Maurizio Cattelan, whose gold toilet called America was ripped from its pipes in Blenheim Palace, flooding the palace and causing rather a lot of damage, says that he didn't steal it, despit…
Instead of the royalties authors might expect from book sales, "what comes trickling back are mostly email alerts about websites in brazen violation of copyright law, offering free downloads…
In Seattle, the Columbia City moviehouse Ark Lodge Cinemas has seen box office receipts drop by as much as 60 percent this year. "Its struggles illustrate the challenges of operating an inde…
DiDonato works with inmates at Sing Sing and tours with a project aiming to bring harmony and peace through music. And right now, she's singing the title role in Agrippina, the scheming wife…
Of course it does. "With its time-sequence ticketing and Sensorio-branded hoodies for sale, Field of Light joins a coterie of art entertainments at wineries and related establishments seekin…
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is repetitive, redundant, with reformulated ideas in every chapter " but sometime it works. (At least once you're already also in rehab.) " LitHub
Ocasek wrote and was lead singer on nearly every song The Cars recorded, including hits like "Best Friend's Girl" and "Shake It Up," and after the group broke up, he had a second career as a…
It's a quiet war, but it's fierce. Macmillan is planning to block libraries from buying more than one digital copy of new books for eight weeks after the book comes out, starting in November…
The season opener was pushed from September 14 to September 21, though the musicians of the BSO, not under the name of the BSO, played a free concert on opening night at a different venue. T…
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Ravel's "Le Gibet" (from Gaspard de la nuit) on TV in 1975: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this spa…
"I'd been having a little too much talk with people whose business was talking. It was good to sit at the counter of a working-class restaurant where men spoke when they wanted something, or…
Oh, you thought it was just painting collections, or the sculpture garden? Nope: "Gender bias in favor of males extends to fossil and museum collections of mammals." " Hyperallergic
Why is this such a secret? "Without the essential first step, without a creative reimagining of nature, a conceiving of hypotheses for what might be going on behind the perceived surface of …
Celebrity in the 21st century: The actor Jeremy Renner was nominated for Oscars two years in a row, with The Hurt Locker and The Town. Then Marvel came calling. Then he got his own app. Then…
No, and it's wild that we think there is one. "Technology has improved the world, and our lives, in plenty of ways. But it often seems we are willing to overlook significant potential downsi…
Kate McLeod, Head of School and Teacher Services at Atlanta's High Museum of Art: "One of the High's overarching goals in the past few years is to grow and expand inclusive programming for a…
"Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins speaks to Tom Wicker about mourning Toni Morrison, his love for London and how his play Appropriate " being staged at the Donmar " has become …
"Nourished by Kenyan culture, the transnational artist is filling the niches on the Fifth Avenue facade, for the first time in the Met's history. It's a step on the museum's rocky road towar…
"[The Kennedy Center has] long struggled with a sense of isolation, a geographic and elite island apart from the surrounding city. To counter that, the center began its popular and free Mill…
"Photographer Richard Ross has documented the U.S. juvenile justice system for the better part of a decade. In tonight's 'Brief But Spectacular', Ross shares what it feels like to honor the …
"Making classical music a more equitable place demands a cultural change " and cultural changes don't happen without conversation and action. Just in the past five or so years, there has bee…
Here was the situation the day before Saturday's opening night: "With Domingo staying away from Los Angeles while an internal investigation is underway, the company pushed ahead Friday on se…
Theodore Seuss Geisel died in 1991, but his widow was cleaning out a closet in 2013 when she came across a box of his unpublished, and some unfinished, manuscripts. Or, as the Times headline…
Though a man has been arrested "in connection with" the burglary, Maurizio Cattelan's artwork hasn't yet been recovered. "The golden lavatory, named America, drew large crowds when it was ex…
The crisis is this: As in the U.S., the number of teacher-librarians or librarians in schools has declined precipitously. Why? "Many principals opt to replace them with cheaper 'library offi…