"A consortium of 18 organisations, including the Tate group of galleries, the British Museum and Imperial War Museums, has contracted market researchers DJS Research for a major project that…
"She graced the concert and opera stages of the world in roles that ranged from Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes " where her sympathy for the character drew a near-definitive portrayal…
The first woman artist in Iran to get her own museum (and, at one time, part of Andy Warhol's cohort), she's known for using the traditional Iranian technique of mirror mosaic work to create…
That's how they're describing it, but not really " it's more like the world's largest poetry-in-the-subways-and-streets project, and it's called StickLit. " The Guardian
Electronica artist Max Cooper and I launch a new project this spring, a collaboration called Glassforms. We overlay electronic sounds " onto piano music by Glass. There have been Glass remix…
Anthem: Homunculus "is not the first podcast musical to be released. And though it contains a love ballad from a brain tumor to its host, it may not even be the strangest. But it is probably…
The Fondo de Cultura Económica is a huge government-funded publishing house, influential throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and its boss basically is Mexico's minister of literature. …
No more sweet village maiden, caddish duke, or white-clad dancing spirits. "Khan's Giselle has a new score, new décor and costumes, a contemporary setting " migrant laborers in ghostly aban…
A legal dispute between Oklahoma's network of PBS affiliates and the foundation through which viewers support it just ended (and so did the foundation). Similar discord in Arkansas is even w…
"There are lessons to be learned for today's technologists and futurists in Marinetti's [Futurist Manifesto], and it would be foolish to ignore them. Let's first take a look at the words oft…
Take, for instance, the recent Broadway production of Sam Shepard's True West and the wreckage Ethan Hawke left behind every show. "How would anyone, save for a skilled team of crime scene c…
"Like many white intellectuals, Whitman seems to have been seduced by the proliferation of racist pseudo-science in the post-Civil War era, … [and his] racism was not limited to black peop…
"The class led by Maria del Carmen Silva, a former professional dancer, is bringing classical ballet dancing to children from impoverished communities where leotards and shiny pink pointe sh…
"Paris police investigators think an electrical short-circuit most likely caused the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, … [though they] don't have a green light to search Notre Dame's charred i…
The PRH Reader Rewards Loyalty Program will let members enter proof-of-purchase info online; when you reach 120 points (roughly ten books, the company says), you get up to $30 credit toward …
"The solo show for the Swedish artist, which has been widely praised by critics, has drawn in over 600,000 visitors. That influx of foot traffic has been accompanied by a 34 percent increase…
"[The move is] a potentially crucial step toward resolving a contentious labor dispute" " the musicians have been playing without a contract since January " "and allowing the organization to…
Estelle Rubens, who died in January of 2018, was a popular guide at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for about 15 years, and she had told officials there that she'd leave the museum and…
Charlotte Arrowsmith, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company last year to play Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida, stepped in for a colleague last week and played Vincentia in the RSC produ…
Says Negin Khpelwak, the 22-year-old leader of the Zohra Orchestra, "We can bring freedom, peace and honor to Afghanistan. Women can't go back to the dark days " they can break our instrumen…
"A source at RAI said the plan was about repositioning programmes to better target male and female audiences, rather than gender segregation, but the potential move has been lambasted by opp…
"Last week, in the historic (and historically black) Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, the city's African American Museum officially opened its doors to the public after a six-year closure…
If you've been to any leadership development or organizational change workshop lately, you've heard about complexity quite a bit. But I've slowly (slowly) started to realize that I, and many…
The Stephen Petronio Company at NYU Skirball Center on April 12, 2019. " Deborah Jowitt
On "chemo brain": "It was not merely that the chemo left me fully thoughtless so that as time went on I could not even read; the effect of the drug darkened the mind or filled it with someth…