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"When what we listen to is all based on algorithms, you're fed things that will already fit your taste. My intention with the show was always to make it like a series of doors. You could pee…
"With overdoses at troubling heights and recovery no longer a sotto-voce secret, a new wave of plays dealing with the realities of rehab and the challenges of sobriety have started to emerge…
I was introduced to this album by Bob Nelson, my eighth-grade social-studies teacher, who decided for reasons of his own to introduce me to the music of my own time. " Terry Teachout
The public library in Smalltown, U.S.A., had a modest selection of classical albums. One of them was this two-disc set of "live" recordings by the first important classical-music instrumenta…
"Alonso received recognition throughout the world for her flawless technique and her ability to become one with the characters she danced, even after she became nearly blind. After a career …
Plautilla Nelli's 23-by-6½-foot depiction of Jesus and his disciples was painted for her sisters at a convent in Florence in 1568. When that convent was shuttered by Napoleon's forces in …
Aubrey Bergauer: "Giving it away for free, whether by regularly scheduled programming or by striking or locked out musicians, is not getting the job done. It's not growing audiences, it's no…
"In this paper we first explore the U.S. economic and financial outlook to better understand the environment and its risks. Then we follow trends for theatres' finances and operations, start…
"Now in its 15th season, Dorsey's award-winning San Francisco company, Sean Dorsey Dance, is heralded for intersectional dance-theater works that celebrate trans, gender-nonconforming and qu…
"The Arts Community Alliance (TACA) … has been raising money for the arts in Dallas since 1967. Today it doles that money out in the form of more than 60 general operating, artist residenc…
The recounting of a life in the form of a letter may go all the way back to Benjamin Franklin, but it's currently seeing a revival, kicked off by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me …
Given how long we've relied on the work of critics on film, music, food, and much else besides, as well as the ever-increasing relevance of cities in our lives, it's time we recognised city …
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.…
José Iturbi plays Liszt's Eleventh Hungarian Rhapsody in a 1940 film: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, a…
"No true musician can be satisfied with his performance, even through an audience is driven to a frenzy." Arturo Toscanini (quoted by Halina Rodzinski in Our Two Lives)
Los Angeles Ballet is seeking an experienced, energetic arts administrator with demonstrable leadership qualities.
Los Angeles Ballet is seeking an individual with a minimum of 5 years of experience as a controller, preferably for nonprofit arts institutions.
"You mistook him for no one else: the late, popular style was a faded fan, but it was still recognizably Bloom's old peacockery. The leaping links, hieratic cross-referencing, and amusingly …
According to the domain brokerage GoDaddy, the five most expensive publicly-reported domain names are CarInsurance.com " $49.7m; Insurance.com " $35.6m; VacationRentals.com " $35m; PrivateJe…
"Long known for a premier collection of Pop art that he built with his wife, Gael Neeson, Edlis made a star turn in a recent HBO documentary about the art market, providing one of the film's…
Fifty years have passed since 17 October 1969, but Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence remains one of the world's most sought-after works of stolen a…
Specifically, the company's revenues were $37.58 million with expenses at $36.17 million, which resulted in a surplus of $1.41 million. The figures represent a 4 percent operating surplus. "…
"The index of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language mentions regional differences in 95 places. … In reality, America has often been the conservative one, and Britain the innovator…
Guzelimian is currently provost of Juilliard and was Ojai's artistic director for five years in the 1990s. He succeeds Chad Smith, recently appointed CEO of the LA Philharmonic. Smith has be…
"We construct top-10 lists for movies, games, TV " pieces of work that shape our souls. But we don't sit around compiling lists of the world's most consequential bits of code, even though th…
