"Disney has taken an especially hard hit from the pandemic, with its theme parks shuttered, movies postponed and ESPN cable channel without live sports to televise. But the company on Wednes…
Iván Fischer, who founded the ensemble and led it to become one of the most admired in the world today, has been a vocal critic of the increasingly autocratic rule of Hungary's prime mini…
Several drawings appear to depict a bulkier shoulder and more vertical arm"a more structurally sound arrangement. But one of these sketches (below) was marked up by an unidentified hand with…
"The French antitrust agency gave the Alphabet Inc. unit three months to thrash out deals with press publishers and agencies demanding talks on how to remunerate them for displaying their co…
If we are cut off from experiencing art with others, we are perfectly placed to consider an old and out of fashion idea: the power of private contemplation and solitary engagement. The silen…
"So far, nothing has approached the embarrassment factor of the quarantine meditations from Madonna's bathtub. But is this classical music's brave new world? A temporary novelty? A dead end?…
Online, fans are fuming about being unable to get refunds for concerts that have been postponed, often with no rescheduled dates in sight. As they see it, ticketing outlets are being greedy …
The first wife of Fort Worth oil billionaire Sid Bass, she ultimately "became one of New York's most respected philanthropists, supporting, in large but unflashy ways, the New York Botanical…
Superheroes can fight secret quasi-Nazi conspiracies, invading aliens and android armies. But they are ill-equipped to fight the coronavirus. Superheroes on screen have saved the world repea…
"Even though the [Broadway] League has extended the shut down, many Broadway insiders don't expect performances to resume until July at the earliest, with some predicting that theaters will …
This Mahler 8th arrives some four years after the live performances, and it signals not only a high-water mark in Nézet-Séguin's relationship with the orchestra but a certain evolution in …
"Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are …
Too much of museums' existing online content, now being repurposed, reminds me of "park and bark" " the great opera stars of yesteryear, standing stock-still at center stage and belting out …
The annual celebration of stage work was originally scheduled to be held at Terminal 5 in Manhattan on May 18. Instead it will be postponed until a later, as yet unannounced, date. In an int…
The transformation of the university into a capital-intensive, bureaucratically organised enterprise was not simply an effect of academic specialisation. More than a century earlier, Adam Sm…
"To their legions of fans, the groups give voice to the bilingual vernacular of a multicultural city, marinated by its past French and British rulers, the forces of globalization and success…
The work that began Monday focused on the museum's 1965 Leo S. Bing Center, a 600-seat theater designed by architect William L. Pereira that has been used for film screenings, musical perfor…
Peter Schjeldahl: Online "virtual tours" add insult to injury, in my view, as strictly spectacular, amorphous disembodiments of aesthetic experience. Inaccessible, the works conjure in the i…
"Physical distancing is the antithesis of what a community chorus is all about. We rehearse for four months before our performances twice a year. The community we form as we breathe, learn t…
Lara Downes: "Two weeks of dates cancelled, and then before we knew it, two months. Every single concert, opera, festival, club date"our calendars were wiped clean. When it happened, some of…
At the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland, conservators working to preserve the remains of an ancient priestess or noblewoman named Ta-Kr-Hb opened her sarcophagus and found two painti…
Normally, Josh Kantor is in a perch at Boston's venerable baseball park, churning out tunes as the home team's official organist. In late March, with the season put on pause due to coronavir…
Last week it was one by Yvonne Rainer. This week it's Trisha Brown's 1971 Roof Piece, in which "dancers scattered themselves across the roofs of SoHo and played a dance version of the game T…
"The paper's remaining staffers are now faced with a devastating decision: they can either leave and let the state's largest paper, (and the country's first News Guild), die, ceding victory …
"[The series is] the latest and most acute iteration of a Netflix trend toward extreme storytelling; the more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better. The point is virality " content …