At a festival that thrives on the spirit of niche filmmaking, the prevalence of stories and programming about ripped-from-the-headlines causes made for an energizing change of pace. Given th…
Art historian Charles Hope, in a review of three books about the world's most expensive painting, lays out an extensive argument against the attribution of Salvator Mundi to da Vinci and sug…
The history of the Memphis Pyramid, which is now emblazoned with a massive Bass Pro Shops logo on its side, is as bewildering as its appearance, and as reflective of the people who conceived…
"The font you use is a form of non-verbal communication. If you meet in person, tone of voice, clothes and body language carry a huge amount of information. If you write someone a letter you…
"The ambition of the Danish architect Jørn Utzon's design, his walkout mid-project, and Peter Hall's subsequent takeover in 1966 resulted in compromises that have bedevilled the building …
Playwright Lynden Harris talks about working with condemned prisoners " first, to develop scripts for them to perform before fellow inmates and prison staff, and second, to create theater pi…
Though MIDI has done an exceptional job of digitizing music for the last 37 years, it hasn't been perfect. MIDI quantizes music, meaning it forces music components into a particular value. I…
It's not just that the piece is in the final scene of Billy Elliot. A corps de ballet of muscular men as feral swans, in place of the usual ethereal women in white tutus, shows boys differen…
Starting as a pilot project next month, Vienna's "Culture Token" will track users' movements"and their chosen mode of transit"across the city via an app. For each car-free kilometer the user…
"Jeanine Cummins spent five years of her life writing this book with the intent to shine a spotlight on tragedies facing immigrants," said the president of Flatiron Books. "We are saddened t…
The union for film, television, and radio performers spent six months preparing the document, which gives thorough standards for actors' contracts, communication between actors and directors…
"No matter how Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial in Manhattan turns out, the revelations about the way he used his power over women have altered Hollywood in ways big and small. … Activist…
"Assembly Bill 5 is intended to reduce worker misclassification, making it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors. … But the law's ambiguous language " specifical…
She and her late husband, Irving Ravetch, wrote 17 feature films together, among them The Long, Hot Summer, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Sound and the Fury, Conrack, and two for wh…
The 54-year-old bass-baritone fractured his ankle this week while in Bilbao to perform in a different production of Dutchman; he has returned home to Wales for surgery. The March 2 opening w…
The move to the arena, for one night only (Feb. 26), is meant to give a more diverse audience a chance to see the show; 18,000 tickets will be given for free to New York City public school s…
One of the nice things about collecting art is that you needn't leave home to look at it. This is especially comforting at times when life is too complicated for you to visit museums or gall…
In today's Wall Street Journal"Sightings" column, occasioned by the unsealing of a crate of love letters sent by T.S. Eliot to Emily Mann, I write about artists who have sought to use pos…
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." B.F. Skinner,  Contingencies of Reinforcement Continue reading Almanac: B.F. Skinner on artificial intelligence at …
I hadn't wanted to write anything about this beforehand (for fear of putting a dangerous idea into someone's head), but I was worried about the welfare of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts du…
In the wake of a coronavirus outbreak that has infected thousands and claimed more than 100 lives in China, the movie industry is grappling with the unthinkable: Nearly every cinema in the c…
The handover of the building from a contractor to the constructor has been delayed due to incomplete delivery of fire and security doors as well insufficient performance and unsatisfactory o…
"Never in my career have I felt this organisation is quite under the threat that it currently is. There are many that believe that how we are funded is no longer appropriate when consumers s…
It is rarely acknowledged, by either the life-hack-minded authors or the proponents of minimalist design, that many people have minimalism forced upon them by circumstances that render impos…
Unlike Chapter 11, where companies can be reorganized and survive, this gang is dissolving, shutting its doors and everyone has resigned. Four months after the MoviePass service closed down …