The news could signal a major shift in how France deals with repatriation, which has been a major focus for its president, Emmanuel Macron. Its government had previously resisted such effort…
The satirical group Porta dos Fundos ("Back Door") has made irreverent holiday satires about Jesus Christ before (2018's was The Last Hangover), but this year's Netflix special, The First Te…
She didn't sound offended. She sounded bored. Ninety years ago, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was banned in the United States. Today, a popular literary novel can contain so many oral sex acts t…
"Until quite recently, archaeologists mostly thought about the hardware involved in ancient food " the utensils people cooked with and the pots and beakers they ate and drank from " as well …
At the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Monday night, the performance of the musical had to stop for ten minutes after the actor playing Javert accidentally lit part of the set on fire …
An Austrian government commission found that, at the ballet academy at the Vienna State Opera, "it is clear that children and adolescents are not sufficiently protected from discrimination, …
"The reputation of the orchestra lifts the reputation of the whole region," says the orchestra's CEO, and several business figures say that that reputation has led overseas companies and wor…
Staffers at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, the organization that oversees the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo Mural Diego Rivera, and Museo Tamayo, shut down b…
Laura Miller: "As a book publishing phenomenon, young adult literature entered the decade like a lion. At the beginning of the 2010s, a generation that had grown up obsessed with Harry Potte…
"Perched on a wheeled stool under a bright spotlight [at the National Gallery of Art], [Robert] Price leaned into a 200-year-old marble sculpture carved by Frenchman Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tass…
"America's forbidden composer" is Arthur Farwell (1872-1952), leader of the "Indianists" movement in music. Politically, he seems hopelessly incorrect today. But his significance is not mere…
Many of you will likely have seen the update on Mrs. T that I posted in this space on Monday. It was, as is our custom, a cheery, reasonably optimistic description of what happened to her ov…
In today's Wall Street Journal I offer a brief summary of key trends in American theater during the past decade, part of an ongoing series of reports by the paper's arts critics. Here's a…
The forty-third episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for lis…
Bobby Short and Mabel Mercer perform on PBS in 1972: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
"The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing." William James, "What Pragmatism Means"
Officials at Arts Council England (ACE) said it would start monitoring for the first time next year, adding to the data it collects around gender, ethnicity and disability. Concern is regula…
"As a common language of celebration or eulogy, as a means of expressing collective joy or sorrow, classical music is indeed a dying tongue. Would 2,500 people cram into the nave and transep…
Working in partnership with Paramount Pictures, BBC and ITV, on behalf of a Kuwaiti developer, the team have concocted a perfect vision of little Britain that will bring a tear to even the m…
While some have reacted to this trend with protests of 'art for art's sake', perhaps we should view the increasing focus on the usefulness of the arts as an opportunity. The cultural sector …
"How will we remember the last 10 years? Above all, as a time of crises. During the 2010s, there have been crises of democracy and the economy; of the climate and poverty; of international r…
English Heritage is now asking people to get in touch if they know of an earlier family snap at Stonehenge. The earliest known photograph of Stonehenge, not featuring a family, is thought to…
"For most of his career, he was known as an accompanist, outdated nomenclature that cannot begin to describe his musical sensitivity to the needs of a singer. … His association with singer…
"She will take up the position at the start of 2022 when the orchestra returns to its home at the Sydney Opera House following the two-year closure of the Concert Hall for a major upgrade, i…
"All these prizes are, effectively, marketing exercises. That does not make them bad things … Today, though, artists and judges alike are more attuned to the difficulty in choosing 'the be…