Something about the symmetry, the light, and the postures of the figures in the room turned ordinary people into art historians who were captivated by the strength of the composition. "The j…
"It's controversial in Russia to reconstruct ballets " original Russian ballets " but on the notation that was removed from Russia. In recent years, "La Bayadère" has raised questions over …
It's called a "slow fire," this continuous acidification and subsequent embrittlement of paper that was created with the seeds of its own ruin in its very fibers. In a 1987 documentary on th…
"I've talked to people who feel they know Bach very well, but they aren't aware of the time he was imprisoned for a month. They never learned about Bach pulling a knife on a fellow musician …
For music fans, the news last Thursday that WNYC will end New Sounds, a show hosted by John Schaefer since its debut in 1982, has provoked a deep sense of mourning and nostalgia for both the…
Mr. Jencks was an architectural historian who, with a landmark book, put himself at the forefront of the debate over what architecture should do. " The New York Times
The conventional wisdom on curtain times has long been broken, and it's proving beneficial to producers and audience. More show-by-show tinkering can only continue to evolve theatregoing pra…
Some see other current trends"the conversion of old structures, the blurring of boundaries between disciplines, the increasing move of visual artists into performance, the popular interest i…
"When what we listen to is all based on algorithms, you're fed things that will already fit your taste. My intention with the show was always to make it like a series of doors. You could pee…
Given how long we've relied on the work of critics on film, music, food, and much else besides, as well as the ever-increasing relevance of cities in our lives, it's time we recognised city …
Los Angeles Ballet is seeking an individual with a minimum of 5 years of experience as a controller, preferably for nonprofit arts institutions.
Los Angeles Ballet is seeking an experienced, energetic arts administrator with demonstrable leadership qualities.
"You mistook him for no one else: the late, popular style was a faded fan, but it was still recognizably Bloom's old peacockery. The leaping links, hieratic cross-referencing, and amusingly …
According to the domain brokerage GoDaddy, the five most expensive publicly-reported domain names are CarInsurance.com " $49.7m; Insurance.com " $35.6m; VacationRentals.com " $35m; PrivateJe…
Fifty years have passed since 17 October 1969, but Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence remains one of the world's most sought-after works of stolen a…
Specifically, the company's revenues were $37.58 million with expenses at $36.17 million, which resulted in a surplus of $1.41 million. The figures represent a 4 percent operating surplus. "…
Guzelimian is currently provost of Juilliard and was Ojai's artistic director for five years in the 1990s. He succeeds Chad Smith, recently appointed CEO of the LA Philharmonic. Smith has be…
Beginning Nov. 1, Macmillan Publishers, one of the so-called Big Five publishing companies in North America, will only allow libraries to purchase one copy of each new e-book for the firs…
Video games are practically the national pastime, played by the majority of adults and more than 90% of adolescents. Rising concerns over the effects of games on mental health have been met …
Brett Stephens: "We live in an age that is losing the capacity to distinguish art from ideology and artists from politics. "I'm standing at my garden gate and there are 50 journalists," Hand…
These immersive experiences are branded as exhibits, but that might be where the link to traditional museums ends. The companies are, after all, for-profit businesses that sell experiences t…
Cultures seemed to build up their color vocabularies in a predictable way. Languages with only two color categories chunked the spectrum into blacks and whites. Languages with three categori…
Harold Bloom "read like a man picking up crumbs with a moistened index finger. He often considered loneliness in literature. You felt he was attracted to loneliness as a theme for the same r…
The four were forced to sign a document agreeing to deportation, Marta Carrasco said. She said Customs told her group, "If you don't sign, you will not be allowed to enter the U.S. for five …
"Previous generations had a signature style, and it's easier to label," says Mark Lee, seated before a wall of printed renderings in his firm's cluttered West L.A. studio. "Our generation wa…