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Actresses and activists celebrated Monday when a New York jury found the producer guilty on two counts, in a decision that could send him to jail for up to 25 years. " The Daily Beast
The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art is now seen by many in Poland's contemporary art community as a new front in the country's culture wars, as the ruling Law and Justice party…
"It is a truth universally acknowledged in world cinema that a celebrated auteur, making their first film outside their native tongue, must be preparing a dud." But is it actually true? Well…
"Pretty remarkable. His entire brain is stimulated by music. His visual cortex is activated throughout. It seems like his brain is taking that part of the tissue that's not being stimulated …
"The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper sent him abroad to write 'trench-coat prose' about black Americans volunteering in the International Brigades. … Hughes's 22 articles covered an angl…
"There has long been concern over the ease with which suspect funds can be laundered through the buying and selling of art. Now, at last, we are seeing a concerted attempt to get to grips wi…
"We need to account for the fact that we chase after disgust. Our attraction to disgust is hardly modern. The grotesque fascinated painters from the Renaissance to Goya, with his visages of …
From teaching Greek texts I have become increasingly convinced that the Theogony's narrator quotes the Muses not merely to evade responsibility for telling an unknown story nor to praise the…
No one is arguing that theatre artists don't deserve to be paid or shouldn't be treated well. As Susie Medak, managing director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, pointed out, there's simply a f…
It is hard now to recapture the shock of 1962 when the iterations of Campbell's soup went on display at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (New York wasn't interested). But the cumulative effe…
Carina del Valle Schorske: "If this musical is still our narrative ghetto, then the least we can do is make noise about what it feels like to live in it. In 2020, it feels exhausting." " The…
Jane Alexander, the 80-year-old actress who has starred in Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, and, not incidentally, who was head of the NEA during the (first) culture wars, is onstage again, …
"It's a truism to say our society doesn't do well when faced with competing stories about what happened; that's what 'he said/she said' has become a shorthand for. … To overcome that refle…
The Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), a Catholic lobby group run by the British conservative Benjamin Harnwell, was granted a 19-year lease on the building by the ministry of culture two y…
"This last question, though seemingly simple, resists every attempt to answer it. Every theory runs into brick walls of evidence, the research is limited, and even the basic understanding of…
In late June and early July, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the orchestra in concerts at the Barbican in London, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden…
Across northern Italy from Venice to Milan, theatres, cinemas, museums, and opera houses (including La Scala) have been ordered to stop operations for a week as cases of the disease spread. …
"The investigation, conducted by lawyers hired by the American Guild of Musical Artists, concluded that the accounts from 27 people showed a clear pattern of sexual misconduct and abuse of p…
"After [James A.] Cincotta was hired as the museum's retail director in 2015, staffers who worked for him began reporting what they said was routinely abusive behavior. Cincotta slapped, pun…
"Unthinkingly defending one's powerful friends has real-life consequences. What [illegally fired dancer Karline] Marion, and other dancers who may find themselves in a similar situation, wil…
Charles McNulty: "I'm going to respect the tacit wishes of Mamet and not review the play as I would if it had had an official press opening. A work that's still being tinkered with before it…
"Born Peggy-Jean Montgomery, she became one of the country's youngest self-made millionaires by age 4, then suffered a devastating reversal of fortune and fame in her adolescence. In adultho…
From 2004:
I love parody and caricature, and it's one of my medium-sized regrets that I have no gift for either (though I can do adequate impersonations of a few of my friends). Alas, I find…
"Only when one's friends die and one accompanies them to the grave's edge does one realise precisely what they have meant to one."
James Lees-Milne, diary, March 25, 1977
Continue reading Al…
There's something a bit ho-hum, mean and pinched about the reception of Sir Tom Stoppard's new (and, he says, perhaps final play), Leopoldstadt. " Paul Levy
