"An 11-count federal indictment accuses Catherine Pugh of arranging fraudulent sales of her Healthy Holly books to schools, libraries and a medical system to enrich herself, promote her poli…
"Arte Generali saw a solid gold opportunity to penetrate the Italian art market, … [with an ad campaign that] features artist Maurizio Cattelan clowning around in the buff with only oversi…
"The police are still looking for the missing john " an artwork called America by Maurizio Cattelan " but, so far, they remain empty-handed. … Six people had been arrested in connection wi…
"Launched by Directors UK, the professional association for screen directors, the guidelines were, according to the organization, 'born of the need to set clear and shared professional expec…
"Although he has never written an opera, his appointment grew out of Cycles of My Being, a set of emotionally complex songs he composed for [tenor Lawrence Brownlee and] Opera Philadelphia e…
The academy, founded in 1634 by Cardinal Richelieu, is the official gatekeeper of the French language whose members are known as 'the immortals'. Its mission is to keep the French languag…
As president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, Minton published such classics as Lord of the Flies, The Godfather, and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and he was "among the first to recognize the po…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway opening of The Inheritance. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * When the AIDS epidemic laid waste to a generation of gay men, it simul…
"To be a writer is to be an autodidact, with all the limitations, gaps, and gaucheries typical of the autodidact, who belabors clichés as though they were sacral revelation." Cynthia Ozick,…
My work in the Pennsylvania city came in the middle of a long-term project of commissioning murals for the city. In October one was completed that impressed me so much I had to share it here…
Ntozake Shange didn't write the role of the Lady in Purple in her "choreopoem" for a deaf performer, but she happily approved casting Alexandria Wailes in the current New York revival. Gia K…
The cliché is that the South African Broadcasting Corporation's apartheid-era Radio Bantu churned out nothing but propaganda to bolster the government's racial separation policies. That was…
Andrew Norman's "Sustain" earned Grammy nominations in two key categories: contemporary classical composition, where composer Norman will square off against Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw and Wy…
"These are all cultural products set firmly in the realm of values. They are not concerned with which billionaire son inherits his father's empire, but rather focus on ordinary people strugg…
"Fully 740 out of the 769 occupational descriptions Michael Webb analyzed contain a capability pair match with AI patent language, meaning at least one or more of its tasks could potentially…
Even at age 89, Walter Cole dons a sequined gown and frizzy wig four nights a week to perform as Darcelle XV. And he does it at his own bar, which he opened with his first wife a few years a…
We are currently facing a new systemic collapse, one that has built far more swiftly but poses potent risks for all of humanity: the collapse of the information ecosystem. We see it play out…
"Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack was pulled from West Virginia's Upshur County public library earlier this week, according to local press reports, after a local church minister called it…
"I feel very disappointed about the way my sculpture is treated, with nothing but contempt and not the appreciation that should be, since Charging Bull became one of the most visited attract…
"Not even 20 years ago we mostly read about things in lag, on thin slices of tree, whereas now we do " well, this, whatever this is. Yet instead of technology superannuating literature once …
"The large number of arrests and objects seized hints at the massive scale and global reach of the international trade in illicit artifacts," says Tess Davis, executive director of the Antiq…
Phil Kennicott: "The work done by these contemporary portraits is more fundamental. They are about seeing other people, rather than saving them. We are challenged simply to accept their exis…
It's remarkable that Atwood, who turned eighty in November, has reached this crest after spending six decades writing into an ever-shifting cultural landscape. When she was starting out, wri…
MOCA revealed plans to go free at its annual benefit in May, a switch made possible with a $10-million gift from board President Carolyn Powers. So why did the change take eight months to ma…
"Over the years I've had many opportunities to question people gently about their personal identification and tastes in operas and opera productions. And it turns out that traditionalists do…