Among the long-term goals of the agreement are the Hermitage and the National Museum of Oman working together to restore 20 Syrian antiquities, primarily from Palmyra; an international campa…
While it may be the right time for a newer or smaller gallery to try to get into the bigger fairs like FIAC, Frieze and Art Basel, the costs can be almost prohibitive. " The New York Times
It strikes me as strange to mourn a format, particularly when the new format has made storytelling more accessible and widespread than ever before. Virtual reality transcends literacy, langu…
The number of casual ticket resellers appears to be on the rise, Fashion said, and it's his business to know. "It's pretty chill if you think about it: You get to get a ticket for 20 bucks a…
"Sesame Street" was inclusive before anyone really knew what that meant, the first safe space. It is a friend to everyone, which has a lot to do with why it's the first TV show to receive Ke…
Dancers who are already stars in their field, like American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside, have had their photos liked, commented on, and reposted by…
The Rise of Jordan Peterson is not a propaganda film. It's a film about propaganda. It's about the way facts have become helpless in the face of distortive framing. Whereas we once entrusted…
The reconstruction of David Geffen Hall is finally about to happen " for real, this time. A new plan to transform the acoustically and aesthetically challenged auditorium into a more intimat…
Danville's method relies on new reading science. It has roots in an old way of teaching but is based on new cognitive neuroscience research that has revealed how brains process sounds and sy…
Retired journalist John Richards, 96, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 to make sure the "much-abused" punctuation mark was being used correctly. "We, and our many supporters…
The stock photo business is highly competitive, with Getty and its rivals, such as Adobe and Shutterstock, steadily cutting prices to keep market share. Last month, for example, Getty announ…
"After college, I actually wanted to be the mayor of Portland," Thomas Lauderdale recalls, "but working in the campaigns and political fundraising can be so dreary. And the music at those ra…
The Art Basel Miami Beach fair features 269 exhibiting galleries. Nearly two dozen satellite fairs have also sprouted around Miami. Add in pop-up shows, celebrity-studded product rollouts, a…
Justin Davidson: The current scheme, a joint Philharmonic"Lincoln Center project, is relatively modest. The auditorium stays where it is but gets gutted and rebuilt (again). In 2022, the orc…
The collapse of the organization came quickly, just a few weeks after a group of former students accused longtime artistic director Burgess Clark of inappropriate behavior. The explosive all…
According to a new survey commissioned by Primephonic, 34% of the 1,000 Americans surveyed are interested in listening to classical music, but only 16% actually do so. Put another way, on…
Boston Modern Orchestra Project commissioned the winning piece, A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams, which premiered in 2018 in Boston's Jordan Hall with Gil Rose conducting. The annual,…
Housing is such a problem, that it's difficult to think about actually being creative. How long can this last? A first-person account of trying to make it in Oakland. " Harper's
From the 1980s, beginning with the classic Unreliable Memoirs, he published a series of uproarious biographies that charted his journey from dusty Australia to windy Cambridge to grubby Flee…
"A lucid example of the Western music aesthetic versus an indigenous one would be to consider the concert hall experience and that of a powwow. In the concert hall, the quality of the sound …
"The late blooming of Molière's talent, his purported lack of education and culture, his busy agenda, and the lack of manuscripts are among the arguments that triggered a century-long debat…
An intruder forced their way into an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London on 13 November and removed two valuable Rembrandt artworks. Police intervened before the intruder w…
"The problem may not be connectivity itself but rather the way social media turns so much communication into a public performance. We often think of communication as a two-way street. Intima…
ECM is one of the greatest labels in the history of recording. Manfred Eicher, who founded ECM and remains its sole proprietor, has forged a syncretic vision in which jazz and classical trad…
"He first achieved fame as an actor in the anti-establishment revue "Beyond the Fringe," a hit in both London and New York. He went on to win acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his pr…