"Nineteen federally-funded museums, cultural institutions and events in São Paulo could be impacted by steep budget cuts proposed by the state's governor João Doria, a millionaire who …
"Opposition parties, including the Indian National Congress, had petitioned the Election Commission to delay the film's release until after the polls close on May 19, on the grounds that it …
Titus Underwood has been acting principal oboe for more than a year and has just been awarded the position permanently. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard Schoo…
In his introduction to NEVER A LOVELY SO REAL: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren, Colin Asher begins with "the first thing you should know." " Jan Herman
It struck me a couple of months ago that Mrs. T's recent travails had made her even more deserving than usual of a just-because-I-love-you present. It took a bit of thinking and even more lo…
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its slate of 2019 Jazz Heroes, people who have made significant contributions to the health, well-being and exposure of jazz in their cities an…
William Kentridge's stagings of The Nose and Lulu were, and next season's Wozzeck will be, packed tight with video imagery. (Yet they're surprisingly easy for the stage technicians.) The wha…
"The image of a mother made to eat her children was hard to shake, and a couple of decades after its 1594 premiere, artists had already begun to appropriate " O.K., fine, cannibalize " its p…
Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote "has to be one of the unluckiest passion projects in history: In a three-decade stretch, Gilliam, now 78, endured several financing stops and s…
Sasha Weiss: "When I once made the mistake of calling his drag a 'persona,' or a character he plays, he promptly corrected me: 'I'm just exposing what I look like on the inside.' Wearing jea…
It's Been a Minute isn't a comedy show like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Says co-founder and host Sam Sanders, "We kind of trick our listeners into thinking it's like a little fun talk party b…
In 1969, Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook started the company in a converted garage. "Together, they wanted to prove to the world something that still needed proving back then: that blacks co…
Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli thinks that "counterintuitive phenomena " for example, of time moving slower for faster travelers " will, slowly, become intuitive. 'It has happened with …
Blame evolution. "Impatience made sure we didn't die from spending too long on a single unrewarding activity. It gave us the impulse to act. But that good thing is gone. The fast pace of soc…
In fact, a set of scholars now believe, the Greeks based their music on scales and instruments like the lyre that had been developed more than 1,000 years earlier in Babylonia, from which co…
On conducting with his whole body: "My model in this is really Leonard Bernstein because he also [conveyed] how every bone of the body should express music while on the podium. Why just limi…
"Being able to touch, explore the shape, feel the weight and even smell the replica of an artefact has the potential to transform cultural heritage experiences. In reality, these connections…
Before World War II, the Attucks Theater was the center of Norfolk's thriving historically black business district. Like many such buildings, it fell on hard times in the late 20th century, …
"When Michou" " né Michel Catty " "first set foot in Montmartre in the 1950s, it was a cheap bohemian area, home to artists, writers and performers, as well as beggars and an ethnically mix…
"The Women's Prize for Fiction has said it is working on a policy around gender fluid, transgender and transgender non-binary writers after featuring non-binary author Akwaeke Emezi on its l…
Not just any book, mind you. "Traditionally, a well-known Dutch author writes a special novel " the book week gift or Boekenweekgeschenk " which is given out for free to people who buy books…
"The building's most prominent feature will be a helical roof that connects to the ground via a spectacular open-air spiral staircase. Snøhetta has designed this to resemble an unfolding …
"Throughout the second half of his life, Dalà had a curious side-project … illustrating the Western canon: Don Quixote and Macbeth in 1946; The Divine Comedy between 1951 and 1964; the …
"Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World" at the University of Washington "is not dedicated to teaching students that Fox News promotes 'fake news or that National Enquirer headl…
"U.S. District Judge Charles B. Goodwin ruled that the Oklahoma Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act violates the U.S. Constitution because it is more restrictive than a federal law with the sam…