Troy Patterson: "Its first act is weird and perfect; the second indicates the limits of this salvage operation. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, the editors ask, in a headnote, 'Ho…
Marcello Angelini of Tulsa Ballet: "I think the current system for ballet companies robs dancers of their edge, whereas in Broadway, you need to remain marketable all the time. When a show o…
"The combination of Bach's elegant contrapuntal melodies with jazz swing had instant commercial appeal. [Loussier's LP release] Play Bach No. 1 proved a runaway hit and two follow-up release…
"The debate about the future of moviegoing shouldn't be a binary one between a studio system increasingly beholden to franchises and intellectual property, and a nihilistic streaming service…
The next-to-last one, in suburban Perth, Australia, closes this month, leaving only the franchise in Bend, Oregon. "But this is no elegy for Blockbuster, no lament for how Netflix killed the…
The CSO music director said, in a letter to the board of directors, "I hope that the board will remember that theirs is not a job but a mission, and that tranquility and serenity will be giv…
"Archaeologists hunting for a sacred well beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula have accidentally discovered a trove of more than 150 ritual obje…
"Over the course of Schneemann's multifarious 60-year career, her art came to form the bedrock of radical traditions like performance art and body art, even while she insisted on identifying…
The star violinist, who runs the chamber music program and is the biggest name among the festival's associate artistic directors, will step down after this year's festival, which begins in t…
"According to research commissioned by the Man Booker International (MBI) prize from Nielsen Book, overall sales of translated fiction in the UK were up last year by 5.5%, with more than 2.6…
As one publisher put it, "Translated literature has found recent mainstream success partly because books coverage, like Congress, is catching up to the changing culture of America." Yet for …
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened in Cape Town in September of 2017 but had a turbulent first year, the biggest event of which was the ousting of its founding executive dire…
The National Alliance for Audition Support, launched by the League of American Orchestras, the Sphinx Organization, and the New World Symphony, "offers a range of supports to help musicians …
"Allow me to introduce myself: I'm Chrysanthe Tan, a real-life, autistic violinist, composer, and recording artist, and in my near-decade of working in many music spheres, I've noticed an un…
"Intergenerational orchestras boast a unique dynamic: an eight-year old might share a music stand with an octogenarian. These avocational ensembles also foster improved self-confidence, ment…
"Every identity comes with inherent biases, assumptions, and privileges to varying degrees. A helpful exercise is to take an identity and think of the immediate mental image that comes to mi…
"NYC Health + Hospitals leadership will be expanding its use of the arts in clinical and staff care thanks to a $1.5 million grant. The grant, from philanthropist Laurie M. Tisch via the May…
Inspired from a conversation with The Movement Theatre Company after their historic #25kin25days campaign for Aleshea Harris' What To Send Up When It Goes Down, Advancing Arts Forward teamed…
Justin Davidson: "There's a certain slyly subversive quality to the displays of manuscripts, ceiling frescoes, foods, scientific instruments, silverware, home furnishings, and scenes of Mont…
I began pondering issues related to community engagement almost 30 years ago. What has become clear to me is that the economic pressures faced by institutions presenting Eurocentric art form…
Dear SFMOMA and Sotheby's: Have you no shame?It's bad enough for a museum to decide it no longer wants a work that it had specifically requested from its owner. It's much worse when that own…
"It's where free speech, community interests, censorship, harassment, spam, and overt criminality all butt up against each other. It has to account for a wide variety of always-evolving cult…
WQXR editor-in-chief Jacqui Cheng interviews Chi-chi Nwanoku, one of London's leading double bassists and founder of the Chineke! Orchestra, and Chineke! bassoonist Linton Stephens. " WQXR (…
Isaac Iskra, a person with high-functioning autism, writes about his difficult adjustment to his college's dance department (he had a panic attack the first day), his subsequent breakthrough…
"Shot in a single-take, the [five-minute] dance routine is more than just choreographed steps. It shows off the dancers' individual styles which include voguing, an improvisational dance for…