It's the second Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation award and comes with a $50,000 prize. Knight has been an art critic at The Times since 1989, where he continues to chronicle the growth of …
The effects Crystal Bridges has had on the region are more than clear. And later this month, the museum is going one step further. It's opening a satellite contemporary art center, the Momen…
That city is Aurora, an outer-ring suburb of Chicago with about 200,000 people, and the theatre is the twice-restored, 1,885-seat Paramount. in fact, writes Chris Jones, "with the exception …
As the company's founding artistic director, Alice Reyes, retires after 50 years, its board of directors selected as her successor Mikhail Martynyuk, a star of the Kremlin Ballet in Moscow. …
This is the third February in a row that Mrs. T and I have spent not in Florida, where we used to go every winter to see shows and travel around the state, but up north. Mrs. T's doctors ord…
From 2017: It's as "normal" for the two of us to stroll up and down the beaches of Sanibel island in January as it is for us to turn up the heat in Connecticut, nestle on the couch, and watc…
"Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is a…
Why doesn't the business case work? Recent research suggests that what's required for transformational action is a moral and legal case. The business case, because it is based in an economic…
Some cities have turned to "rightsizing", or shifting their focus from returning to their historical peak and instead toward improving life for the remaining residents. Sometimes that means …
While much of the criticism that has been directed at NCAS's proposal thus far (from the American Institute of Architects, from the profession at large, and from more or less the entire crit…
Yuval Noah Harari did not invent Big History, but he updated it with hints of self-help and futurology, as well as a high-altitude, almost nihilistic composure about human suffering. He atta…
We make the same movies, over and over (most involving Marvel superheroes or galaxies far, far away). Our young turn away from actual sex and toward the consolations of pornography: sex with…
To build Masdar City, the provincial capital put in seed money for the estimated $20 billion cost. The project team, Masdar, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, brought in the Brit…
The 38 Degrees petition is a response to a report on the front page of Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Sunday Times, in which sources close to prime minister Boris Johnson set out a bluep…
Caroline Baumann was forced to resign on Feb. 7 after an investigation by the Smithsonian's inspector general into how Ms. Baumann procured her dress and the venue for the ceremony. It was u…
Today, Wikipedia is the eighth-most-visited site in the world. The English-language version recently surpassed 6 million articles and 3.5 billion words; edits materialize at a rate of 1.8 pe…
Its abstract questions provoked some surprising insights into the singer's mind. Viewers learnt that Eilish used to dream of working at Jamba Juice or Trader Joe's, and once wore a wig ou…
"Maybe it's an occupational hazard, but I tend to view politicians, and especially the current crop of contenders for the Democratic nomination, through the lens of performance. As a directo…
Weird, right? While the painting is definitely authentic, police are still trying to puzzle out the odd story of how it ended up there and who really did it. It's complicated. " The Daily Be…
"Since AB5 took effect on January 1, hundreds of thousands of Californians are finding their businesses in tatters. Musicians can't join bands for a one-night gig, chefs can't join forces wi…
Photographer Sayuri Ichida and NY Theatre Ballet dancer Maya Oguri formed a fruitful artistic friendship " one that set the ballerina dancing in photos from across the city. That didn't stop…
Zachary Woolfe: "For someone who's never grown quite used to my late-night subway journey home after an opera, it was hard to turn down a performance that would take place a few steps from b…
David Luque, a 47-year-old actor from Madrid, has been working steadily in theatre for decades, starting when he was a student using the EU's programs to study in Germany. But really, right …
Well, debate over, at least for films with subtitles: "The twisted South Korean thriller collected $5.5 million over the weekend, an exceptional 234% increase in ticket sales and the biggest…
"I walk into the wrong entrance at the large industrial building hosting the Spring/Break Art Show. 'Sorry!' a young cheery Englishwoman at a desk tells me. 'This is a dumpling-associates…