In Europe, there were no immediate cancellations of the 78-year-old Domingo's performances and even some words of support for the star. Opera world officials noted that no charges had been b…
"Nothing but the world outside the human one." Alastair Macaulay offers an analysis (if that's the right word for a Cunningham piece) of the 1958 work Summerspace. " The New York Times
Everyone had an opinion about what Kanye did. The VMAs were viewed by 11 million people that year, though the crush of coverage after the fact was more comparable to that of a Super Bowl, wh…
It's not only because so many people learn them as second or third languages. Recent research has indicated that, even when a language is new or developing, it has to have simple rules in or…
"Today, the forces of entertainment marketing, social media and grievance culture are increasingly colliding, with the casualty being the movies themselves. Why wait to actually see "The Iri…
"The Royal Exchange is one of Manchester's best known theatres, the venue resembling a lunar landing craft located inside The Great Hall on St Ann's Square. … The Den is a lightweight, 180…
"Americans have made a political investment in a myth of racial separateness, the idea that art forms can be either 'white' or 'black' in character … This country's music is an advertiseme…
Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus Attucks, the first American to die in the Revolutionary War; Jesmyn Ward on the 1808 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves; Darryl Pinckney on the Emancipation Pr…
Among the items imported from the People's Republic that will be subject to import duties as of Sept. 1 are "paintings, drawings, engraving, prints and lithographs, sculptures and statuary o…
"The allegations against Jamie Thomas, Indiana's personal caretaker since 2013 and a longtime island associate, are included in a counterclaim by Indiana's estate" in response to a complicat…
"Their art was not only a response to Brown's death. It was also a way to bring understanding to issues that had angered and oppressed African Americans for generations." A package looking a…
"Five LGBTQ channels have joined together for the suit, which alleges that YouTube has discriminated against them by hiding their videos, removing subscribers, and denying advertising. They …
In a 4-3 decision that's likely to satisfy no one, the board elected to cover the Life of Washington mural without destroying it. The estimated cost: $875,000. Wouldn't that money be better …
"Some scholars herald artificial moral advisors as vast improvements over morally frail humans, as presenting the best opportunity for avoiding the extinction of human life from our own hand…
Manson had three primary lures: LSD, sex, and music. But music, and its power to unite a community of outsiders and misfits, remains the least-examined weapon in his arsenal. " The New Yorker
Alex Ross: "A master of late-Romantic opulence, Korngold shaped the sonic texture of Golden Age Hollywood. To say that his work sounds like movie music is an elementary fallacy, a confusion …
Mark Swed: "The ramifications are considerable. If proved true, the allegations would be a tragic ending to one of the great careers in the history of opera, a tenor and now baritone who has…
"In Sub-Saharan Africa, … 'book fairs' have been publishing industry affairs where players meet to do deals … away from the reading public. Until recently. In the last decade and a half,…
Just hours after an AP story featured allegations of sexual harassment against the opera superstar, and shortly after the Philadelphia Orchestra disinvited him from its season-opening gala n…
The company, which will "retain outside counsel" to look into the accusations, said in a statement that Domingo "has been a dynamic creative force in the life of LA Opera and the artistic cu…
In a 4-to-3 vote, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to reverse its earlier decision to paint over the series of 13 Victor Arnautoff frescoes, collectively titled The Life of Washing…
Reflecting on the contretemps over the Life of Washington murals at a San Francisco high school as well as the decision by one small Northern California museum to sell much of its art and an…
Of those 70,000, 12,000 signed up in the first week alone. "Cardholders at the Brooklyn, New York and Queens public libraries can gain free admission through the program at participating cul…
"A self-described 'instinctive scholar,' Takis" " né Panayiotis Vassilakis " "worked primarily in plaster and wrought iron before becoming fascinated by magnetism, electricity and sound " a…
Joshua Kosman: "Here's my request for today to creators of contemporary opera: How would it be if we had a new work that did not turn on a female character sacrificing herself to redeem a ma…