"A Bosnian-born guitarist and accordionist, [she] brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic [Jewish] ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American audiences through pe…
"Louis Aliot, the right-wing mayor of Perpignan, a city in the south of France, will let four museums begin welcoming visitors once more, effectively disobeying countrywide COVID-19 safety g…
Social distancing is easier outdoors and there's more air circulation, not to mention the fact that, as one director puts it, "Outdoor arts is more accessible because it's in democratic open…
"The Frick Collection will open in the Breuer building as the Frick Madison on March 18, the museum announced on Tuesday, beginning a two-year stay in the Brutalist space while its 1914 Gild…
"The J. Paul Getty Trust initiated the fund, to be officially announced Tuesday, and the California Community Foundation is administering it. Struggling arts organizations with an annual ope…
"Paramount has a screenplay for a new movie, according to court papers. But Alan Schwartz, Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, has been shopping a television series, and has gotten …
Randy Newman sings his own "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" on the BBC in 1971: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wed…
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He wrote the screenplays for a remarkable number of important films: Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, and That Obscure Object of Desire; The Tin Drum; T…
Rereading "Hamlet" after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, I was struck by how fears of insurrection permeate the play. Every age sees itself in Shakespeare's tragedy, but little d…
Spano, 59, is best known for his 20 seasons as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, a position he's leaving in June. Since 2011 he has also been music director of the prestigiou…
Thus far, only a few local music venues have signaled their interest in reopening under present conditions. In a statement on its website, the Washington Nightlife Music Association " a coal…
"The inner voice, which is also an inward-turning voice, tends to linger over negative content. What's more, it can call our attention to processes that run more smoothly in the dark, decons…
Their embrace of internet sales appears to have paid off, allowing them to meet surging demand spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement and the holiday shopping season, cementing the loyal…
The attorney general does not comment on ongoing audits, but Hyperallergic has acquired documents raising questions about board member self-interest and misuse of tax-exempt bonds that nonpr…
In a city that devours restaurants the way diners down hamburgers, Mr. Allen founded and ran not just one successful New York restaurant but two: Joe Allen and Orso, next to each other on We…
"In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine and August von Platen, which amused and disgus…
Used to hiring artists who work as independent contractors in exchange for program or project fees, it's been tough for these small nonprofit arts groups in particular to adapt to AB5, the l…
In the network's motion to dismiss the voting company's defamation lawsuit " which alleges that Fox News and three of its hosts knowingly spread a false conspiracy theory that Smartmatic's t…
"Would I go see a play and sit in a playhouse with 150 people? If the 150 people were tested, and they were all negative, yes, I would do that," Cuomo said during a press briefing. "I think …
Once the AAMD, looking at the financial carnage wrought by COVID, relaxed its strict rule about museums selling their art only in order to acquire other art, the sales started " with major m…
If hygiene theater were actual theater, it would exist in the genre of catastrophic improv. Hundreds of millions of people are ad-libbing their way through a crisis in the absence of a clear…