No details about money or the length of the season have been announced yet; the first will probably come out later this month, and the second will be addressed in this year's contract negoti…
For the first time, the Berlinale has separated the functions of artistic and executive director. "Many hope [the new management structure] will help reinvigorate the Berlinale, which is con…
"I wasn't attempting to create a generationally defining work of theater that spoke for the entire queer experience. I think that if I had started with that intention, I never would have fin…
It's going to be a series of apps, in fact " and they'll be free. The first one, now out, features the General Prologue, with text and audio in the original Middle English, a modern English …
"After beginning her artistic life as a painter, Ms. Pepper was known from the 1960s on as a sculptor of towering forms of iron, steel, earth and stone, often displayed outdoors. … [Yet he…
"Since 2012, scientists based in New York and experts at the Munch Museum in Oslo have been working on this canvas " which was stolen in 2004 and recovered two years later " to tell a story …
Yorgos Loukos, director of the Lyon Opera Ballet for 33 years, was sacked by unanimous vote of the company's board of directors. The reason was discrimination: in 2014, he had fired then-34-…
Back in 2005, as they were nearing retirement from Pennsylvania Ballet, Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan decided to put together a little group to dance at the Philly Fringe. They hoped that…
Starting this month, London's Battersea Arts Centre is making all its events "relaxed performances" " at which audience members may enter, leave, move around, and sometimes make noise, and f…
Over the past decade, both William Grant Still and Florence Price have acquired new prominence. But the buried treasure is William Levi Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony of 1934. " Joseph Horowitz
An Italian of Slovenian ancestry who grew up in Trieste, pianist Roberto Magris frequently tours in Europe and the United States. Here, we see and hear him and his colleagues in the Birdland…
After making a powerful impression at last year's Whitney Biennial with her six drawings of pie charts plotting Degrees of Deaf Rage, deaf artist Christine Sun Kim reached a much wider, more…
The male choral group had been active in South Africa for two decades when Paul Simon featured them on his 1986 album Graceland " after which they shot to international fame, won five Grammy…
"Due to officially open on February 13 with a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the month-long festival was to have featured more than 120 performances of dance, music, theatre and o…
She had just finished recording some Beethoven, and movers were taking her piano from the Berlin studio; they dropped it while trying to lift it onto a hand truck, and the instrument's iron …
"Our sector relies on the gambling industry for over a third of its public investment in a country where an estimated 430,000 people have a serious problem with gambling. And we seem to take…
A traditionalist maestro who led more than 400 performances at the Met, he had to wait a while before critics gave full credit to his gifts, but singers and orchestral players adored him. " …
"People were more likely to stream a movie when they knew it had been released in theaters, according to a new survey by Ernst & Young … Sixty two percent of the study's respondents re…
"After a tumultuous period in Hong Kong marked by continuing protests and fears of a coronavirus outbreak, Art Basel has called off its fair in the city. … MCH Group, the holding company t…
"In edited excerpts below, filmmakers, awards-watchers and academy members" " among them Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, and former Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs " "tell the …
"The classical music station Radio 3 has recorded its joint highest audience share since records began, as listeners weary of politics take refuge in Brahms and Bach. The BBC station reached…
Some of them are sweet and sentimental, but they can be every bit as weird as those of actors and athletes. Sarah Kaufman talks to a dozen or so dancers from several companies about what the…
The one part of the art world that has seemed resistant to him is the ultimate conferrer of status: museums. Will he be remembered as an important artistic figure? And if so, will that be as…
Musicologist Doug Shadle introduces his new blog/newsletter by suggesting that both the professional concert ecosystem and conservatory education can't modernize, as everyone seems to think …
She had been the magazine's theatre critic for less than two years, and in trouble with her editor for much of that time, when one column enraged both David Belasco and Florenz Ziegfeld so m…