"Everyone agrees that competition is the enemy of art. And yet, on the whole, there is also an agreement to conspire in the notion that it isn't. This paradox, this doublethink, usually work…
"After a few false starts and a little offscreen drama, AppleTV+ finally makes its big debut with a slate of shows, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and a billion potential customers …
On Sunday afternoon, a man walked into the Dennis Rae Fine Art Gallery, walked up to DalÃ's 1966 hand-colored etching Burning Giraffe, picked it right off the easel, and walked out the op…
"According to Bowker's annual survey of the self-publishing market … the total number of print and e-books that were self-published in 2018 was 1.68 million, up from 1.19 million in 2017. …
"Tucker's primary love was music, a devotion that she first cultivated in the Lutheran church of her childhood. But over the course of her [three decades] at The Chronicle, which began in 19…
"A French court on Monday sentenced five members of an all-female jihadist cell to between five and 30 years in prison over a failed bid to detonate a car bomb outside Notre-Dame cathedral i…
"Bankers" are something that ENO's previous two artistic directors didn't manage to provide many of, and it's now up to Annilese Miskimmon, their new successor, to get some. Fortunately, exp…
Throughout the coming month, I'll write about one of these albums every weekday in the order in which I first heard them, starting in 1968 with the first record I ever bought with my own mon…
A colleague recently shared that when they advocate for community engagement in their organization they get pushback about "mission creep." Mission creep??!! If connecting the arts with comm…
"Andrew Davies' TV adaptation of Sanditon, which aired on Sunday, ended with Charlotte and Sidney bidding each other a tearful farewell " in love, but not together. … The ending has enrage…
"The year 1919 was pivotal in European culture, with bold portents for the postwar future " it was the year that Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus and Marcel Duchamp painted a mustache on t…
Gia Kourlas: "You can't completely banish your true self when you dance; Arthur Fleck is still somewhere inside of Mr. Phoenix, even after Arthur transforms himself into the Joker. What make…
Well, some of them are. Reporter Claire Voon looks at some museums who are doing well in this area (the new MoMA) and some that have a way to go. " Artsy
"From a vaunted perch at Yale, he flew in the face of almost every trend in the literary criticism of his day. Chiefly he argued for the literary superiority of the Western giants like Shake…
"I want to say to readers: You have no idea that you want to go to this weird corner and eat these spicy noodles, but trust me, you'll love it. If I could do one millionth of that for theatr…
"[AMC Entertainment's new] service, AMC Theaters On Demand, will offer about 2,000 films for sale or rent after their theatrical runs, just as iTunes, Amazon and other video-on-demand retail…
In the 1940s, John E. Reid and Associates developed a commonly-used, and now-controversial police interrogation method called the Reid Technique. That method is mentioned once, briefly, in W…
"The cast was strip-searched before boarding the bus to their show. The leading man was shackled so tightly that he performed with abrasions on his wrists. And the moment the men finished th…
"[He] was distinguished in at least three fields. As a photographer in the 1950s and '60s he made memorable images of contemporary American writers and painters, and of the young Bob Dylan s…
Shortly before she died in 2007, philanthropist Linda Pace had a dream in which she saw a shining red counterpart to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz which would hold her art collection …
Clive James recently filled out the Guardian's "Books That Made Me" questionnaire. I was so struck by his answers " as well as the questions themselves " that I decided to play along. " Terr…
One of the highlights of the 2019 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival was a concert by Hannah Svensson. Now, Ms. Svensson's new album, Places And Dreams, presents her along with the colleagues who ba…
Kevin Deas, the exceptional bass-baritone who is the anonymous "Porgy" of my previous blog, has written to me at greater length about singing the part " and the importance of the view "from …
Yes, one of them is Margaret Atwood's The Testaments; the other is Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. Over more than five hours of debate, the judges were told repeatedly that splitti…
"In its 25-year history, the Foundry's productions earned the company 14 Obie Awards. It differentiated itself from other companies by also having a robust social justice and community organ…