Kate Wagner: "Classical music is cruel not because there are winners and losers, first chairs and second chairs, but because it lies about the fact that these winners and losers are chosen l…
Alan Harrison (who has run a few arts outfits in his time): "If a revenue budget cannot survive the number of paid hours required to reach the goals, then the organization itself is not viab…
His grandparents were Iraqi Jews who fled Baghdad in 1941, and much of his work is inspired by their experiences. He's most famous for his replica, placed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar S…
"Many of the artifacts that will be on display in the Humboldt Forum, a huge new museum under construction in a rebuilt Berlin palace, had for years been stored in less-than-ideal conditions…
The exhibition at La Villette in northeastern Paris features the largest collection of artifacts connected with the young pharaoh ever to leave Cairo. More than 1.3 million people have atten…
Laura Eisen, then the orchestral manager of the Berlin Staatskapelle (the Staatsoper's orchestra), has come forward publicly to allege that in March of 2018, the conductor "came toward me, g…
Is a home without a kettle even a home? It is at least the first step towards home. And in The Doctor " Robert Icke's coruscating new play based on Schnitzler's Professor Bernhadi " the kett…
A painter I know had this to say about his work as an artist: "Pleasantly surprised by his watercolour. But the calligraphies … I see too much repetitive strain there." Personally, I love …
Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia " the current head of the Hohenzollern family, which ruled in Berlin for two centuries, until Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated at the end of World War…
Growing up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Vuvu Mpofu never even heard opera until she was 15, and, with no voice teachers in town, all she had to learn from were video discs of La Traviata…
"Our intention is to inaugurate a part of the reconstructed palace in 2022 with expositions that let us celebrate the bicentennial of Brazil's independence," said an official. And while earl…
"[After] negotiations described by union Equity as the toughest in recent times, … performers' weekly minimum pay will increase from £450 currently to £459.05 over three years " leav…
As noted cinéaste John Waters put it, "Oh no! Where will old art movie fans go to see rarefied foreign films in the safety of a rich neighborhood?" And Film at Lincoln Center program direct…
The Testaments, Atwood's secrecy-shrouded sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, and Quichotte, Rushdie's recently-released riff on Don Quixote, are joined on the list of six semifinalists by Elif S…
"[She] amassed four Emmys during her time as Rhoda [Morgenstern] " three for her sidekick role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977, and one as the lead charact…
London dealer Joseph Nahmad, 31 and part of a powerful multibillion-dollar family network of art dealers, got a suspended sentence of 14 weeks along with the rehab order from Judge Jeffrey P…
Holly Mulcahy, who has been the orchestra's concertmaster since the fall of 2013 (and who takes up a second concertmaster position at the Wichita Symphony this month), is seeking up to $25,0…
Richard Linklater's new long-term project is a silm adaptation of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, which traces, in reverse, the gradual, bitter estrangement of three longtime friends. Star…
"The action comes after [Science Museum Group's] directors refused to increase a below-inflation 1.5% pay rise offered to more than 75% of staff this year. … Prospect, the union representi…
That figure, high as it seems, is down from $9.9 billion in 2017, the year that saw the completion of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. There were 148 such buildings " museums, performing arts centers, …
Earlier this week in Yakima, Washington, alto saxophonist Logan Strosahl and pianist Nick Sanders demonstrated the like-mindedness that makes them one of the most riveting duos in jazz. " Do…
Judging from his imprudent published pronouncements, it appears to me that Secretary Bunch may feel so estranged (arguably with good reason) from the Trump Presidency that he's cast aside hi…
An incident initiated by the conductor at a post-concert party at the pianist's home, just a few weeks before Horowitz retired from the stage for 12 years. " Joe Horowitz
Language acquisition professor Rebecca Woods assembled what linguists call a corpus ("a representative sample of language as used by certain speakers") from a BBC show (the makeup competitio…
"[Joy] Harjo interrogates both one's responsibility toward one's culture and the fear of being buried under its weight. … This 'trade language,' as she later calls English, is weak, insuff…