Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) wore black, dyed his hair green, broke with his family, refused to get a regular job, did absinthe and opium, had too much illicit sex, and, of course, died youn…
He created, and often wrote scripts for, The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family, Love on a Rooftop, The Girl With Something Extra, and Bridget Loves Bernie. (He also wrote 17 episodes of Bewit…
In September, the trustees of The Roundhouse declined to accept a £1 million grant from the Sackler Trust, controlled by the family which owns the company that makes OxyContin. Said a Rou…
Before it lost public sympathy with a badly misjudged action on the London Underground, the British activist group's agitprop had had a good deal of success, thanks to its "instinctive under…
In news received with consternation by many city arts organizations, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Finkelpearl would be stepping down by what the ex-commissioner called "mutual agreeme…
"[The company's] 2018 annual report lists both 'censorship' and 'the need to adapt our content and users interfaces for specific cultural and language differences' as business risks. But as …
"When the museum reopened last year, Aline Nyirahumure, who is from Rwanda and runs the African cultural center Kuumba in Brussels, was not impressed. Much of the money went into a new build…
Forty-nine years after the fact, I can't remember how or why I first got interested in Miles Davis. Not that you would have needed a reason to be interested in Miles in 1970. " Terry Teachout
Do you ever wonder how choreographers choose their titles? After seeing James Whiteside's New American Romance on the last day of American Ballet Theatre's fall season at the former New York…
The aggressively transgressive new MoMA, trying to combat museum-ennui by shaking up its displays, has aimed its cannon at the canon. Its disruptive installation strategy audaciously breache…
"An unsigned painting of an unidentified bald man with a beard has aroused excitement among historians and art buffs after lying largely unnoticed in the collection of a historic chateau in …
GES-2, a center for contemporary art(s) designed by Renzo Piano and constructed inside a disused 1907 power station, will open next September. Leonid Mikhelson, the billionaire funding the p…
Ever since Michael Smuin founded Smuin Contemporary Ballet in San Francisco in 1994, the company has had to scrounge rented studio space as it could, sometimes even ending rehearsals so that…
"When construction crews dismantled the chapel's acoustical ceiling tiles this summer to prepare the building for a new skylight, they found the concrete support walls were built without ste…
Officials ranging from the country's minister of culture to UNESCO executives say that restoring museums, ancient churches and mosques will not only provide employment and (eventually) reven…
"In the early years of the twentieth century, women worked in virtually every aspect of silent-film-making, as directors, writers, producers, editors, and even camera operators. The industry…
"The conversation is often depicted in the media as a binary: On one side are those who argue that only writers from marginalized backgrounds should tell stories about people who share their…
"[He spent] a long career of playing crotchety yet lovable men whose working-class roots mirrored his own. The actor, who worked until the day before his death, had a remarkable fluency with…
"Unpaid overtime, precarious contracts, working hours so antisocial your only friends are people who do the same job … after a minimum of seven years' education and professional training, …
"'I consider this the ultimate in fan-fiction, basically,' [says] Lopez, … [who] wanted to know, 'How faithful can you be to the novel while simultaneously blowing it up?' For those who kn…
The Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium's national opera house, is presenting a staging of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) by provocative director Romeo …
Dave says there are seven types of stories in the world (starting with 'rags to riches'). Josh says there are ten types of stories in the world (starting with 'a threshold crossing'). One of…
This was one of the first jazz albums to be widely owned by people who didn't usually buy jazz albums, my father among them. I found a mint-condition copy in his record cabinet that looked a…
"Instead of singing Mozart or Verdi, she has made a precocious impact on the concert stage and as a curator, serving as artist in residence last season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art " wh…
"Indeed, the world's love of flamenco has long created problems within Spain, where the performance was once considered a vulgar and pornographic spectacle. Over the years, many Spaniards co…