From lying about your script to the people who live where you're shooting to having bodyguards on set to sending your stars abroad when the film debuts to fighting off right-wing religious g…
"In Heliópolis, one of São Paulo's largest favelas, the trial of a black youth agitates the community, which argues for his innocence. In a train heading to Jardim Romano, an audio bri…
"Some … found new voices, either with the help of hormones or through retraining. Others kept the voices they had built their careers on " even if it meant continuing to perform in the gen…
Ronald K. Brown's Grace and Mercy, performed by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence: A Dance Company at the 2019 SummerScape Festival at Bard College. " Deborah Jowitt
My DownBeat article about the compulsively listenable Last Poets album Transcending Toxic Times includes a lot of quotes from bassist/composer Jamaaladeen Tacuma and poet Abiudon Oyewale. Bu…
The arts being valued by the government as an important part of society and the (near) certainty that money will be available for basic operations " as in Australia and Chile, which I recent…
Writer Heather O'Donovan looks at the challenges of both translations for singing (fitting new words to the music) and supertitles (fitting the words onto that little screen). " WQXR (New Yo…
Sebastian Smee: "I realize the claim sounds odd. After all, they weren't really intended as high art. They're television documentaries. They were created primarily to educate and to entertai…
"The so-called Liget project, initiated in 2011, aims to transform Budapest's city park (Városliget) into a cultural hub, including the new National Gallery, Museum of Ethnography and Hou…
"[Her] oral history project includes some 3,000 recordings of interviews with composers and other major musical figures, from Aaron Copland to Elliott Carter, from Duke Ellington to John Ada…
"It has been a turbulent year for the Leipzig Annual Exhibition " so much so that the show was even cancelled at one point because of an outcry over the inclusion, then exclusion, of an arti…
"In the first public protest by such artists in many years, well-known actors … attended a demonstration of a few hundred people outside the government offices on Victory Square on June 30…
"Critics have accused [Charles] Venable of dumbing down the museum with his crowd-pleasing, cost-conscious changes. But his program has also touched a nerve as institutions around the countr…
"[He] was equally at home in the comedy of the Men in Black film series or TV's The Larry Sanders Show (for which he won his Emmy) and in the drama of Sweet Bird of Youth or Anna Christie, t…
"Into the Woods Sr. and other musicals tailored to older casts are the brainchild of Freddie Gershon, [Music Theater International's] co-chairman, who first developed similarly shortened 'Ju…
"It's actually very hard to keep the audience engaged in the development of a story. The struggle is figuring out how literal I can be, and how much I can use the abstract aesthetic of dance…
The piece, a forward written for the Soviet edition of a novel by Georgia investigative journalist John L. Spivak, recounts an incident from the 1927 road trip Hughes took with Zora Neale Hu…
Posset was a drink that, in the 16th century, solidified, a sheer nightmare with emollient richness I can only say is a spoonful of lacks " texture, diversity, surprise. On its face, raw tof…
"We seem to be fighting similar battles," wrote a CultureGrrl reader in response to my appreciation, posted Monday, of the critic/scholar, 74, whose pioneering work defined what became known…
"She supported [seven children] as a translator, writer for radio and television, and college professor, carving out at least 10 minutes each day to write. While changing diapers and prepari…
"She felt poetry might be able to help mend some of the divisions that the election had highlighted. Her plan was this: to put together a collection of poems from living poets, called Americ…
The choreographer is directing three plays " Come and Go, Catastrophe, and Quad (a pure-movement piece which Morris likens to Lucinda Childs) " for this month's Happy Days festival in the No…
"Lupu, now 73, has long frustrated his admirers: he last recorded in the mid-1990s, is absent from social media, and refuses to be interviewed. His health has been in decline; in the last tw…
"[He] penned some of the most important art-historical essays of the second half of the 20th century, including 'Pictures' and 'On the Museum's Ruins' … [and his] influence has been vast. …
"Amid growing pressure for cultural institutions to cut ties with the controversial oil company, … [British Museum director Hartwig] Fischer said today that BP's support for the museum ove…