He didn't start the community radio movement (that was Lew Hill of Pacifica), but, as one radio historian wrote, "if Lew Hill fathered the movement, Lorenzo Milam reared it." He founded inde…
"[The company] hosted galas at its St. Petersburg theaters, featuring solos and duets performed by dancers who had undergone weekly tests for coronavirus. More ambitiously, it had begun stag…
"Many of New York's museum leaders have taken pay cuts to offset some of the financial damage their institutions are suffering from their Covid-related closures. But at a time when museums a…
"More than 100 staff members at the Tate galleries in England began an indefinite strike on Tuesday morning to protest the institution's announcement that it would cut more than 300 jobs fro…
First, there are the obvious issues of placement: how far apart the string players must be, how much farther apart for the winds and brass, placing the conductor where everyone can see. In L…
In late 2017, PBS suspended Smiley's late-night talk show following sexual harassment allegations from staffers. Smiley sued the network, which countersued, and in March 2020, a jury awarded…
"Like nuclear power plants and sensitive computer networks, the safest rare book collections are protected by what is known as 'defense in depth' " a series of small, overlapping measures de…
"The Bush Theatre in London [has] produced a series of timely Monday Monologues online, curated The Protest series of digital pieces inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and posted a …
"The autumn series will not only include solo recitals and duos, but trios, quartets and larger ensembles will return to Wigmore Hall for the first time since lockdown. … All 100 concerts …
James Poniewozik: "At its shakiest, it was, like much pandemic-era TV, uncanny, disjointed and unsettlingly weird. (To its credit, though, there were few of the glitches that have riddled so…
The Dunedin Consort, an Edinburgh-based period-instrument group known for its recordings of Bach sacred works and Handel oratorios, had its first engagement since lockdown this past Friday i…
"I'm the first to admit that my project can sound outré or precious. … When it came to Bach, I was unhappy about the piano's awkwardness with hand crossings, the harpsichord's lack of dyn…
"He has stunned Covent Garden audiences as the doomed Prince Mayerling, a tormented Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Lewis Carroll's bewigged White Rabbit and a gloop-smeared Gregor Samsa in Th…
"Known for his unique voice which had both depth and softness, Pandit Jasraj was one of a handful of remaining old school musical giants of the Indian classical world, alongside artists like…
Several outfits in New York are trying it, and Jesse David Fox checked one out. "Comedy clubs are agreed-upon spaces where we allow comedians to say whatever they want. But now we have, as […
The market for Black artists' work is hot right now, and some re-sellers are pocketing enormous profits " none of which are going to the actual creators of the (as it were) merchandise. So t…
"I haven't got another big historical novel in view, … so I hope people will stop writing to me with suggestions. It's lovely that people have the appetite for it but considering the pace …
"According to the Rural Establishment Innovation Survey, residents in rural counties that are home to performing arts organizations earn up to $6,000 more than people who live in rural count…
"The announcement came as the state has seen less than 1 percent of all coronavirus tests return positive for seven straight days, [Gov.] Cuomo said in a news conference. … Institutions wi…
Out beyond the big state capitals, people had barely had a chance to take a breath after the catastrophic bushfires of the Australian summer when COVID-19 hit, straining the national economy…
I have to hand it to Holland Cotter: For better or worse, the NY Times' co-chief art critic was right. I was wrong. " Lee Rosenbaum
Instead of reading the sonnets in the numbered sequence of the 1609 quarto, which is the usual way, they examine them in what they believe was their order of composition. This puts a special…
A literal éminence grise (his hair went white decades ago) best known for editing the books-and-culture pages of The New Republic for 32 years, Wieseltier was about to launch a journal fund…
The idea came from Joan Plowright and her husband, Laurence Olivier, who was then running the National Theatre at the Old Vic. They and colleagues wanted an additional theatre that would tar…
"Today, the pop-culture collectibles market grabs headlines and brings in between $200 million and $400 million in annual sales. … But back [in the '90s], entertainment memorabilia was sti…