Diego Ramalho grew up breakdancing in a small city in Brazil and reluctantly started taking ballet lessons at age 18. Eight years later, he's a full member of Ballet Edmonton, coaching his c…
"[A] stream of stories, boasts and false leads has kept the police busy for years and has led to just two conclusions: the painting was stolen by the mafia, and it was then destroyed. … In…
Lissner, who ran La Scala in Milan (2005-2012) before taking charge of the Opéra national de Paris, reaches France's mandatory retirement age of 67 next year, so his contract there won't be…
After decades living and working all over the U.S., actor-director-choreographer Robert Barry Fleming is now in his first season as artistic director of one of the country's most important r…
"An actor and humorist, [he] was a core figure in two of the quirkiest television shows of the 1970s, The Great American Dream Machine and the children's program Marshall Efron's Illustrated…
Everything I See I Swallow, which scored a success at this summer's Edinburgh Fringe and is now touring regional England, involves "the art of shibari, the centuries-old practice of Japanese…
"Goldsmith Street in Norwich represents what has become a rare breed: streets of terraced homes built directly by the council, rented with secure tenancies at fixed social rents. And it's an…
"Annilese Miskimmon, the Belfast-born opera director who has drawn influence from Sondheim, Shakespeare and the Muppets [and is currently director of opera at Norwegian National Opera and Ba…
Last spring, a group of black middle school students had an ugly encounter with a few museum patrons and a guard. "Critics rightfully pounced, and the museum moved swiftly to contain the dam…
The city's Pacifica Radio station, which for six decades has aired leftist-leaning news coverage and alternative programming, has been in chronic turmoil for the past several years, with con…
"The website issued a statement on Twitter today saying it had taken the articles [about the battle of the loos] down after receiving what it described as 'strong responses' from readers, ad…
"The push for inclusivity has angered some women who say their comfort and safety is being put at risk " and argue men are still being left with a better deal. Here's why toilets have become…
A friend of mine sent me this color photograph the other day, remarking that he suspected it was the only time that Louis Armstrong and George Bernard Shaw appeared in the same painting. " T…
"In his over five decades in entertainment, Taylor would make over 2,000 guest star appearances on shows like The Monkees, The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Lett…
"With just three solo shows and a handful of star turns in group exhibitions, Wong established himself as a quicksilver talent, with an almost preternatural sense for creating gripping, idio…
The company has decided to eliminate the title of General Director and fold its duties in with those of the President and CEO, Christopher Koelsch. " Los Angeles Times
"African historical fiction is far from a new genre " is there a more globally known work of African fiction, after all, than Chinua Achebe's 1958 classic story of Nigeria at the moment of B…
Aisha Harris: "At one point during the performance " as the white woman … used a black dildo on her [black] partner … while they pretended to be the mistress and slave on a plantation " …
"Njaimeh Njie, a Pittsburgh-based artist who works primarily with print and photography, set out on a journey in 2016 to document black lives in her city, focusing on the Hill District, the …
"The … public artist whose work ranges from sculpture to landscape design has won the annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with $250,000 and honors a United States-based arti…
John Seabrook does a deep dive into how artificial intelligence programs learn the rules of English grammar and syntax and teach themselves how to predict what you, at the keyboard, might wr…
Dan Brooks: "Ostensibly too sophisticated for superhero stories, our critics have accepted the Joker's power to corrupt the masses in real life, on a more literal level than the most addled …
They've been moving into abandoned East German factories along the Spree River. "Although the area's landscape may look post-apocalyptic, with its giant weeds and empty power plants, strange…
"I'm stepping away from full-time criticism to pursue more directing, but there's no disentangling the two pursuits for me now. … Critic and director must both articulate a vision and rela…
Vu Le: "Our sector talks a lot about grants. … There are endless articles and workshops on how to increase your chances to get grants. And many foundations, to their credit, have been work…