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Or, more specifically, that is Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who is singing Tristan in Boston: "You can never get rid of it. It is always there, stuck in your brain."
Just whoa: "Alexander Calder, who famously rejected the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 as a form of protest against the Vietnam War, would be extremely surprised to learn that the con…
This is a serious technology question: "With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus…
Cecil Taylor Is Gone Cecil Taylor, a pianist who fashioned his music from myriad styles and sources, died yesterday in New York. He was 89. From his earliest recordings in the mid-1950s with…
Wilson's assemblages, she said, only told a story (to her, at least) when she put them together, and she didn't plan the story ahead of time. "Inside the home garage that was long ago conver…
As agencies try to get into the production business during this time of streaming, not everyone is excited by the multi-tentacled operations. "The Writers Guild of America sounded an alarm i…
Thirteen years after a different court turned down the heirs' claims, the judge in this case "rejected the idea that Mr. Grunbaum had voluntarily transferred the artworks during his lifetime…
The discussion of modernist poet Lola Ridge spurs a call to arms, or rather to pens: "Gender is part of who gets remembered. In 2015, 71.7 percent of biographies were about men and 31 per ce…
The details of the Academy of Motion Pictures' restoration of the old May Company building, now the Saban building, are pretty cool: "Taking apart the steel windows uncovered a bit of archit…
Constance Zimmer, who just directed an episode of UnReal: "I saw Greta Gerwig [an Oscar nominee for her directorial debut of Lady Bird] on a panel recently and she said, 'When it's your firs…
The dean of the school said, "It is in the times that are most challenging that we, as artists, must engage the world with our greatest passion, clarity and forward-thinking vision. ... To b…
The director of (most recently) Isle of Dogs has affected not only other movies but also everything about our visual world, including Instagram and much more: "He has had a boggling influenc…
This is a fine, nuanced, complex piece of writing. For example: "How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped crea…
From an interview published this year: "Dictators are always afraid of poets. This seems kind of weird to a lot of Americans to whom poets are not political beings, but it doesn't seem a bit…
Are Indiana Jones and Lara Croft really meant to inspire kids to go into archaeology? "Although the character of Indiana Jones arguably raised the profile of archaeology as a whole, and Lara…
The London version of the smash hit already raked in a record-breaking 13 nominations. Can it beat last year's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which broke records with nine wins last year?
The lead of this piece sums up the issues, really: "For four years after she left Grey's Anatomy, Sandra Oh waited. She waited for offers to come in, juicy scripts that could come alive in t…
She mentored Common, inspired Kanye West, and won three Grammys for her own spoken word poetry. "Angelou saw hip-hop's innate connection to the tradition of poetry. When asked whether she th…
Who can afford to be an art historian, or a curator? "The Brooklyn Museum job was advertised as a part-time position for a limited period. 'It goes without saying that for many, this kind of…
Bochco also created "LA Law" and "NYPD Blue." His "boundary-pushing methods as a producer could make some network executives skittish. But they often deferred to him and were ultimately rewa…
But what does that mean for their art - and who owns it? "Astute artists are using Instagram to connect with their fanbase in ways they couldn't before. Earlier this year, it became clear th…
The poet, who wrote for many years in obscurity, "kept small stacks of paper in every room of the farmhouse " just in case. She wrote whenever the rhymes blossomed: sometimes in the middle o…
This is a fun interview with a true New York actor: "What's been the biggest surprise? "Becoming a successful actress. Never in my wildest dreams. I waitressed for a gazillion years and then…
Students aren't supposed to have "unauthorized absences," but what could be more authorized than students taking school-approved dance, music, theatre and other arts exams? Apparently, a lot…
What else is there to say? (Quite a lot, but - ) "'Everyone thinks anyone can replicate a Jackson Pollock painting,' said private conservator Chris Stavroudis, recalling a Three Stooges bit …
