"[After] negotiations described by union Equity as the toughest in recent times, … performers' weekly minimum pay will increase from £450 currently to £459.05 over three years " leav…
"There is a certain truth to this recent narrative of humanistic decline as it plays out in liberal arts schools, but it is not that of obsolescence or expense. Nor is it reducible to the li…
"What's surprising is the similarity and the banality," he says. "And the fact that people around the world do the same things with their phone. … It's a new form of language " a very visu…
As noted cinéaste John Waters put it, "Oh no! Where will old art movie fans go to see rarefied foreign films in the safety of a rich neighborhood?" And Film at Lincoln Center program direct…
The Testaments, Atwood's secrecy-shrouded sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, and Quichotte, Rushdie's recently-released riff on Don Quixote, are joined on the list of six semifinalists by Elif S…
London dealer Joseph Nahmad, 31 and part of a powerful multibillion-dollar family network of art dealers, got a suspended sentence of 14 weeks along with the rehab order from Judge Jeffrey P…
"[She] amassed four Emmys during her time as Rhoda [Morgenstern] " three for her sidekick role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977, and one as the lead charact…
Richard Linklater's new long-term project is a silm adaptation of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, which traces, in reverse, the gradual, bitter estrangement of three longtime friends. Star…
Holly Mulcahy, who has been the orchestra's concertmaster since the fall of 2013 (and who takes up a second concertmaster position at the Wichita Symphony this month), is seeking up to $25,0…
That figure, high as it seems, is down from $9.9 billion in 2017, the year that saw the completion of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. There were 148 such buildings " museums, performing arts centers, …
"The action comes after [Science Museum Group's] directors refused to increase a below-inflation 1.5% pay rise offered to more than 75% of staff this year. … Prospect, the union representi…
From 2009: ' Rooftop TV antennas. I don't miss the lamentably fuzzy reception that they provided, or the fact that my family could only pick up three channels in Smalltown, U.S.A. (I n…
"The author of a well-received novel never knows whether his book, even if it sells, is also read. Nor does he know where his reader yawns, at what page he may have decided that he wants no …
Earlier this week in Yakima, Washington, alto saxophonist Logan Strosahl and pianist Nick Sanders demonstrated the like-mindedness that makes them one of the most riveting duos in jazz. " Do…
An incident initiated by the conductor at a post-concert party at the pianist's home, just a few weeks before Horowitz retired from the stage for 12 years. " Joe Horowitz
Judging from his imprudent published pronouncements, it appears to me that Secretary Bunch may feel so estranged (arguably with good reason) from the Trump Presidency that he's cast aside hi…
Jimmy Durante sings Gordon Jenkins' "This Is All I Ask" on Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour. This episode was originally telecast by ABC on October 31, 1969: (This is the la…
"What strikes me as I look back is that I have known few contented people. I have known very busy ones, rich ones, triumphant ones, but few who have been contented." S.N. Behrman, People …
Champions and leaders of community youth music programs are heroes. The Lewis Prize for Music celebrates mentors who empower and inspire young people to use music as a force for good. The Le…
Phil Kennicott: "When the Kennedy Center was built, it was designed to fulfill a specific sets of needs and functions. Now it is has been expanded to enfold an unknown number of new function…
Mark Swed: "I'm not so sure I buy the mystique business. The ego issue is clearly complicated. But his two concerts in the Festspielhaus in Salzburg, the first a repeat of the Beethoven Nint…
Titus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and present, invited me back last week for the latest in …
"I've heard Blockbuster called "the Walmart of video stores," which illustrates not only their sales strategy, but their history as an industry Goliath. Like the chain of retail megastores, …
The original urban crisis of the 1960s and 1970s was a crisis of economic failure, spurred on by the movement of people, jobs, and industry to the suburbs; the hollowing out of city economic…
Language acquisition professor Rebecca Woods assembled what linguists call a corpus ("a representative sample of language as used by certain speakers") from a BBC show (the makeup competitio…