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The past two years have been busy in the theatre, with non-operatic roles, some time in Carousel, and currently in The Light in the Piazza. " The Guardian
Once ivory towers of culture, far removed from politics and controversy, museums have increasingly come into the spotlight as sites of protest and places where equity, diversity, and inclusi…
He was all about the lavish set. At their best, his productions induced gasps. But ultimately, these stagings were not just singer- and conductor-proof. They were drama-proof, almost like a …
Ginsburg got a standing ovation when her famous line about women on the Supreme Court was said by a cast member: "When will there be enough women on the court? My answer is, when…
"We are able to empathise with nonhuman characters or intelligent machines in human-made fiction because they have been conceived by other human beings from the only subjective perspective a…
The purchase, by Mr. Drahi's BidFair USA, returns the only publicly traded major auction house to private ownership after 31 years on the New York Stock Exchange. " The New York Times
While the financial deals carved out by Christie's with buyers, sellers and third-party guarantors (one of whom is often thought to be the firm's owner itself, François Pinault) remain a …
"I remember more experienced writers telling me that I should say yes to every opportunity until I had earned the privilege to say no. But hope is both a strength and a weakness; it takes ti…
The proposal would mean the EIF has taken a 19.4% cut in its funding since 2015/16. EIF director Fergus Linehan questioned the lack of a strategic plan for the festival, which took £3.8 m…
Data compiled by Doug Risner, a professor of dance at Wayne State University in Detroit, shows that only 32 percent of male dancers have fathers who support their desire to dance. Typically,…
Financial documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun and interviews with three of the symphony's key decision-makers reveal that the organization's efforts were predicated on the thinnest of ma…
A whole host of Stirling Prize-winning architecture practices have declared an emergency in response to accelerating climate change. Calling for a "paradigm shift", they unveiled 11…
"The museumification process of a living cultural landscape and the consequences of the loss of ancestral knowledge in managing water, agriculture, sustainable production and occupation of t…
There's an idea in vogue that if an artist or writer can just talk to enough different people about their experiences in the city, they can give us a clear vision of San Francisco as it is n…
The distinction is critical: Whereas addiction is something people experience mostly as individuals, social norms are shared mental states shaped by the views and beliefs of other members of…
The Cuban government, which regularly arrests artists and journalists, also expected to welcome a record-breaking 5.1 million tourists this year. Cuba's leaders are well aware that cultural …
In the past 10 years, northern and Indigenous music has been winning over bigger and bigger audiences, and some artists have leveraged that into international recognition. But the cost…
Mac made every recording session, every gig, and every musical encounter better just by being there. He knew what to add. He knew what to subtract. He brought the best out of everyone in the…
"In the era of Donald Trump " and YouTube " the most fevered version of the case against postmodernism has become increasingly visible. That is, the claim that a coalition of critical theori…
The most common theory is that the 500-year-old artwork is sitting in storage in Switzerland " specifically in Geneva, where, according to The New York Times, more than a million works of…
Burning Man organizers had proposed raising the current 80,000 limit as high as 100,000 in coming years. But the Bureau of Land Management said in releasing the final environmental impact st…
The critics sometimes found his work overstuffed, with more attention paid to décor than to human beings. But audiences ate it up for decades. " The New York Times
"When satire is doing a good job, it's not just punching up. It's reminding us of our complicity." But there's no double meaning in outrage: "Outrage tells you, 'Here is the thing, here is t…
"His personality isn't so different from one of those determined entrepreneurs from the 1900s who wanted to stick a motor on a carriage and get people moving without having to hitch a horse.…
Across Britain and Ireland indies are doing what they do best: hosting readings and signings, cooking up literary lunches and generally feeding curiosity. Bookshop crawls are quite the thing…
