"According to the 22nd annual Boxed In report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film …, female characters comprised 45% of all speaking characters across comedies, d…
"Totalitarian systems don't last, it is my fervent belief. Some of them have lasted longer than others. When they come apart, what is it that causes them to fall apart? … [And] how do you …
In 1993, there was a series of break-ins across the more expensive neighborhoods of Los Angeles in which dozens of paintings, antiques, and historic documents were taken. Two perps were capt…
"[She] overcame sexist attitudes and outright hostility to earn a place on the bandstand alongside such musical stars as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker." " The Washingto…
"What we're watching now is a man realising that the character he invented for himself in order to get something he didn't want doesn't work when you're prime minister. It was fine for panel…
"Show, don't tell" is one of the most basic rules of dramatic writing. Yet the ancient Greeks told-rather-than-showing all the time: convention forbid onstage violence, so messengers recount…
The tenor's performance at the benefit concert next March would have been his first appearance with The Dallas Opera since his U.S. operatic debut in 1961. (The one accuser in the latest rep…
Simon Mellor, the Council's deputy chief executive: "To be clear, of course we're not going to be asking organisations to justify the relevance of individual works of art. We do, however, th…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Jamie Lloyd's revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, starring Tom Hiddleston. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * "Betrayal"…
"Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street," a rare silent film shot in 1905 and originally released by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.: (This is the latest in a series of a…
"I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave." Sydney Smith, letter to Georgiana Harcourt (1838)
It remains to be seen whether his cultural benefactions will be augmented by bequests. I'm guessing that museums on the receiving end of such bequests, unless encumbered by unacceptable cond…
In Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast has some advice about hoarding: Don't hold onto anything you don't want your kids to have to sort through once you're gone. For the…
Now that Baghdad is once more clambering back to its feet after ISIS's territorial defeat, observers wonder: Can the school regain anything of its past glory or will it " and the city around…
"I realize that the various arts councils see art as a communications strategy, a way of encoding statements of moral good in visual form. Long ago they surrendered any faith in the aestheti…
Museum boards are being abolished, and the contracts of foreign-born directors seem unlikely to be renewed as Italy's government rolls back many of the game-changing reforms introduced fo…
"We were all trying to impress him. When it said fortissimo, we got a little out of hand. He said, 'We all have different levels of fortissimo. Never take the sound past beautiful.' The enti…
A massive overhaul is happening at the top of Portland's biggest artistic institutions. Six of Oregon's major arts organizations"including NW Film Center, Portland Center Stage and Chamber M…
On the heels of celebrating its 100th anniversary, the Juno and Grammy-award winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra ("VSO"), is engaged in a search for its next President of the VSS and the VS…
Questions of strength and weakness have hovered around Boström KnausgÃ¥rd ever since the novelist with whom she shares a last name wrote, in rather excruciating detail, about their lif…
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"The six most influential art critics, according to the respondents, were all white, mostly men and mostly older. They included one woman, Roberta Smith (The New York Times), Holland Cotter …
"What I've learned is: I love the danger. This thing I thought I hated all my life, that's why I was doing it. If the show is at 8, and it's 6, what will I be doing? Pacing. After 60 years, …
One of the biggest missteps was transitioning from a fall and winter schedule to a spring and summer schedule. Implemented in 2014, the transition was an attempt to address the opera's alrea…
"By offering vulnerable populations the opportunity to make choices, work collaboratively and express themselves creatively, dance has the power to be transformative." Writer Rachel Caldwell…