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A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the bimonthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or d…
Dave Frishberg's "The Difficult Season," sung and played by Frishberg at Lincoln Center in 2002: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space…
"The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers." W.H. Auden, foreword to The Vik…
This was the year of our national discontent and contentiousness, as manifested in the artworld by the rallying cry, "Decolonize Museums!" " Lee Rosenbaum
The Executive Director will provide imaginative leadership toward the development and realization of the Festival's world-class artistic and intellectual programs.
From "The Big Short" to Naomi Klein to "Normal People," a list of books that made an impact. " The Guardian
For Franzo and Marina King, who had begun taking Coltrane's music and ideas seriously as a world view, he had not passed away. He had merely ascended. Franzo had always imagined becoming a p…
In 2012, Burning Man organizers reimbursed the BLM nearly $1.4 million in expenses, a 60 per cent year-over-year increase, though the event population increased by only 4 per cent that year,…
Bailing out the recycling industry may sound like a benign proposal. The funds might even be a wise infusion at such a precarious moment for scrap buyers, processors, and sellers. But the ha…
He performed at the Berlin State Opera in his native East Germany and at Milan's La Scala, as well as a 25-year run at the famed Salzburg festival. One of his specialties was performing and …
The issue is that the exterior of the 12th-century structure was under renovation when the fire broke out on April 15, and 50,000 tubes of scaffolding that were in place at the time are stil…
In response to a quip about Cosby that Murphy made during the opening monologue of his return to Saturday Night Live, the now-jailed rapist's publicist said that Murphy "was given his freedo…
"The country's media regulatory body said Disney removed the clip to avoid the film being given a higher age rating. It is PG13, which means parental guidance is advised for children under 1…
"In 2019, there was a paradigm shift in how social media, and pop culture broadly, perceived gay women. It was as if lesbian culture " its memes, language, and stories " was suddenly mainstr…
And that opera, Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), was composed by a woman " Pauline Viardot, remembered mostly for being one of the century's great mezzos. Amy Lorette Damron Kyle, a m…
"As I rose through the ranks, people would ask me, 'Did the art background and training have an effect?' There is something to that. By training in the art field, your brain tends to adapt a…
"When the American Library Association introduced the Caldecott in 1938, the United States was an industrial giant but still a cultural stepchild of Europe. … So librarians wanted to jump-…
High tech video billboards are multiplying in city spaces across the world, woven into the fabric of everyday life, from ribbon videos down escalators on the London underground, to French me…
"For directors, they provide a way to evaluate dancers they might not otherwise see. For dancers, they expedite the cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming auditions process. But multi-comp…
Not only was literature politicised: sometimes it seems that any cultural initiative had the secret services of the US or the USSR behind it. We find the Soviet Union was backing the Scienti…
After Rachel Cossar retired from Boston Ballet, she started a class called Choreography in the Kitchen to teach restaurant workers healthy ways to lift, bend and reach with poise. Then she w…
You don't have to watch many of these movies to see the bad rap that cities get. Before our protagonist (usually a single woman) gets enchanted by twinkling lights and prop Christmas trees, …
"I don't want to be Jasmine. She's one of my favorite princesses, but I don't want to perpetuate that stereotype: completely powerless, or overly sexualized," says the Baltimore-born daughte…
Humor is about connection"shared references, shared emotions, shared perspectives. The best comedians both surprise and unite the audience. They create a moment. But moments keep coming. Ove…
"Neither the identity of a murdered man found wrapped in an electric blanket by a busy [Dutch] motorway in August 1991 nor that of his killer have emerged in the decades since the discovery …
