"The new structure, which will add 60,000 square feet of space, reflects how much New York's small, scrappy New Museum has changed since it opened on the Bowery in 2007, increasing its annua…
On doctors' orders, the 76-year-old chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, formerly music director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony, has wi…
In five years as executive director of the Walnut Creek-based orchestra, Aubrey Bergauer used a data- and diversity-driven approach to turn a languishing institution around, with ticket sale…
The online database says that it's not outing anyone; it's simply listing the names of actors as they were at the time they appeared in a given production. SAG-AFTRA, joined by a number of L…
The New York Times Book Review has finally covered Never a Lovely So Real, Colin Asher's Algren biography, and Susan Jacoby's honest, well-reported review sets a judicious standard. " Jan He…
Following the recent Rifftides review of her new album, we thought you'd enjoy Ms. Matassa and friends in a Gershwin medley. " Doug Ramsey
What struck me watching Zamira Aminova in Bukhara was that, although her movements were not as complex as others I've seen, she never stopped seeming to float like a leaf on the wind. That t…
It's a 140-ton, 100-foot crane that used to lift freight at the docks in Bristol. Now " decked out with multiple speakers that shoot flames into the air, all powered by a generator that runs…
"Breakdancing moved a step closer to the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, and now organizers can look to book a street venue in Paris. Called breaking in Olympic circles, its medal debut was last O…
As the desire for an authoritative dictionary of American English developed in the first half of the 19th century, there was a serious battle between the partisans of Noah Webster " who was …
A Q&A with two curators at the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design about the issues of provenance, law, and diplomacy around the future return of the museum's 18th-century sculpt…
"Liberal Democrat peer Patrick Boyle started the debate, in which he asked the government what 'assessment they have made of the operation of the theatre market in London' and what steps it …
"Judith and Holofernes, which was found under an old mattress in the attic of a house in the French city of Toulouse, was snapped up by a foreign buyer, the auction house selling it said on …
The novel, which has already won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has received the first-ever Orwell Prize for political fiction. The more-established Orwell …
"With original drawings lost and no digital records, photographs of the historic clock were the only clue experts had about how they might rebuild it. Then French clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Vi…
Robert Smith: "She subverted both sides of the high-low equation, ridiculing and exaggerating Abstract Expressionist technique while imbuing popular culture characters with raw, uncontrollab…
"Haredim " a Hebrew word meaning 'those who tremble at the word of God' that encompasses a multiplicity of ultra-Orthodox Jewish sects " tend to isolate themselves from secular society, whic…
"The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra owed its vendors $2.1 million as of late April … That's almost an 81% increase over the $1.2 million the orchestra owed to merchants as of Sept. 25, 2017.…
"A stalwart at New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, [he] was celebrated for his acting ability. His voice was modestly scaled, but he used it cannily, always finding ways for voic…
"As anti-Semitic rhetoric and hate crimes resurge, is it still funny for us to be our own punching bags? Is it safe? In joking about money, neuroses, and the demasculinized Jewish man, are w…
Shannon Paulus discovered them in college and found them a sort of miracle cure for pre-performance anxiety, just as so many performers have. Then she learned the hard way about the dangers …
"As if dominating movie theaters weren't enough, Marvel is about to move into high school theater as well. The publisher has announced a partnership with theatrical publisher Samuel French t…
First soloist Linnar Looris, a native son, has been named artistic director; Jared Matthews, who was a longtime soloist at ABT before coming to Houston as a principal dancer, will be assista…
"The unspecified procedure [at the Cleveland Clinic] was, according to MTT's statement in his announcement of taking medical leave, 'in continuation of treatment for a heart condition I have…
As a result of the centrality of government funding for the arts in South America, the emphasis in much of the work in the arts there appears to be on developing connections with communities…