This scare, now mostly forgotten, was a frantic panic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that contaminated books"particularly ones lent out from libraries"could spread deadly dise…
The report says that 41% of visual arts audiences are aged between 16 and 34, whereas for other artforms this demographic comprises 13% of visitors. In contrast, 41% of museum audiences are …
"Going to so many shows in such a short period of time underscored the reality that while the majority of Broadway productions are good and worth seeing, the truly great shows are rare, and …
Charles Schulz did not create Charlie Brown and Linus and Lucy to talk"or act"like normal children. He created them to be funny, and to act out what became a deeply personal theater of cruel…
In a Q&A, the director of St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, and Phantom of the Opera talks about his own wild youth (he began drinking at 9 an…
It's fascinating work, but lately, something else is pulling me back to my computer late at night. I get carried away in such guilty pleasure that if my husband walks in unexpectedly, I'm pr…
Content, a seven-episode series produced by the other ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corp.), "is a comedy about a narcissistic millennial determined to become an online influencer, …
"Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or other traditionally gender-specific female nouns, like stewardess or daugh…
"Shaker dance both embodied and performed a gender-egalitarian community, one whose primary method of reproduction was not sexual." (They increased their numbers through recruitment, for whi…
In a letter to Makan Delrahim, the assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, the senators, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota " both Democrats " called…
"Like many of his fellow composers in the 1950s and '60s, Mr. Davidovsky was drawn to the new possibilities offered by technology. But he was uneasy with the prospect of music that was immun…
"An elite team of film archivists here is working to conserve [reels of film] as part of a years-long government program that aims to digitize about a century's worth of Afghan documentaries…
Staff writer Andrew Ferguson: "By play's end, it's become clear that if the young [Heidi] Schreck did indeed love the Constitution, it's because she misunderstood it; and if her passion for …
The proposal, which has the support of London mayor Sadiq Khan, comes from the Fabian Society, a socialist organization that dates back to 1884. The Fabians say that a slavery museum would e…
"A snapshot survey of the West End in 2019, 2014, 2009 and 1999 has revealed the proportion of original plays is at its highest now, accounting for more than a fifth (21%) of all productions…
"The museum said Tuesday that the 'caterpillar' escalator as well as the sloping stone plaza in front of the iconic structure were closed to the public Tuesday for work expected to last unti…
"'I am fascinated by the feeling of flying a plane," said the 43-year-old, who has just stepped down as music director of the Orchestre de Paris. "In the spring I will join Air France as a c…
"To be brought up in a poverty-stricken household, to know nothing but poverty in childhood and adolescence, is not so bad while you are enduring it; it is quite tolerable in fact, at least …
It's a truism that, as aesthetic movements go, the visual arts get there first. Think of Impressionism, which didn't begin to inflect music until Debussy and Ravel " decades after Monet. Exp…
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Parul Sehgal: "Salman Rushdie fills a shelf, even two, nicely. He is the author of nearly 20 books " six published in the last 11 years alone, but of diminishing quality. The novels are imag…
"The leading city, Washington, D.C., has nearly three times the concentration of the creative class of the most lagging city, Detroit. In the four leading cities, the creative class make…
As political advertisements already twist candidates' words and manipulate the truth for the perfect soundbite, can you believe anything you hear when it can all be manufactured on any lapto…
"These are some of the founding documents of New Orleans funk. These tapes were part of that incredibly rich creative period that laid the groundwork for a lot of New Orleans music that foll…
He almost single-handedly turned the fading Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye into one of the world's secondhand book capitals and a model followed by towns in more than a few other countries. " T…