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This year's Ojai Festival was programmed by soprano Barbara Hannigan and features, among other performers, new-music stars the JACK Quartet. The other day I spoke to Jay Campbell, the group'…
The 74-year-old conductor, who withdrew from one weekend of concerts last month due to illness, said in a statement, "'On the advice of my doctors, I need to undergo this procedure at this t…
"We are being deliberately vague about the term 'literary' here: there are traditional fiction and lit-crit magazines listed, but we've also included a sci-fi publication and a psychogeograp…
"Billops is best known for documentary works like Finding Christa (1991), a 55-minute film that recounts why she gave up her four-year-old daughter and how they reconnected more than two dec…
"Culture programs are budgeted at $235 million this year, down from nearly $295 million last year, including cutting 'arts sector support' from $18.5 million to $6.5 million. Additionally, t…
"The plan is to have monthly rotating chief editors, who will help curate the content " slated to comprise around 15 pieces a month " with the help of ongoing editors Michelle Tse (one of St…
"'I've always been attracted to those ballet steps, and using them as a framework, or form, but then changing stuff within that,' she says. Nevertheless, breaking into the ballet world wasn'…
"[Emilie] Skinner launched DNCB in 2011 after dancing with Contemporary Ballet Dallas and carved out a niche re-staging groundbreaking examples of early modernist ballet, particularly pieces…
As a Change.org petition (with about 3,000 signatures so far) puts it, "We [pro-choice people in Georgia] now share the burden of condemnation for actions we fought from the beginning " with…
Lynch, Studi, and Wertmüller will receive honorary Academy Awards for lifetime achievement, while Davis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work toward g…
Despite high praise for Jackson's performance, reviews for the show have been ambivalent at best, and initially robust sales have slowed considerably. The final performance, originally sched…
"The Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities, Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani, … intends to visit Washington 'to recover 5,500 artefacts from the Hobby Lobby company and 10,000 clay figurines …
"Leathers is best known to the global jazz audience for his affiliations with pianist Aaron Diehl and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. He won two Grammy awards backing Salvant, as a member of…
Museum management said in a statement that "this auction allows us to deaccession a number of works in areas where we have significant breadth and depth and the proceeds will return to the A…
Two of the country's four major chains have raised the price of a standard ticket from Â¥1,800 ($16.50) to Â¥1,900 ($17.50), citing the costs of new IMAX and 4D equipment as well as "ant…
The dramaturg at the Kaaitheater, a Flemish company in Brussels, has written an open letter arguing hard against a merger between the Kaai and Rosas, the company of choreographer Anne Teresa…
"About 50 people packed the inside of the Children's Book Cellar, where is was shoulder to shoulder, like a rainbow mosh pit. Ophelia, a drag queen from Topsham, read from two books about in…
The creators of Sun and Sea (Marina) at the Lithuanian pavilion say they had never really expected more than 15 visitors at a time and certainly never expected to win the Golden Lion or draw…
New York Notes finds Broadbent leading a trio, the setting that brought him to the attention of audiences and critics early in his career. His associations with Woody Herman, John Klemmer an…
This is the second in a series of posts by guest blogger Milton Moore, a longtime music critic who has covered a wide array of genres. " Scott Timberg
There's barely a scrap of frivolity in the Rutherford home. The seat of a Tyneside manufacturing family in the 1910s, it's imposing, substantial, stuffed to the gunwales with heavy furniture…
"Through Aladdin and other remakes, the studio has tried to fix its problematic legacy. But its efforts should be focused on original stories." " The New York Times
"Exploring nature is not some obscure topic in children's literature. Quite the contrary, children's literature has a considerable focus on the natural world " on plants and bugs, woods and …
"A recent episode of the CBS drama The Red Line featured a gay romance involving a Muslim character. Fawzia Mirza, the episode's writer, discusses how it came to be." " The New York Times
"Despite not being staged while [composer Scott] Joplin was still alive, Treemonisha has had a lasting legacy. It was first performed in its entirety in the 1970s, and in 1977 Joplin posthum…
