Yes, there are some literary stars here whose books come to U.S. readers in translation " Karl Ove Knausgaard, Stieg Larsson, Elena Ferrante " but the number of books published in English th…
"[She] drew whimsical but thoughtful cartoons: an office worker sitting in what is actually one of his desk's drawers; a lumberjack peering at a heart pierced by an arrow carved inside the r…
"Before each performance Carol Isaac climbs into her little box from the orchestra pit and raises her seat just enough to be seen by the singers but not the audience." It's tight quarters in…
"An array of rapidly developing technologies offer thrilling potential for the future of motion pictures " such as the rise of AR (augmented reality), AI (artificial intelligence) and the ev…
The culprit was one Robert Phillips, an Englishman who had been a worker on a project to repair and stabilize one of the large stone arches at the site in 1958. He took a cylindrical core th…
"The Philadelphia Cultural Pass will provide free tickets to any of the roughly 40,000 Penn Medicine and 6,800 Drexel [University] employees working full-time or more than half-time. … At …
"Polish police say Elżbieta Podlesna put up posters of the revered Black Madonna that showed the Virgin Mary and Jesus with rainbows from the LGBT flag as the halos. Now she could face tw…
"For years, Mr. Kinder led the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became renowned for his generosity as a teacher and as a [party] host" as well as for a huge…
Emily Carrico was diagnosed with slippage of the vertebrae when she was still a toddler; she had two lower vertebrae fused with the sacrum. Then she spent months in a cast, a year in rehab, …
"Although Renaissance and Baroque repertoire remains his lodestar, [Liam] Byrne has taken the music " and audiences " to surprising places. In 2015, he squeezed into the belly of a plaster s…
For years it's been known that the makers of top video games would make employees work 90-hour weeks or more, with no extra pay, at the crunch time before a title's release. But now crunch t…
Tom Carson: "Most of the Americans entranced by the fib that everything after high school is a fall from grace undoubtedly have no idea where it originated, but the Clearasil staining Mark T…
Trump on Show, which ran for four days last month at the city's last commercial Cantonese opera theater, "tells a story of Mr. Trump's long-lost twin, Chuan Pu, who was raised in China and w…
The co-founder and recently retired director of DC's famed theatre company reports from this year's Golden Mask Festival, where selected companies from all over the vast country meet to show…
Five key high-level staffers of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority didn't renew their contracts and are leaving between now and the fall. And one much-anticipated venue in the WKCD…
"Steven McMahon, 34, was named Artistic Director on Tuesday, taking over half the role occupied by company founder Dorothy Gunther Pugh since 1986. While Pugh will stay on as C.E.O., McMahon…
The attorneys for Woodstock 50 co-founder Michael Lang have shared a furious letter he has written to Dentsu, the Japan-based international ad agency that had been lead investor for this sum…
Amy Brandt, who danced in Farrell's company in Washington, DC, talks with Farrell about her return to the troupe where she became a star, and watches her coach Sara Mearns and Russell Janzen…
"Many programs focus exclusively on craft and artistry, but rarely " if ever " address the nitty-gritty topics such as finding work, money management, or entrepreneurship, although these are…
In Chicago, where Bellow spent his life, playwright David Auburn (who won the Pulitzer for Proof) has reshaped the hefty novel into a single-evening play with 13 actors portraying 40 charact…
Way back in 1985-86, Anne Hamburger started up En Garde Arts in place of writing a master's thesis at the Yale School of Drama. ("At the time, no one knew what that was; audiences identified…
That's how Tate Modern director Frances Morris describes the 1989 Paris show Magiciens de la Terre. As The Economist's anonymous-as-usual correspondent writes, "The exhibition was in some wa…
"The full findings from the annual Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society report into author earnings … [reveal that,] while the average professional writer earns £10,000 a year, the…
Over the past seven years, a pair of amateur archaeologists has discovered hundreds of large petroglyphs, estimated to be 10,000 to 40,000 years old, etched into rock in a rural area roughly…
"Almost 50,000 people took part in the BBC Arts Great British Creativity Test. It suggested that being creative can help avoid stress, free up mind space and improve self-development, which …