"She will take up the position at the start of 2022 when the orchestra returns to its home at the Sydney Opera House following the two-year closure of the Concert Hall for a major upgrade, i…
"All these prizes are, effectively, marketing exercises. That does not make them bad things … Today, though, artists and judges alike are more attuned to the difficulty in choosing 'the be…
"An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Ministry of Antiquities has unearthed a red granite royal bust of King Ramses II emblazoned with the Ka, a symbol of power, life force and spirit…
"In classrooms and daily conversations, young people are changing the way they speak and write " replacing the masculine 'o' or the feminine 'a' with the gender-neutral 'e' in certain words …
"Breakout stars, paradigm shifters, game changers. Our annual list of the dancers, choreographers and companies that are on the verge of skyrocketing has a knack for illuminating where the d…
"Speaking at a public forum in Westminster this week, [BP's UK chief] Peter Mather said 'the most important debate of our generation' " climate change " was best served by BP continuing to s…
Matthew Feargrieve was found guilty in London of punching Ulrich Engler at least once while attending a performance of Wagner at the Royal Opera House on 7 October last year. Feargrieve, 43,…
"Once the most highly coveted game developer " a hit-maker with the Midas touch " [Howard Scott Warshaw] had been immortalized as the man who created E.T., the 'worst' video game in history.…
What we do know is that Aristotle viewed the present as something continually changing and that by the year 160, the Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius was describing time as a river …
"Expert players vary a lot in the number of practice hours they put in, and on average amount of practice can only account for about 30% of variation in performance quality, meaning that 70%…
Authors argue that the anatomical ingredients for speech were present in our ancestors much earlier than 200,000 years ago. In fact, they propose that the necessary equipment"specifically, t…
"Mr. Clements wrote more than 80 children's books, including the text of picture books about a pampered Egyptian cat, an unbecoming fish, a Christmas in which Mrs. Claus stands in for Santa …
Only "a few dozen documents have survived: entries in administrative registers (bonboeken) relating to his family, the house and the mill… in which he was raised and notarial instruments. …
"Linnea Valdivia discusses the weight of reviews in theatre, the failure in arts journalism to approach queer stories with respect and empathy, how a critic should react if they misgender an…
From 2003: I try not to fly at night, but this time I decided to give it a go, and at the end of 45 anxious minutes spent pushing through a cold front, our smaller-than-usual jet popped out …
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." William James, The Principles of Psychology
The Perelman Performing Arts Center is currently under construction at the World Trade Center. Within its three flexible and intimate performance spaces, The Perelman will produce multiple p…
"When I got into producing television, the business model had been the same for about 70 years and, suddenly, in the last five years it's completely different. And it looks like over the nex…
The best contemporary romance authors know that technology can inject a straight shot of chemistry into a relationship " even when partners are balancing life, work and saving the world. " W…
Cineworld previously paid $3.6 billion for Regal Entertainment Group, its entry into the U.S. market last year. The company plans to combine the operations of Cineplex and Regal to create th…
Steve Lazarides has now self-published a book of his photographs from the time he travelled the world tasked with making sure Banksy didn't get arrested or duffed up and didn't run out of sp…
Mark Swed: "The biggest story of all has been the stellar rise of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, becoming surely the most successful arts organization of the century so far through an insurmo…
Producers turn down house lights about halfway, rather than putting the audience in complete darkness; vocalization from the audience is accepted; seating is limited up to 80% to allow audie…
"When I interact with the computer, I have limited access to the events occurring within it. Thanks to the schemes of presentation devised by the programmers, I am treated to an elaborate au…
"Cheap books make authors canonical." Thousands of mid-century readers consumed "yellowback" versions of Austen's novels, so-called because of the yellow paper stuck to the back of them on w…