Over-tourism is damaging popular cities and cultural attractions. Instagram is sending mobs to previously bucolic places. Then there's the carbon cost of all that air travel, which is killin…
An Italian of Slovenian ancestry who grew up in Trieste, pianist Roberto Magris frequently tours in Europe and the United States. Here, we see and hear him and his colleagues in the Birdland…
Over the past decade, both William Grant Still and Florence Price have acquired new prominence. But the buried treasure is William Levi Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony of 1934. " Joseph Horowitz
After making a powerful impression at last year's Whitney Biennial with her six drawings of pie charts plotting Degrees of Deaf Rage, deaf artist Christine Sun Kim reached a much wider, more…
"Due to officially open on February 13 with a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the month-long festival was to have featured more than 120 performances of dance, music, theatre and o…
The male choral group had been active in South Africa for two decades when Paul Simon featured them on his 1986 album Graceland " after which they shot to international fame, won five Grammy…
She had just finished recording some Beethoven, and movers were taking her piano from the Berlin studio; they dropped it while trying to lift it onto a hand truck, and the instrument's iron …
From 2007: I just got word that another book tentatively called Hotter Than That will be published around the time that my Louis Armstrong biography of the same name will be coming out…
"Have been pondering over what someone said the other day: that when one is awake at 3 A.M. then one sees life, and death, as they truly are, in their stark, terrible, hopeless reality; that…
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As museums face increasing pressure to be responsive to historical intersections and contradictions in their presentation of works, it can be risky to introduce audiences, who otherwise migh…
More than 70 staff have left the GSA since a second fire devastated the Mackintosh building in June 2018. Last month Gordon Gibb was sacked for breach of contract for giving his views on fai…
What has happened in journalism in the twenty-first century is a version, perhaps an extreme one, of what has happened in many fields. A blind faith that market forces and new technologies w…
He founded the LA Review of Books. He argues for LA as the center of the book publishing industry. Now he's written a novel as he follows the Kerouac school of writing. " Los Angeles Times
From 6 April all skilled workers from outside the EU who have been living here for less than 10 years will need to earn at least £35,000 a year to settle permanently in the UK. Some jobs,…
Michael Kimmelman: "It almost seems conceived to provoke supporters of both modern architecture and architectural diversity. It's a shiny object, Twitter bait. The populists versus the elite…
Philip Clark, author of a forthcoming book on Brubeck, the American jazz legend, has for the first time gained access to 1959 recordings that had lain forgotten in a Californian archive unti…
The proposal would allow Trump to create a "President's Committee for the Re-Beautification of Federal Architecture" which would enforce this design mandate, and this panel would exclude "ar…
For example, Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" had a whopping 46.3 million streams in 2017 and earned between $280,000 and $390,000, according to one report. Swift, one of the world's bigge…
Given that psychological pain is so ubiquitous, we should focus less on what might make us happy, and more on achieving a sense of meaning, regardless of how we're feeling. " Aeon
Ross Douthat: "What if the feeling of acceleration is an illusion, conjured by our expectations of perpetual progress and exaggerated by the distorting filter of the internet? What if we " o…
The station draws about 170,000 listeners a week in New Zealand, heavily skewed towards those aged 65 and older, according to the broadcaster. But fans mobilised last week when Radio New Zea…
While few may lament the disappearance of these hate-filled books, the increasing number of banished titles has set off concern among some of the third-party booksellers who stock Amazon's v…