Armenian pottery has become synonymous with Jerusalem, so it's a shock to learn that the city's ceramic tradition, beyond major monuments such as the Dome of the Rock, is just 100 years old …
"In the Theatre Guild Archive of the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas survives a script, marked 'as broadcast,' of Miller's adaptation of Jane Austen for radio. Miller's radio play, with…
At 25, he picked up Finnegans Wake and tried to read it. He did not get far. He was stopped by a 100-letter word in the middle of the first page. How do you read a 100-letter word, he wonder…
"While [he] was not as famous as underground comics stars like R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman, his artistic influence was nonetheless felt strongly, especially among other gay cartoonists. In t…
"British theatre is incredibly resilient, yet radically different from when I took up my post at the Guardian in 1971. Even the job of being a critic has altered in all sorts of ways. … Bu…
The abstract artwork, titled Orpheus and Apollo and created by sculptor Richard Lippold specially for Philharmonic Avery Fisher David Geffen Hall when it opened in 1962, was taken down for "…
Like NYC's Culture Pass, the new Experience Pass will let Free Library of Philadelphia cardholders reserve one free entry per year at some of the city's cultural institutions. But the famous…
"Garrett helped transform J. Paul Getty's pet project museum, which the billionaire originally operated out of his own home, into what is now arguably the wealthiest art museum in the world.…
According to a new report from an international education company that tested 2.3 million volunteers in 100 countries, the level of English as a second language is highest in Northern Europe…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I take note of the death of John Simon. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who had various kinds of …
"No free man needs a God; but was I free?" Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
The latest piece by choreographer Allison Orr " known for creating dances performed by forklifts, sanitation trucks, and the like " is From the Ground Up, made for Wake Forest University's F…
Are you passionate about the arts? Are you in search of a career full of meaning and opportunity? If so, have you considered a career in Arts Administration?
About 28% of the donors to the public TV stations who got thank you calls gave to the same charity within the next year. And 28% of the donors who didn't get the calls did as well. Likewise,…
Venture to many blockbuster exhibitions, particularly on a weekend, and you'll often be met with overwhelming crowds. Is there a surfeit of public interest in art? Are galleries packing in t…
The four nominees had appealed to the jury to consider awarding the prize to them as a collective due to their shared commitment to urgent social and political causes. "At this time of polit…
"While this gesture is charged by the passion of a particular moment, it has huge implications for the future. It places the Tate and subsequent Turner Prize artists and juries in an invidio…
"The Turner has always been premised on there being a winner. The award garners publicity, feeds the bookies and, apparently, generates discussion. It is all, supposedly, good for the climat…
Sure, it's because of Jessica Fletcher, both an independent woman and a nice old lady who fights crime with a sharp eye instead of a gun. And the TV scripts were solid. Yet, observes Jon Lan…
" 'Amenities' seems inadequate to describe how transformative the improvements could be for performers and audiences. I'd argue that the physical details of a concert hall are crucially impo…
Better than many people had predicted, actually. Yes, reports Kaitlyn Tiffany, traffic took a very big hit. Even so, "without porn, Tumblr still has plenty: photography, studying, The Sims, …
During its 11-year run, "unadorned" has been the name of the game at Tiny Desk Concerts, whose appeal lies in the nakedness of its setup: no backing tracks, no Auto-Tune, no frills. The r…
A Q&A with Gia Kourlas "about examining his religious upbringing, performing the dances of a postmodern master while choreographing his own works and developing a close-knit dance family…
In some years, narratives emerge, about innovation or stagnation, retrenchment or inclusion, celebrity, politics, source material. But 2019 seemed especially all over the map. Shows were big…
"The success of The Three-Body Problem" " the first translated novel to win a Hugo Award " "not only turned [author] Liu Cixin into a global literary star; it opened the floodgates for new t…