"The Foundry was never reduced to a market brand for corporate picking or seduced into the new star on the block for avant-garde propping up. Instead, it put a premium on the blue notes shot…
"The Colour of Music Festival announces the Nashville, TN début of Colour of Music Festival 'Petit' November 6-9, 2019 at multiple noted venues throughout downtown Nashville, a five-day fes…
"In court filings, John H. McFadden " scion of one of the founding families behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art " denied claims that he stole a bronze cast of one of … Brancusi's most fa…
"On paper, John Zorn's Jumalattaret … looks impossible: breathless vocalise; abrupt transitions from head-spinning complexity to folk-song simplicity; and, within the span of a single meas…
Wesley Morris: "Maybe it's not immediately obvious. But it makes sense. He's the biggest black playwright in America. If you were a kid, teenager or barely an adult in the 2000s, living in a…
Amrou Al-Kadhi: "When I started doing drag, it felt like the ultimate rejection of everything I was taught in the Middle East. … I felt like I was lying. I was trying to live out things th…
Sarah Kaufman: "As a lifelong ballet lover but ambivalent dance mom, here's my cri de coeur: Do your kids a favor and banish the thought. Yes, there are options galore for parents looking fo…
Soraya Nadia McDonald: "Does it still make sense to present an opera written by [four whites] as the opera about black American life? Is it a collection of insulting stereotypes set against …
"Shaw was most recently theater critic at Time Out New York and 4Columns.org, and was awarded the 2018 George Jean Nathan Award for theater criticism. (The previous year's winner was Sara Ho…
"The [Me2/Orchestra's] beginnings were humble " seven people showed up to the first rehearsal in Burlington, Vt., in 2011. Yet it has grown " almost entirely by word of mouth, [Ronald] Braun…
Social media lit up with outrage when Handke's win was announced, and criticism came from some (seemingly) surprising quarters. Albania's acting foreign minister said the award was "an ignob…
"The final episode of Studio 360 will air in February, … [and] host Kurt Andersen's role with the program will end later this month. … John Barth, PRX's chief content officer, would not …
"The original manuscript of the story no longer exists, with the oldest versions of the story believed to have been transcribed by the poet Teika, who died in 1241. Until now, just four chap…
"With a rich accumulation of poems, metafictions and other unclassifiable prose works, … he superimposed a psychic overlay on the city's mundane streets and terraces, its feuds and faction…
"Bong's last two films, 2013's Snowpiercer and 2017's Okja, were his first to be made in English: they weren't exactly misfires, either critically or commercially, yet both clearly had desig…
Marina Harss: "The material feels both so deeply literary and, at the same time, so utterly deflating. The subject is a solitary man" " Robert Walser " "whose writings tended to track the mi…
Eve Babitz: "I took the smock off, letting it fall beside me, but Julian kicked it far across the slippery floor, out of the way in a corner. I sat down quickly at the chess set and wondered…
"[Historian Peter] La Chapelle explains how fiddler-politicians and politician-fans have used this oddly flexible genre to advocate for the poor and dispossessed, fight for racial justice, f…
Fragments of a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose " containing a double entendre-filled episode about a pilgrim at a shrine " were found in a centuries-old book binding in the public records …
"MoMA is a machine for viewing art, and the success of this latest incarnation will be gauged by how many visitors the facility can process in any given day. … The 2004 expansion created e…
"The 2019 Fringe Festival page touting [a solo biofeedback session with psychologist Gary Ames] reads biofeedback will open the bridge 'between conscious and subconscious realms. Let creativ…
The streaming giant is renting the Belasco Theatre in midtown Manhattan for a four-week, eight-shows-a-week Broadway-style run of its latest major feature, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Ho…
The Nobel committee cited Polish novelist Tokarczuk, awarded the delayed prize for 2018, for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as …
More than its disappointing 1985 predecessor, the Met's vigorous new staging of Gershwin's opera manages to vindicate a controversial cultural landmark whose reputation, still unsettled, fee…
"For all its intelligence and skill and its obvious desire to make the place feel friendlier, the expansion seems to me not to have solved the problem of the Modern's ambience. … You may f…