The answer, students say, is absolutely yes " and the #MeToo movement hasn't yet begun to filter through many conservatory halls. "Over the past year, The Atlantic talked to more than …
They're not at all the same " and the internet is more distracting from books than TV is " but: "As with classic unread novels, certain TV shows have begun to carry with them a hint of oblig…
Well, this is interesting. As the series gets closer and closer to the present, perhaps some members of the Royal Family have expressed strong displeasure. One wonders. In any case: The role…
Sure, there's been a lot of buzz around this Ivan van Hove production, with new choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. But: "There's another buzz gathering around the show"and not becau…
All 56 of her books were bestsellers, according to her publisher. "In her memoir, Kitchen Privileges (2002), Ms. Higgins Clark described herself in her younger years as 'aching, yearning, bu…
Serkin, who "was descended from storied musical lineages on both sides of his family," seemed at an early age destined to follow their path. But he found the expectation a burden, and went o…
Liz Garbus and Todd Phillips both won Sundance awards for documentaries in 1998, and they've both been working filmmakers ever since. But Phillips is about to go to the Oscars with an obscen…
Though we're not sure why they would, considering the book's sales, Slate takes a gander at what publishers are saying about #ownvoices books. Or, well, they're not; they mostly seem to thin…
DirecTV must have seemed like a good deal in 2015. Now, it's absolutely hemorhagging subscribers " nearly 3 million last year alone. It's been a dizzying fall. "DirecTV was an invention of H…
Feldman took the classic doily craft and turned it into fashion and art. She sold her creations mostly "at Studio Del, a boutique she opened in 1965 on East Seventh Street in Manhattan's Eas…
It's not an easy line to walk, and there's a question of how far back they should go to "restore" the original work. Now, some conservation studios are also starting to work with contemporar…
So this is how Great Britain's time in the EU ends, not with a bang, but … "Edward Gregson, the British composer charged by Radio 4's PM programme with the tricky task of composing a piece…
Alexa Maxwell is the girlfriend of Amar Ramasar, the dancer who was fired, and then rehired, by City Ballet for his role in sharing nude photos and videos of dancers " including Maxwell. "'I…
While Disney wants to "integrate" Hulu into its own streaming services operations, Hulu isn't going anywhere " yet. "Hulu, known for original series such as the Emmy-winning The Handmaid's T…
A couple of ideas: Give more to regions, and have the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera tour the entire nation. " The Guardian (UK)
This series of unstaged performances of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust was an accident " they were meant to be seven fully-staged performances. But what a happy accident, and what the Met c…
Australia's Aboriginal poets had some ideas as Australia Day " or #InvasionDay, as it's known by many on social media " fever hit the country over the weekend. Problem: "Australia is the onl…
Can any other film win the Oscar? Doubtful. "The strongest best-picture spoiler is likely Parasite, the South Korean thriller that prevailed at the Screen Actors Guild Awards thi…
Of course, it was for the sequel to the young adult rom-com To All the Boys I've Loved Before, and of course, the place was packed with superfans who could answer obscure trivia questions an…
He's not a big fan of artistic cowardice. "As far as I'm concerned, it's all about the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. End of. To get to that, you have to go in close, unco…
Tom Huizenga explains opera to NPR listeners: "It's one of the most complicated art forms because, if you think about it: you've got drama, you've got music, you've got singing, you've got c…
The other things Schoonmaker, who is nominated for the eighth time for an Oscar for The Irishman, says, have more to do with Netflix as a studio, and the long experience of trying to get the…
Keys was not playing the "sweep this mess under carpet for the awards show" game: "I't's a new decade,' she said. 'It's time for newness. And we refuse the negative energy. We refuse the old…
The answer seems obvious, and it seems like it must be no. And yet, says a (supposedly) liberal and progressive architect who recently agreed to work with the homophobic and environmentally …
When the actor playing Lady Macduff injured her knee a few minutes into a performance at the Watermill Theatre in England, the production stopped " until a woman who toured nationally as Lad…