More than a year after the 2018 Best Actress Oscar winner called for her colleagues to demand a rider to their contracts obligating producers and studios to diversify their crews, "it is har…
Nurmuhammad Tohti was imprisoned in one of the camps, which are estimated to be holding up to one million ethnic Uighurs from China's Xinjiang Province, from last November to this past March…
The last-minute interventions were revealed as part of a (none-too-favorable) independent review of Creative Scotland's operations and processes that followed a major controversy over fundin…
"The intricate work to clean and restore its extraordinary windows, statues and other features is being carried out under the strictest security measures to avoid any repeat of the fire that…
We've all seen museums do a lot of odd things in recent years in attempts to draw people into their galleries " cat video contests, crowdsourcing curatorial decisions, and so on. Some may ha…
With less than two weeks' notice, the Whitney Museum has announced that Donna De Salvo "has decided to leave" the museum where she served with great distinction for the past 15 years, in ord…
Richard Florida looks at a study of shrinking American cities and breaks down a couple of myths about them, and about why some cities remain vibrant even as they lose population while others…
"These days, the question driving the debate is whether publishers should sell ebooks to libraries at a higher price for a perpetual license, or at a lower price for a license that needs to …
"In Russia, that most macho of societies, male ballet has never been a sniggering joke about guys in tights. There is no finer expression of manly patriotism than to dance, especially for th…
"[He] was best known for his oversized sculptures of chairs and tables that he produced at larger-than-life, room-filling scale. In doing so, everyday pieces of furniture seem unreal, and vi…
"Longtime Boston Ballet star Misa Kuranaga will be joining the company as a principal dancer for the 2019-20 season, while Dutch National Ballet principal Sasha Mukhamedov will join as a sol…
"[Sam] Peckinpah's notion that mercy and virtue may be outmoded ideas in the hectic, grabby sprawl of the 20th century has ossified into prophecy as we've rolled into the 21st. … His work …
"At least three of the fathers of the American Method " Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, and Elia Kazan " had reputations for treating men and women differently, as well as for treating both …
"After years of financial crises, shifting leadership and painful internal debate about its future, the National Academy closed its museum, separated from its school and began selling off it…
Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes talks to the conductor and his wife, Aaltje, about how their son Benjamin, now 29 and able to speak Dutch and English, was uncommunicative until they found a way t…
"Women made up nearly a third of the directors, executive producers, writers, cinematographers and editors, and though they were still outnumbered by men two to one, the new figures represen…
For five years now, a collective called The Kilroys has been releasing an annual list of recommended new plays, as yet unproduced or "under-produced," by female, transgender, and non-binary …
Two Dubai-resident Sudanese who met at a poetry event in Abu Dhabi (because there was no such thing in Dubai) have joined forces to open Blank Space, where they've basically created a spoken…
Italian media are reporting that the mayor of Milan, who is ex officio chair of La Scala's board, said after a meeting that Meyer was the choice; for now, English-language outlets report tha…
Elizabeth Acevedo, a Dominican-American who got her literary start at poetry slams, won the 2019 Carnegie Medal for her verse novel The Poet X. Jackie Morris won the Kate Greenaway Medal for…
"The chief executive of the Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned on Tuesday after a newspaper investigation revealed she had connections to a cybersecurity firm whose technology has bee…
The young Scandinavians of the Eka Trio combine the relaxed sensuosity of trends in Nordic music with their underlying commitment to the adventurousness that goes to the heart of jazz. " Dou…
This flight from public accountability will deal a knockout blow to whatever transparency remains in "willing buyer-willing seller" auction transactions. Adieu, fair market value. " Lee Rose…
At the CircuitWest Showcase in Perth, Australia, I discussed with artists, producers, and presenters the issues around community engagement in a state (Western Australia) where, outside the …
As she posted on Facebook, "Nearly ten years to the day of my aorta exploding, I woke up in Calgary on the day I was meant to fly home to Nova Scotia" " for her father's funeral, no less " "…