With its improvisational spirit, jazz has vastly influenced
classical and pop music. But it's less often noted that quite a few
visual artists have been inspired by jazz, from Henri Matisse …
What can two DC artistic directors – separated by more than twenty years of producing experience – learn from one another? Â Long time producer, Martin Blank of American Ensemb…
Gil Cates, the founder and producing director of the Geffen Playhouse, died on Monday at age 77. Protestors at Occupy LA have created art on two large wooden fences that the city has built t…
English National Ballet's rehearsals alongside the Tate's Picasso show will be fun " but they cannot illuminate his complex attitudes to danceEnglish National Ballet are to take up residence…
The following cryptic and intriguing press release reminded me that Art Gallery owners sometimes don't really know what's in store when they contract an Artist to present a new show o…
German art forgers who fooled a number of collectors, including actor Steve Martin, have been sentenced to a total of 15 years in jail. A previously unknown painting by Velazquez meets the …
Tony award-winning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton talks about her work and her two pieces in Lincoln Center's upcoming White Light Festival: "Necessary Weather" and "Spectral Scriabin."Â…
Tony award-winning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton talks about her work and her two pieces in Lincoln Center's upcoming White Light Festival: "Necessary Weather" and "Spectral Scriabin."Â…
It takes a really refined actor to get away with mischief onstage, and at the Studio Theatre Ted van Griethuysen is offering not one but two sly turns " both as the irascible British poet W.…
Previewing in Glasgow before its premiere proper at New York's Performa biennial next week, this piece by the Danish-Norwegian conceptual art duo Elmgreen & Dragset blurs the line between pe…
When Brett Sheehy, Melbourne Festival artistic director, launched his program earlier this year at a lavishly corporate event, he announced that the themes of this year's festival were "…
Damian Cote, Notice: There will be no parade for this warIt was somehow culturally telling that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 became a national obsession - while the same anniversary p…
The Art House in Provincetown, MA will present four special shows this holiday season.
Steven Brinberg will star in Simply Barbra over Thanksgiving weekend (November 25 and 26 at 7:30pm). A…
Photo by Tyler HubbyParty Favor by Ed Ruscha
In a way, every wedding is a multimedia theatrical production. Each detail is managed, choreographed, and rehearsed; from rings, to cakes,…
The 1960s collages that sent two young writers to prison remind us that in today's Britain, no real dissident art is possibleIn May 1962 a pair of would-be writers were each sentenced to six…
Bill Cosby, Chita Rivera and Mark Nadler were the headline performers of Laugh, Sing, Dance!, a benefit for Art Start at Town Hall, Thursday, October 13.
Art Start is an organization that a…
