Major publishers will do right by their cookbook authors, who are usually already established, but there's a larger set of small publishers who work with newer writers. "With these smaller p…
"Now, with Madea behind him " he was fed up with playing her " Perry's cultural legacy remains complex, ever evolving, and dependent on what he does next. In the short term, that means openi…
"A full-length ballet is 'like a Broadway show,' according to [the company's artistic director]. It's generally a big, splashy production with elaborate sets and costumes, familiar music, an…
"Kancheli's work became known in the West as early as the 1970s " his Fourth Symphony, "In Memoria di Michelangelo," was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1978 " but it was in the 1…
"The RSC announced that after months of deliberations and a vociferous campaign from artists, the public and environmentalists, it had decided to curtail its eight-year relationship. The mov…
"Over the next few weeks voters will face a deluge of information aimed at swaying them for or against a quarter-cent sales tax hike in Mecklenburg County. The controversial measure would br…
"If board members can be forced out because of what they do for a living, what does that mean for cultural institutions that depend on their generosity to survive? … Anyone who scans the f…
"In [Soft Power], a stand-in for Hwang named DHH is hired by a Chinese producer to try to stage a theatrical production in Shanghai. Then, after a stabbing that mirrors Hwang's own, he falls…
"What started as a quiet digital backwater is now increasingly growing in prominence, drawing the attention of audiences and moneyed interests alike. … And the story of how we go here can …
"While [Kristin Colvin] Young's job involves the responsibilities that immediately come to mind when you think of stage management " like calling the lights and sound during shows " her role…
"[She] painted bold, colorful works, often inspired by nature or music, and traveled in the same circles as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and other artists who were redefining painting …
Radio Ambulante has a Facebook group with thousands of members in more than 19 countries. Editors there decided, "Let's go back to the first place and do this but offline. We don't want to h…
Anne Midgette: "No figure in classical music is more iconic than the conductor, or more misunderstood. … No job in music is harder to quantify, and no job is, when it's done well, more imp…
The MacArthur-winning modern choreographer is creating a new solo on the star ballerina for the opening of this year's Fall For Dance festival in New York. Brian Seibert talks with the two o…
A collective called Culture Declares Emergency argues that the new funding strategy proposed by Arts Council England "neither addresses the urgency of the climate and ecological emergency no…
With more than 22,000 works hanging in the chain's roughly 1,300 restaurants, Nando's is arguably the best place in the world to check out work by contemporary South African artists. And the…
Does anyone still wear " gloves? A lady's elegant, elbow-tweaking white gloves? Or a gentleman's svelte riding gloves? Spot these on stage, my friends, and you can rest assured that you are …
One of my Twitter followers asked over the weekend if I'd post a list of my favorite film scores. This is, needless to say, an impossible task, but I did spend a few minutes drawing up the f…
The process and the permanence of recording never seemed to entirely sit well with her. There are some likely treasures out there somewhere that we've never gotten to hear. " David Patrick S…
At the New York City Ballet's Fashion Gala, premieres by Lauren Lovette (costumed by Zac Posen) and Edwaard Liang (costumed by Anna Sui). " Deborah Jowitt
"On February 4, 1960, the Associated Press ran her obituary. It read, 'Zora Neale Hurston, author, died in obscurity and poverty.' And with those words, syndicated in The New York Times and …
Richard Brody: "Though he didn't have the most immediately recognizable or ravishing sound at the keyboard, he succeeded in revising, by way of scholarly passion, the very basis for pianisti…
"The Minneapolis Institute of Art named an art expert with a entrepreneurial past Tuesday as its next director and president: Katherine Luber, of the San Antonio Museum of Art. … Luber, wh…
The president's project, called 1000 Cafés and run by a nonprofit called Groupe SOS, will receive up to €200 million from the French government to open new cafés, or prop up struggli…
Brown, at age 87 still the company's artistic director, will remain at least through next year's 50th anniversary celebrations, but she has turned over the executive director position, on an…