“Can I fall in love with a stranger?” the dance artist Lauren Bakst said. “Could a stranger fall in love with me? Will I be rejected? Will we be disappointed?” It’s hard to know what will happen at Lotto Royale, a two-day presentation of one-on-one performances, but it does bring out the nerves. It’s like…
The Juilliard School has fired a professor who had been accused of sexually harassing students after an independent investigation found “credible evidence” that he had “engaged in conduct which interfered with individuals’ academic work,” the school said in a letter to students, staff, faculty and alumni on Thursday. Juilliard said the professor, Robert Beaser, 69,…
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) has officially postponed a major exhibition of Aboriginal artwork currently undergoing review after allegations of interference from white studio assistants. On June 7, the museum issued a statement about the exhibition Ngura Pulka – Epic Country officially being postponed. Scheduled to open this month, the show featured the work…
As an “ode to the ultimate summer muse,” London gallery Saatchi Yates has organized the exhibition “Bathers,” on view through August 10. Artists have depicted this subject since Classical antiquity, showing mythical scenes like that of the hunter Actaeon stumbling on the goddess Diana bathing in the woods, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Venus emerging from…
For over a month, more than 11,000 TV and film writers have been on strike over key issues involving equitable pay and working conditions in the streaming era. They see the strike as fundamental and vital to preserving writing as a livelihood: As studio and streaming executives swallow up massive profits, the people who make…