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O'Connor is now as canonical as Faulkner and Welty. More than a great writer, she's a cultural figure: a funny lady in a straw hat, puttering among peacocks, on crutches she likened to "flyi…
With the cost of tickets ranging from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars, calling for ticket donations is a strategy many performing arts organizations are using to stay afloat amid coro…
Navaretta was not an artist herself, nor a gallery owner, but she was a quiet force on the art scene in New York and beyond. In the early 1970s she was immersed in various efforts by women t…
George Balanchine rightly said that watching dance on TV was like reading about a murder in a newspaper"a poor approximation of the terror of the real event. And, for all its offerings, the …
Despite current rules limiting bars and clubs from opening to the public, the live comedy club Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side held an invite-only show for professional comics on Wednesda…
The takeover would have created North America's largest chain of movie theaters to better compete with AMC Entertainment. It would have added 165 cinemas to Cineworld's existing 786 sites an…
The five protesters were stopped before they could leave the Quai Branly Museum with the artwork. They were detained for questioning, and the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigatio…
"We're not going to be able to create this perfect simulacra of running around getting drinks with friends and having conversations in line." But, watching films with hundreds of others, wit…
"Social isolation has given me the clear stretch of time that Descartes says is required to do philosophy. Teaching has been cancelled or moved online; birthday parties have been abandoned; …
Over the past week, some fans said that they had decided to simply walk away from the world that spans seven books, eight movies and an ever-expanding franchise. Others said that they were t…
The kind of music you listen to while running matters when it comes to synchronisation. Runners who put on their earphones when they exercise tend to synchronise their pace to what they're l…
In an email sent to managers and performers reported by Music Business Worldwide, BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch said the label was "mindful of the shameful treatment of black artists", and would be…
In order to divert those of you who, like me, are sticking close to home these days, I've been posting images of some of the prints and paintings that hang on the walls of the Manhattan apar…
King Vidor and William Wyler are interviewed about their work as film directors in an undated British telecast from the Fifties:Â
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-rel…
"But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat"it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice 'at the closing of t…
Over the past few months, with live performances canceled or on hold, dance artists have been mobilizing on multiple fronts to transform flawed and outdated systems. The Dance Artists' Natio…
The currency of fame has always been deeply unstable. But, with movie theatres and live venues closed and the devices in our pockets quickly becoming our primary media machines, it can feel …
The dealer, who operated galleries in London and Miami, has been the subject of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Major Theft Task Force/Art Crime Team in New Y…
Kain claims she never imagined herself becoming the National Ballet's artistic director. In this she is in a minority of one. After hanging up her pointe shoes in the fall of 1998 Kain accep…
Even in Europe, which has a reputation for generous governmental arts subsidies, midsize ensembles have found it difficult to support their musicians. " The New York Times
"The south supposedly lost the civil war. There is an overused cliche which suggests that the winners write history. Is this true? If it is, then why do all these relics of the losing side s…
Attracting visitors was not the problem Emilie Gordenker thought she'd be facing when she became director of one of Amsterdam's most popular museums in February. A profile in the Dutch natio…
"It's not a festival in the same way a live festival is, since the conditions are completely different, our ability to present work in so many of the ways we normally do is nonexistent, our …
The episode in question " originally broadcast in 1975 and called The Germans " is renowned for featuring John Cleese's deeply awkward and rude hotel owner demanding that his staff "don't me…
"I'm very convinced that people after this are more hungry for intellectual and artistic inspiration than before. So the wrong approach, I think, is to do a populist approach to the arts ind…
