance reacted identically to the…
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She put up with the giggles for a while, but they would not stop.Finally, Dionne Figgins took a break from rehearsing a group of eighth graders for their coming performances at the Joyce Theater to give a mini-lecture. But what started…
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2 days agoKatie Razzall, Larissa Kennelly and Darin Graham,BBC NewsBBCIn 2020, Danish antiquities dealer Dr Ittai Gradel began to suspect an eBay seller he had been buying from was a thief who was stealing from the British Museum.More…
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The opioid crisis is to be the subject of a new opera by a former artistic director of English National Opera (ENO) and the co-director of the stage adaptation of War Horse.The Galloping Cure would tell “a lurid tale of the greed…
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Critic Elisabeth Vincentelli reports that audiences being moved to actual tears (and, yes, even wailing on occasion) has become surprisingly commonplace this season — and it’s all because of the way the scripts and cast are…
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MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next. Only MBW+ subscribers have unlimited access to these articles.What’s…
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The walkout, which involved about half the museum’s staff, has shut the museum down for several days (a reopening date has not been set), and the employees involved say they plan to withhold their labor until their demands are met.…
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Well, what you did was, you threw out some of the company’s longstanding core principles, chief among them, not having advertisers. You introduced an ad-supported subscription tier. Did that feel like a real turn, betraying the identity…
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