Bethany Schoeff-Cotter is a classically trained oboist and married to the symphony's general manager " and was the personnel manager for 11 years. In her tweets, she "referred to the Black L…
While some big stars have already died, Sunday shook the Bollywood world further. "Superstar Amitabh Bachchan was in a 'stable' condition in the isolation unit at Nanavati Hospital, the faci…
Why consume museum resources to honor settler colonialism or racism? India and former satellite states of the Soviet Union offer a different path. "In these places, no effort is made to pres…
The former American Ballet Theatre star didn't elaborate, but "at least three ballet employees became sick after the Washington Ballet's online gala June 18, according to several people." Th…
Bonnie Lucas loves to take pretty things, cut them up, rip them apart, and then remake them into art. "The store-bought object is not meant to be cut up and dismantled. It's highly valued in…
The statue of Edward Colston loomed over the city at the beginning of June, and historians had given up hope to get even a plaque of context about the man. Now, "beaten-up, bloodied and graf…
As so many of us have been doing, the store redecorated " or rather, some of the chain took what it calls first steps in redecorating. (Might it be useful to hire back some of those content …
Well, you know, new medical research buildings. "University spokespeople claim that UC San Francisco is unable to cover the costs of removing and preserving the murals, estimated at $8 milli…
They weren't going to include bars, airports, hotel lobbies, and other public places for a while " because, after all, what kinds of numbers are in those places now? Then the studio ad execs…
What virus? "Since the beginning of June, five major art galleries have opened here: Pace, Skarstedt, Van de Weghe, Michael Werner and Sotheby's, all arms of New York art p…
The 2020 version of the ceremony, scheduled for November 18, will now be online. The executive director: "As a country, and within the literary community, we have all experienced a shift in …
Kate Bae was on her way to her temporary job at the Census Bureau, near Bryant Park in Manhattan, when a man walked up to her and punched her in the face. The artist says she's almost used t…
The artistic duo, who were admitted to the Royal Academy in 2017 as an entity with a single vote, believed they'd be getting a show at the RA soon. When that was denied, they resigned. "An a…
Mere minutes after "a Turkish court announced that it had revoked Hagia Sophia's status as a museum, which for the last 80 years had made it a monument of relative harmony and a symbol of th…
The movie, which also topped the box office 40 years ago, is a big hit with the drive-in crowd. "Empire's dominance follows Ghostbusters's success over the July 4 weekend and Jurassic …
It wasn't a great look for the massively popular K-Pop band Blackpink, and their Hindu fans let them know immediately. They weren't "cancelled" or anything like that, but they listened, or t…
OK, "mogul" might be stretching it. But Robinson, author of You Can't Touch my Hair and Everything's Trash, But It's Okay, has a deal with Penguin Random House for her own imprint, Tiny Repa…
We're all tired of the Netflix queue and staring out the window at life not being lived on our streets. So the smart, well-edited, fun video set to the Billy Idol classic song Dancing with M…
Well sure, when you're working at the office, you think you might prefer working from home. And then a global pandemic hits. "We adjusted to being, in Laurence Scott's phrase, 'four-dimen…
This is, in case it's not clear, a dictatorial move. "The results of the vote " slammed by critics as an assault on press freedom " could potentially keep the radio, TV and internet giant fr…
And it's an intense reckoning, after two white stars of a Real Housewives spinoff were fired when news went public that they had "called the police on former castmate Faith Stowers in 2018 i…
Julia Sawalha, who played Ginger in the 2000 film, writes, "Last week, I was informed out of the blue, via email, through my agent that I would not be cast as Ginger in the Chicken Run seque…
Rowan Moore: "It has been deemed acceptable " by the building regulations, by architects, by the professional media " to rip untold tonnes of matter from the earth and to pump similar tonnes…
Without new movies, it will be hard " but without any trust in safety, it will be much harder. "The vast majority of the country's nearly 5,550 indoor theaters remain shuttered, and the r…
Richter was "a prolific composer whose determination to be heard in a male-dominated field once led her to rent Merkin Concert Hall to stage a program of her own works" " and she wrote nearl…