"To arrive at this conclusion, researchers spent five years painstakingly creating a database that features music created by people across the globe. They dubbed it the Natural History of So…
"After the six-week intervention, we found the rhythm of salivary cortisol across the day to be improved. We also found the intervention improved some aspects of well-being. We think if both…
The daughters of the author, the most internationally famous Arabic-language writer in modern history, have repeatedly sued the American University in Cairo Press for what they claim are lar…
The New Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle have all formed unions this year. And the tide doesn't seem to…
The forty-second episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for li…
Edward R. Murrow "interviews" Harpo Marx on Person to Person, originally telecast by CBS on January 3, 1958: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appea…
"Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided." Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Andrew Scott was awarded for his role in Noel Coward's Present Laughter at the Old Vic, while Maggie Smith took the trophy for one-woman play A German Life at the Bridge. Lynn Nottage'…
Consider that, in 1988, the Artnet Price Database tracked only 18 auction houses and about 8,300 artists. Over the next 24 years, those figures skyrocketed: By 2012, there were 632 auction h…
Rick Schober has published roughly four books per year, relying on "a loyal following" that shares his passion for rediscovered literary fiction and nonfiction of an offbeat and experimental…
Since 2012, when it first became common to see people reading Karl Ove Knausgaard and Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet on the tube, sales of translated fiction have steadily increased. Overall …
What happens after you admit you might have ruined the internet, or helped elect a lunatic, or undercut Western democracy? I suppose that, like with any confession, you feel relief. Nothing …
"It is saddening for me to say this, but I doubt that he ever wrote anything which could make a novice reader feel that the theatre (or film, or literature, or music) was an art worth pursui…
"Uniquely for Africa, Palais de Lomé, which is housed in a restored colonial-era palace, was fully financed by the state. … Set on the seafront in the Togolese capital of Lomé, the Palai…
Undoubtedly this will aid in the company's recruitment of top shelf directors who yearn for that opening night vibe, especially at the spot where Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet played …
"[Paul] Sills, who directed the show, came up to him, and said, 'Mike, I want you to meet the only other person on campus who's as hostile as you are: Elaine May.' She looked over Mike's sho…
The financial services firm that purchased the original, State Street Global Advisors, is calling them unauthorized copies and waging an aggressive legal campaign against them. Critics say t…
"The massive cyberattack just before Thanksgiving 2014 crippled a studio, embarrassed executives and reshaped Hollywood. The FBI blamed a North Korea scheme to retaliate for the comedy The I…
"The Conservative Party election manifesto, launched yesterday afternoon by the UK prime minister Boris Johnson, pledges the establishment of a £250m fund 'to support local libraries and …
"The five-year extension [of his contract as general manager] … will give Mr. Gelb at least a 21-year reign at the opera house, the largest performing arts organization in the United State…
"I really want to shake up this old-fashioned, beautiful, wonderful place a bit," says composer Olga Neuwirth, 51, whose adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens on December 8. (The hous…
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott: "The most popular movies and the movies we love most aren't always the ones that shape the industry, reflect the times or change the terms of cultural discours…
"Performer Harrison Knights is behind the venture, called Trans Voices Company, which aims to help address a lack of casting opportunities for non-cisgender actors." " The Stage
"Current research implies " implies, not concludes " that studying music can help children develop spatial reasoning and listening skills and improve their concentration, but more study is n…
"As Life magazine's art editor, Ms. Seiberling helped shape public opinion about the 20th century's foremost avant-gardist artists" " most notably, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Abstract Expressi…