Sandy Powell, nominated this year for The Irishman (which she finds odd since it's mostly men in "normal clothes"), says that a large part of her job is helping actors maintain and improve t…
In Burkina Faso, hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring countries are trying to find peace and a future in the capital. One of them, an 18-year-old dancer who's been on the run s…
Conrad's biggest part came as Jim West in a blend of James Bond and Westerns. His character "was dispatched on various secret missions on behalf of the government of President Ulysses S. Gra…
Frieze Los Angeles goes up in the Paramount Pictures backlot, opening on Valentine's Day. Sounds cozy. But, says a Frieze co-curator, "Going into 2020, we didn't simply want to go back to th…
Caroline Baumann's resignation was abrupt on Friday, February 7, and the Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan would give no reason for her departure. "During her tenure as director, she ov…
Cool use of big data, no? Real shocker though: "When you look at the birthplaces of all the winners together, you can see the Academy tends to favor American-born talent, with Europe as a cl…
Writer Jenny Offill: "The question I was thinking about in this book … was, Can you still just tend your own garden once you know about the fire outside its walls?" " The New York Times
Michael Rosen blames the Reformation " truly. That time period was "when they thought the only way you could be virtuous was to be modest and serious, so humour was pushed aside, seen as fri…
In Budapest, Deaf and other hard of hearing adults and children use touch to experience Beethoven's Fifth. One of them said, "Here, when the string instruments all sound, that gives a very g…
In settling out of court, apparently, Â "Audible has agreed not to include the copyrighted works of seven plaintiff publishers in its 'Captions' program without express permission." This d…
"I was surprised by the effect it had on me. I'd assumed that my skepticism and media literacy would inoculate me against such distortions. But I soon found myself reflexively questioning ev…
Nothing exemplifies the promises and perils of self-actualised work better than the cultural conversations around 'do what you love'. The injunction to 'do what you love' has had no shortage…
Nowhere else in North America can you find two symphony orchestras (as opposed to chamber orchestras) with touring schedules and substantial discographies led by conductors of international …
"Our contemporary moment is a culture of meanness. It's not based on facts. It's not based on conversation… it's destructive to our democracy and our institutions. Notice the bags under my…
New OSF director Nataki Garrett has big plans. In the next few years, she plans to push technology-driven initiatives, like the launch of a digital archive and an OSF app. She's also develop…
"How is their pelvis shifting? How is their back moving? Is their foot collapsing in as they're plieing? Is their weight over as they jump onto one foot?" They're finding points of weaknesse…
The murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi at the purported direction of crown prince Mohammad bin Salman in 2018 led several prominent board members to withdraw from the government-backed e…
A traditionalist maestro who led more than 400 performances at the Met, he had to wait a while before critics gave full credit to his gifts, but singers and orchestral players adored him. " …
"Our sector relies on the gambling industry for over a third of its public investment in a country where an estimated 430,000 people have a serious problem with gambling. And we seem to take…
"After a tumultuous period in Hong Kong marked by continuing protests and fears of a coronavirus outbreak, Art Basel has called off its fair in the city. … MCH Group, the holding company t…
"People were more likely to stream a movie when they knew it had been released in theaters, according to a new survey by Ernst & Young … Sixty two percent of the study's respondents re…
"In edited excerpts below, filmmakers, awards-watchers and academy members" " among them Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, and former Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs " "tell the …
"The classical music station Radio 3 has recorded its joint highest audience share since records began, as listeners weary of politics take refuge in Brahms and Bach. The BBC station reached…
Some of them are sweet and sentimental, but they can be every bit as weird as those of actors and athletes. Sarah Kaufman talks to a dozen or so dancers from several companies about what the…
The one part of the art world that has seemed resistant to him is the ultimate conferrer of status: museums. Will he be remembered as an important artistic figure? And if so, will that be as…