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Camus had sided publicly with the Hungarian uprising since autumn 1956, and was highly critical of Soviet actions. He also publicly praised and supported the Russian author Boris Pasternak, …
"[The 42-year-old] was dismissed Thursday by two of the world's most prestigious houses: the Royal Opera in London and New York's Metropolitan Opera. His firing comes after an investigation …
The 72-year-old public radio and network television veteran has been alongside creator Jad Abumrad at the center of the popular podcast/radio series for 15 years. "No end date has been annou…
"Eun Sun Kim, the South Korean conductor who made a powerful San Francisco Opera debut in June leading Dvořák's Rusalka, has been named the company's next music director. She will be …
"It took five years of active persuading, plus nearly two decades of water under the proverbial bridge, before choreographer Donald Byrd finally agreed to resurrect The Harlem Nutcracker. In…
"The closure of almost a fifth of the UK's libraries over the last 10 years comes against a backdrop of a 29.6% decline in spend … since the Conservative government implemented austerity i…
Of the more than 500 cultural professionals they surveyed, 78% said they were either "somewhat concerned" or "very concerned" about about philanthropic trends. A similar percentage said that…
"The Arts, already an addendum to the Department of Communications and the Arts, will be merged along with the rest of the department into a new one with the unwieldy title of the Department…
"[Porgy and Bess], which opened the season in September, was scheduled to return on Jan. 8 for seven performances, through Feb. 1. On Thursday, the Met announced it would add three more, on …
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Jagged Little Pill. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * How good can a jukebox musical hope to be? Only modestly, in my ex…
In an excerpt from Stravinsky, a 1965 documentary by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, Igor Stravinsky and Nicholas Nabokov have a drink together in Hamburg in 1965, then attend a recording …
"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts." Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Richard Kostelanetz has produced many titles in his Archae Editions line of books over the past eight years via Amazon's print-on-demand publishing service. But a few weeks ago they suddenly…
Increasingly there's this repeated story in our country where actually a whole lot of people don't get to profit off of the creative insights that they have. That is totally racially structu…
For some, buying records is no longer about owning the same piece of music as everyone else but owning a version of it that few others have. It reflects a change in contemporary relationship…
Don't call it a name change, though. Museum officials say it is a rebranding that clarifies the missions of the joint institutions. And, they say, it has absolutely nothing to do with intern…
"For millennia, Indigenous Australian communities have been passing down histories, knowledge, language and customs, largely through oral storytelling. But in a world of digital addiction, w…
Phil Kennicott: "The artists' appeal, and the jury's willingness to grant it, says a lot about the kind of art these particular artists make, which is political, documentary, socially engage…
Jesse Green: "On the whole, queer art, which fully emerged from the closet in the 1960s and 1970s " around the same time people in great numbers did " has mostly concerned itself with its ow…
Few people, particularly those cognizant of current writing on cities, culture, and technology, would blink at the sentence above. "Urban innovation," the "smart city," and the "triumph of t…
A video report on a prison choir in Argentina, founded by a psychologist to bring hope and encourage non-violent behavior, and an orchestra made up of migrant musicians in Rome. " Al Jazeera
Some of Los Angeles' selling points need to be reset. The idea of endless summers has shifted in the age of climate change. "It Never Rains in Southern California" has morphed into Bad Relig…
Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar found a big mound carved into a western Norwegian island " along with the remains of a "huge" ship as long as 55 feet, Paasche told The Washingt…
He lays out two such rules in his new book, Loserthink. His first proposal, which he calls the "48-hour rule," states that everyone should be given a grace period of a couple of days t…
"Lyrics site Genius on Tuesday sued Google and LyricFind for $50 million, alleging they have been misappropriating its transcriptions for years. … [Genius] used a digital watermark to see …
