Performing arts
Metropolitan Opera considers selling multi-storey Chagall murals, valued at $55m
Despite a promised $200m deal with Saudi Arabia, the largest performing arts organisation in the US is taking drastic measures to cover its costs
Trump's name added to Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, despite legal questions
President Trump's latest step in his takeover of the revered performing arts venue involved a hasty change of title
How Ai Weiwei gave a classic Italian opera a political twist
A new behind-the-scenes documentary shows how the Chinese dissident artist brought his signature stylings to Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Turandot’
Glimpsing the future: William Kentridge opera has its New York premiere in Brooklyn
The South African artist’s 2019 "Waiting for the Sibyl"—originally conceived as a companion piece to Alexander Calder’s “ballet without dancers”—grapples with life’s uncertainty
Robert Wilson, experimental playwright, director and artist, has died, aged 83
Over a six-decade career, he created elegantly stylised performances and images with collaborators including Marina Abramović, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga
Renzo Piano to design performing-arts centre in South Florida
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect's firm, which accepts only two projects per year, will take on the new Center for Arts and Innovation in Boca Raton
Joy in Manchester’s cultural division as £211m arts centre opens
Factory International, the UK’s largest public investment in a cultural project since Tate Modern, opens in June alongside the Manchester International Festival
Scenography in contemporary Scandinavian opera and theatre take centre stage in new book
Lars-Ake Thessman on his set- and costume-designs
Ch… ch… ch… ch… changes at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the first institution to gain access to David Bowie’s 75,000-item archive
David Bowie’s outrageous stage costumes to go on display
Ziggy Stardust fashion for the V&A
London: Campaign to save Theatre Museum fails
The V&A could not raise the money to keep it running
London: V&A Theatre Museum likely to close
The collection will be put into storage







