"On Monday, in a small step to preserve this tradition, the House passed the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs Reauthorization Act, named after the legendary Tewa linguist. …
"Fake news stories have proved irresistible for readers. Studies have shown that people spread false news on Twitter six times faster than news that is true. Unlike novels, which create comp…
"A civil engineer named Tamim Kasmo, 73, has joined a team of architects and engineers, stonemasons and woodworkers who have taken on the task of rebuilding the [12th-century] mosque. … Ka…
"Actors and directors led Monday evening's rally in Budapest against a bill that they say threatens artistic freedom and extends the nationalist government's reach into areas that should be …
Buddy Rich and the Tonight Show orchestra play Horace Silver's "Nutville" in 1974, introduced by Johnny Carson. The members of the band include Conte Candoli on trumpet, Lew Tabackin on teno…
"I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands." Anton Chekhov, letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
If you don't like something that's presented as art, if you think it's offensive or stupid, go ahead and say it's offensive and stupid. I'm an art critic, I will be right there with you. But…
Berlin's most prominent art fair evolved out of its previous iteration, Art Berlin Contemporary, and was held for the past three years in the historic Tempelhof airport each September, showi…
Since the 2016 Brexit referendum, the UK has suffered a collective breakdown over national identity and our relationship to Europe, and it should perhaps be no surprise to see the 48/52 divi…
Just a few years ago, he was getting intrigued, often admiring press for his rocker persona, uninhibited commentary, and astonishing technical skills. (Video of his manically flying feet at …
"They indicated that they didn't want to be associated with the theater any longer after they had departed, so we did that." When I asked if they said they wanted to be excised from its hist…
"By the 1980s, Soviet political jokes had become so widely enjoyed that even the US president Ronald Reagan loved to collect and retell them. But, 50 years earlier, under Stalin's paranoid a…
There is a real risk that scientific fact will eventually be reduced to just another opinion, even when those facts describe natural phenomena"the very purpose for which science was develope…
"Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the BBC's 'Bouncing Botanist' was a television regular, leaping over 'wocky pwotuberwances', enthusing over 'twee pherns' or plunging his hands lovingly into …
"At stake [in Thessaloniki, Greece's second city,] is not one building or artefact but the entire central junction of the city as it existed in late Roman times: a covered, colonnaded space …
"The 4.5-metre-long panel … seems to depict wild pigs found on Sulawesi and a species of small-bodied buffalo, called an anoa. These appear alongside smaller figures that look human but al…
Howard Reich: "Step into Orchestra Hall or the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, Carnegie Hall or the Village Vanguard in Manhattan, Palais Garnier or Duc des Lombard in Paris, and you are entering …
"For a while we were told that books were going to be a thing of the past. A new century had dawned, our lives were being digitised and surely there was no longer any reason to lug the press…
"After hearing about this, I couldn't stay silent. I wrote an op-ed for our regional paper, The Berkshire Eagle, describing how Jacob's Pillow, like many cultural institutions, is working to…
Many think there's a separation of politics and art. But simply ignoring elections seems an abdication of responsibility. There are ways to think about how to address elections if you're an …
"Tired of dreadful scripts and degrading magazine spreads, the Oscar-winning actress, producer, entrepreneur and activist built an empire on her own taste and work ethic. Now she plots proje…
The chamber orchestra is known for its low ticket prices; half go for $15 or less. That's partly thanks to two programs: With a Netflix-style membership, people can pay just $9 a month to at…
"[Biography] was once thought, as Michael Holroyd called it, 'the shallow end of history', unable to provide sufficient context and with a tendency to exaggerate the role of individuals in t…
Kim's appointment doesn't just bring a musician of obvious artistry and interpersonal gifts to the company. The hiring of an Asian woman is also a historic advance for diversity, a badly nee…
"The theatre, which has a current operating budget of $4.5 million, stopped producing last year to focus on tackling its [$2.6 million in] debts … As they planned to reopen, … the board …