Defense secretary Mark Esper acknowledged that striking cultural sites with no military value would be a war crime, putting him at odds with the president, who insisted such places would be …
"Paris Opera has lost more than 12 million euros ($13.3 million) in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to [King] Louis XIV. … While …
"Native Americans whose ancestors suffered at the hands of 17th-century European settlers and adventurers are hoping commemorative events marking the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's jou…
"Even in her lifetime, she was both adored and reviled. Was she an artist stunted by society's restrictions on women who channeled her genius to become the inspiration for the men she consor…
What's more, he triumphed, and in a production that ran for at least a year longer than anyone expected. The actor is Steven Skybell, who talks with Laura Collins-Hughes about playing Tevye …
"The Duolingo course [in Scots Gaelic], which was launched just before St. Andrew's Day on 30 November and looks likely to be the company's fastest-growing course ever, has garnered more tha…
The site BachTrack tracks concerts internationally: "In 2019, we listed nearly 35,000 performances of concerts, opera and dance " more than ever before." " BachTrack
"Tashkent's metro system is so much more than just a means of transportation. Over the decades of its existence, the design and names of the metro's 29 ornate stations have changed to reflec…
If disinformation in 2016 was characterized by Macedonian spammers pushing pro-Trump fake news and Russian trolls running rampant on platforms, 2020 is shaping up to be the year communicatio…
"Until the early 17th century, learning to draw meant entering an artist's workshop " often as a child " copying the master's sketches and drawing from plaster casts and live models. Student…
"The messages conveyed through disinformation range from biased half-truths to conspiracy theories to outright lies. The intent is to manipulate popular opinion to sway policy or inhibit act…
"The controversial practice of 'brownface' in Indian cinema, where actors with lighter skin wear brown makeup to play certain roles " often reinforcing negative stereotypes " has been attrac…
"On one side is Underbelly, the London events company which claims to have taken Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations to another level. It is backed by a city council which has gleefully watche…
"On Dec. 20, as Cats opened in theaters domestically, Universal made an unprecedented decision to send exhibitors a new version of the film with 'some improved visual effects.' By then, howe…
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know that Mrs. T is gravely ill and has been in the intensive-care unit of New York-Presbyterian Hospital for the past three weeks"but that she r…
From 2004: Blogs are the 21st-century counterpart of the periodical essays of the eighteenth century, the Spectators and Ramblers and Idlers that supplied familiar essayists w…
"Leisure is a form of that stillness that is the necessary preparation for accepting reality; only the person who is still can hear, and whoever is not still, cannot hear." Josef Pieper, …
No picture this time because food was so bad. The kitchen, which prepared the takeaway in front of me, tried hard and worked like crazy, getting it hot and out. " Jeff Weinstein
During the cultural Cold War, President John F. Kennedy delivered eloquent speeches claiming that only "free societies" fostered great creative art. But no one scanning centuries of Western …
The idea that this might be actionable is the new twist. Every song benefits from what preceded it, whether it's a melodic idea, a lyrical motif, a sung rhythm, a drum texture. A forensic an…
It's true that dance history is particularly hard to preserve, and the desire to stay true to a choreographer's original intention when restaging their work is a valid one. But treating thes…
The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra closed its doors today due to worsening air quality caused by the bushfires burning across the country. The gallery's director, Nick Mitzevich, …
The average American household possesses more than 300,000 items. In the UK, one study found that children have on average 238 toys, but only play with 12 of them on a daily basis. We are ad…
She won for The Farewell, the film's only win of the night. She thanked director Lulu Wang " who was not nominated, one of several snubs to women from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association…
And really, did it ever? The problem (in the U.S., at least): "Though exhibitions might have a progressive point of view and artists themselves might be making radical statements, as institu…