"A powerful painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, depicting the torturing of Saint Catherine, is touring Britain. What did the women of Send Prison make of the chilling work?" " The Guardian
The New York Philharmonic's "Music of Conscience" series features Corigliano's Symphony No. 1, partially inspired by the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the first large-scale response to the HIV cri…
"I never thought he was abusive that way at all. I think everybody he was with was completely willing to be with him. I never perceived him as using a part as being manipulative. And I'll te…
"In this series, a variety of disabled theatre artists: managers, designers, producers, and dramaturgs, will share how they do their work, as well as their vision for an accessible future in…
"The site, The Mumble, is contacting artists appearing at this year's festival to offer 'a digitally sophisticated Skyflyer', comprising a review and interview, for £50. Opting for just a…
"Remaining residents, particularly those in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like San Francisco's Mission District, don't see a huge distinction between a well-intentioned arts funder and a…
"There have only been a few filmmakers who have gone into an old genre and created a new universe out of it. … But those Italian guys " Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Duccio Tessari and Fr…
Six years ago, the company moved into a newly-rehabbed 11,000-square-foot space with rent and expenses of $15,000 a month " expensive, though below market for the size and location. But the …
Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's Blue is about a black police officer whose son is shot by a white colleague. Jazz trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons have…
On Tuesday, Netflix issued a cautious statement of concern; on Wednesday, Disney warned a bit more strongly. By late Thursday, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, and AMC Networks had made their disa…
KuÅŸ dili ("bird language"), used to communicate over long distances in a mountainous farming area near Turkey's Black Sea coast, renders the entire Turkish language into variously pitched…
"Glenstone is a 21st-century version of the Frick, the Phillips Collection or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. And it's the equivalent, among its contemporaries, of such celebrated art s…
"Every month [students learning Tongva] gather, practicing pronunciation, mastering the use of particles, singing songs and playing word games under the guidance of Pam Munro, a linguist fro…
The rowdy, messy, laddish types who flock to the city for the hashish and the red-light district have been joined by hordes of selfie-seeking Instagram addicts, and Amsterdam is becoming eve…
"The State Hermitage Museum [in St. Petersburg] has held talks with Saudi officials to explore the possibility of opening a satellite in the Gulf state. The meeting took place earlier this y…
The musicians have been playing without a contract since mid-January, and the main issue in negotiations has been whether to shorten the orchestra's annual season to 40 weeks from 52, which …
"Although Redbone's pop-defying predilection for seemingly antiquated musical styles of the '20s and '30s made him the unlikeliest of stars, he became one anyway." " Variety
"After a successful pilot that saw [Scottish Ballet] work with nine schools in Glasgow and Perth, the Safe to Be Me project will be rolled out to primary schools across Scotland in 2019. So …
No sooner had I started to idly wonder what's happening in one of my favorite former hometowns than Terri Hinte sent a message reminding me of a new album by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra "…
"As what's known in Broadway parlance as a 'swing,' [Angelo] Soriano is paid to master a head-spinning 14 roles, though he is never certain he will go onstage in any of them. With … [injur…
"If it seems lately there's been a surfeit of Black playwrights tackling race onstage in formally inventive ways, it can be partly traced to Drury's work at the beginning of the decade." " A…
Says the author of Fire and Fury and Siege: Trump Under Fire, "I've said many times: I'm not a Washington reporter. And Washington reporters, they do a great job. They do their job. I approa…
"I think what appeared after in newspapers and magazines can't be justified by what I said online … It was a weird, interesting experience and it felt like there was a certain karma that I…
"For the first generation in U.S. history to do worse than their parents, Oh, the Places You'll Go is just right: It celebrates young adults' dreams of escaping from home in the warm embrace…
Keya Morgan, who was captured and detained in Phoenix, "is facing felony charges including theft, embezzlement, forgery or fraud against an elder adult, and false imprisonment of an elder ad…