"For the revival of his first professionally produced play, A Bright Room Called Day, open now at New York's Public Theater, Kushner has in classic Kushnerian style wildly rewritten the scri…
"On December 3, one day after Mira Dzhangaracheva resigned her post as director of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek, a commission of officials from the Culture Ministry confiscate…
"[The 42-year-old] was dismissed Thursday by two of the world's most prestigious houses: the Royal Opera in London and New York's Metropolitan Opera. His firing comes after an investigation …
"Eun Sun Kim, the South Korean conductor who made a powerful San Francisco Opera debut in June leading Dvořák's Rusalka, has been named the company's next music director. She will be …
The 72-year-old public radio and network television veteran has been alongside creator Jad Abumrad at the center of the popular podcast/radio series for 15 years. "No end date has been annou…
"The closure of almost a fifth of the UK's libraries over the last 10 years comes against a backdrop of a 29.6% decline in spend … since the Conservative government implemented austerity i…
"It took five years of active persuading, plus nearly two decades of water under the proverbial bridge, before choreographer Donald Byrd finally agreed to resurrect The Harlem Nutcracker. In…
"[Porgy and Bess], which opened the season in September, was scheduled to return on Jan. 8 for seven performances, through Feb. 1. On Thursday, the Met announced it would add three more, on …
"The Arts, already an addendum to the Department of Communications and the Arts, will be merged along with the rest of the department into a new one with the unwieldy title of the Department…
Richard Kostelanetz has produced many titles in his Archae Editions line of books over the past eight years via Amazon's print-on-demand publishing service. But a few weeks ago they suddenly…
"For millennia, Indigenous Australian communities have been passing down histories, knowledge, language and customs, largely through oral storytelling. But in a world of digital addiction, w…
Jesse Green: "On the whole, queer art, which fully emerged from the closet in the 1960s and 1970s " around the same time people in great numbers did " has mostly concerned itself with its ow…
A video report on a prison choir in Argentina, founded by a psychologist to bring hope and encourage non-violent behavior, and an orchestra made up of migrant musicians in Rome. " Al Jazeera
"Lyrics site Genius on Tuesday sued Google and LyricFind for $50 million, alleging they have been misappropriating its transcriptions for years. … [Genius] used a digital watermark to see …
"In the Theatre Guild Archive of the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas survives a script, marked 'as broadcast,' of Miller's adaptation of Jane Austen for radio. Miller's radio play, with…
"British theatre is incredibly resilient, yet radically different from when I took up my post at the Guardian in 1971. Even the job of being a critic has altered in all sorts of ways. … Bu…
"While [he] was not as famous as underground comics stars like R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman, his artistic influence was nonetheless felt strongly, especially among other gay cartoonists. In t…
Like NYC's Culture Pass, the new Experience Pass will let Free Library of Philadelphia cardholders reserve one free entry per year at some of the city's cultural institutions. But the famous…
The abstract artwork, titled Orpheus and Apollo and created by sculptor Richard Lippold specially for Philharmonic Avery Fisher David Geffen Hall when it opened in 1962, was taken down for "…
According to a new report from an international education company that tested 2.3 million volunteers in 100 countries, the level of English as a second language is highest in Northern Europe…
"Garrett helped transform J. Paul Getty's pet project museum, which the billionaire originally operated out of his own home, into what is now arguably the wealthiest art museum in the world.…
The latest piece by choreographer Allison Orr " known for creating dances performed by forklifts, sanitation trucks, and the like " is From the Ground Up, made for Wake Forest University's F…
Sure, it's because of Jessica Fletcher, both an independent woman and a nice old lady who fights crime with a sharp eye instead of a gun. And the TV scripts were solid. Yet, observes Jon Lan…
Better than many people had predicted, actually. Yes, reports Kaitlyn Tiffany, traffic took a very big hit. Even so, "without porn, Tumblr still has plenty: photography, studying, The Sims, …
A Q&A with Gia Kourlas "about examining his religious upbringing, performing the dances of a postmodern master while choreographing his own works and developing a close-knit dance family…