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This year we are celebrating the anniversary not just of history's greatest composer, but also one of its greatest human beings. " The Spectator
They dressed in Edwardian clothes, drove a 1913 Model-T Ford and eschewed modern conveniences. As lovers, they shared an apartment on Avenue C that lacked a telephone, television or electric…
Britain, with London as its hub, is the second-biggest art trading nation after the United States, with 21 percent of global auction and dealer sales in 2018, according to the report. But wi…
"Before you get mad at me for saying that anything Beethoven wrote has problems, you should know that Beethoven himself was unhappy with the opera. He drastically rewrote it several times ov…
Fully-funded, self-directed, international, multi-disciplinary. I-Park provides generous physical and creative access to its expansive grounds. Application deadline: Jan. 15, 2020
Walker has emerged as one of the country's preeminent voices for the arts, and social justice, and for new strategies to ameliorate inequality. He has delivered the annual Nancy Hanks Lectur…
While the digital technology that helped create realistic fur in both films is "advancing all the time," it can't rescue a flawed approach to a project. "The techniques [you use] can't do it…
One goal, "equality of resources," might be achieved by dividing the inheritance evenly, but it has the downside of failing to recognize important differences among the parties involved. Ano…
This is the first time worldwide exceeds $42B and the first the international box office climbs past $30B. The results come in a year when domestic dipped by 4%. " Deadline
There were 532 scripted drama and comedy series in 2019 on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, a 7 percent increase over 2018, John Landgraf told a TV critics meeting Thursday. When FX…
These studies miss a bigger point by implying that reading fiction is, at its best, a tidy cause-and-effect process. Enter intellectually weak and benighted, exit emotionally toned and trim,…
When it came to de-aging De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino for The Irishman, the $140 million Netflix production opted for a specific kind of fountain of youth, created from artificial-intel…
The direct legacy of the ancient Iranians can be found across the Middle East, the Caucasus and Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, India and P…
Herbert Sigüenza, a founding member of the Chicano sketch company Culture Clash and playwright-in-residence at San Diego Rep (which premiered his latest script, Bad Hombres/Good Wives) talk…
Lydia Locke (1884-1966) "rose to prominence in the early 1900s, when mass celebrity was still a relatively new concept. But the American soprano embraced the label, making news both for her …
Starting in the early 1970s, Baldessari became one of the first professors at the California Institute of Arts, a school in Santa Clarita that became a locus of artistic experimentation on t…
"While not every 6-year-old is ready to sit through Swan Lake, some enterprising troupes are adding kid-friendly performances to court the same audiences who buy Nutcracker tickets." Rebecca…
And David Shariatmadari means those scare quotes. In this excerpt from his new book Don't Believe a Word, he takes apart what he calls "the cult of untranslatables," taking apart some regula…
To survive long-term, companies such as Woolly need to convince social-justice-minded, cash-challenged millennials to buy tickets. The crucial challenge: Can they do this without alienating …
Yes, divos too. Since 1902, funded by revenues from the composer's operas, Casa Verdi has been an old-age refuge for singers and musicians, not all of them famous. Today, some 60 retirees li…
"The technologies allowed me to show things to you"for example, how past landscapes can change overtime, how you can look from the scale of a beetle, how you can change your perspective. The…
Joshua Helmer, 31, had been an assistant director at the PMA and was viewed as a rising star in the art world when, in early 2018, he "was separated" from the museum. Several female staffers…
Muralist James "Yaya" Hough, 44, was released last year after 27 years in prison, and within a few months he was hired for the new artist-in-residence position in the office of reformist Phi…
"The museum's educators provide lessons in art and art history as well as English language arts, social studies and even science and math. … The list of past subject areas includes surreal…
The gut renovation of Cologne's opera house is running eight years late and more than double the original budget " and that's only up to now, since the basements are full of ductwork, cablin…
