A former child star, Reynolds directed many episodes of classic 1960s American sitcoms and went on to create and produce three of the best-known and well-regarded series of the '70s: Room 22…
For decades, Tony Cerda Park in Pomona was desolate, dilapidated, and dangerous. Last summer, artist Joe Ded painted a mural to honor the park's namesake, a longtime leader of local Native A…
"Over the past five years, Poland's art institutions have increasingly become a vehicle for the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party's cultural reform efforts. … [There's now] a nationw…
"A top editor at Simon & Schuster who assembled a roster of literary heavyweights, … Ms. Mayhew focused on popular histories and biographies as well as the journalistic genre known as …
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) Deputy Chief Executive Barbara Hayes laid out the scale of the challenge the Government's decision presents to authors: "At a time when the U…
"Where did all this art come from? How is it that a city where beauty and color have been largely suppressed for decades by poverty, and by the oppression or indifference of successive gover…
YouTube makes more money from advertising than the ABC, NBC and Fox broadcast networks"combined. It's an astonishing domination of the video ad market. " The Information
No less than dance or fight choreography, intimacy choreography consists of specific, repeatable movements, and intimacy directors find desexualized language to use with actors (as opposed t…
She will be the first person to hold this post, which has been created for her, in Ravinia's 116-year history. " Chicago Tribune
"Austen first emerged in penny editions in the 1890s. Penny versions were modeled on the sensational Penny Dreadfuls, those cheap stories of violence on which Britain's lawmakers were known …
"Sometimes comic, sometimes earnest, always indignant, Chilean theatre repeatedly gives voice to the abused, the angry and the dispossessed. … All this is consistent with a festival that h…
"Alberta Ballet's longest-serving artistic director, Jean Grand-MaiÌ‚tre, will step down after a three-year transition period that will see him passing the torch to [company ballet master…
In this week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I write about an important museum exhibition devoted to the work of a pioneer of modernism. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Surr…
Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, is interviewed on TV by Charlie Rose in 1997: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space eac…
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it." Samuel Johnson, quoted in Jam…
Los Angeles singer Lyn Stanley frequently appears in L.A. with a big band of Swing Era veterans. But in this recording, her accompanists are six of Southern California's busiest veteran play…
With 23 items exploiting the portraits currently arrayed for sale on the NPG's website, the Smithsonian's merchandising masterminds have found a way to turn an uplifting event into something…
The Claw, founded by authors Carmen Maria Machado and Liz Moore, "is comprised of 19 published and professional fiction and nonfiction writers. Not unlike a book club, it meets roughly once …
Some composers deal with the threat of boredom by cramming their scores full of drama and extreme sounds. Others embrace it, stretching time and indulging in trancelike repetition. Shaw desc…
"What was still considered a left-field artistic proposition a decade ago, popularised by the likes of Punchdrunk and dreamthinkspeak, has become one of theatre's biggest commercial money-ma…
English-language popular songs have become more negative. The use of words related to negative emotions has increased by more than one third. Let's take the example of the Billboard dataset.…
"His name was William Dorsey Swann, but to his friends he was known as 'the Queen.' … Beginning in the 1880s, he not only became the first American activist to lead a queer resistance grou…
"If there are benefits to humans using data to assimilate this kind of information and attempting to make it actionable, the results have yet to impact the production-to-hit ratio of major s…
Alex Ross: "For the most part, the classical-music world is in need of conductors with broad horizons, who can guide audiences from a passive worship of the past to an active awareness of th…
How does the once-unthinkable become not only thinkable but self-evident? How does the unthinkable become something we cannot think away anymore? To get at that, we have to tell a history no…