He never much enjoyed working on the popular series, though he acknowledged that that "doesn't matter … ALF brought people a lot of joy. They adored it." While he did quite a bit of other …
"His post-rehearsal explanations kept coming out like Zen meditations: 'Do you hear what you see? Or do you see what you hear? … What does the sound look like that you see when you are lis…
"Rider University has dropped a controversial plan to sell Westminster Choir College to a for-profit company based in China and instead is resuscitating efforts to relocate the choir college…
Despite concern over both the huge amount of daytripper traffic by passengers and the physical damage that the enormous ships cause to both the Venice Lagoon and the low-lying city itself, t…
"The Italian culture minister, Alberto Bonisoli, is planning to merge the Gallerie degli Uffizi with the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence under a single administration" as part of a new s…
"This developing movement, supported by nonprofit groups, entrepreneurs, libraries and community fund-raising, is redefining the borders of traditional neighborhood public libraries by creat…
"According to a press release, the initiative will spotlight 'character and narrative driven movies' that big-budget box-office behemoths tend to overshadow. … If any of this sounds famili…
"At the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the vast majority of shows require paid admission … with tickets for the curated shows (those are the shows that the festival invites to participate) …
Tree, inspired by Elba's 2014 "character album" Mi Mandela, is debuting this week at the Manchester International Festival before a run at London's Young Vic, where Kwei-Armah is artistic di…
"A 2017 lawsuit by photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation has come to a close, as a federal judge in New York ruled yesterday that Warhol's 1984 Prince Series works, …
The Melbourne International Arts Festival, the city's premier showcase for "high art," and White Night, a late-winter outdoor festival, will unite into a new 18-day festival under a new name…
Everybody from singers to directors to conductors to critics has needed a few decades to determine what exactly is in John Adams's first opera and how to draw the most out of it. Steven LaCo…
"A review by the Northern Ireland Prison Service deemed the ban 'not proportionate' … Books and other reading material will now be permitted unless they overtly promote or encourage the co…
"The production was staged by the Gogol School theatre lab during the Tavrida Festival, an annual art event organised by Russian state youth agency Rosmolodyozh. Reaction has been mixed, wit…
Ed Vaizey, who was Conservative PM David Cameron's minister for culture: "Safe to say, the arts and cultural policy have not featured highly in the many debates and hustings that have taken …
Judith Gurewich, the publisher of Other Press. trained as a Lacanian analyst and still practices as one part-time. "She brings her intensity to her uniquely aural editing process, hosting au…
New Cairo City, currently under construction on the edge of the metro area, about 25 miles from central Cairo, will become Egypt's administrative center; the "city of arts and culture" withi…
The Greek-born maestro, a naturalized Russian citizen, has been getting plenty of love-it-or-hate-it attention for recordings (particularly of Mozart operas) with his period-orchestra-and-ch…
According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, Neef, who was director of casting at the Paris Opera before becoming General Director of COC in 2008, will succeed Stéphane Lissner as General D…
After brief military hostilities between India and Pakistan in 2016, Pakistani cinema owners boycotted Indian movies; attendance promptly fell to 11 percent, and the boycott was over within …
"No one was more surprised than Novak when Taylor tapped him to be his successor last year, three months before the legendary choreographer died. Dance Magazine recently caught up with Novak…
"Not many details have been released about the shipwreck, but the Department of Antiquities notes that it 'is the first undisturbed Roman shipwreck ever found in Cyprus.' The vessel is still…
"Koloane's work " which comprised art-making, curating, activism, and writing " dealt head-on with colonialism and the continued oppression of black South Africans. His [art], which often ta…
"As Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio work to reverse hard-won reproductive rights with 'fetal heartbeat' bills and potential 99-year sentences for performing abortions, game …
Pianist, singer and songwriter Dave Frishberg has suffered medical setbacks that have led him and his wife April to seek help in meeting his long-term health care needs. " Doug Ramsey