Reflecting on the contretemps over the Life of Washington murals at a San Francisco high school as well as the decision by one small Northern California museum to sell much of its art and an…
In a 4-to-3 vote, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to reverse its earlier decision to paint over the series of 13 Victor Arnautoff frescoes, collectively titled The Life of Washing…
"A self-described 'instinctive scholar,' Takis" " né Panayiotis Vassilakis " "worked primarily in plaster and wrought iron before becoming fascinated by magnetism, electricity and sound " a…
Of those 70,000, 12,000 signed up in the first week alone. "Cardholders at the Brooklyn, New York and Queens public libraries can gain free admission through the program at participating cul…
Joshua Kosman: "Here's my request for today to creators of contemporary opera: How would it be if we had a new work that did not turn on a female character sacrificing herself to redeem a ma…
"[Science fiction] isn't a new genre in Indian cinema, but it has nothing like the profile it has in the West. … While Hollywood has a long tradition of making more naturalistic films abou…
Goli Sheikholeslami, who since 2014 has led a major turnaround as Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ), will take the helm at New York Public Radio (which includes WNYC, classical station WQXR, NJ Pu…
The eponymous avians in Ashton's The Two Pigeons are meant to be living symbols of the relationship between the two human leads, called the Young Man and the Young Girl. Reporter Jennifer Lu…
"In a video recorded during the airport protest Friday, hundreds of demonstrators can be seen participating in a sit-down and heard singing and clapping to an a cappella version of 'Do You H…
"Many in this new generation of female producers are taking alternate paths to the industry's top rung " picking up skills in the nonprofit theater world, which has become an important breed…
My own views on this contretemps are conflicted. By all accounts I've seen by art professionals, this is a powerful work, intended by the Russian-American artist to be seen as a critique of …
As one senior ACE executive put it this spring, "Relevance is becoming the new litmus test. It will no longer be enough to produce high-quality work." Now many ballet company execs, choreogr…
Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch, along with English, assign Greek this particular honor. In the Baltic languages, it's Spanish; the Bulgarians use "Patagonian." And the Gr…
"Mark [Rosewater, head designer,] explains how, once he and his team come up with the creative concept for a particular Magic set, there are lots of other things to think about. They have to…
"On Saturday afternoon, the orchestra's board voted unanimously for a transition plan … which calls for the exit of the orchestra's top leadership [and] brings a temporary close to weeks o…
"The art collective teamLab's new, immersive museum in Tokyo attracted more visitors than the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last year, and twice the combined number of visitors to the three D…
"While other budding jazz musicians of the 1940s were enamored of the daring bebop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Mr. Wilber, … a clarinetist and saxophonist who was a …
Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains, which recounts his escape from Iran to Indonesia and onward to Australia by boat, has just won the $25,000 National Biography Award, the fourt…
Francis Ford Coppola: "No one wants to make a pro-war film, everyone wants to make an anti-war film. But an anti-war film, I always thought, should be … something filled with love and peac…
"Slowly at first " but now in increasing numbers " Russian female comics are taking to the stage to challenge the status quo. Embedded in the humor are also serious reckonings on their count…
"For decades, Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated and powerful men in opera, has tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and then sometimes punishing the w…
"University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust's board agreed to continue funding a pilot scheme initiated last year, suggesting that creative activities could reduce the need for certai…
We have learned that the superlative clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Bob Wilber died at his home in England earlier this month. " Doug Ramsey
That Levant was what he seemed was doubtless a key to his appeal. His authenticity has never appeared more exceptional: no present-day mainstream media personality " not even our President "…
It's difficult to remember when I first met Iris Murdoch and John Bayley " in my experience, they were inseparable. " Paul Levy