Leon J. Hilton explores the recent production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest created by Spectrum Theatre Ensemble, a company dedicated to making theatre with and for neurodiverse artists…
"News that the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the arts would fall victim to budget constraints raised a collective groan from the nation's arts advocates earlier this year. M…
Stephen Hough plays Chopin's E Flat Nocturne, Op. 9/2, on Queen Victoria's golden Erard piano at the 2019 BBC Proms. This performance, which took place in London's Royal Albert Hall, was the…
"Once a year, at the dark end of November, Thanksgiving Day arrives in the United States. It's one of those marvellous reminders of the good sort of innocence and naivety you can find in tha…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review an off-Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Young Man From Atlanta. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Sometimes"fairly often, trut…
"For all that has been"Thanks. For all that shall be"Yes." Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Housing is such a problem, that it's difficult to think about actually being creative. How long can this last? A first-person account of trying to make it in Oakland. " Harper's
"A lucid example of the Western music aesthetic versus an indigenous one would be to consider the concert hall experience and that of a powwow. In the concert hall, the quality of the sound …
From the 1980s, beginning with the classic Unreliable Memoirs, he published a series of uproarious biographies that charted his journey from dusty Australia to windy Cambridge to grubby Flee…
An intruder forced their way into an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London on 13 November and removed two valuable Rembrandt artworks. Police intervened before the intruder w…
"The late blooming of Molière's talent, his purported lack of education and culture, his busy agenda, and the lack of manuscripts are among the arguments that triggered a century-long debat…
"The problem may not be connectivity itself but rather the way social media turns so much communication into a public performance. We often think of communication as a two-way street. Intima…
ECM is one of the greatest labels in the history of recording. Manfred Eicher, who founded ECM and remains its sole proprietor, has forged a syncretic vision in which jazz and classical trad…
"The poem we call Gilgamesh is based on copies of a work assembled over a millennium after the earliest stories were written in Old Babylonian. … A specific scribe, editor, collator, poet …
"He first achieved fame as an actor in the anti-establishment revue "Beyond the Fringe," a hit in both London and New York. He went on to win acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his pr…
"Star Wars Kabuki-Rennosuke and The Three Light Sabers, which are being staged in Tokyo, will combine plots from each of the franchise's latest trilogy, substituting plots drawn from the day…
There is a loophole, in which it's illegal to traffic certain cultural items within the United States, but exporting them is not prohibited. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatri…
"It's not that plays are new to recordings, or that corporations never before invested in the stage. What is novel is how this company is commissioning dramatists to write plays for its glob…
Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill has been a longtime happy pairing. It still is. So here they are again, sweetened by Heathcote Williams's words in a narra…
"Police have said they plan to seize six religious sculptures that are on display at an art museum in the Belgian town of Leuven. The authorities acted following a complaint by a Belgian chu…
"The Conservative Party confirmed in its manifesto that it plans to move forward with the cultural Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland if it wins the UK general election on 12 Dec…
Roberta Smith: "What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I've spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museu…
"This was not entirely a source of pleasure to the man who, under duress, had invented the term" as a compromise title for his very influential 1972 book. "In a 2009 essay on outsider art an…
"[This] is BBC Culture's biggest and most international poll yet: 761 different films were voted for by 368 film experts " critics, journalists, festival programmers and academics " who came…
"Musical systems around the world and across historical eras have been diverse, but octaves are commonly a feature of them. The acoustic structure of octaves is always the same: The frequenc…