As if the cost overruns, scheduling snafus and controversy over its holdings weren't enough (not to mention last month's tar fire), the opening of the city's $700 million ethnographic museum…
Two concrete murals, designed by Picasso and sandblasted onto the walls by a Norwegian colleague, are part of a government building that was damaged by Anders Breivik's car bomb in 2011. For…
"The summer closure " the first in Bowl history " following the spring closure of Walt Disney Concert Hall has triggered the furloughing of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (65 musicians and sta…
America's oldest orchestra had the development and promotion of American music as part of its founding mission. Yet, in its first 11 seasons, it played two American works, both composed by i…
"The Baltimore Sun is owned by Tribune Publishing. Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund infamous for purchasing, then gutting, newspapers across the US, owns a 32% stake in Trib…
Kathleen McGuire: "The portrayals of distress can feel clichéd " Lady Capulet writhing on the floor, or, in Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre, the animalistic woman in the attic or the corps of men…
Amanda Hess: "We are desperate for an outlet, and [online] finger-pointing is one of the few hobbies still accessible to those sheltering in place. Joggers have been accused of 'manspreading…
"These shows have been assembled, wholly or in part, by stage actors in isolation. Some … have considerable voice-over experience. Others have little or none. … We spoke to performers ab…
"Everybody thinks about it one way. They think, Okay, Amazon is going to buy movies or produce movies. AT&T or Comcast is going to start skipping theater distribution and go straight to …
A compelling sort-of mini-memoir, in which Jerry proceeds from describing his (barely developed) way of cooking and his (odd and specific) consumption of coffee to recounting his (nearly non…
A.O. Scott, in conversation with Manohla Dargis and Kyle Buchanan:"For 11 or 12 days, the festival becomes a cinematic universe in its own right. When you're inside it, the rest of the world…
Economic recovery from coronavirus will be far slower for the bottom 90% than for the top 10%. This is a deeply perilous prospect for the nonprofit arts industry. In the minds of many, we ar…
They'll take place in an empty venue, though " the Wigmore Hall, where such artists as Stephen Hough, Angela Hewitt, Iestyn Davies, Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida will perform for BBC Radio…
"Berlin State Museums, an umbrella group overseeing 17 museums in the city, … decided to start small, reopening just four of the institutions under its control on Tuesday. Christine Haak, …
"Reidy was known for her warm and candid manner, for sending handwritten letters to authors and for her alertness to the bottom line. She confronted many crises and upheavals at Simon & …
Hester Lees-Jeffries explores what exactly makes Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Shakespeare so striking (not least Catherine Martin's design). " David Jays
"For many artists, writers and composers who have been rewarded prestigious residencies to isolate themselves in remote places and sometimes in punishing climates, it is a coveted situation.…
"They stand five feet apart, cannot hold hands, kiss or simulate a brawl, but the cast and crew of Neighbours " a long-running Australian soap opera that returned to production in late April…
"The specialist Court of Arbitration for Art … [was created in 2019] to adjudicate art world matters ranging from chain of title, authenticity and copyright fair use. Last year, the panel …
"The story of how the image of Buddha finally broke forth into the world after 600 years of symbolism is one of the most intriguing in the history of art " one that is inextricably tied up w…
"Sex is an experience of intense vulnerability, and it is also where we are at our most performative, and so it's at once as near to and as far from authenticity as we come. … Sex is a uni…
In the land of the Taliban? Yes " Afghanistan is historically part of the Persianate world (Dari, the official language, is a Persian dialect), and metaphor-filled erotic poetry has a thousa…
In July, the Rome Opera will stage Verdi's Rigoletto, conducted by Daniele Gatti, in the Piazza di Siena, a venue on the grounds of the Villa Borghese normally used for equestrian events. Au…
In place of a regular mainstage season, Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis will expand its "Next" workshopping program, "making public the shows it is developing for the future, keeping writer…
"[A] 60-page document, entitled Our Plan to Rebuild, sets out that cinemas are part of a 'high-risk' group of businesses that will be the last to reopen from July 4 onwards" " and even that …