The three-story mural, created for the Catholic youth Grace House in New York, has been cut out and preserved for auction. The Haring Foundation is not thrilled by the idea of the auction. "…
Jia Tolentino, New Yorker writer and extremely online person, follows the advice of a computer scientist. First thing to do: Give up everything optional on your phone and computer for 30 day…
The vast majority of Inuit artists, even the celebrated ones, "eke out an existence." Canada's famed reconciliation isn't touching their lives much. "Many support large extended families tha…
The choreographer has a new memoir out. In an interview, he describes "the sissy tests" of middle school " and turning those humiliating, degrading moments into dance. " NPR
Vine and Instagram did it first (and, let's be honest, Vine was great, RIP Vine), and now TikTok is the new way for kids to become social media-famous. How the heck is a school supposed to d…
Why did Elizabeth Strout return to her dour, challenging protagonist " and how the heck did Olive Kitteridge become such a cultural force to begin with, a bestselling book that turned into a…
Clark was "an African-American expressionist painter who used a broom and bold colors to capture the natural world and to convey emotions about the racial injustice of the 1960s, earning him…
We regret it an awful lot as well, Dame Julie. But oh, the stories she's accumulated, this one quite early: "I had forgotten to pack my dress shoes, so my mother painted white ballet slipper…
Backup dancers aren't very "backup" anymore; instead, like the 16-year-old who began touring with Janet Jackson at age 12 and is now a major social media influencer, they're at the center of…
This is a bit of a problem for the massive company: "The big question now is whether some of Netflix's existing subscribers will decide to cancel its service and defect to cheaper alternativ…
Sure, Peter Handke spoke at the funeral of Serbian war criminal Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević in 2006, and sure, before that he had compared the fate of Serbia to that of Jewish people during th…
"'I am not an Otello,' Thomas says … [Yet] suddenly, it seems that Otello is all anybody wants to hear from him. … The problem [is] that there are very few tenors, white or black, who ar…
The Phoenix Symphony (TPS) is Arizona's largest performing arts organization and considered a cultural icon. Founded in 1947 as a part-time orchestra, TPS has grown to become Arizona's only …
This Little Light of Mine: The inimitable Mr. Cummings speaks to the League's annual meeting about how the arts has the power to change lives. "As I march toward the twilight of my life, the…
In 2010, Argentine dancer and former ABT principal Julio Bocca was named artistic director of Uruguay's flagship company, the Ballet Nacional del Sodre. Since then, under Bocca and successor…
Something about the symmetry, the light, and the postures of the figures in the room turned ordinary people into art historians who were captivated by the strength of the composition. "The j…
Untitled Goose Game, "which is drawn in the style of a children's book and scored by a whimsical piano, sees you play as a single-minded goose making her terrible way through a village. Your…
"It's controversial in Russia to reconstruct ballets " original Russian ballets " but on the notation that was removed from Russia. In recent years, "La Bayadère" has raised questions over …
"I've talked to people who feel they know Bach very well, but they aren't aware of the time he was imprisoned for a month. They never learned about Bach pulling a knife on a fellow musician …
It's called a "slow fire," this continuous acidification and subsequent embrittlement of paper that was created with the seeds of its own ruin in its very fibers. In a 1987 documentary on th…
Mr. Jencks was an architectural historian who, with a landmark book, put himself at the forefront of the debate over what architecture should do. " The New York Times
For music fans, the news last Thursday that WNYC will end New Sounds, a show hosted by John Schaefer since its debut in 1982, has provoked a deep sense of mourning and nostalgia for both the…
The conventional wisdom on curtain times has long been broken, and it's proving beneficial to producers and audience. More show-by-show tinkering can only continue to evolve theatregoing pra…
Some see other current trends"the conversion of old structures, the blurring of boundaries between disciplines, the increasing move of visual artists into performance, the popular interest i…
"The entire cancel culture conversation, including the debate over whether or not it exists at all, has largely missed a crucial point. While celebrities, successful artists, and other too-b…