The dilemma these groups face is contractual, in two ways. First, there is the contract with the donor, which, if broken, may seem a betrayal to some, and a sign of institutional inconstancy…
Smiley, who was fired in 2017 amid sexual misconduct allegations, sued PBS contending he was dropped from the network as a result of racial bias and that he was wrongly terminated. Smiley wa…
Four internationally recognized artists " Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig, Laura Owens and Sarah Sze " have been commissioned by LaGuardia Gateway Partners, together with the New York-based nonpro…
"Of course, I'm worried as a producer about tickets not being sold and people canceling their trips to New York City," the Broadway producer told The Daily Beast. "But my main concern is for…
"'Stone,' says architect Amin Taha, 'is the great forgotten material of our time. In 99% of cases, it's cheaper and greener to use stone in a structural way, as opposed to concrete or steel,…
We shall be parents of the cyborgs and we are already in the process of giving birth. It is important we keep this in mind. Cyborgs are a product of the same evolutionary processes that crea…
"Noël Coward's fantastic, but all I could think was: What's the use of having an American one?" says Richard Greenberg. To him, writes Kurt Soller in this profile, "that comparison has al…
It's surely axiomatic that the greater the prolificacy of the writer, the greater his or her capacity for self-plagiarism. This has to be one of the principal reasons why we admire such prod…
A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening …
Trade conflicts between the US and China, political unrest in Hong Kong and a protracted Brexit all contributed to a 5% dip in the global art market, which totalled $64.1 billion in 2019. " …
This Imperial Russian tale of an Indian temple dancer may be the most egregious collection of outdated orientalist caricatures in the entire ballet canon. But it remains popular, and many da…
The Heritage Foundation is still promoting its 1997 report authored by "distinguished fellow" Laurence Jarvik, titled "Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for th…
"Since Sunday, the Louvre's staff had been refusing to work, fearful they might catch the coronavirus from someone among the museum's more than 30,000 daily visitors. … The museum's manage…
Co-founder of the firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb did have well-known buildings in other cities: Place Ville-Marie (Montreal), Fountain Place (Dallas), the U.S. Bank Tower (Los Ange…
The $35 annual levy passed in a 2012 referendum by 62% to 38%; now its unpopularity is a running joke in town. Regular taxpayers don't like it because it was badly designed and implemented, …
"Greenawald's position has put her in charge of both phases of the San Francisco Opera's training wing, which attracts young opera singers from around the world. Each summer, around 30 artis…
After a career spent largely in Toronto, most recently running the city's Opera Atelier, Barretto came to the Harris as a marketer in 2015 and became CEO in 2017. One of her "singular achiev…
"Mohammad Rasoulof's [one-year] sentence came from three films he made that authorities found to be 'propaganda against the system,' his lawyer [said]. … Rasoulof [received] the Berlin Fil…
Lili Loofbourow: "We don't have much of a vocabulary for what happens in a victim's life after the painful past has been excavated. … What is the situation of survivors who saw the injury …
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I discuss Hollywood movies whose subject matter is infectious disease, with special reference to Panic in the Streets, directed by Elia Kaz…
"There must always be two kinds of art, escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love." W…
It's beautiful, but then there's the obvious question … who in their right mind would open a record store now? There is no money in it. Even on this gentrified street there are empty shops…
"The story of the theremin and its inventor has it all: drama, suspense, geopolitics, and, above all, tragedy. It's a wonder Hollywood hasn't yet made a movie about it." " Quartz
In the 19th century, politicians increasingly turned out memoirs as campaign books. The writing shifted from ideas and policies to character and personality. The writings of Andrew Jackson, …
While the coronavirus has taken a big toll on the arts world in terms of closed venues and canceled events, it has also spurred plenty of show-must-go-on creativity in some of the hardest-hi…