"In 2014, the D.C. Public Library system hired Jean Badalamenti as assistant manager of health and human services to help the city's 25 libraries better serve as a resource for the city's ro…
"Everyone entering the buildings prior to public events will be required to walk through a metal detector (magnetometer) and have their bag searched or be screened with a hand-held metal det…
"Seven transfers in one season puts [the Williamstown Theater Festival] at the top of the list of New York stage feeders; no single theater, let alone one that's lit only 50 days a year, com…
Several lawsuits filed against Epstein's estate "say that when [he] was luring teenagers into sexual exploitation in Florida, he was using a network of recruiters within New York City's danc…
Alan Harrison (who has run a few arts outfits in his time): "If a revenue budget cannot survive the number of paid hours required to reach the goals, then the organization itself is not viab…
Kate Wagner: "Classical music is cruel not because there are winners and losers, first chairs and second chairs, but because it lies about the fact that these winners and losers are chosen l…
"Many of the artifacts that will be on display in the Humboldt Forum, a huge new museum under construction in a rebuilt Berlin palace, had for years been stored in less-than-ideal conditions…
His grandparents were Iraqi Jews who fled Baghdad in 1941, and much of his work is inspired by their experiences. He's most famous for his replica, placed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar S…
The exhibition at La Villette in northeastern Paris features the largest collection of artifacts connected with the young pharaoh ever to leave Cairo. More than 1.3 million people have atten…
Laura Eisen, then the orchestral manager of the Berlin Staatskapelle (the Staatsoper's orchestra), has come forward publicly to allege that in March of 2018, the conductor "came toward me, g…
Mabel Mercer and Jimmy Lyon appear on The Mark of Jazz, hosted by Sid Mark and originally telecast on WHYY-TV in 1976: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos …
"Jed Harris, in the full tide of success, could not imagine that anything he would do would fail; this is a form of imagination that must be acquired early by anyone who consigns his life to…
A painter I know had this to say about his work as an artist: "Pleasantly surprised by his watercolour. But the calligraphies … I see too much repetitive strain there." Personally, I love …
Is a home without a kettle even a home? It is at least the first step towards home. And in The Doctor " Robert Icke's coruscating new play based on Schnitzler's Professor Bernhadi " the kett…
Music scholars insist that if we listened to music the way a musician would, understanding how notes trigger feelings, how tones take on their own textures and meanings, then we might experi…
"Out-of-home entertainment had a down summer in general. Attendance at Major League Baseball games is expected to fall for the fourth consecutive season, according to Two Circles, a sports m…
Stuart Carden, who starts his new job within days, will be only the fifth artistic director in the Rep's 55-year history. " Kansas City Star
Joshua Robison and Michael Tilson Thomas met in their junior high orchestra in North Hollywood when they were 11 and 12 years old (Robison is a year and a half younger). "I played cello, and…
Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia " the current head of the Hohenzollern family, which ruled in Berlin for two centuries, until Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated at the end of World War…
With the permission of the Flood Protection Authority and funding from the Walmart Corp., the artist embarked on the first 400 feet of a historical mural that will depict major moments in Ne…
Growing up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Vuvu Mpofu never even heard opera until she was 15, and, with no voice teachers in town, all she had to learn from were video discs of La Traviata…
In comparing Lara Spencer's apology to a politician apologizing to an ethnic group, Arroyo is saying that he finds that practice laughable as well. But the most blatant example is Ingraham's…
It's no longer a question of our brains being a product of either nature or nurture but realizing how entangled the "nature" of our brains is with the brain-changing "nurture" provided by ou…
"Our language is full of interjections and verbal gestures that don't necessarily mean anything beyond themselves. Most of our words " 'baseball', 'thunder', 'ideology' " seem to have a mean…
"Our intention is to inaugurate a part of the reconstructed palace in 2022 with expositions that let us celebrate the bicentennial of Brazil's independence," said an official. And while earl…