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Will anyone join the list this year? (And can anyone ever top Merrit Wever's 2013 acceptance speech?) " Los Angeles Times
"Like many phrases and ideas in 2019, this one has been appropriated, bastardized, and misused to the point of not only betraying its original definition and its usefulness in checking the a…
"While the Internet was meant to allow you to reach out to any- and everyone without a hint of the cruel discriminations that blight our world, it turned into the opposite, a forum where ind…
The road to dictatorship is depressingly predictable. Once power is stolen, the problem is to keep it. Anyone who might develop a separate power base must be struck down. Eradicate rivals, r…
"These findings challenge one of the most compelling narratives to have emerged within the art world in recent years: that of progressive change, with once-marginalized artists being granted…
"We've made enormous strides. A decade ago, a third of the BBC was based outside London and two-thirds was in London. Today, that balance is 50/50. We've moved from less than 10% of our netw…
"Almost certainly more than any other media in our country, literary magazines model critical thinking and arrange an exposure to the unorthodox, both of which can provide inoculations again…
Anthony Tommasini: "When Mr. van Zweden's appointment was announced, it was questioned whether he would prioritize cultivating living composers, commissioning major works, bringing in a new …
"In a literary career that spanned more than 20 years, Mead wrote five poetry collections and her work was regularly published in anthologies and journals. She was a Griffin Poetry Prize and…
Become the administrative leader of this strong organization with its robust musical footprint in dynamic Santa Fe.
The story just got better " Papillon meets The Goldfinch meets The Great Train Robbery. But it had also gone cold. "I thought: oh, I've missed it." " The Guardian
The just-published, unfinished 200-page volume, titled The Four Corners of the Heart and described as "a laconic dissection of the lives of the French haute bourgeoisie," is the big news of …
"We've never had anything kind of like the splash that Ben has made, for better or for worse," said Ben Johnson, performing arts program director at the city of L.A.'s Department of Cultural…
From the late 1980s onward, Bruce was recognized as an expert on cutting-edge Canadian art. He knew all the artists and got all the jobs"well, not quite"and was repeatedly invited to curate …
"Italy and France are set to sign an agreement to exchange works by Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, burying a spat triggered by Italy's former populist government. The deal … will result in…
"Our ears take in the score, the artists' breathing patterns, fellow audience members' reactions, and the physical percussion made by the dancers' footfalls and partnering. All of this infor…
Events labeled "relaxed performances" are ones where it's okay for the audience to move around, make noise, leave and return to the auditorium if you need to, etc.; there's usually one per r…
The service may very well allow artists to become less beholden to the unpredictable algorithms, turbulent monetization policies, and stingy revenue-sharing of behemoth distribution platform…
"We want to announce little nuggets at a time and build as much excitement as we can," says Arkansas Philharmonic executive director Jason Miller. This is one of several new initiatives " an…
The chosen work is Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, with a libretto by Kasi Lemmons based on the memoir by New York Times columnist Charles Blow, premiered this past summer at O…
"To examine the evolving representation of work by female artists in American museums and the global auction market over the past decade, we not only delved into data, but also conducted ext…
The host and creator of This American Life has recorded five spots urging people to become donors to their public radio stations at about the lowest possible rate. Why? Basically, for the sa…
"NPR is projecting that podcast sponsorship revenues will surpass revenues from broadcast sponsorships next year for the first time. … The network has budgeted about $55 million in corpora…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Massachusetts opening of Bedlam's new revival of The Crucible. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Sixty-six years ago, everyone who saw "The C…
Leopold Stokowski conducts a studio orchestra in his arrangements of Bach's Chorale-Prelude "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott," BWV 720, and the G Minor "Little" Fugue, BWV 578, in The B…
