As the pandemic has wiped out all cultural programming at Lincoln Center for months, Moss has been thinking harder about something she'd been considering long before Covid-19 hit the city. S…
Lionel Shriver, who is sixty-three, thinks people are ridiculous for congratulating themselves on enduring quarantine, when the worst is yet to come. "This is not the bad part," she said. " …
To live is to encounter the tragic " a reality shot through with utter strife, and covered in complete darkness. Despite our best attempts, we are not going to get out of it. For philosopher…
Melbourne Writers Festival seeks a creative and visionary Artistic Director to curate and deliver its annual festivals in 2021"2023.
Over the years, the blockbuster has been frequently called into question, and with good reason. Do these shows really serve our audiences or do they just pander to the crowd in order to attr…
The current crisis has turned the industry's cracks into chasms, exposing the ways in which it fails its workers almost by design. It has also raised the question of what restaurants will lo…
"In our first performance one of our actors froze in the middle of her big solo. But, fortunately, we had planned for and built that into the piece, so what we did is skip to the next cue, a…
"At the Paris Opéra, there were many colleagues to deal with and only the institution's most successful composers had enough clout to impose their will on a piece. It makes sense that Verdi…
Today the more relevant split is the more recent one between modern and contemporary fields (the latter has no exact date of origin"1968, 1980, 1989?), which is a schism less between the uni…
That's what Uruguayans are doing with Carrasco International Airport near Montevideo. The movies, screened every evening, range from The Lion King and Sonic the Hedgehog to Bohemian Rhapsody…
Before the coronavirus hit, the Met was going to perform a new co-production of the opera this spring at BAM. David Patrick Stearns went online to revisit the original Opera Philadelphia pro…
"I want stuff that has not been made in response to the pandemic, that would exist if we weren't all in the same boat. Or things I know I won't have time for once the real world begins to ma…
Here, for instance, are the rules for dance class at the Ballet du Rhin in France: "Dancers are not allowed to use changing rooms. Instead, they must go directly to the studio and stand at a…
For Kramer, who died at age 84 in Manhattan on Wednesday, not speaking up was a signal of a dishonorable combination " of cowardice, willful blindness and greed. He was constitutionally inca…
"As most American theaters have pared down their offerings to a mix of Zoom readings, artist conversations, and archival streams, Seacoast Rep, in Portsmouth, N.H., has been web-casting new …
"It is 46 years old, weighs nearly four pounds in paperback and is about as ill-suited for the internet age as they come: The book is not even available for digital readers. And yet, in cert…
"That's right: the chief curator of the 2022 Bucharest Biennial is Jarvis, an artificial intelligence program in development from the Vienna-based studio Spinnwerk. … Jarvis will 'use deep…
"Mrs. Dew emerged in the early 1980s as part of a group of prominent female novelists that included her friends Louise Erdrich, Anne Tyler and Nancy Thayer, a onetime neighbor in Williamstow…
"The European Commission announced an ambitious seven-year budget yesterday to bail out the EU's 27 member states from the economic impact of COVID-19, but culture representatives say it fai…
Earlier this month, 11 artists from a collective called the Consortium of Postartistic Practices carried a 46-foot-long letter about 1¼ miles to the Parliament building in Warsaw as lawma…
Ahmed Elgammal, director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers: "Can an artificially intelligent machine be an artist in its own right? My answer is no. While the defi…
"Police arrested CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his crew on air early Friday during a live broadcast in Minneapolis, as they covered riots sparked by George Floyd's death, sparking intense …
In today's Wall Street Journal, I review a webcast from Chicago of TimeLine Theatre's 2013 revival of To Master the Art, a play about Julia Child. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * As t…
"A Dream Comes True: The Making of an Unusual Motion Picture," a promotional featurette for Max Reinhardt's 1935 Hollywood screen version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This …
They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly. But, bear-like, I must fight the course. William Shakespeare, Macbeth Continue reading Almanac: Shakespeare on despair at About Last Night.