Challenging, international contemporary art has always struggled to capture the attention of any but a very small share of the local population in Hawaii. (There are no galleries specializin…
"The year 1919 was pivotal in European culture, with bold portents for the postwar future " it was the year that Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus and Marcel Duchamp painted a mustache on t…
Gia Kourlas: "You can't completely banish your true self when you dance; Arthur Fleck is still somewhere inside of Mr. Phoenix, even after Arthur transforms himself into the Joker. What make…
In contrast to the United States, so far no theater in Europe, where the #MeToo movement has had little impact, has canceled any of the singer's planned performances on calendars running thr…
"From a vaunted perch at Yale, he flew in the face of almost every trend in the literary criticism of his day. Chiefly he argued for the literary superiority of the Western giants like Shake…
Well, some of them are. Reporter Claire Voon looks at some museums who are doing well in this area (the new MoMA) and some that have a way to go. " Artsy
"[AMC Entertainment's new] service, AMC Theaters On Demand, will offer about 2,000 films for sale or rent after their theatrical runs, just as iTunes, Amazon and other video-on-demand retail…
"I want to say to readers: You have no idea that you want to go to this weird corner and eat these spicy noodles, but trust me, you'll love it. If I could do one millionth of that for theatr…
In the 1940s, John E. Reid and Associates developed a commonly-used, and now-controversial police interrogation method called the Reid Technique. That method is mentioned once, briefly, in W…
This week investigators accused professor Dirk Obbink, one of the most celebrated classics professors in the world, a Nebraska native and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient who had long dire…
"The cast was strip-searched before boarding the bus to their show. The leading man was shackled so tightly that he performed with abrasions on his wrists. And the moment the men finished th…
The danger is that the Booker effect that propelled last year's "difficult" winner, the brilliant Milkman, to a wider readership will be dissipated. Perhaps it's best understood as a reminde…
"[He] was distinguished in at least three fields. As a photographer in the 1950s and '60s he made memorable images of contemporary American writers and painters, and of the young Bob Dylan s…
Shortly before she died in 2007, philanthropist Linda Pace had a dream in which she saw a shining red counterpart to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz which would hold her art collection …
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.…
From 2009: Much has been written in recent days, most of it silly and some of it ignorant, about the modern art that Barack and Michelle Obama have borrowed to display in the White House….…
"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul." Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo
Clive James recently filled out the Guardian's "Books That Made Me" questionnaire. I was so struck by his answers " as well as the questions themselves " that I decided to play along. " Terr…
One of the highlights of the 2019 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival was a concert by Hannah Svensson. Now, Ms. Svensson's new album, Places And Dreams, presents her along with the colleagues who ba…
Kevin Deas, the exceptional bass-baritone who is the anonymous "Porgy" of my previous blog, has written to me at greater length about singing the part " and the importance of the view "from …
Hands are for Holding is a cornerstone of Gibney Dance's Community Action work. This in-school assembly and residency program uses dance to spark reflection and encourage conversations about…
The Company Administrative Director is a full-time, exempt position. Reporting to Founder, CEO, and Artistic Director Gina Gibne), the Company Administrative Director will drive the dynamic …
Christie's Education was founded in 1978 and is owned by the Christie's International Plc (Christie's).
Yes, one of them is Margaret Atwood's The Testaments; the other is Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. Over more than five hours of debate, the judges were told repeatedly that splitti…
In fits and starts, the professional curator arrogated responsibilities once held by the artist, the collector, the historian, or indeed the critic, becoming the figure who assigned meaning …