Tag Archives: Arts

NEW YORK - Dancer and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy has built a career in movement and community. Both are gone now. Her world is still, isolated - and fearful. "Dancers I know are in a muted, depres...

TORONTO - Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault unveiled early plans on Friday to give $500 million to Canada's arts, sports and cultural sectors as they weather the COVID-19 pandemic - but exactly...

NEW YORK - Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O'Neill a...

MANKATO, Minn. - Australian artist Guido van Helten is back up in a boom lift and adding to his massive mural on Ardent Mills' 122-foot silos. He began the mural last October and worked into early win...

TORONTO - Shirley Douglas, the impassioned Canadian activist and veteran actress who was mother to actor Kiefer Sutherland and daughter of medicare founder Tommy Douglas, has died. She was 86. Sutherl...

From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to cancelling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh was stolen in an overnight smash-and-grab raid on a museum that was closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police and the...

NEW YORK - Lauren Beukes, a script and fiction writer, is drawn to narratives that allow her to probe themes of gender and power. For her upcoming novel, "Afterland," she imagined a plot twist in whic...

NEW YORK - The new coronavirus has reached Broadway, but the shows on the Great White Way are scheduled to go on as planned. A part-time usher and security guard who worked at two theatres in recent d...

VANCOUVER - Countless treasured Indigenous cultural objects and ancestral remains are held by museums in Canada and across the world, and local communities and human rights experts say it's ...