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A sting of Robert Altman films in the 1970s made her into a major movie star with a Best Actress win at Cannes. Then came Kubrick's The Shining, a physically and emotionally grueling film sh…
"Researchers discovered the breakfast area within the ruins [of Hadrian's Villa east of Rome], and it reveals how the emperor and his wife began each day with an impressive display of power.…
Anthony Tommasini: "[The format] locks them into standard-issue, week-after-week programs loaded with the classics and sprinkled, at best, with unusual or new choices. … Why can't orchestr…
"Museum of Contemporary Art Director Klaus Biesenbach will take on a new role as artistic director … [and] will focus on programming, collections and exhibitions, international and digital…
"I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did," he told an audience in Austin. "You made that show worthless because without your eyes, it's nothing. And you…
"Adelaide Fringe festival is scrambling to determine how the sudden closure of South Australia's borders to Melbourne residents may affect dozens of its shows. The festival, the second large…
"Since the 1960s, Mr. Corea had been a prolific and dynamic force in music, building on his early training in classical music, Latin jazz and traditional jazz to build an original style that…
In today's Wall Street Journal, I review streaming webcasts of Patrick Page's All the Devils Are Here and the Lantern Theater Company's production of Molly Sweeney. Here's an excerpt.
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Laurence Olivier talks about delivering Shakespearian blank verse in an undated TV clip. Also heard from is John Gielgud:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos…
"It seemed to Graham that he had learned nothing in forty years. He had just gotten tired."
Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Continue reading Almanac: Thomas Harris on middle age at About Last N…
Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS) presents outstanding chamber music in the Pacific Northwest with festivals in January and July and...
Understanding postcritique begins with understanding what has been the dominant mode of interpretation in literary studies for many decades: critique. Critique involves giving an account of …
The modern approach plays out in its new look, which patrons will see on everything from posters outside the box office to tickets to the website and social media. The static typeface of yes…
"Without visible exemplars, many queer women and non-binary people question their own place within the art form. "Growing up, I felt like I was the only one," says Kiara DeNae Felder, a quee…
"When Professor Herbert began delving into Impressionism, the field was threatened by a kind of anemic gentility, arid formalism and French literary theory. His method, by contrast, was to l…
Los Angeles, where the coronavirus pandemic has been particularly severe, is the largest city in the nation whose museums have yet to reopen even temporarily since the pandemic struck last M…
If computers could do literature, they could invent like Wells and Homer, taking over from sci-fi authors to engineer the next utopia-dystopia. And right now, you probably suspect that compu…
Some of the recommendations are both obvious and overdue: no more yellowface/brownface/blackface, hire more diverse choreographers (but classical choreographers, not contemporary or hip-hop …
"Almost nine years ago, two thieves carried out a near-perfect heist at the National Gallery in Athens, taking two works by modern masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, as well as a a ske…
The ancient conch shell was discovered at the site of some cave art in the French Pyrenees back in 1931, when archaeologists figured it must have been some sort of ceremonial cup. Now resear…
In a category that has historically overlooked female directors, this feels like progress. After all, only five women have ever been nominated for the best-director Oscar, and if Zhao, King,…
"The story of breaking's meteoric rise to the Olympic stage " it's set to make its debut at the Paris Summer Games in 2024 " involved an unlikely and reluctant partnership between street-sav…
For several years in the 1950s, starting in 1952, Oscar night featured simultaneous gatherings in Los Angeles and New York. One can imagine something similar happening this year " maybe even…
What you get is writer-performer Kris Andersson's Dixie's Happy Hour, "a 95-minute performance streamed to patrons of 21 arts centers and theaters across the country. … A year into the pan…
Fundraising for the project has been at a virtual standstill for the past two years, since Vancouver's Chan family, headed by Burrard International Holdings founder Caleb Chan, committed $40…
