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"The final episode of Studio 360 will air in February, … [and] host Kurt Andersen's role with the program will end later this month. … John Barth, PRX's chief content officer, would not …
Social media lit up with outrage when Handke's win was announced, and criticism came from some (seemingly) surprising quarters. Albania's acting foreign minister said the award was "an ignob…
"The original manuscript of the story no longer exists, with the oldest versions of the story believed to have been transcribed by the poet Teika, who died in 1241. Until now, just four chap…
In the online edition of today's Wall Street Journal, I review Second Stage's Broadway transfer of the original Chicago production of Tracy Letts' Linda Vista. Here's an excerpt. *  *Å
Stéphane Grappelli and George Shearing play "Sweet Georgia Brown" in Stéphane Grappelli and His Quartet. Dave Goldberg is the guitarist, Coleridge Goode the bassist, and Ray Ellington t…
"Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious." Anthony Trollope, The Prime Min…
'Taking Part' figures released by DCMS indicate about 77% of English adults engaged with the arts at least once in the past 12 months, a drop of about 1.5% on the year prior. About two-third…
For example: "There's nothing revolutionary about an artist creating a foundation. But the nonprofits set up by Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell and Robert Rauschenberg, to name three, were create…
"We won't fund applications where you aren't paying yourself or your co-workers at all, or are only paying a low/nominal fee," the document says. " Arts Professional
Phil Kennicott: "MoMA is billing these changes to the display of the art as the most significant aspect of the expansion. Not only is the museum growing, it is changing its relationship to t…
Short answer: "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf." The longer answer is movement set to and inspired by poetry. And it traces back to the 1970s and a wri…
When a linguistic shift is too heavy-handed, too obviously driven by an agenda to change hearts and minds, it can run up against a response known as reactance. Reactance is our mind's instin…
"With a rich accumulation of poems, metafictions and other unclassifiable prose works, … he superimposed a psychic overlay on the city's mundane streets and terraces, its feuds and faction…
More people watch live streams on Twitch than on any other digital platform, including YouTube and Facebook, according to a report from StreamElements. But the platform has struggled to poli…
"Bong's last two films, 2013's Snowpiercer and 2017's Okja, were his first to be made in English: they weren't exactly misfires, either critically or commercially, yet both clearly had desig…
The tax will apply to tourists who arrive by coach, cruise ship, water taxi, plane or train. They will be able to pay the charge online with a credit card or from machines "installed in stra…
Vinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million (on 18.6 million units) generated by CD sales. Vinyl revenue grew by 12…
Marina Harss: "The material feels both so deeply literary and, at the same time, so utterly deflating. The subject is a solitary man" " Robert Walser " "whose writings tended to track the mi…
Eve Babitz: "I took the smock off, letting it fall beside me, but Julian kicked it far across the slippery floor, out of the way in a corner. I sat down quickly at the chess set and wondered…
Joseph Horowitz: "The modernist view of Gershwin the gifted dilettante is no longer heard. Concomitantly, American music historians, for whom Gershwin once barely existed, have flocked to Po…
"[Historian Peter] La Chapelle explains how fiddler-politicians and politician-fans have used this oddly flexible genre to advocate for the poor and dispossessed, fight for racial justice, f…
"MoMA is a machine for viewing art, and the success of this latest incarnation will be gauged by how many visitors the facility can process in any given day. … The 2004 expansion created e…
Fragments of a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose " containing a double entendre-filled episode about a pilgrim at a shrine " were found in a centuries-old book binding in the public records …
The streaming giant is renting the Belasco Theatre in midtown Manhattan for a four-week, eight-shows-a-week Broadway-style run of its latest major feature, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Ho…
"The 2019 Fringe Festival page touting [a solo biofeedback session with psychologist Gary Ames] reads biofeedback will open the bridge 'between conscious and subconscious realms. Let creativ…
