"On a walk through the Met's galleries with Artnet News, he pointed out various works that inspired his own. But while the works in the Met's collection tend to present an image of Native pe…
"Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer, pianist, and educator born in post-revolutionary wartime in Iran. Aminikia first explored immersive, visceral music in a successful performan…
It happened in the winter of 1938 in Paris, as he was walking home from a movie with friends: a pimp named Prudent (yes, really) badgered them for money. (Later, in court, Beckett asked his …
The poet fell in love with Emily Hale in 1912, while he was a graduate student at Harvard. She did not reciprocate at the time, though they corresponded until 1956, when she announced that s…
"Watch clips of fevered crowds, from today or the past, chanting against 'enemies of the people'; they are malignant scenes, but ones that in no small part mimic religious revivals. … Huma…
"The last 10 years have seen a boom for black British playwrights, actors, artistic directors and others in the industry. What has changed on and off stage " and what's next?" Eight Black th…
Uri Sands, who founded the St.Paul-based TU Dance in 2004 with his spouse, Toni Pierce-Sands (both are former Ailey dancers), after "a lawsuit was served on a member of the company's board i…
"Since 2016, California musicologist Linda Shaver-Gleason has been using [her] site" " called Not Another Music History Cliché! " "to compile a clear-eyed and level-headed accounting of the…
William Robin: "Linda tackled subjects from the purported ugliness of contemporary music to the contested idea of the 'masterpiece' to myths around Beethoven's deafness to whether music is a…
"'We can't become anaesthetised and think, 'Oh, he won [the election]. There's nothing we can do," said [Edu] Krieger, who has written songs for some of Brazil's most celebrated female voice…
"Seventeen stalls will be moved from sites including the Trevi fountain, Spanish Steps, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. However, eight of the 17 will still be able to trade on streets away f…
A month after the disastrous flood of November 12, the president of the historic church's governing body said that the building cannot withstand repeated exposure to salt water it has faced …
"Examining the 1,300 top films from 2007 through to 2019, the Annenberg researchers found that on average just 4.8 percent of directors were women, yet that spiked to 10.6 percent in 2019  
I gave the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art a test it was bound to fail by revisiting on the Sunday after Christmas"a tourist-heavy time of year. Below is my report card, along with some …
"Titled Kinotavr. Special Edition as a reference to the Russian national festival Kinotavr, … the festival will run for the first time in Moscow from late January through early February. â…
"In 1951, the Abstract Expressionist stopped working with galleries and became his own dealer. He continued to paint for nearly three decades, retaining complete authority over his canvases'…
"A nonprofit on the East Side that partnered with public schools, the [Turtle Bay Music School] announced in November that it would be forced to close due to a lack of funding. The entire co…
The comedy legend talks to David Marchese about what she couldn't do when she was starting out in comedy, marrying Jane Wagner after more than 40 years as a couple, how she almost came out o…
"It's not so much that canons have been completely obliterated, as [Harold] Bloom and others feared " in any given collection, the old guard and their descendants have remained. But canons h…
That was Ishmael Reed's nickname for Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Shawn Wong, and Lawson Fusao Inada, who (on top of their own writing) put together the first major anthology of Asian-Amer…
"Dance may be a visual art form, but it's tightly intertwined with sound. Even as the field strives to be more inclusive, learning to dance without two fully functioning ears remains a chall…
"While the charismatic and hilarious Sheldon boasted an impressive résumé that included serving as the music director and sidekick on The Merv Griffin Show for 18 years; releasing 23 album…
An unknown attacker lobbed heavy stones at the windows of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig on Tuesday. No one was injured, but two 19th-century stained glass windows and nearly two dozen Art Nou…
"Why? Actors are clearly a core part of theatre. But, while individual actors have certainly been influential " Mark Rylance has featured prominently in recent years " it is rare for them to…
Nicholas Serota: "It will be about giving more support to writers, artists, composers at an early stage in their career so that they can make a career and then flourish." " The Guardian