Malcolm Gay

DePrince's career included dancing for Dance Theatre of Harlem and Dutch National Ballet.

Priorities have shifted for today’s cultural institutions, says Kristy Edmunds, the museum's director. It’s about helping the community, helping artists.

Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons, who recently earned his second-degree black belt in taekwondo, has a few secrets up his sleeve.

Executive director says she received email threat shortly before Drag Queen Story Hour.

If the union drive is successful, the Coolidge would join a host of other cultural institutions where workers have unionized in recent years, including the Museum of Fine Arts and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.

“This orchestra set me on this journey,” he said, describing the ensemble as at “an inflection point.” “The critical decisions we’re going to make will set us up for the next 50 years.”

There aren’t many precedents for the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning musical, which is having its Boston premiere in a capable co-production by SpeakEasy Stage Company and Front Porch Arts Collective.

“I kind of had a feeling about which way this is going to go,” said Victoria Reed, senior curator of provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts. “It’s very clear that we didn’t necessarily have the documentation that we thought we did.”

Spotting a deepfake: Eight tips and tells

While technology ‘can manipulate what we perceive as true or false,’ humans ‘have some agency here,’ says Lindsay Bartholomew, exhibit content and experience developer at the MIT Museum.

The 14,000-square-foot expansion is the brick-and-mortar embodiment of the Coolidge’s twin ambitions: It promises to secure the arthouse’s financial future by strengthening its earning potential, while also burnishing the theater’s reputation as a leading regional center for film and culture.

Bolivian artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes was rising to international fame when he mysteriously disappeared in the 1960s. His work is just now surfacing on the market, and Bowdoin College Museum of Art has recently acquired two of them.

“This is what [the Putin] regime does, and the world has to hold him accountable,” says Boston-area producer Geralyn White Dreyfous.

The decision follows new federal regulations to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act that prohibit museums from displaying such sacred items without first consulting with tribes and getting consent.

A man tasked with cleaning out Sheila Robbins’s basement now stands accused of stealing more than 100 paintings from her and using a forged signature on a false receipt to sell the paintings to a collectibles shop in downtown Boston.

Worcester Art Museum is among three US museums accused of having stained glass in its collection stolen from the Rouen Cathedral

The issue is confined to the museum’s public collections search function and its private data, which is hosted on internal systems, remains secure, an MFA spokesperson said.

Louisa May Alcott’s unpublished version of Jules Verne’s “Michael Strogoff” has been all but forgotten in the nearly 150 years since she composed it. But a few years ago, a Harvard doctoral candidate stumbled across the play at the Houghton Library.

How a humble self-portrait is connected to an unusual, and decades-old, art-world dispute.

A spokesperson for the Manhattan DA’s office confirmed the two fragments are part of a wide-ranging criminal investigation into an antiquities smuggling ring.