After thirty years at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, Hetty Berg is taking the helm of an institution which is, thanks to history, both highly visible and loaded with baggage. The…
My goal as guest editor of Lynne Conner's blog for the next six months is to share and respond to what I'm seeing happening during this crisis through the lens of the audience. Every day the…
Either Max Hollein and Daniel Weiss, the director and president of the Metropolitan Museum, were knowing participants in Yoko Ono's mischievous potshot at their august institution, or they f…
"The organization plans to celebrate its 35th anniversary … with a reimagined season of new commissioned digital works, outdoor performances and online premieres of some of the company's m…
"The book, titled Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story [and now dropped by Bloomsbury India], claims that the riots were the result of a conspiracy by Muslim jihadists and so-called 'urban nax…
The world power that is 21st-century China likely wouldn't exist as we know it if an ingenious and tenacious computer programmer named Wang Yongmin hadn't solved that very basic, very compli…
Saba Sahar, who is a senior police officer and an activist as well as a performer and producer/director, was shot in her car or her way to work. She was comatose for 20 hours but is now out …
"Under the plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to hold august institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall accountable for hiring more members of historically marginali…
"On the surface, that no doubt sounds idiotic " economically, socially and in just about every other way," writes the L.A. Times classical music critic. "It's not. It is the simplest, surest…
"Trained in Hungary and the Soviet Union, Mr. Rabovsky and [his wife Nora] Kovach created a sensation with their technical virtuosity and an energetic style virtually unknown to Western audi…
"The Whitney Museum of American Art on Tuesday canceled an upcoming exhibition after artists of color objected to the institution's having obtained their work through discounted sales largel…
"Built in the 1250s as part of Henry III's rebuilding efforts, the L-shaped structure" " called the Great Sacristy " "housed sacred items, including chalices, altar linens and vestments. ……
"The top-level statistics are impressive: few other industries can boast sustained engagement with 98% of the population. The survey shows a significant rise in both the number of Australian…
"All three theaters are nonprofits in New England, where virus cases are low. The region has already been home to the first two outdoor productions featuring union actors during the pandemic…
Some of the most influential modern comedy in any medium was created for radio: "Who's on First?", Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, The Jack Benny Program, BBC's The Goon Show and I'm Sorry…
"A statue of Mary Magdalene housed in the chapel of Saint Pilon in the Var, in southeast France, has been destroyed by vandals apparently unhappy with her lack of clothing. The perpetrators …
"Cinema's integration of image, word, and music promised a fulfillment of the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or 'total work of art,' which Wagner propagated at one stage of his career. His inf…
Spencer Kornhaber: "So-called diva antics never canceled the careers of, say, Christian Bale or Aretha Franklin. Yet DeGeneres may well be held to a different standard than other entertainer…
Well, what answer did you expect to find in a newspaper column? Nevertheless: "It might be difficult to grasp that writing a magazine cover [story] could appeal more than featuring on it, bu…
Earlier this month, more than 60 former students at Ballet West, a boarding school in the Scottish Highlands, accused Jonathan Barton, the school's vice-principal and son of its principal, o…
"As the novel coronavirus takes its toll on businesses all over the world, many well-meaning consumers have flocked to local community bookstores. However, increased demand on these small sh…
The dismissal of 50 out of 180 full-time office employees is "the latest in a stream of cost-cutting measures designed to help the orchestra weather a prolonged hiatus from live performance,…
"The theater said it has given $1,000 'financial relief payments' to 368 people including technicians and crew members like carpenters, truck drivers, engineers and programmers; teaching art…
"At a time when museum leaders across the country are being challenged on whether their institutions are systemically racist, few are confronting as many thorny issues as [Salvador] Salort-P…
"At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s, circulation reached 1.2 million copies per week. Headlines like 'Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave' ruled its covers. A team of dedica…