This comes after its longtime artistic director, Burgess Clark, resigned and was then accused of sexual misconduct by many former students. The theatre has canceled its holiday production an…
When Maar died at 89, Le Monde forgot to give her an obit until 10 days later, and The Independent said she'd be remembered forever as Picasso's muse and his Weeping Woman. Now the photograp…
Baltimore Museum of Art Christopher Bedford: "This how you raise awareness and shift the identity of an institution. …You don't just purchase one painting by a female artist of color and h…
Mary-Louise Parker, of Fried Green Tomatoes, Weeds, and Angels in America fame, has returned to Broadway in a play that requires her to be onstage (and speaking) for the entire 90-minute spa…
Or actually, from the birds. Composer Diane Moser: "My goal was to become a member of their band, so to speak. I listened deeply to their singing, and carefully infiltrated their ensemble." …
Brightman first published an acclaimed biography of Mary McCarthy, and edited the letters between Hannah Arendt and McCarthy, before she started to become fascinated by the world of the Grat…
Or at least that's the warning right now. Bristol Old Vic's artistic director Tom Morris: "It is harder to make shows that are specific to your audience, though it doesn't mean it's impossib…
Erin Morgenstern's second book debuted at number three on the bestseller list after she spent years working on her sophomore venture. How did she work, especially after the events of 2016? S…
Sore throat? All the time. Bored with what you're reading? No doubt. Even when it's your own work. And let's not talk about the difference between words authors know how to write and words a…
Kara Swisher has been writing about companies and the internet for even longer than Disney has been trying to figure out how to deal with the contemporary world. Swisher: "Forget the dashing…
There's a bit of a problem: At least one study has shown that we remember less about the places and things we photograph. Going outside can combat our phone addictions and calm our brains �…
Goldin joined another group at the protest: "About 30 protesters arrived at the recently redesigned £2m entrance in Kensington, London, and placed bottles of pills and 'Oxy dollar' bills …
There are festivals just about all of the time now, and that means there's waste. "Garbage has long been the uncomfortable fallout of the festival world, and as these gatherings multip…
But, he says, it was worth getting the info about the U.S's WWII Japanese American camps into wider view. And he explains he'd invite all of his colleagues from Star Trek to dinner with him …
On the agenda for Tuesday's Los Angeles Supervisors board meeting: Having the L.A. Philharmonic take over the outdoor Ford Theatre. According to the supervisor who made the proposal, "It is …
Well: "That depends on how much you value your time " and what you expect of art in the age of Instagram. The smartphone, with its ever-finer cameras and ever-shinier screens, now shapes our…
Apparently, it's not the money. There's diplomacy, there's prestige, and there's the desire of areas of the world " China definitely included " to be seen as supporting Western classical mus…
Seriously, it seems to be almost a new genre. "These performances were rendered with a disarming, self-interrupting casualness, suggesting a happy ham at home among friends. And they often d…
But is it worthy? The sculpture started out with the name "We're No. #1" and moved to, uh, "Unity," a little less focused on the longstanding animosity between Brooklyn and Manhattan. "Perha…
Vijay Seshadri, who became poetry editor for the legendary literary magazine in August, says that going through the Review's slush pile is invigorating. "You kind of feel that something new …
Holly Mulcahy hasn't performed with the orchestra since April because of a contract dispute " a dispute so intense that one board member has resigned over it. That board member, film compose…
Was it kids? Maybe, if they truly love music. It was shiny, with a ton " a ton " of celebrity appearances, as befits, well, a show that's on HBO. That's a problem: "The celebration is also s…
Imagine photographing the people lining the streets for 28 different parades in the U.S. " in 2016. "The very existence of each group portrait produces an illusion of unity, as if the people…
The director says, "At the end of the day, what we really want people to know is the movie is about love and friendship, the veterans that served in the Vietnam War and especially the dogs t…
She's at the intersection of race, gender, and social media. "Kim's particular fame derives from a cherished place in the American racial imagination that, combined with wealth, prevents con…