"'I'm going to walk through; it's going to be so awkward,' says BalletX artistic and executive director Christine Cox, addressing 119 auditionees and acknowledging the ever-intimidating clip…
Just in the past year, there's been Red Sparrow, Suspiria, and Climax. "What is it about dancers that inspires filmmakers to depict them in various forms of total destruction? And, most impo…
The top name on the list pulled in $290 million more than the runner-up, who in turn grossed just over twice as much as number three. The takeaway? "Franchises make money, and so do adaptati…
"The latest sapphic storyline to get tongues a-wagging" is Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet as paleontologist Mary Anning and Saoirse Ronan as her entirely fictional lover. Laments Guardian w…
"Investing in cultural institutions, spaces, and heritage can help build bridges between sparring communities in post-conflict urban areas and make disaster recovery quick, sustainable, and …
The service's parent company revealed in its third-quarter financial report "that the money-losing subscription service has fewer subscribers than previously disclosed, causing the firm to r…
"The hypocrites in charge, not a one of whom I know, say they are doing this to 'honor' me. What they are doing is trying to drown me in their own bad taste, and are embarrassing me beyond e…
"In that time, the Smithsonian " 19 museums including the Cooper Hewitt design museum in New York and the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and National Museum of African American History and …
"The bona fide version of The Crucifixion, donated to Santa Maria Maddalena church in the small Ligurian town of Castelnuovo Magra more than a century ago, was safely stored away last month …
"Birmingham Opera Company has traditionally cast its chorus from local volunteers. Now it's extending a welcome to people fleeing countries such as Sudan. In the past decade, the company has…
Authorities who accepted street art just a couple of years ago are now whitewashing murals, harassing artists, and having them turned out of their studios. Yet they keep on, painting on ever…
"'It's a disgrace that the Netherlands is only now turning its attention to the return of the colonial heritage', Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbets [said]. 'We should have done it earlier an…
"Jewish theatre artists have been central but often unidentified." (Harold Pinter, Janet Suzman, Antony Sher, David Lan, Tracy Ann Oberman, Nicholas Hytner, …) "Is this an immigrant people…
The TSO is calling this and future concerts of this type "Relaxed Performances," the term already in use for similar events in the UK. With specially designed changes to the concert format, …
Chrysanthe Tan, the autistic violinist who wrote last week's open letter to other musicians: "Today, I present you with … an organized, actionable reference guide to help you enact a perma…
The Nobel laureate talks about politics, law, race/ethnic relations, and corruption in both his erstwhile adopted country (the U.S.) and his native land (Nigeria); about what went wrong in S…
The Rinzai Zen master IkkyÅ« Sojun (1394-1481) was a poet, musician, artist, and rebel. He led a life of whoring and drinking. His poems " "often erotic, argumentative, contradictory, judg…
Chucho Valdés, Jazz Batá 2 (Mack Avenue)Valdés's Jazz Batá was considered a departure into the avant-garde when he made it in 1972. Nearly half a century later, the follow-up finds h…
"Despite praise in his lifetime from Langston Hughes, Susan Sontag, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, as well as " in later years " John Waters and Jonathan Franzen, Purdy … cast out by the US lit…
"For dancers with a strictly concert background, making the transition into TV and film can feel like stepping into the unknown. The heightened speed of the rehearsals, ever-changing structu…
Last year, Lukas Dhont's debut feature won four prizes at Cannes and a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign film; Netflix bought the US rights. Then came the backlash " not only were a c…
She had had quite a life even before she became the first superstar virtuoso of an electronic instrument: she was a child prodigy on the violin who toured with her pianist sister until injur…
"On December 4, 1950, two years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot stood behind a lectern in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y and read some of his best wor…
"Writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, [Canadian researchers] report how 15 method actors, mainly theatre students, were trained to take on a Shakespeare role " either Romeo or …
The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, built in 1829, gets hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. "Talking about the site's history didn't seem like enough for Sean Kelley, se…