I gave the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art a test it was bound to fail by revisiting on the Sunday after Christmas"a tourist-heavy time of year. Below is my report card, along with some …
"Titled Kinotavr. Special Edition as a reference to the Russian national festival Kinotavr, … the festival will run for the first time in Moscow from late January through early February. �…
"The long-term vision is to create a constellation of buildings to address the whole issue of affordable space for artists." " San Francisco Chronicle
Few families contributed as much to modern conservatism, although they did so in different ways. While her husband helped organize an influential network of politicians, think tanks and medi…
For Indigenous Peoples who have lived within their traditional territories for generations, music is a repository of ecological knowledge, with songs embedding ancestors' knowledge, teaching…
The most significant development was the increasing association of yellow with vice and evil " often with the deadly sin of envy (incidentally, though green may be the traditional colour of …
"If we continue to allow the erosion of the human-scale city and long-evolved urbanism on which it depends, then I fear for the future. The first thing needed is a public exhibit of the many…
Though their circulation has been decimated " the once-mighty National Enquirer, which approached 8 million in paid circulation at one point and reached millions more, is down under 180,000 …
"In 1951, the Abstract Expressionist stopped working with galleries and became his own dealer. He continued to paint for nearly three decades, retaining complete authority over his canvases'…
"I like it when the dancing doesn't fall into the easy thing, the cliché, but gives off a whiff of humanity in a new way. This list is limited by what I happened to see this year. These are…
"A nonprofit on the East Side that partnered with public schools, the [Turtle Bay Music School] announced in November that it would be forced to close due to a lack of funding. The entire co…
Children see naturally because they have not already stored up and processed information about how they are supposed to categorize what it is that they are looking at. They puzzle through, n…
The comedy legend talks to David Marchese about what she couldn't do when she was starting out in comedy, marrying Jane Wagner after more than 40 years as a couple, how she almost came out o…
Hyperallergic makes a list of those who "are rendered powerless in a system greatly influenced by the super wealthy and the commercial galleries and vanity museums that serve them." " Hypera…
That was Ishmael Reed's nickname for Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Shawn Wong, and Lawson Fusao Inada, who (on top of their own writing) put together the first major anthology of Asian-Amer…
"It's not so much that canons have been completely obliterated, as [Harold] Bloom and others feared " in any given collection, the old guard and their descendants have remained. But canons h…
"Dance may be a visual art form, but it's tightly intertwined with sound. Even as the field strives to be more inclusive, learning to dance without two fully functioning ears remains a chall…
For all of the people running them, a choir is often not just a choir, but also a social club, a community and a charity. For me, it has become a refuge; I can't check my phone when I am hol…
An unknown attacker lobbed heavy stones at the windows of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig on Tuesday. No one was injured, but two 19th-century stained glass windows and nearly two dozen Art Nou…
"While the charismatic and hilarious Sheldon boasted an impressive résumé that included serving as the music director and sidekick on The Merv Griffin Show for 18 years; releasing 23 album…
Nicholas Serota: "It will be about giving more support to writers, artists, composers at an early stage in their career so that they can make a career and then flourish." " The Guardian
"Why? Actors are clearly a core part of theatre. But, while individual actors have certainly been influential " Mark Rylance has featured prominently in recent years " it is rare for them to…
"Those who do not doubt do not believe. Faith is maintained by resolving doubts, and again resolving those further doubts which are suggested by the resolution of previous doubts." Miguel de…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I write about the different ways in which playwrights make stage dialogue sound "realistic." Here's an excerpt. *  *  * Step…
George Balanchine's version of The Nutcracker, performed by the New York City Ballet and originally telecast by CBS in 1958 as an episode of Playhouse 90. The score is by Tchaikovsky. …