"Inigo Philbrick probably didn't set out to become one of the art world's great enigmas when, at the age of 24, he opened a gallery and consultancy in London" and went on to become a conspic…
Coronavirus-related event cancellations seem to be barreling in by the hour, and the $26 billion global live events industry is watching with bated breath. Several sources across the booking…
"[The Palais de Lomé in Togo] is a remarkable achievement for one of the world's poorest countries, where almost 70 percent of the rural population lives below the global poverty line. … …
There will soon be lots of demands for emergency funds, to bail out small businesses, cab drivers, restaurants, and so on. Cultural workers, who contribute so much to urban life in normal ti…
It cost more than £750 million (that was well over a billion dollars then), the grand opening at the turn of the millennium was one snafu after another, actual visitor numbers were half o…
The platforms are under no legal obligation to proactively seek out infringement and remove it, nor " most annoyingly of all " do they ever have to permanently remove an infringing wor…
"We were like, how do we do this so that we don't let the audience off the hook " that this is the land where this happened?" says Yuval Sharon. "Los Angeles State Historic Park feels like a…
Back at the beginning of the 20th century, artists such as Picasso, Braque and Matisse turned to African art for new ideas about how to represent the world, creating figures with masklike fa…
Mrs. T opened her eyes this morning for the first time since her double-lung transplant surgery. She appeared to respond when I asked her to blink if she could hear my voice and understand w…
Ben Brantley and Jesse Green give their takes on the 15 shows for which Sondheim wrote music and lyrics and the three for which he was lyricist (with music by Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, …
Jesse Green: "Having long taken for granted that he is the greatest composer-lyricist the United States has produced, we can perhaps now notice that he is also an artist to place in the line…
Ben Brantley: "When it comes to emotions, Sondheim " more than any other composer from the Broadway songbook " is the one I trust to tell me the truth. That's because in the world of Sondhei…
Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Mark Morris, Pina Bausch, Richard Alston … and the list goes on. Writer Lyndsey Winship gives a brief survey of the various ways (and no, video alone is not …
The legal complaint by Bruce Ferguson's sister, who is executor of his estate, alleges that Otis committed discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination related to Ferguson's illness …
"Mahraganat music, fast and loud, soared in popularity following Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring revolts, which toppled the country's longtime autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, who died last month. …
James Moody told me that his Georgia-born grandmother said one morning while looking through the newspaper, "Folks is dyin' what ain't never died befo'." The trend continues, as it always ha…
Miller, the survivor of the rape by Stanford athlete Brock Turner, received the autobiography award for her memoir Know My Name; Danticat's Everything Inside: Stories won the fiction prize; …
Known for his adherence to thorny modernism and his strong opinions, Wuorinen won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for Time's Encomium (the first piece of electronic music to earn the honor) but i…
Carey Perloff, who directed Seana McKenna in the role last year in Calgary: "I am not always convinced that cross-gender casting helps illuminate Shakespeare; many of the plays focus so spec…
"Printed books and newspapers have always been zero-rated for VAT but until now their digital equivalents " such as books from Amazon's Kindle service or online subscriptions to news website…
Eyebrows shot up last month when the Philadelphia Orchestra (which owns the building) and the Kimmel Center (which operates it) announced that the Academy Ball, held every year but one since…
Sid Caesar portrays a young pianist making his first concert appearance. This performance was originally telecast by NBC in March of 1959 as part of "Some of Manie's Friends," a posthumous T…
"All of us"the public, critics, and composers themselves"spend far too much time worrying about whether a work is a shattering masterpiece. Let us not be so self-conscious. Maybe in thirty y…
A detailed report released Wednesday by the Motion Picture Association helps to explain why moviegoing dipped in North America last year by 4 percent to $11.4 billion. Two key stats: The num…
The highest paid executive in the most recent financial year, according to tax filings, was chief investment officer Lauren Meserve, whose total compensation package was worth $1.6 million, …