Mind you, the tribunal didn't find that the 27 plaintiffs were unfairly sacked; neither did it say they should have all the rights of Gallery employees (not the same thing as "workers" under…
"The deadly mudslides that resulted from the [Brumadinho] accident did not reach the sculpture park, which is around 20km from the site and had been evacuated, but more than 80% of its 600 e…
He was best-known for his award-winning discs of the complete organ music of J.S. Bach, though his discography ranged from Handel and Soler to Widor and Poulenc. " Gramophone
"Attend three and you will start feeling the monotony in all of it; it is like each performance, each story, is the same," writes Malawian theatre artist Isaac Mafuel. The problem, he says, …
The obituaries for André Previn were respectful, even admiring, in a way that they wouldn't have been had he died a quarter-century ago. It took a very long time for Previn to be fully acce…
One of Canada's finest musicians, guitarist Ed Bickert, died on Thursday at 86. He was quiet and reserved, but the rich harmonies in Bickert's playing captivated listeners and fellow musicia…
Here is a piece from the 1975 Paul Desmond Quartet album Live, recorded at Bourbon Street in Toronto in 1975. " Doug Ramsey
John Paul Bremmer (who writes the column "¡Hola Papi!" for Out): "This advice renaissance might seem paradoxical: Why hasn't distrust in the media as a whole negatively affected advice co…
In a speech in North Adams, Mass., which he wants to transform into "the number one cultural destination in the country," the man who tried to plant Guggenheims all over the globe argued tha…
"Mr. O'Neal was still in his early 20s in 1963 when he, Doris Derby and Gilbert Moses founded the Free Southern Theater, which presented free productions throughout the South. The troupe oft…
"The most commonly used verb in the English language (and indeed many other languages) has a strange history. The fact that it has so many more forms than other verbs, which are quite unlike…
"I understood very early on that this mostly blue-collar African-American audience was feeling inspired. They were getting answers to a lot of what was going on in our community that no one …
Cinematic depictions of Christ go all the way back to Edison and the Lumière brothers. And they stretch forward from the silents through Cecil B. DeMille to Mel Gibson " and that's just fro…
"'Give me a little booty! Show off! Glissade, glissade, tombé, ballonné, piqué, yessssss!' William Forsythe called out ballet steps, bouncing through them on sneakered feet. 'Let's go, le…
Well, it's really called "spalling" " chipping and splintering by the brick, concrete or other materials on the exterior of the handsome theater, the US's oldest opera house, now owned by th…
"[He] was not only among the most charismatic performers of his day, but also enjoyed one of the greatest classical-music lives since Berlioz and Liszt." David Patrick Stearns surveys an ama…
"The theaters were planning to stage an adaptation of the novel by the playwright Christopher Sergel, which has been widely staged by adults and students for decades. Lawyers for the produce…
"Susan Gluck, a trustee of the George Balanchine Trust, which administers the rights to perform Balanchine's ballets, filed a petition Thursday … seeking a full accounting of the financial…
Greater Boston's leading resident theater company has been on Harvard Square for decades, but it's just been given $100 million by hedge funder David E. Goel and his wife as the lead gift fo…
It's not just the ever-growing Fringe: the International, Film, and Book Festivals are expanding, too. But yes, the Fringe is the biggest issue: it regularly sets attendance records and is n…
Last year, the headache for this world music festival was that performers were either denied UK visas or found the process of trying to get them too tortuous to deal with. This year, organiz…
The project, called Aleppo Built Heritage Documentation and based in Berlin, "[has] assembled the largest repository of information on Syrian heritage outside the country " more than 200,000…
The 53-year-old curator, who left Los Angeles after the controversy over his firing of chief curator Helen Molesworth (among other troubles), will be director of the Serralves Museum of Cont…
Author Tiffany Jenkins (Keeping Their Marbles) argues no; Africanist Marie Rodet argues yes, "as part of a reparation process"; anthropology museum director Nicholas Thomas says, in so many …
In interviews, I found Previn bemused by the difficulty that critics, and sometimes his fellow musicians, encountered when they tried to strike a balance in considering his variegated musica…