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The chamber orchestra is known for its low ticket prices; half go for $15 or less. That's partly thanks to two programs: With a Netflix-style membership, people can pay just $9 a month to at…
Kim's appointment doesn't just bring a musician of obvious artistry and interpersonal gifts to the company. The hiring of an Asian woman is also a historic advance for diversity, a badly nee…
The Director of Classical and New Music Programs oversees Kennedy Center Classical and New Music Programs
We watch the dancers from close up and on all sides, our proximity enhanced by the magic of 3-D. The elegance of the cinematography (by Mko Malkhasyan) turns these passages into the stanzas …
"This proposal would eliminate cultural diversity, which stems from freedom " which means artists are not kept on a political leash," Budapest mayor Gergely Karacsony said. The Hungarian The…
More Irish singers are being heard in more varied roles than at any other stage in my professional lifetime. Irish works are being taken abroad. The company has been rewarded with internatio…
"The Irishman," released on Netflix on Nov. 27, is expected to be watched by about 40 million Netflix households in its first month, Sarandos said. That would be well below other Netflix hit…
"(Literature) should not be reduced to politics, obviously, because human experience is more than politics. But also, human experience is never without politics." " Toronto Star
In the early years of the 16th century, Pope Julius II had initiated renovations when it became clear that the ancient basilica, completed around AD 360 on the site believed to be St Peter's…
A new class action lawsuit, filed Friday in California Superior Court and announced in a press advisory Monday, argues that the Walt Disney Company, worth approximately $130 billion as of th…
NPR has kept speaking with many voices that would sound out of place on the air anywhere else. Many, if not most, have been female. As hosts and anchors, correspondents and reporters, women …
There is an ever-increasing fear that smaller publishing houses may be put out of business as a result of potential changes to requirements surrounding distribution of literary materials. " …
The scene comes from Avengers: Endgame, when Thanos says "I am inevitable" and snaps his fingers in an attempt to destroy all existing life in the Universe, only to discover his gauntlet no …
The Getty Foundation is looking for an internationally recognized Associate Director professional, who is a demonstrated leader in academic art history, museum practice, or conservation.
Ten years ago the Seattle Symphony was badly broken. Miraculously, a new leadership team emerged, the orchestra chased reinvention and its fortunes soared. Now that leadership has departed a…
The Clint Eastwood film looks at the media circus that broke out around Jewell, a security guard who came under suspicion for orchestrating the Centennial Olympic Park bombing before being e…
Bettina Korek, who currently runs the Californian outpost of the Frieze art fair, will start work in March and team up with the gallery's artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist in time for nex…
Services like Spotify and Apple Music can't just upload whatever music they'd like. Legal disputes, sample clearance issues " when permission can't be obtained for the use of part of a song …
Intellectuals, in order to be able "to speak the truth and expose lies" must understand how ideology works in the form of official institutions and everyday life. Ideological analysis is not…
Umberto Eco: "Are there universal ways in which people react to beauty? No, because beauty is detachment, absence of passion. Ugliness, by contrast, is passion." " LitHub
It seems irresponsible or perverse to reject the idea that there is a Crisis of Truth. No time now for judicious reflection; what's needed is a full-frontal attack on the Truth Deniers. But …
Sebastien Smee: "What happened to "Comedian" after it became a media sensation sums up our collective disorder " a kind of media-based bulimia " exquisitely. First, at lunchtime on Saturday,…
The Austrian writer's win in October has proved highly controversial, with politicians and writers lining up to condemn his denial of Serb atrocities during the war in the former Yugoslavia,…
"This year will be remembered as a transitional one for American theater, as a new generation of leaders settled in at some of the nation's top nonprofits, including Washington's Woolly Mamm…
Giuseppe Verdi's last two operas, the Shakespearean diptych of Otello and Falstaff, together constitute my favorite case study in what happens when a play is made to stand up and sing. Both …
