Larkin won four Tonys for his work as a designer on Broadway. "Larkin won his Tonys in a remarkable run in the mid-1950s, for Ondine, The Teahouse of the August Moon, No Time for Sergeants a…
The protestors are angry about the government's proposed pension reforms, and they've shut down much of Paris on and off over the past six weeks. "'Closing the Louvre to prevent tourists fro…
Join us on the beautiful "artist" island off the coast of Maine. Your chance to develop your watercolor painting skills. For beginner/ intermediate level painters. Class size limited to 10 p…
It's been 10 years since I published what seems to have been some prescient commentary about the now (belatedly) completed Jean Nouvel-designed 1,050-foot tower (known to CultureGrrl readers…
Walker, who died in 2018 at age 96, was one of America's most distinguished composers. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1996. He was a superb pianist and an esteemed academic. His shel…
"Funding cuts over the past 10 years are impacting cultural organisations ability to deliver non-artistic operations, such as site maintenance and recruitment, Arts Council England has warne…
The store hadn't had any sales that day, perhaps for the first time ever, says the manager. He sent out a tweet and Twitter readers responded with a thousand pounds worth of orders. " The Gu…
"In 1997, a group of German classical musicians moved to the village of Klein Jasedow, a tiny, nearly abandoned hamlet close to the Baltic Sea. The performers were looking to escape the care…
The first way of reading is non-evaluative, at least at the level of craft or technique; the second is only evaluative, and wagers everything on technical success, on questions of craft and …
"Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature, newly opened archives reveal the serious doubts the committee had over giving the award to an author they felt held a 'b…
Hysterical critics are self-centred " not because they write about themselves, which writers have always done, but because they can make any observation about the world lead back to their ow…
No, machines aren't writing usable scripts. (Yet.) But we all know about projects that seemed terrific on paper but turned out to be disastrous bombs " and about sleeper hits that seemed ver…
Artists have stepped up in a huge way at this dark time in Australian history by volunteering their talents and resources to support communities and firefighters. They have demonstrated arti…
It's the annual conference of the International Association of Blacks in Dance, which was started 32 years ago by Philadanco founder-director Joan Roberts Brown. "In the mid-1980s, she start…
China's rapidly expanding network of surveillance cameras increasingly relies upon AI-aided facial-recognition technology to achieve much of its primary mission: to keep track of, record, co…
Say goodbye, at least for the foreseeable future, to the topic-focused lands of yore such as Adventureland or Fantasyland, and think instead of story- and plot-driven lands that will place g…
The whereabouts of "Portrait of a Lady" has been one of the art world's biggest mysteries since the painting was stolen from the Ricci Oddi museum in 1997. " The New York Times
The Walt Disney Company bought most of Mr. Murdoch's entertainment assets last year in a $71.3 billion deal. That included the 20th Century Fox studio and its art-house sibling, Fox Searchli…
What makes sense on TikTok might not make sense on the old platforms. TikTok distills music down to a brief snippet you can sing along to, or dance along to or perform a comic sketch to. Its…
He started playing the horn at age 13 and within two years landed a position in the Melbourne Symphony; by age 19, he had gone to Britain and played in orchestras there; at age 24, he was ap…
"Gov. Larry Hogan has asked the Maryland General Assembly to rescind a promised $1.6 million for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra " the second time in two years the governor has attempted to…
"Deborah Dugan, who took over as Recording Academy president/CEO on Aug. 1, has been placed on administrative leave just over a week before the 2020 Grammy Awards due to 'serious concerns' b…
While his father was alive, he drew many of the maps of Middle-earth in the original edition of The Lord of the Rings; after JRR's death, "his son was left to sift through the files and note…
"A basketball-player-size wooden idol that allegedly escaped destruction by the Spanish conquistadors is real " but it may not be quite what people suspected. The statue is even older than t…
"It has been mocked and pilloried as a 'festival of Brexit', but the newly appointed boss of the £120m nationwide celebration planned for 2022 has said he is going to embrace the cynics "…