"While non-essential workers are still housebound, pictures from around the world show surreal scenes of Tyvek suit-wearing workers spraying down eerily empty spaces like Hagia Sophia in Ist…
"The 'At Home Gala' the company is planning for Saturday, April 25, … will feature more than 40 artists, including stars like Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Renée Fleming, performing f…
The giant annual alterna-conclave doesn't take place until the end of August, but even so, "the organizers of Burning Man announced on Friday that they will not be assembling 80,000 people i…
"The 1.7 million figure that [CEO Meg] Whitman cited does not indicate how many people signed up for the app, which is offering an extended 90-day free trial. Once the trial ends, Quibi … …
"High-profile booksellers seeking recourse have flocked to the platform. … Yet a number of the stores that were among the first to launch successful campaigns in the wake of the novel coro…
Organizers called off the festival, scheduled for July 3-23, within minutes of an announcement by France's President Macron that, because of the COVID epidemic, it would be unsafe to hold ma…
"The striking scene included messages of thanks in many languages, along with images of nurses and doctors smiling in protective gear. The word 'hope' was also projected onto the statue, alo…
A benefit concert from last November, in which 79 stage performers did songs from Disney musicals, was going to be streamed online to benefit the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS COVID-19 E…
I've been skimming through a complete collection of Chekhov's stories. There's lotsa chaff " small anecdotes published in newspapers from early days that don't do much and weren't intended f…
If you've already seen the Max-&-Dan video that the Met posted today to mark this unexpectedly somber occasion, you may have wondered about the identity of the head peering over Director…
The popular composer, who died in 2013, finished writing Krishna in 2005, but it was never published or produced and few were aware of its existence. Then the Crown Prince, a longtime friend…
"For many decades, he has been trying to delight Alfred Yankovic, the bright, painfully shy kid who grew up alone in his tiny bedroom. For the benefit of that lonely boy, he reshaped the who…
"Soundstage, a podcast series from Playwrights Horizons announced on Thursday, allows listeners to experience world premieres by playwrights including Robert O'Hara, Heather Christian, Lucas…
"Don Gonyea, NPR's roving national political correspondent, has a lot of experience recording high-quality audio outside of a studio. He often records his features and spots from hotel rooms…
Says critic David Apatoff, "The parallel is very exact. Just like [Norman] Rockwell was the centerpiece of the Saturday Evening Post, Drucker did the same thing for Mad magazine with his par…
"AMC Theatres " whose business has effectively shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic " looks increasingly likely to file for bankruptcy with its cash reserves dwindling, according to…
Theresa Ruth Howard: "In 2018 I wrote an article about how Instagram was changing the value system of the dance world. It took to task the hyper-sexualization of the body's facility, the fet…
"Not only is A.I. a tool for artists, who are employing machine intelligence in fascinating ways, it is also frequently a topic to be examined " sometimes in the same piece. And underlying m…
At the end of March, Gardners announced that it could not keep staffers at a safe distance from each other and still pack and send out books. Four days later, the company was back at work " …
"Arts and culture organizations across the country are estimated to have lost a combined $4.5 billion because of the health crisis so far, according to an ambitious new survey conducted by t…
"Christie's auction house has agreed to pay $16.7 million to the Manhattan District Attorney for failing to properly collect New York sales tax between 2013 and 2017. The bombshell settlemen…
Hundreds of performances of Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 ("Death and the Maiden") have come my way over the decades, but none seized me from the very first notes like the new recording b…
The death of this funny, smart, idiosyncratic, unique music producer at age 64 saddens me. We were East Village neighbors in the go-go '90s, flush with ideas to try in the future. Here's my …
"No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is a difficult color to harness from nature. … Plants seldom produce blue hues. When they do, their pigments rarely remain stable after…
"The company estimates that loss of the Met season, along with previously canceled tour performances " in Chicago, Detroit, Durham, N.C., and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates " will cos…