"[The company's] 2018 annual report lists both 'censorship' and 'the need to adapt our content and users interfaces for specific cultural and language differences' as business risks. But as …
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review two off-Broadway shows, Seared and for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Here's an excerpt. *  *Å
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.…
Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson perform Webster's "Poutin'" in Hanover, Germany, in December of 1972. The bassist is Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and the drummer Tony Inzalaco: (Thi…
"Even though every individual possesses the truth, when he or she gets together in a crowd, untruth will be present at once, for the crowd is untruth." Søren Kierkegaard, undated journ…
Forty-nine years after the fact, I can't remember how or why I first got interested in Miles Davis. Not that you would have needed a reason to be interested in Miles in 1970. " Terry Teachout
The aggressively transgressive new MoMA, trying to combat museum-ennui by shaking up its displays, has aimed its cannon at the canon. Its disruptive installation strategy audaciously breache…
Do you ever wonder how choreographers choose their titles? After seeing James Whiteside's New American Romance on the last day of American Ballet Theatre's fall season at the former New York…
GES-2, a center for contemporary art(s) designed by Renzo Piano and constructed inside a disused 1907 power station, will open next September. Leonid Mikhelson, the billionaire funding the p…
"An unsigned painting of an unidentified bald man with a beard has aroused excitement among historians and art buffs after lying largely unnoticed in the collection of a historic chateau in …
"When construction crews dismantled the chapel's acoustical ceiling tiles this summer to prepare the building for a new skylight, they found the concrete support walls were built without ste…
Ever since Michael Smuin founded Smuin Contemporary Ballet in San Francisco in 1994, the company has had to scrounge rented studio space as it could, sometimes even ending rehearsals so that…
"In the early years of the twentieth century, women worked in virtually every aspect of silent-film-making, as directors, writers, producers, editors, and even camera operators. The industry…
Officials ranging from the country's minister of culture to UNESCO executives say that restoring museums, ancient churches and mosques will not only provide employment and (eventually) reven…
We admit, this is just museum building porn, but we love looking at beautiful buildings, and Architectural Digest has compiled a list of coolest-looking museums in each state in America. " A…
"The conversation is often depicted in the media as a binary: On one side are those who argue that only writers from marginalized backgrounds should tell stories about people who share their…
"Eighth graders at the bottom 10th percentile of reading achievement lost six points on the exam compared with similar students two years ago, while students at the 50th percentile lost 3 po…
"[He spent] a long career of playing crotchety yet lovable men whose working-class roots mirrored his own. The actor, who worked until the day before his death, had a remarkable fluency with…
"A Chorus Line" is the ultimate ensemble musical, a compilation of autobiographical material about the emotional travails and aspirations of Broadway dancers, as they audition for spots in t…
The Asphalt Art Initiative will award 10 small or mid-sized cities with grants of up to $25,000 to create colorful murals on streets, intersections, and crosswalks, or vertical surfaces of t…
"Unpaid overtime, precarious contracts, working hours so antisocial your only friends are people who do the same job … after a minimum of seven years' education and professional training, …
In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains. Electrical activity from the brains of a pair of human subjects was…
"The Yoko Years. The Decade of Dora. Accounts of the muse"artist relation were anchored in the idea of male cultural production as a special category, one with particular needs"usually sexua…
On Wednesday the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced Sandra Jackson-Dumont as its new director and chief executive officer. She comes to L.A. from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, …
"Happiness is in many ways the marketing breakthrough of the past decade, with self-care and anti-stress products now rounding out the bestseller list on Amazon (think of 'gravity blankets',…