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"Look up one thing out of curiosity and YouTube is ever willing to offer far, far more, often getting far more extreme and pushing further out to the extremes, because that is how YouTube wo…
The stars of Magic Happens are the dancers, significantly elevated from their traditional role revving up the crowd with upbeat moves between set pieces. The 90-or-so performers are graced w…
Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found while 80% of former students gained financially from attending university, about 20% earned less than those with similar school results who…
In 1971, there were 88 member stations and a total staff of 65; now NPR's total staff is 862, with 390 in news and 17 overseas bureaus, and the network has 1,008 member and affiliated statio…
What's new? Well, a new Dutchman (Bryn Terfel got hurt, preventing him from singing at the Met again), a new Senta, and an entirely new production that's dream-like, "a heady mixture of pain…
Unsurprisingly " but not a great look for the men of French cinema " mostly women have supported Adèle Haenel after she walked out when Roman Polanski was awarded for his film about the Dre…
Snapchat is trying to figure it out, but guess what? Condensing narrative into tiny, smart-phone-attention-span-sized pieces is a challenge. "There's no time for slow builds on mobile." " Vu…
So of course there are floats and princesses and the requisite Disney Doing Disney Things going on with the Magic Happens parade, but: "The stars of Magic Happens are the dancers, significan…
As the Iranian government grows more repressive of artists, director Mohammed Rasoulof was banned from leaving the country and jailed for a year. "Punishment like Rasoulof's is an all-too co…
"For outside observers, this was yet one more sign of the American university's dereliction of its responsibility as the carrier of Western culture. Yale "has succumbed to a life-draining de…
He revolutionized the Broadway musical with "Company" in 1970. And since, he has created brilliant shows lauded for their originality. But few hits. And where's the legacy? " Commentary
A big part of the appeal of classical architecture for the right is this perceived ability to endure. Buildings can be read as part of an unbroken chain, supposedly embodying an uncomplicate…
Artistic Directors like me have been wringing our hands over the same question for decades. How do we get younger audiences to come to our theatre? How do we engage young people today in our…
Virginia Opera seeks applications for the position of General Director from individuals with senior experience in opera company administration, financial management, and fund-raising.
New Music USA supports the sounds of tomorrow by nurturing the creation, performance, and enjoyment of living music in the United States. We are seeking an exceptional Communications Directo…
Mrs. T survived her double-lung transplant surgery and was moved to the cardio-thoracic intensive-care unit of New York-Presbyterian Hospital at noon today. She was on the operating table fo…
On Sunday, the museum closed "after workers expressed fear of being contaminated by the stream of visitors from around the world. Staffers were also concerned about museum workers from Italy…
That's not going over well at the Museum. "In response to the first rejection of a proposed British Museum trustee by No 10 for many years, the museum is understood to be planning to take ma…
When the mayor saw the sprinklers turned on in a place where people had been camping all winter, the city got involved. "After people from the mayor's office tried to contact officials at Th…
Just keep clicking "Play next" (or don't click the auto-play off, maybe) because the original figures about streaming were overestimated by a factor of, scientists now say, 30-60 times. Howe…
The Strauss family were outraged by the 1970 film, which aired on the BBC, and withdrew permission for Strauss' music. Now it's out of copyright, and showing again in England. " BBC
The Oakland-based painter, who has a current solo show after a curator saw one of her paintings in Baltimore last year, says that she fought for recognition in New York when she was young. B…
McBride is also a realist, which is why he loves novels. "In the real world, villains too often succeed and heroes, too often die. … In novels you can move matters around … you get to sh…
Can the musical be redeemed? "Grafting sociological precision onto a musical that, from its start, traded facts for rhyme is tough. … The problem with treating the musical's stylized repre…
Artemnesia Gentileschi was raped by a co-worker of her father's " what a surprise, right? They took the rapist to court, where she, an artist, was tortured to see if she was telling the trut…
