If adopted, the executive order would be the most significant attempt yet to insert the new politics of populism into the world of art, aesthetics and design. " Washington Post
She had been the magazine's theatre critic for less than two years, and in trouble with her editor for much of that time, when one column enraged both David Belasco and Florenz Ziegfeld so m…
Musicologist Doug Shadle introduces his new blog/newsletter by suggesting that both the professional concert ecosystem and conservatory education can't modernize, as everyone seems to think …
"When grief loosens its hold, you return to the world you once knew, only to find it transformed by the thing that is missing; when, at the end of the Goldberg Variations, Bach repeats the a…
The National Theatre of Greenland stages three to five productions per year, adapting material ranging from traditional lore to contemporary Greenlandic literature to Shakespeare, at its hom…
The modern retelling of founding father Alexander Hamilton's life is a full-blown cultural phenomenon, one that has rolled out like a well-planned military campaign. The target? The hearts a…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review an all-female off-Broadway production of Macbeth. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Hunter College's Hunter Theater Project, which mounts profess…
Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two perform "Get Rhythm," "You're the Closest Thing to Heaven," and "I Was There When It Happened" on Town Hall Party. This episode was originally telecast b…
"As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly." Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell, Life of J…
Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis were tenor saxophone masters whose collaborations made them among the instrument's most celebrated players. Their "new" album is titled OW! after one…
I never sit around pining for what might have been. What was and is, after all, have both proved to be wholly satisfying. But when you get to be my age " I turned sixty-four today " you can'…
The Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing the Symphony's development plans in s…
"The AIA strongly opposes uniform style mandates for federal #architecture. Architecture should be designed for the specific communities that it serves, reflecting our rich nation's diverse …
If you look at the U.S., Canada is culturally similar, as is Australia. If you look at China, Vietnam and South Korea are quite culturally similar. The point, though, is that the world, cult…
Wesley Morris: "Assembled, these distinct movies become a representative entity, and a person like me notices a theme that could poke out an eye. And whiteness is part of that story. It's al…
We won't share here what comic Ari Shaffir put on Twitter about the late basketball star (it's in the article), but it got him dropped by his agent, criticized by his colleagues, and threate…
In proposed changes, the classical station will lose its FM frequency, all its presenters, interviews and live programmes. Playout of recordings will only continue as a fully automated playl…
The sale, dubbed Christie's 100, featured 92 lots by many well-known contemporary artists, with bids starting at as low as $100. Certain works even sold for considerably less than the averag…
A native of Syracuse, New York, and graduate of Marquette University, Kot worked for the Quad City Times in Davenport, Iowa, before joining the Tribune as a copy editor in 1980. Ten years la…
In a seven-page draft executive order obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, Trump declares that the federal government since the 1950s has "largely stopped building beautiful buildings that the…
The group is called Cast Iron Entertainment, and includes Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney and actors Sterling K. Brown, Glenn Davis, Brian Tyree Henry, Jon …
"The culture secretary, Nicky Morgan, suggested the television licence" " an annual fee, currently £154.50 ($201.68), charged every household and business with a television " "was an incr…
Dead mud wasps, in fact. The ancient artists who painted the Gwion figures in Western Australia's Kimberley region used iron oxide pigments, which have no organic material and can't be carbo…
Robert Trevino, music director of the Basque National Orchestra in Spain, writes about the restaurant meal that gave him the idea, how he and the orchestra staff planned and marketed the ser…
Claude McKay set aside his novel Romance in Marseille in 1933 because his editor thought it too shocking to sell: its protagonist is a West African double amputee with a prostitute lover, an…