Lydia Locke (1884-1966) "rose to prominence in the early 1900s, when mass celebrity was still a relatively new concept. But the American soprano embraced the label, making news both for her …
"While not every 6-year-old is ready to sit through Swan Lake, some enterprising troupes are adding kid-friendly performances to court the same audiences who buy Nutcracker tickets." Rebecca…
And David Shariatmadari means those scare quotes. In this excerpt from his new book Don't Believe a Word, he takes apart what he calls "the cult of untranslatables," taking apart some regula…
Yes, divos too. Since 1902, funded by revenues from the composer's operas, Casa Verdi has been an old-age refuge for singers and musicians, not all of them famous. Today, some 60 retirees li…
Muralist James "Yaya" Hough, 44, was released last year after 27 years in prison, and within a few months he was hired for the new artist-in-residence position in the office of reformist Phi…
Joshua Helmer, 31, had been an assistant director at the PMA and was viewed as a rising star in the art world when, in early 2018, he "was separated" from the museum. Several female staffers…
The gut renovation of Cologne's opera house is running eight years late and more than double the original budget " and that's only up to now, since the basements are full of ductwork, cablin…
"The museum's educators provide lessons in art and art history as well as English language arts, social studies and even science and math. … The list of past subject areas includes surreal…
"[Lyndsey Winship] talked to dancers and choreographers [Shobana Jeyasingh, Céline Gittens, and Final Bow for Yellowface co-founders Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin] about ballet's slow pa…
In overruling the lower court's injunction barring Netflix from continuing to stream The First Temptation of Christ, Supreme Federal Court President José Antonio Dias Toffoli said, "One can…
For his album Long Waves, the Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist assembles a group of contemporaries to play his compositions and a couple of cherished standard songs. Ambrosetti's fluid im…
Yes, classical music types have rolled their eyes at dead-Maria Callas and dead-Glenn Gould tours, but rock is another matter. Since the long-departed Tupac Shakur (re-)appeared at the 2012 …
As reporter Jeffrey Brown visited the headquarters of the Agency of Artists in Exile, "an Ethiopian man belted out a traditional song with accompaniment from this phone. Across the hall, a Y…
Writer and dramaturg Loren Noveck was skeptical of the Play On Shakespeare project, and not because she's a purist: "The Bard," perhaps the paradigmatic Dead White Male, takes up so much spa…
"First published, in English, in 2008, [Mohammed Hanif's] A Case of Exploding Mangoes is a dark satire about the possible reasons for the death of [dictator] General Zia [ul-Haq] in a plane …
"One series will include books for middle-school readers inspired by Time Trials, a set of videos from the National Museum of American History that introduces figures from the past, like the…
"[He] created the satirical spy sitcom Get Smart with Mel Brooks, was a frequent early host of Saturday Night Live and turned plastics into a countercultural catchword with his Oscar-nominat…
"The sepulchre of Frederick (Friedrich) III, emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493, the greatest monument in Vienna's cathedral of St Stephen's, in the city's historic centre, has been s…
"[Samantha] Barbash alleges her character and likeness have been exploited and is seeking $20m compensation and $20m in punitive damages. Court documents show Barbash is targeting production…
"[The museum] has invited the illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme to take over its Instagram account every Monday during 2020. On the account he will post a different drawing each week, depic…
She had two hits onstage (Murray Schisgal's All About Town and Terrence McNally's The Ritz) and numerous flops, adoring profiles in The New York Times and People magazine, three criminal tri…
"The film entitled The First Temptation of Christ, by the Brazilian production company Porta dos Fundos, came out on December 3 and drew strong criticism from conservative politicians in the…
"As Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's second unit director, and the first woman to ever hold the megaphone on a Star Wars movie, [Victoria] Mahoney got to experience all of it. Now that the…
Some of these developments are already underway (dealing with ballet's ethnic stereotypes, more varied colors in ostensibly skin-tone dancewear, more women running companies, the tap revival…
In 2013, construction of the new metro system for Greece's second city uncovered, in an unusually well-preserved state, the major commercial crossroads of the town during the Byzantine era. …