In 2006, when plans for the Philharmonie de Paris were announced, the venue, with a flashy, futuristic design by starchitect Jean Nouvel, was supposed to open in 2013 at a cost of €173…
"The equation of upscale readers and upscale brands with profit, projecting an aspirational image of the ideal consumer through both editorial and ads so that vulnerable readers would chase …
Next year, St. John's Co-Cathedral in the Maltese capital, Valletta, will open a €4 million annex as a home for Caravaggio's 1607 St. Jerome Writing and the world's largest complete se…
"Ms. Abrera, 41, joined Ballet Theater in 1996. Five years later she was promoted from the corps de ballet to the rank of soloist. A serious injury in 2008 made further advancement difficult…
At this past summer's Salzburg Festival, director Peter Sellars turned Mozart's opera Idomeneo into a warning about climate change. Not even three months later, the Festival announced a big …
"A meeting of Australia's arts and cultural ministers in Adelaide … has seen a major overhaul of the way the Major Performing Arts sector is funded through the Australia Council for the Ar…
In 1502, Leonardo submitted to the Ottoman sultan a design for a bridge over the Golden Horn in Istanbul that would have been, at the time, by far the world's longest, and tall enough for sh…
Until recently, it may have seemed that the singer and songwriter Anne Phillips had resigned as a performer. She had not. Coincidentally, one of her colleagues on her most recent album, pian…
After watching Leonard Bernstein's "Bach Transmogrified" Young People's Concert (back when I was a young person), I went to Smalltown USA's local music store the very next day hoping to find…
How do I not love the Museum of Modern Art's reinstallation of its permanent collection in it expanded, renovated galleries? Let me count the ways. " Lee Rosenbaum
On Stalin: "People underestimate the level of control that Stalin maintained. I once tried to count the number of people in the arts that Stalin controlled personally " it was close to one t…
The clarinetist who played at Barack Obama's inauguration talks about playing with passion, staying humble, setting goals, giving your all on every occasion, and overcoming negativity. (vide…
"It's time for cultural philanthropy to get more creative. … A small-but-growing number of funders are working with arts and culture organizations and individual donors to address inequiti…
"Singleton demurs when described as a composer of classical music. 'I know that I write music. I'm a composer. So, categorization always gets us in trouble because it defines us very narrowl…
"Threewalls, a cultural nonprofit that supports visual artists in Chicago, has announced that it will award $900,000 to artists who identify as African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, or Native Americ…
"Saeed Jones has worn many hats: teacher, poet, and culture editor at BuzzFeed, among many other things. (Also, he joins a growing group of writers willing to admit that they were high schoo…
"Dancer, choreographer and dance professor Leah Glenn wields that strong magic [and dance] to teach, increase understanding and make all lives better. And so it is no surprise that in 2012 w…
"Perhaps it was only possible in the neighborhoods of East L.A. that two gay, Mexican immigrants could partner with a religious sister to found one of L.A.'s oldest and most important altern…
"Theater Latté Da [in Minneapolis] has announced the establishment of the NEXT Generation Commission, designed to support the creation and development of musicals by women and artists of co…
"In 2017, 41 percent of female-identifying and 18 percent of male-identifying students reported experiencing sexual assault at Tulane University in New Orleans. Since those stats were releas…
"[It's] one of the most overlooked success stories in our field: how a century-old theatre of color, once in a state of crisis, has been revitalized and rejuvenated. In a time when there are…
"'I am not an Otello,' Thomas says … [Yet] suddenly, it seems that Otello is all anybody wants to hear from him. … The problem [is] that there are very few tenors, white or black, who ar…
In 2010, Argentine dancer and former ABT principal Julio Bocca was named artistic director of Uruguay's flagship company, the Ballet Nacional del Sodre. Since then, under Bocca and successor…
Untitled Goose Game, "which is drawn in the style of a children's book and scored by a whimsical piano, sees you play as a single-minded goose making her terrible way through a village. Your…
"The entire cancel culture conversation, including the debate over whether or not it exists at all, has largely missed a crucial point. While celebrities, successful artists, and other too-b…