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It's enough, more than enough, really, for an artist to simply find a voice, to chisel it out of the noise and to keep it ringing clear across a lifetime. Though he tried lots of modes and m…
Gonzalo Casals is an immigrant from Argentina who identifies as queer. Since 2017, he has led the Leslie-Lohman, a museum with roots in the L.G.B.T.Q. civil rights movement, diversifying its…
Known as Bill Smith to the jazz world and William O. Smith in classical circles, Mr. Smith served on the University of Washington faculty from 1966-1997. He was a founding member of the Dave…
The day is coming when practically anything that a human can do"at least anything that the labor market is willing to pay a human being a decent wage to do"will soon be doable more efficient…
"'Plague was the single most powerful force shaping his life and those of his contemporaries,' wrote Jonathan Bate, one of his many biographers. … But the plague was also Shakespeare's sec…
The novel represented a maturation of storytelling"the adulthood of fiction, taking the reader into the interior of the human person. Now, the form is on its deathbed. Lingering readers are …
The government of the independence-minded Spanish region gave €3 million in subsidies to media companies connected to the New History Institute (INH) and paid €184,000 for the ri…
Almost all cinemas in China " the world's second-largest moviegoing market behind North America " went dark more than a month ago because of the virus, while all of Italy is now quarantined.…
"During his time at Houston Ballet as choreographic apprentice in 1989, and later as choreographic associate from 1995 to 2008, he created seven ballets … Although the company has returned…
Starting at noon Thursday, remaining seats for five of the hottest tickets on Broadway will be going for a fraction of their normal price, selling for just $50 apiece at all performances thr…
The First Amendment doesn't protect your right to eat steak; nothing in the Bill of Rights prohibits a quarantine. Whatever discomfort or vexation arises from these restrictions should hardl…
"Four North American museums" " the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC " "have canceled plans to …
To mark its 40th anniversary, the East Village venue (formerly P.S. 122) turned itself over to 11 loosely connected artists of various stripes for the whole of 2020. Not even PSNY's director…
A client of Sol Hurok, she sang the major Italian dramatic roles at Europe's leading opera houses, though much of her work at the Met was as a cover, going onstage at short notice. Her caree…
"The Echo library was founded in 2016, at the height of the refugee crisis, and relies on a 15-strong volunteer team alongside donations to stock its shelves and pay for the van's fuel " cos…
The shutdown, ordered to prevent the spread of COVID-19, mandatory for all state-owned arts institutions and strongly recommended for others, is in effect at least until after Easter (April …
"As COVID-19 … spreads inexorably across the U.S., theatres are finding themselves trying to stay both practical and realistic, even as public concerns grow. While many public gatherings a…
"[The company] said its investigator interviewed 44 people, yielding 10 [credible] allegations of inappropriate conduct between 1986 … [and] 2019." The law firm hired by the company also f…
"The National Gallery of Art has postponed its much-anticipated exhibition A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600"1750 because of the global coronavirus crisis." The nationwide lockdown in Ita…
Walter Brennan is the guest on This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards. This episode was originally telecast live by NBC on March 30, 1955:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- an…
"What makes Puccini a greater composer of operas than, in my humble opinion, a great composer, is that he knows how long it takes a person to cross the room."
Benjamin Britten (quoted in Pau…
Cahiers du Cinéma, which launched the French New Wave and gave the world the concept of the auteur, was purchased last month by a consortium that includes some of France's top movie produce…
In the span of a single decade, we basically let a computer-centric mindset around planned obsolescence threaten to ruin the long-term usability of entire categories of products unnecessaril…
The culture minister was supposed to meet Tuesday with representatives from the cinema and performing arts industries to assess the impact of new measures taken to counter the Covid-19 epide…
As the building approaches its 50th birthday, in 2023, the interventions are necessary. While its architect, Jorn Utzon, is now widely recognized as a visionary and his creation is a UNESCO …
