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"The US dictionary … said that look-ups for 'they' increased by 313% in 2019 compared with the previous year, as the public investigated the word's shifting use [as a singular pronoun for …
Bruno Walter leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in a 1946 rehearsal of Mahler's Fourth Symphony:Â (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this sp…
"There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality." Anton Chekhov, "The Teacher of Literature"
The Getty Foundation is looking for an internationally recognized Associate Director professional, who is a demonstrated leader in academic art history, museum practice, or conservation.
"Jonty Bravery, who turned 18 in October, … told the police he had to prove a point 'to every idiot' who said he had no mental health problems … As well as having an autistic spectrum di…
"Mr. Auberjonois worked constantly as a character actor through several periods and forms, from the dynamic theater of the 1960s to the cinema renaissance of the 1970s to the prime period of…
The business school at Oxford has students try to conduct a choir. Carnegie Mellon uses a book club and art installations. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts offers courses to business types…
"I felt like it was really time to move on. I could see myself doing the same thing for the next 20 years and I don't want that. … Music has never been my only interest and it's always bem…
Visits by Chinese citizens to Russia have been growing by 20% a year, and that rate will likely increase in 2020, when electronic visas become available. The extra crowds have caused particu…
"Over a 40-year career, Luce … worked with the likes of Zoe Caldwell, George C. Scott and Claire Bloom as he wrote about the private lives of Charlotte Brontë, Lillian Hellman, Isak Din…
Ten years ago the Seattle Symphony was badly broken. Miraculously, a new leadership team emerged, the orchestra chased reinvention and its fortunes soared. Now that leadership has departed a…
Controversy has raged over the awarding of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature to the Austrian writer, acknowledged as an accomplished author but accused by many observers of denying or d…
The Clint Eastwood film looks at the media circus that broke out around Jewell, a security guard who came under suspicion for orchestrating the Centennial Olympic Park bombing before being e…
"Ana Subeliani arrived at the film premiere for And Then We Danced by foot, but left in an ambulance, blood running down her face. … Before screenings in November, far-right protesters and…
Bettina Korek, who currently runs the Californian outpost of the Frieze art fair, will start work in March and team up with the gallery's artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist in time for nex…
"Reports and photos of two women burning a pile of books outside the Zhenyuan county library in Gansu province emerged at the weekend. According to Chinese media, an article on the county's …
Services like Spotify and Apple Music can't just upload whatever music they'd like. Legal disputes, sample clearance issues " when permission can't be obtained for the use of part of a song …
"Pointe spoke with these two young dancers" " Hortense Millet-Maurin and Vincent Vivet, both 15 " "to see what it's like studying inside the world's oldest ballet academy." " Pointe Magazine
Umberto Eco: "Are there universal ways in which people react to beauty? No, because beauty is detachment, absence of passion. Ugliness, by contrast, is passion." " LitHub
Intellectuals, in order to be able "to speak the truth and expose lies" must understand how ideology works in the form of official institutions and everyday life. Ideological analysis is not…
Sebastien Smee: "What happened to "Comedian" after it became a media sensation sums up our collective disorder " a kind of media-based bulimia " exquisitely. First, at lunchtime on Saturday,…
It seems irresponsible or perverse to reject the idea that there is a Crisis of Truth. No time now for judicious reflection; what's needed is a full-frontal attack on the Truth Deniers. But …
The Austrian writer's win in October has proved highly controversial, with politicians and writers lining up to condemn his denial of Serb atrocities during the war in the former Yugoslavia,…
"This year will be remembered as a transitional one for American theater, as a new generation of leaders settled in at some of the nation's top nonprofits, including Washington's Woolly Mamm…
The Vote, originally staged at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2015, will return in an updated form this Thursday. The 90-minute play depicts the final 90 minutes of voting at a polling place i…
