"Countless dancers find themselves at a crossroads when they question whether they still love dance, whether the sacrifices are worth it or whether a professional career is truly what they w…
A tersely worded email sent to employees at 6:13 p.m. Tuesday stated that attendance was low and that the museum would be closing its current exhibition effective Wednesday. " Los Angeles Ti…
The American Bible Society is building a $60 million museum, roughly halfway between Independence Hall and the National Constitution Center, that it's calling the Faith and Liberty Discovery…
For the first time since 2015, the orchestra this year is in the black. On a budget of $53 million supporting everything from concerts and touring to outreach and special presentations under…
Back in the 1990s, videographer Frederick Allen documented the salvage of the pirate Blackbeard's 280-year-old wrecked ship on the North Carolina coast. Earlier this decade, a department of …
For just $76 per person, you can take a guided tour through the halls of the Vatican after the crowds have gone home. Tour groups now arrange affordable, intimate nighttime visits to the hea…
Shortly after the start of Wednesday evening's performance of this production " well-known for casting Black actors as the Loman family " audience members began to hear dripping water. About…
This was one the now-forgotten Warner/Reprise "Loss Leader" albums, a series of low-priced sampler albums by Warner/Reprise artists that was one of the most ingenious and effective promotion…
Most props, most props, you could hold them in your hand. A suitcase. A tooth. A (shudders) doll. They're part of the pleasure of theatre, the imagination made palpable. But sometimes, somet…
The following is an incredibly thoughtful response written by Carter Gilles to my post The Chasm of Disbelief. I am particularly grateful to him for pointing out the important role that doin…
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
"Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself." John Galsworthy, Justice
"The Louvre is being held hostage by the Kim Kardashian of 16th-century Italian portraiture: the handsome but only moderately interesting Lisa Gherardini, better known (after her husband) as…
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications to join the organization at an exciting time of institutional accomplishment and growth.
Cave art had a profound effect on its twentieth-century viewers, including the young discoverers of Lascaux, at least one of whom camped at the hole leading to the cave over the winter of 19…
"It's not gossipy, cosy or cliquey," observes long-time contributor Alan Bennett. But, in a mostly productive way, it is cliquey. It has always had favourites and has nurtured them. With pag…
Karl Ove Knausgaard: "I'm not thinking of how long it takes to read a book but of how long its effects can be felt, and of the strange phenomenon that even literature written in other times,…
The works have been organised into themed categories, such as identity, adventure and love, sex and romance. " BBC
One night at Hamilton in San Francisco earlier this year, right at the moment of the Hamilton-Burr duel, an audience member had a heart attack; the commotion made some people believe there w…
Popular music aesthetics did much more than invert or blur the line between high and low culture. Instead, it provided the grounds for a thorough fracturing of those two positions into a new…
"Over a career spanning 50 years, [Juan Carlos] Onetti depicted Uruguay in short stories and novels as a place marked by pettiness, idiocy and squalor " a Gogolian province in the tropics [s…
Some attribute the Kusama craze to the Instagram generation, with young people lining up to take selfies in the artist's "Infinity" rooms of mirrors, colors and lights. Others say her compel…
"The 69-year-old [author of I Will Never See the World Again] was arrested in 2016 with his brother, the economist and journalist Mehmet Altan, on allegations of spreading 'subliminal messag…
Though the hits-driven nature of publishing has not changed in recent years, the nature of those hits has. Due to a number of coalescing factors"including a shrinking physical retail market …