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More than its disappointing 1985 predecessor, the Met's vigorous new staging of Gershwin's opera manages to vindicate a controversial cultural landmark whose reputation, still unsettled, fee…
The Nobel committee cited Polish novelist Tokarczuk, awarded the delayed prize for 2018, for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as …
Diego Ramalho grew up breakdancing in a small city in Brazil and reluctantly started taking ballet lessons at age 18. Eight years later, he's a full member of Ballet Edmonton, coaching his c…
"For all its intelligence and skill and its obvious desire to make the place feel friendlier, the expansion seems to me not to have solved the problem of the Modern's ambience. … You may f…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review an important New York opening, the Irish Repertory Theatre's off-Broadway revival of Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol. Here's an excerpt. *  * …
In this week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, which appears in the online edition of today's paper, I discuss the case of Plácido Domingo. Here's an excerpt. *  * …
"But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?" Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
"We are essentially pattern-recognizing machines. Every great musician knows that a great performance involves building up tension to an eventual release. And that's because that taps into o…
"[A] stream of stories, boasts and false leads has kept the police busy for years and has led to just two conclusions: the painting was stolen by the mafia, and it was then destroyed. … In…
These pricey deals for what is essentially digital reruns have, like the Seinfeld syndication deal two decades ago, raised eyebrows. Why are streaming companies willing to pay so much for sh…
The suit accused Facebook of acknowledging miscalculations in metrics upon press reports, but still not taking responsibility for the breadth of the problem. "The average viewership metrics …
The Louvre attracts 10.2 million people a year with about 80 per cent believed to come just to see the Mona Lisa. In July, officials had to restrict access for three days because of the chao…
"It is no triviality to define analytic philosophy. Broadly, it combines a faith in formal logic as a tool for eliminating philosophical confusion with an almost unquestioned, at least in re…
"Besides the physical notation, the sheet of paper or whatever, there's also the psychological notation. That should also be there"where you can deal with the music on a real level. Whether …
Classical music institutions have a built-in challenge in trying to arrange exhibits for the public: Their default archival documents tend to be just the kind of dusty memento the stereotype…
Lissner, who ran La Scala in Milan (2005-2012) before taking charge of the Opéra national de Paris, reaches France's mandatory retirement age of 67 next year, so his contract there won't be…
"By giving these paintings the endorsement of a professional exhibition, in the nation's capital, with the imprimatur of a major arts center and by extension the federal government (which su…
These magical machines were supposed to provide a solution to the economic and political problems of the late twentieth century, a way to transcend and break free of the confining aspects of…
After decades living and working all over the U.S., actor-director-choreographer Robert Barry Fleming is now in his first season as artistic director of one of the country's most important r…
"I didn't realize it at first, but the fight over the library was rolled up into a bigger one about the library building, and an even bigger fight than that, about the county government, wha…
"An actor and humorist, [he] was a core figure in two of the quirkiest television shows of the 1970s, The Great American Dream Machine and the children's program Marshall Efron's Illustrated…
Everything I See I Swallow, which scored a success at this summer's Edinburgh Fringe and is now touring regional England, involves "the art of shibari, the centuries-old practice of Japanese…
"Goldsmith Street in Norwich represents what has become a rare breed: streets of terraced homes built directly by the council, rented with secure tenancies at fixed social rents. And it's an…
"Annilese Miskimmon, the Belfast-born opera director who has drawn influence from Sondheim, Shakespeare and the Muppets [and is currently director of opera at Norwegian National Opera and Ba…
The city's Pacifica Radio station, which for six decades has aired leftist-leaning news coverage and alternative programming, has been in chronic turmoil for the past several years, with con…
