In late May, the Hong Kong Philharmonic's management dismissed Lam Fung, a local composer who took the position in 2017 and had received a good performance review as recently as March. "[The…
Kelly Tweeddale, who trained as a dancer when young, has spent the past five seasons as president of the Vancouver Symphony; before that, she was for 12 years executive director of Seattle O…
Founded in 2002, Teatr.doc assembles scripts from documents and participant testimony from important incidents in contemporary Russia. Writer Verity Healey reports on the company's latest pr…
"Over the course of a six-decade career that cut across artistic movements and unflinchingly addressed issues of racism and inequality, Overstreet established himself not only as one of the …
"Jones's portrait of a young African-American's wrongful incarceration and its devastating impact on his marriage … [won over] last year's Booker winner, Anna Burns's Milkman, and former B…
During the month of daytime fasting, families and friends often gather around the TV during and after the evening meal, and Egyptian networks prepare their biggest programming events for the…
The New York City subway is not, on any given day, the place to hear the music you need. It's public in the extreme " in one of the world's most public cities. And yet that's where music amb…
Richard Eyre, a former director of the National Theatre in London, criticized a recent RSC production of Timon of Athens in which Lord Timon became Lady Timon " and, therefore, the line "I l…
"What if belief in the supernatural is window dressing on what really matters " elaborate rituals that foster group cohesion, creating personal bonds that people are willing to die for." " N…
Vice versa, argues Joseph Henrich. "He contends that moralizing gods spurred societal complexity because belief in moralizing gods leads to success in intergroup competition. It increased tr…
"YouTube is taking additional steps to restrict the possibility that children will be targeted by predators on the video platform " including banning young kids from live-streaming with[out]…
"YouTube never set out to serve users with sexual interests in children " but in the end, … its automated system managed to keep them watching with recommendations that [are] 'disturbingly…
"Along with other postmodern architects of international repute, among them the late Philip Johnson and Michael Graves, Tigerman in the 1970s and 1980s broke the mold of modernist, steel-and…
"Paris prosecutors … said Tuesday that there was not evidence to back up the allegations made by a young actress who accused Depardieu of assaulting her last August." " Variety
NPR reporter Kat Chow grew up near Vuong, and the two attended the same high school (though they never met each other there). She joins the poet-novelist on a road trip to Glastonbury, CT. "…
"Hong Kong once churned out a broad range of books focused on China's modern history and Communist Party politics, from thinly sourced potboilers churned out under pen names to respected wor…
The Berlin State Opera, where the 76-year-old conductor is general music director, has extended his contract for five additional years to 2027. Some doubts about Barenboim's future there aro…
Philanthropist Dede Wilsey, an heir to the Dow chemical fortune and widow of a Bay Area real estate magnate, is departing after 21 years. "Her generosity to the Fine Arts Museums, among many…
"At stake is whether the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) can use state money for travel costs and continue to provide grants for individual artists " longtime recipients of the agency's…
"Last Friday, museum workers began contributing to a Google Spreadsheet documenting their place of employment, salary rates, and demographic details like race and gender. … Those who contr…
"Oktay Ä°nce, a longtime video activist fighting to retrieve an archive worth 20 years of his work, was held in police custody and accused of terrorist propaganda after he chained himself …
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In 1980, Kylián traveled to the Northern Territory to see the largest-ever gathering of Australian Aboriginal tribes; they all spoke different languages, so they communicated with dance. …
Henry Hitchings and Fiona Mountford had been contract freelancers at the London Evening Standard, he for 10 years and she for 17. Their redundancy is part of what Standard ownership calls "n…
Ever tried to get a date by saying, "Hey, wanna go see Chunky in Heat? It's an opera about a girl and her swimming pool. And it's got six composers." " David Patrick Stearns