Tom Scocca: "The promoters of the letter cast themselves as persecuted heroes, putting their names on the line to defend an embattled conception of liberty. The people putting themselves in …
The Three Tenors franchise was hardly great opera, but it was effective, and Yo-Yo Ma's various crossover projects are genuinely good. So how did we get from The Silk Road Project to Hildega…
Organizers of the June 18 event, for which the company's dancers gathered to tape performances which were streamed for attendees, say they followed all CDC and local health guidelines. Never…
"An accomplished artist and creative director, Walentas played a critical role in nurturing DUMBO's artistic renaissance for more than 30 years." As her husband, David, redeveloped the distr…
"PW reached out to dozens of literary agents, authors, and editors to ask. While all the editors contacted declined to respond, many agents and authors were willing to speak on the condition…
"While carrying out renovation work on the Nacional Monte de Piedad building " which dates back to 1755 and is now a historical pawnshop on Mexico city's central plaza " workers came across …
"The huge yellow floodgates immediately started to work after being activated on Friday, rising simultaneously to separate the Venetian lagoon from the sea. More tests will be carried out ov…
"[The museum's press] release cites a 'toxic' work environment and 'several departures of key employees' over the last year " as well as an external evaluation of the museum's internal clima…
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society will offer an online hub with workshops and panel discussions as well as a guide to the streamed performances offered by independent Fringe venues; Frin…
"Whitehead, 50, is the youngest winner of the lifetime achievement prize, which the library has previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Denis Johnson, among others. He is the firs…
Sometimes it takes a while to catch up. Case in point: Carla Bley's, Andy Sheppard's and Steve Swallow's Life Goes On. ECM released the album on Valentine's Day. " Doug Ramsey
Though a prominent British reviewer of the current Met production of Porgy and Bess called Gershwin's 1935 opera "a period piece," it loudly resounds today. Consider the first act confrontat…
David Patrick Stearns: "Only a minute or two long, but repeated 840 times, Vexations is alternately called minimalist, Dada-ist, or Outsider Art when it resurfaces every few years. … [Igor…
"[It] wasn't the funniest issue they ever did, but it would turn out to be incredibly successful because it reflected so many of the emotions that people were feeling after the attacks. The …
"The show, The Under Presents: Tempest, is a technological first: a live, scripted, participatory play that you attend, from home, using a virtual reality headset. After buying a $14.99 tick…
Along with his brother Pierce and colleague Jayne Loader, "[he] gathered archival material that had been created to ease Americans into the nuclear age and turned it into The Atomic Cafe, an…
"We're told that after the 2016 elections Google made adjustments to YouTube's recommendation algorithm, so as not to lead impressionable gun-owning zealots frictionlessly down tunnels of pa…
"The raid Tuesday and Wednesday targeted … Donald 'D.B' Henkel, 60, a self-described artist who is accused in a sealed FBI search warrant affidavit of orchestrating a years-long conspiracy…
"Led by the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera, the Cartography Project will create an unspecified number of new works from artists of color that promote healing a…
Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, a touring show conceived by "swashbuckling" Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and U.S. management and events company IMG, was pulling in big cr…
The American Dance Festival in Durham, NC; Jacob's Pillow in Becket, MA; and the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME all called off their summer 2020 events on the same day, March 31 " week…
Following recommendations from the architect and the retired general running the reconstruction as well as the new culture minister (and based on a rapidly solidifying consensus to stop argu…
The announcement by UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden (which does not apply for Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, whose regional governments will make that decision) means that " with s…
"Armed with axes and hand saws, the team of 25 craftsmen and women, who belong to a collective called Carpenters Without Borders, managed to build one of the 25 trusses that made up the wood…
As a culturally curious teenager, I had made the 20-minute hike from my Bronx apartment to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, a once popular, now little-known pantheon for bronze busts of…