The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for freestanding books went to The Overstory by Richard Powers (fiction), Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold (general n…
The blaze in the great medieval cathedral broke out before 7 pm local time. While no human casualties have been reported, the church's spire and most of its roof have collapsed, smoke is pou…
Yeast isn't a food; it plays on food, like a conductor, or a cook. So when you realize that yeast floats in the air and lives almost forever, you may have more respect for its governance, it…
Cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Connie Shih play music by bigtime male composers, and by women they loved. " Greg Sandow
John Coltrane, Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings (Craft)Every few years, curators of the great saxophonist John Coltrane's extensive body of recordings come up with yet another retrospec…
What's new in improvisational music? Where else can innovation go? Mn'JAM Experiment " singer Melissa Oliveira and her visual/electronics/turntablist partner JAM " will show you. " Howard Ma…
Shanno Khurana first became a star performing in Punjabi folk operas in 1950s Delhi, but she was a fully classically trained singer who wanted to do serious classical work. So she devised an…
"We asked 15 playwrights to imagine America five years into the future" " among them Lynn Nottage, Terrence McNally, Jeremy O. Harris, Adam Rapp, Jocelyn Bioh, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Nassim …
During the company's two-week New American Dance Residency, which starts up for the first time next week, "the dancemakers will visit important Memphis cultural sites … and meet with local…
The German-born sociologist/philosopher first examined the mechanisms that producers use to get us to binge-watch streaming series " which are really no different than the ones used for deca…
"If you've seen dancers flare their fingers in the flexed position often mockingly called 'jazz hands,' then you've seen Fosse, especially if those dancers were also sitting into one hip and…
Laurence Tribe, who's taught at Harvard Law School for 50 years and is familiar to many a public TV and radio listener, went to see Heidi Schreck's hit theater piece in its pre-Broadway run …
The play, written by two young Englishmen (Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson) who went to live for several months in the camp and set up a makeshift-but-busy performing arts center there, shows w…
Lucas, who is based in Germany and has her career largely in Europe, began rehearsals this week for the title role in Don Giovanni at Tulsa Opera. And this is not her first time playing Moza…
Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki won raves at Cannes and beyond, and she's now become the first African woman to get a major Hollywood studio deal. In Kenya, "Kahiu has been trolled on social media, th…
"In the debate over the 13 murals that make up The Life of Washington, at George Washington High School [in San Francisco], one side, which includes art historians and school alumni, sees an…
"Inside the new space, the North Hall would feature a vault for the library's 82 Shakespeare first folios, the first collections of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623. In addition, four i…
"For nine years, [the museum] has been foraging for answers to some of the most confounding questions raised by Minimalist and conceptual art from the 1960s and '70s: What makes a work genui…
Here's a selection of quotes from the Australian federal judge's decision against The Daily Telegraph that explain why the allegations, published by the tabloid, of "inappropriate behaviour"…
A tall, handsome Columbia University professor with advanced degrees in both English and mathematics, Van Doren became a genuine TV star with a months-long winning streak on the prime-time q…
Sometime last weekend, someone carved graffiti into one of the 36 surviving stones in the Ring of Brodgar, part of a UNESCO Neolithic World Heritage Site, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. …
The works, which had belonged to the University and Regional Library of Bonn and "which were thought to have been irretrievably lost, included rare medieval manuscripts, early 15th-century p…
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker is creating new steps for Ivo van Hove's Broadway production in December, and Justin Peck is doing the same for Steven Spielberg's movie version. But arriving befo…
Several weeks ago, I visited the Dallas Museum of Art to see an exhibition of works by Jonas Wood. His paintings, mostly, are striking. They have wall power. They are easy to like. But the w…
This headline is not kidding. To judge from the playlist for pets Yannick Nézet-Séguin created, his three cats are mostly Romantics. But the tastes of David Patrick Stearns's four cats run…