Filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher: "It's sort of like asking someone who survived a shipwreck why he's still alive. … Why are you asking us? Well, ask the person who built the boat, who sold the …
The Indian Novels Collective was founded two years ago by four Mumbai professionals who realized that their growing children were reading Indian books written only in English " and missing o…
Working under the umbrella of the Royal Opera House and in partnership with local government, over the next three years the company will be giving workshops at every school in the town of Do…
The maximum amount granted for a project has been slashed from $15 million to $250,000, which is a blow to the largest arts projects in the two metropolises, and the government says explicit…
"Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, in its second year, differs significantly from other film festivals: some participants wear badges that read 'No Photos'; attendees were invited through a pri…
"Kathleen Breen Combes, a star of Boston Ballet who has earned acclaim everywhere from Boston to New York and London, is retiring from the company after 16 years to become the new executive …
In the movie in question, titled Rothchild and currently being pitched to buyers at the Cannes marketplace, Gibson is to play the patriarch of an extremely rich New York family. The similari…
Yvonne Rainer, David Gordon, Steve Paxton, Lucinda Childs, and Deborah Hay tell Alastair Macaulay what they learned from Cunningham that enabled them to transform modern dance. " The New Yor…
"Bring on the outsiders! The writers and journalists who can't raise their legs to their ears but can ask a brand-new, real good question and keep asking until it gets answered with clarity.…
Dude seems to have developed from a pejorative epithet for a man about as far as possible from Jeff Bridges's character as one could get. Grotesque came from a hole in the ground in Rome. Pi…
"So, as we lurch into the future … what is literature's place? What counts as literature? Who decides? Obviously, there is no single, edifying answer to these questions. So, if you will fo…
As the Philadelphia Orchestra prepares to depart for its 12th tour to China, here are excerpts from a journal kept by the piccolo player on the orchestra's first tour there, back in 1973. " …
Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's novel has passed the $40 million mark at the box office, with advance sales lifting the total to $55 million. There are still three British imports …
"Provided that culture uniquely defines a city, which urban contexts are more culturally vibrant? And in which ones does culture drive creative economies? This study presents a novel and fre…
"It was a mutual decision between Krzysztof and the ISO," sais ISO CEO James Johnson. When he departs, UrbaÅ„ski, now 36, will have been on the ISO's podium for 10 years, and he's credite…
Three years ago, the Times ran a feature about how the erstwhile King of All Media had moved on from the crazy, raunchy stuff that made him rich and famous and become an intelligent, sensiti…
"While not well known outside continental Europe, Elsner was a major star in Germany, one of the country's most famous actors and a regular in both film and television. She was also one of t…
The major capital project, which was to begin in October of this year, includes new production and rehearsal facilities and a library/archive; when it was announced in 2016, it was expected …
"At various points in the last three decades, [Tyree Guyton's] Heidelberg Project, as it has come to be known, has been dismissed by neighbors as the junk of a crazy hoarder and hailed by cr…
"Seven months after the murder of Jamal  Khashoggi derailed Crown Prince Mohammed  bin  Salman's plan to open up the country " and its $1 billion in potential box office " …
Situated on the island of Giudecca, a traditionally industrial area away from the most heavily touristed spots, the Giudecca Art District was founded by curators Pier Paolo Scelsi and Valent…
The humble McDonald's cheeseburger " the plain one, not the Big Mac " as madeleine. " Terry Teachout
Continuing from my last post, with what should be in a book on the past few decades' history of American orchestras … One main focus of the book would of course have to be orchestra financ…
We see them early on in the heavy-hearted revival at London's Young Vic. Willy lumbers in with two cases. One, a smart, wooden box, presumably packed with sample goods. The other, a battered…
I'll let my comments speak for themselves but will leave you with this reflection " "A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists…