"The sculptures are each approximately 20 inches tall and are worth between $21,000 and $52,000. They were apparently snatched by at least two thieves in a smash-and-grab operation that was …
"Independent investigators are examining claims that he behaved inappropriately with Royal Ballet School students and encouraged them to send him naked photographs. … The inquiry has not c…
At WBGO in Newark, NJ, accusations that a largely white and elitist station leadership had lost touch with, and stopped paying respect to, the largely nonwhite people of its city led to ranc…
One of the nice things about collecting art is that you needn't leave home to look at it. I had to miss a major exhibition of Hans Hofmann, whose work I love passionately. Fortunately, Mrs. …
Art historian Charles Hope, in a review of three books about the world's most expensive painting, lays out an extensive argument against the attribution of Salvator Mundi to da Vinci and sug…
"The ambition of the Danish architect Jørn Utzon's design, his walkout mid-project, and Peter Hall's subsequent takeover in 1966 resulted in compromises that have bedevilled the building …
Playwright Lynden Harris talks about working with condemned prisoners " first, to develop scripts for them to perform before fellow inmates and prison staff, and second, to create theater pi…
It's not just that the piece is in the final scene of Billy Elliot. A corps de ballet of muscular men as feral swans, in place of the usual ethereal women in white tutus, shows boys differen…
"Jeanine Cummins spent five years of her life writing this book with the intent to shine a spotlight on tragedies facing immigrants," said the president of Flatiron Books. "We are saddened t…
"No matter how Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial in Manhattan turns out, the revelations about the way he used his power over women have altered Hollywood in ways big and small. … Activist…
The union for film, television, and radio performers spent six months preparing the document, which gives thorough standards for actors' contracts, communication between actors and directors…
She and her late husband, Irving Ravetch, wrote 17 feature films together, among them The Long, Hot Summer, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Sound and the Fury, Conrack, and two for wh…
"Assembly Bill 5 is intended to reduce worker misclassification, making it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors. … But the law's ambiguous language " specifical…
The move to the arena, for one night only (Feb. 26), is meant to give a more diverse audience a chance to see the show; 18,000 tickets will be given for free to New York City public school s…
The 54-year-old bass-baritone fractured his ankle this week while in Bilbao to perform in a different production of Dutchman; he has returned home to Wales for surgery. The March 2 opening w…
I hadn't wanted to write anything about this beforehand (for fear of putting a dangerous idea into someone's head), but I was worried about the welfare of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts du…
"If you're one of the millions of people to re-embrace vinyl records, it's worth knowing where they come from and how they're made." (It ain't pretty.) " The Guardian
The plaintive question came from Sara Mearns as she and her colleagues listened to the decidedly avant-garde music choreographer Alexei Ratmansky had selected for his new work, Voices. Ratma…
"The president's vow to rid cultural and educational institutions of 'leftist' values is changing the game at the institutions charged with fostering cultural production." Here's a rundown o…
Actor and educator Kila Packett writes about the Los Angeles Drama Club's Shakespeare Youth Festival (active year-round in Watts and East L.A.) and the trip by four students and six teachers…
The item, titled Head with Horns and acquired by the Getty Museum in 2002 for a price reported to be between $3 million and $5 million, was quietly reattributed to "unknown artist" last mont…
"[He was] an implacable enemy of anyone who wanted to study the legendary Irish writer for almost any reason. … Though his ability to thwart scholars and Bloomsday fans diminished after 20…
The movie was set to be one of Hollywood's epic disasters, on track to lose $100 million. "But a funny thing happened on the way to the cinematic scratching post. Word-of-mouth buzz began to…
The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which operated at both Wright's original Taliesin home in Wisconsin and his Taliesin West in Arizona, will cease operations this June. The School's bo…
"Outrage is the perfect negative emotion to attract attention and engagement " and algorithms are primed to pounce." Worse, "misleading content on social media tends to lead to even more eng…