No, it wasn't to generate random patterns of movement; rather the contrary, in fact. Ellen Jacobs, for years his company's publicist, recounts how, at age 70, when his body could no longer d…
Studios in the Federation have released at least seven major big-budget movies set during what Russians call the Great Patriotic War just since 2010. Alex Cox has a look at what they say abo…
Elif Batuman on watching Theater of War's online production of Sophocles's Oedipus the King: "You've never really seen Oedipus, I found myself thinking, till you've seen it during a plague. …
"[They] led major concerts by Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony, gave the Philadelphia Orchestra premiere of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, and led the Metropolitan Opera's celebrated rehabi…
He first came to prominence on recordings by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano, especially their landmark series of Monteverdi's madrigals. He then broke off to found his own consor…
The world's most-used online dictionary has, among other changes, capitalized Black throughout; changed homosexuality to gay sexual orientation; revised language around ethnicity, suicide, a…
Chelsea Ainsworth and artist Kyle Netzeband decided that presenting dance on film or online just wasn't adequate. So they decided they'd try putting on a series of shows on the roof of their…
Laura Cappelle, a thoroughly bilingual arts journalist and a trained sociologist, looks at the assumptions made and misunderstood by both Ruth Mackenzie and the officials who hired and then …
"'This pandemic has devastated so many lives and businesses,' [general director Tomer] Zvulun said. 'But it has also been a major catalyst in accelerating our shift to a business model that …
"The festival said its 26 digital productions, which featured specially staged performances involving about 500 artists, musicians and technical staff, were watched 1.013m times in nearly 50…
Way back on August 9, "Margarita" tweeted side-by-side images of van Gogh's Café Terrace at Night and a rendition of the same scene in Arles by contemporary painter Haixia Liu (not to be co…
No one had any idea if people would tune in to all this arts content when the digital floodgates opened in March. Now arts organizations are reporting massive increases in online audiences d…
"Battle Instructions is Burroughs the self-styled revolutionary in 1960 at his most historically explicit, the courageous whistle-blower denouncing and exposing moguls, political leaders and…
"He believed, he once wrote, that a mind 'still inhabiting the flesh' could reach another mind at great remove. There was an inciting incident in the spring of 1875 (before Twain's red hair …
"Powered by an artificial intelligence text generator, the video game [AI Dungeon] can be played on smartphones or computers, offering players a choice of five genres: fantasy, mystery, apoc…
"John Cheever [once] told [an] audience he was 'one of perhaps ten American writers who are known as the American Chekhov'. The description isn't unhelpful because it's used carelessly, but …
As protests against the latest rigged election of Alexander Lukashenko continue to rock the former Soviet state, "will the theatre, which has won increasing acclaim on tours abroad but puts …
"[Ruth] Mackenzie was sitting in her office when she learned to her astonishment that she had been sacked for 'bullying'. She was even more shocked, when [general director Thomas] Lauriot di…
"Exploitative and degrading" is how one Iraqi newspaper described the current draft Memorandum of Understanding between the Iraqi government and the Museum of the Bible along with the family…
The CEO chose to take it, that's how. "Spirit of the Confederacy, a bronze sculpture of an angel holding a sword and palm branch, was removed from Sam Houston Park in June … and is now on …
"Pritzker Prize-winning architect and high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has retired from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded in 1977. … He is perhaps best …
"The BBC has looked at whether the licence fee [paid by each household with a television] could ultimately be replaced with a new special income tax, based on the Swedish model for funding p…
"The Vienna Philharmonic was one of the first professional orchestras to return to rehearsals and performances since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it wouldn't have been possible if…
Audience demand for First Nations performing arts is growing. yet, aside from one superstar company (the dance troupe Bangarra), "many independent Indigenous dance and theatre artists are st…
"Orchestras are better than ever" " if you mean that, literally, you mean that in terms of the role the institution plays in Minneapolis or Philadelphia or Boston, it has a bigger and more i…