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"To say that Richard Strauss's "Salome" is your favorite opera is a bit like saying that "The Shining" is your favorite film or that Edgar Allan Poe is your favorite author: it marks you as …
Natalia Dashan, who was a full-scholarship student at Yale and witnessed such imbroglios as the Halloween Costumes fiasco up close, looks at the underlying dynamic by which, among a very pri…
His sleek designs are notoriously high maintenance, over budget, and prone to failure. Here's a short list of his debacles. " D Magazine
"With the help of neuroscientific and behavioural research, we are beginning to appreciate how the ancestral mammal brain is alive and well inside our higher neocortical systems. Unlike the …
"Julien really wanted to connect with something else. He really wanted to connect with nature, but not only with nature, but with the scientists and the people that actually are studying the…
The contemporary arts centre E-Werk Luckenwalde will not only open exhibition galleries and studio spaces in a former brown coal power station 65km south of Berlin, it will also begin genera…
"World literature happens when Russian novels remake English literature; when a Turkish writer takes inspiration from a Colombian writer; when Japanese critics review translations of Lebanes…
Imagine if Hollywood were to issue shot-for-shot remakes of D.W. Griffith's gauzy history of the Ku Klux Klan, "The Birth of a Nation ," every few years. Imagine Tom Hanks re-creating Mickey…
There are still transformiste cabarets, with what might be called female impersonators (talk about old-school) lip-synching impressions of famous chanteuses for an audience little different …
Tamara Wilson: "Operas like Aïda and Turandot were written for and performed by white European singers in, what was at that time acceptable, theatrical makeup to make them appear African …
Cincinnati Ballet is looking to add some great talent to the our administrative team. We are looking for an Institutional Giving Manager and a Director of Education + Community Engagement. P…
On Wednesday Robert Sain, the director of the di Rosa center, responded with a letter that repeated claims that the center did not have sufficient funds to maintain the collection. "It would…
The Montreal-based touring company Le Patin Libre is "not interested in putting contemporary dance on ice, but in doing with skating what 20th-century modern art movements have done with oth…
"Few men in America are as popular among American men as Joe Rogan. It's a massive group congregating in plain sight, and it's made up of people you know from high school, guys who work thre…
"I understand that this is a live-theater town. Parents move to this school district just to get their kids in front of a director to potentially get cast as Meg. The JV boys haven't had new…
Okay, they didn't win every single prize there was at the annual honors for science fiction (men won for the best film and television scripts, for instance), but female creators took home th…
"When Franklin died, at age 76, her family believed she had no will. Under Michigan law, that meant her estate would be divided equally among her sons. … But Franklin's case is especially …
"In a 5-0 decision, the appeals court rejected artists' contentions that the limits covering Central Park south of 86th Street, Battery Park, High Line Park and Union Square Park violated th…
The lockout began in May because there has been no musicians' contract since January and management, which wants to end the orchestra's year-round status and shut down during the summers, de…
The "anchor institution approach" for nonprofits " using their purchasing decisions, hiring, and other business practices to actively affect their communities' economic well-being, especiall…
"Madeline Gins and her husband, Shusaku Arakawa (who went only by his last name), 1960s New York conceptual artists and amateur architects who are regarded as a bridge between the Dada and F…
"No one set out to turn the airwaves into a political weapon " much less deputize talk-radio hosts as the ideological enforcers of a major American political party. Instead the story of how …
As the Pew Research Center finds in a new survey, there's been a sharp increase in dissatisfaction with America's colleges and universities among Republicans in recent years, and it makes pe…
The music booms as people enter the rallies, and then candidates take the stage to a "walk-up" song that can become associated with their platforms. The New York Times analyzed playlists use…
Feinstein has been unique in advocating for this music not only onstage and via albums but also through his books, PBS specials and NPR broadcasts, plus his Great American Songbook Foundatio…
