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A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading…
"Never forget that the spoken word is not twice nor three times, but five times as potent as the written word, so that what would occupy a page in a novel should take up only five lines in a…
What makes washtubs sound best? How about coffee cans? For the answers, check out Lou Harrison's instructions for his Concerto for Violin and Percussion. So far as I am aware, it is the most…
"As they announce plans for the spring and summer " mostly digital, garnished with a little outdoors and in-person " many New York dance presenters spoke in recent interviews about what they…
Christopher Rudd's creation is the first romantic same-sex pas de deux in ABT's history, and one of the first"if not the first"to celebrate queer lust so explicitly in ballet. Such a feat, w…
"If we artists had a basic income, that stress and fear over basic necessities would no longer weigh over our heads and we could be much more productive. It would help grow the economy, beca…
"My name is Leo and I am 8 years old. I listen to All Things Considered in the car with mom. I listen a lot. I never hear much about nature or dinosaurs or things like that. Maybe you should…
"We are thinking that we will have a slate of work with both digital and in-person opportunities. Because digital is not going away. We're in a digital space. There's a lot to figure out fro…
The immense force of Western institutions " capitalism, democracy, Christianity " stamped itself on other parts of the globe, creating independent democratic nations committed to freedom, en…
Even though it has a little more flair, I hope we can accept the Turkish monolith as a normal part of life in 2021. It is not a mystery " even though we don't know who exactly put it there, …
Hungary, Poland, and now Slovenia are assembling and executing a "playbook" to shift cultural institutions to the right. Often, the rhetoric around this has blended fears of anti-communism w…
In fact, he was a very promising art student, excelling at plants in particular, but a professor who worried that he couldn't support himself as an artist suggested he go into botany " and t…
It started with a standing ovation. "At this point, allegedly, the gentleman swatted Academy award-winning Kidman with his program, prompting Urban to accuse the man of assaulting his wife. …
Alisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the Turkic literary language used all over Central…
Awards don't help us quantify these qualities, but for a composer who burst onto the operatic scene so spectacularly with X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the New York City Opera in 198…
"The museum tells a chronological story of Black music starting in the 1600s through present day and framed around major cultural movements including the music and instruments brought by Afr…
"The mobs that descended on Washington, D.C., last month have intellectual roots in many places, going back to the bloody beginnings of this country. But they also have roots in specific are…
"Many workers regarded it as a positive step this summer when numerous leading institutions released detailed diversity, equity, and inclusion issues (DEI) plans. But more than six months la…
"A Bosnian-born guitarist and accordionist, [she] brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic [Jewish] ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American audiences through pe…
"Louis Aliot, the right-wing mayor of Perpignan, a city in the south of France, will let four museums begin welcoming visitors once more, effectively disobeying countrywide COVID-19 safety g…
Social distancing is easier outdoors and there's more air circulation, not to mention the fact that, as one director puts it, "Outdoor arts is more accessible because it's in democratic open…
"The Frick Collection will open in the Breuer building as the Frick Madison on March 18, the museum announced on Tuesday, beginning a two-year stay in the Brutalist space while its 1914 Gild…
"The J. Paul Getty Trust initiated the fund, to be officially announced Tuesday, and the California Community Foundation is administering it. Struggling arts organizations with an annual ope…
"Paramount has a screenplay for a new movie, according to court papers. But Alan Schwartz, Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, has been shopping a television series, and has gotten …
Randy Newman sings his own "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" on the BBC in 1971:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wed…
