Gili Navot, who has been leading the company since last September: "For the past 30 years, Ohad was artistic director and choreographer, and this is the first time there was a separation bet…
The Mid-Century Monster, a children's play structure created in 1952 by artist Robert Winston for the shores of the city's Lake Merritt, had by 2015 become "a washed-up husk. Its chartreuse …
Says producer Jamie Hendry, founder of the New English Shakespeare Company, "There's an appetite for this. Audiences are being developed in a lot of cities around the world. We are focusing …
"[His] multilayered, eye-popping works challenged conventional notions of perception, color, and light, helping to define what became known as Kinetic Art and Op Art … His work eventually …
"This will be the fourth sign that the [Emmett Till Memorial Commission] has placed at the site. The first was swiped in 2008, and no arrests were ever made in connection with the incident. …
"In between Not Wanted [about unwed mothers] and Outrage [about a rape victim], Lupino had directed Never Fear, a movie depicting people surviving polio, which Lupino had contracted herself …
"After years spent measuring and analyzing the problem, the city is now asking organizations to work on fixing it. In recent months, 33 cultural institutions on city-owned property submitted…
"The £215m given to London organisations in 2018/19 is a much smaller proportion of total Arts Council England (ACE) funding than they received in 2012/13, when 82% went to the capital. B…
Authors Guild president Douglas Preston: "Counterfeiting, author 'doppelganging,' title cloning, ebook piracy, cut-and-paste plagiarism and other rip-offs … the variety and cleverness of t…
"The long-running case " which carries potentially large ramifications around the use and licensing of samples in the wider music industry " revolves around a two-second drum sequence from K…
How did Aaron Copland's film music attempt to counteract the Hollywood influence of Erich Korngold? To what degree did he draw inspiration from the master Mexican populist Silvestre Revuelta…
I've been to every single 2019 production at the stupendous opera house facing the Getty family's cricket ground at Wormsley. The Garsington/Wormsley experience is thrilling, partly because,…
Avi Shoshani and Martin Engstroem are the joint artistic directors of the Tsinandali Festival, whose house ensemble, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda (music director of the National Symphony i…
Preparing an August 15 PostClassical Ensemble program for The Phillips Collection in DC, I discovered myself newly entranced by one of the most magical figures in the history of Western musi…
"How do theatre artists make art in this era of hate? A touring production of Birds Sing Differently Here, created by a cohort of Iraqi immigrants and refugees living in Minnesota, provides …
"Anchored by her Native terminology, [Mohegan theatre director Madeline] Sayet [has] embraced a matriarchal theatre leadership model that, as she put it, 'invests in the community rather tha…
Marcus Scott: "Openly gay Black artists like [Robert] O'Hara and George C. Wolfe have created work about Black queer life over three decades, but their numbers were fewer and far between. Th…
"Cincinnati Opera has premiered a new opera that chronicles the stories of six people wrongfully convicted in Ohio and in the process, puts America's criminal justice system on trial. The ne…
"After its most successful edition so far, this May the volunteer-run festival received confirmation that it had qualified for Arts Council Ireland's band C funding range. However, this does…
Emily Doolittle: "In my 28 years as a composer, I have yet to hear someone say: 'But surely you wouldn't want your piece played just because it's a string quartet? Surely you wouldn't want i…
"Mr. Johnston was an unusual avant-gardist: His music was so melodically engaging, rhythmically vital and structurally transparent that listeners who were unaware of his tuning experiments a…
Yuval Noah Harari: "As a thinker and author, I do my best to reach diverse audiences around the world, and not just readers in Western democracies. … Some will no doubt disagree, but I thi…
"A new report released by the Dance Data Project " a nonprofit launched earlier this year to assess gender inequity in ballet " looks at the 2018-2019 seasons of America's 50 largest ballet …
"Where others concentrate on specific paintings or sculptures, [Eric] Breitung … takes a broad approach: 'My focus is the environment of the whole museum.' That means preparing the Met for…
"The troubled anniversary festival … will now be at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, an outdoor amphitheater in Columbia, Md., the producers confirmed on Thursday. It will be held from Aug.…