Of course he did many other things in a long life of TV producing " many of them Peanuts-focused " but "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was one of the first and biggest and certainly, along with …
In a country not exactly known for the free flow of ideas, delays and freezes in publishing have changed what's available in China. "Publishing industry insiders describe a near freeze of re…
When Helena Bonham Carter got the call to play Princess Margaret in Season 3 of The Crown, she wasn't sure she could follow the tall Vanessa Kirby, who had just won a BAFTA for the role. The…
"The second decade of the 20th century began at the apex of naivete about the potential for the internet to enhance democracy and improve the quality of life on Earth. By the end of 2019, ve…
"Like all stories, it's just about cats, but none of these stories work without the big issues underneath. Eliot was writing as much about humans as cats; he was writing about humans through…
The banality of encores has long been a frustration for some musicians, but, in recent years, a growing number of notable acts have taken a stand against performing them at all. " Toronto St…
In fact, that's what it was created to do. Installed in response to neighbors' noise complaints following the opening of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport's fifth runway, the Buitenschot Land Art P…
From Noam Chomsky on the responsibility of intellectuals after 9/11, to our forum on why empathy can be a bad thing, the following were all ambitious efforts and help chart a decade of think…
"Every morning, I wake up before dawn to take a walk with my dog around the countryside, before I return to my home (still before dawn) to bake a loaf of bread and write for four hours in my…
"Writing is lonely; directing and acting, if you're overlapping them, is challenging but fun. But producing is just pushing a rock up a hill. And sometimes it rolls over you on the way back …
Yes, every culture that we know of has some kind of music"but do these diverse musics share anything in common, for example in terms of function, affect and content? An extensive ethnographi…
"[Rupi] Kaur's achievement as an artist is the extent to which her work embodies, formally, the technology that defines contemporary life: smartphones and the internet. … I'd argue that ma…
"Egypt's Sunken Cities" helped the museum double its income from program activities to $4.9 million in the year ended June 30. Membership increased 30 percent to 52,102 members, and attendan…
Since 2013, Radio Alwan, which started as community radio in a Syria just breaking out in civil war, broadcast politically neutral news and other programming to Aleppo and Idlib on FM as wel…
"How should museums relate to their surroundings? What are the most meaningful ways for them to connect and work with their communities? … These questions date to the beginning of the comm…
Results from six studies support this idea that focusing on the pursuit of a goal can be helpful in the long term. The researchers encouraged more than 1,600 people who had just achieved a p…
Cymbals are now mainstays of marching bands, drum sets, and orchestral percussion batteries, but they originally came from Ottoman Janissary bands, and Istanbul can be considered their home …
Wags had taken to calling the Met the Necropolitan and said it suffered from hardening of the galleries. The New Yorker sniped that the acting director still wrote with a quill pen and consi…
Even as the topical revue heads toward its final performance on New Year's Eve, it still gets tweaked to reflect current news. (Donald Trump's angry tweet at Greta Thunberg " he said she nee…
A previously unknown groups calling itself the "Popular Nationalist Insurgency Command of the Large Brazilian Integralist Family" has claimed credit for a Christmas Eve incident in which Mol…
"This past year saw no shortage of controversies in both the art world and the real world. And perhaps more than ever before, the distance between those two worlds seemed to collapse, as art…
"The creator of 10 Broadway shows and contributor to several more, Herman won two Tony Awards for best musical: Hello, Dolly! in 1964 and La Cage aux Folles in 1983. He also won two Grammys …
Troy Patterson's choices range from Zadie Smith's essay "Generation Why"?, through Matthew McConaughey's nihilist scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, David Lynch's art show, the Kylo Ren light…
"With technically demanding feats, male ballet training tends to emphasize jumps and batterie. In general, men are more privy to additional allegro combinations at the end of multi gender cl…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Irish Repertory Theatre's off-Broadway revival of Dion Bouciault's London Assurance. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Here's the good news: …