"The deal they were working on " which called for the union, the American Guild of Musical Artists, to limit its public statements about the inquiry and for Mr. Domingo to pay the union $500…
Books continue to be written about what it was like to live in Germany under Hitler. I wonder if any of the authors have auditioned Wilhelm Furtwängler's wartime broadcasts with the Berlin …
The English National Opera is having a tough old time, but the company is still capable of both daring and successful ventures, such as the new Luisa Miller, a Verdi rarity last staged in Lo…
Alla Kovgan's new film Cunningham not only shoots its dancers in three dimensions, but collages historic, two-dimensional black-and-white images in smaller sizes on the screen, often overlai…
"It is a truth universally acknowledged in world cinema that a celebrated auteur, making their first film outside their native tongue, must be preparing a dud." But is it actually true? Well…
"The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper sent him abroad to write 'trench-coat prose' about black Americans volunteering in the International Brigades. … Hughes's 22 articles covered an angl…
Carina del Valle Schorske: "If this musical is still our narrative ghetto, then the least we can do is make noise about what it feels like to live in it. In 2020, it feels exhausting." " The…
"It's a truism to say our society doesn't do well when faced with competing stories about what happened; that's what 'he said/she said' has become a shorthand for. … To overcome that refle…
"This last question, though seemingly simple, resists every attempt to answer it. Every theory runs into brick walls of evidence, the research is limited, and even the basic understanding of…
In late June and early July, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the orchestra in concerts at the Barbican in London, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden…
Across northern Italy from Venice to Milan, theatres, cinemas, museums, and opera houses (including La Scala) have been ordered to stop operations for a week as cases of the disease spread. …
"After [James A.] Cincotta was hired as the museum's retail director in 2015, staffers who worked for him began reporting what they said was routinely abusive behavior. Cincotta slapped, pun…
"The investigation, conducted by lawyers hired by the American Guild of Musical Artists, concluded that the accounts from 27 people showed a clear pattern of sexual misconduct and abuse of p…
Charles McNulty: "I'm going to respect the tacit wishes of Mamet and not review the play as I would if it had had an official press opening. A work that's still being tinkered with before it…
"Unthinkingly defending one's powerful friends has real-life consequences. What [illegally fired dancer Karline] Marion, and other dancers who may find themselves in a similar situation, wil…
"Born Peggy-Jean Montgomery, she became one of the country's youngest self-made millionaires by age 4, then suffered a devastating reversal of fortune and fame in her adolescence. In adultho…
There's something a bit ho-hum, mean and pinched about the reception of Sir Tom Stoppard's new (and, he says, perhaps final play), Leopoldstadt. " Paul Levy
Tobi was among the first group of writers I invited to blog on ArtsJournal. I had read her for years and appreciated her elegance, clarity and erudition. Though her judgments were crisp, the…
Alongside the the wonderful, illuminating dance criticism she wrote for decades, she wrote wonderfully well about fashion, and only when I became a mother did I realize that while Tobi was r…
"This diagram, created by WordTips, breaks down the world's 100 most-spoken languages by their roots (e.g., Indo-European for English and Spanish, or Sino-Tibetan for Mandarin) and by the nu…
"Between June and December of 1950, a government-backed exhibition of Moses's picturesque American scenes toured six European cities. … One Foreign Service officer who was involved with th…
"At its core, gentrification is about what it means to belong. And few places in Los Angeles are more hotly contested in those terms than Boyle Heights," the Los Angeles neighborhood where t…
"Levit's career is a stark demonstration of the dissolving boundaries between art and commerce, journalism and public relations, particularly in Germany. … He is a friend to media personal…
"A little more than two decades after a Calder museum was first proposed for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the long-dormant idea has blossomed again, funding has materialized, and backers s…
The open letter, published in the French newspaper Libération and originated by choreographer Maguy Marin and theatre director Atiane Mnouchkine, threatens to withhold rights to all signato…