A central figure in the rise of classical music in the city, Henry supported numerous arts organizations including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera, the Colburn School, L…
The chaotic creativity of remixed internet memes and the new linguistic structures that rapidly evolve from them allow us to express certain states of mind and have others immediately get it…
It is hard to think of a leading critic under fifty. There is no new generation in sight. This is unprecedented. Billington was barely thirty when he began at The Guardian, older than Nighti…
The tourist, on a trip to celebrate his 50th birthday, was visiting an art museum in northern Italy last week when he posed with the statue of a reclining Pauline Bonaparte. Her husband had …
In a book called Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends, Burrows's name was listed under a chapter called "The Worst Novel Ever Published in the English Language.…
Taken en masse, the books paint a damning portrait of the 45th president of the United States. But the sheer volume of unflattering material they contain can have the paradoxical danger of b…
Over the past decade, and at almost every step " from the design competition to the groundbreaking in 2017 " the project was dogged by controversy, subject to congressional hearings and, at …
Having listened to recent online offerings from North America and Europe (where concerts are carefully starting to move back into halls), David Patrick Stearns predicts that "innovation and …
"In addition to their pioneering role as women on the jazz circuit, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were an interracial band in the era of Jim Crow. Their extensive itinerary through…
When experts and pundits can't or won't say 'I don't know', the consequences can be dire. In the short term, bad advice leads to bad decisions. In the context of admitting uncertainty about …
It was a dance moment that went viral: Photos of two young dancers, Ava Holloway and Kennedy George, both 14, turned out and on their toes, each raising a fist against the backdrop of the st…
Aleshea Harris's Is God Is was the last show of the season at theWilma Theater in Philadelphia, and when the shutdown came, there was still time to figure something out. "We then went throug…
"With the calamities facing the world, rebuilding what has been is no longer our most pressing goal " reimagining the future moving forward is. The ever-changing present requires the arts to…
"The more text to which an algorithm can be exposed, and the more complex you can make the algorithm, the better it performs. … The model that underpins [the AI software] GPT-3 boasts 175b…
Here's one instance from last month: "Standing at the base of the three-story pedestal supporting the Confederate general's likeness, [Janine] Bell, the artistic director of Elegba Folklore …
"'Sold down the river.' 'Cakewalk.' 'Master and slave.' American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd by police in M…
"Making waves is what Hunan Broadcasting System does best. … That is striking for an outfit run by the government of a province that is better known as China's largest producer of rice and…
"In recent months, several people working on the committee to revise the body's definition of what a museum is have resigned, and there have been accusations of 'back-alley political games.'…
The vote tally was 181 to 22. "While organizers said there were many reasons behind the union drive, complaints against two Art Museum supervisors provided the movement with energy. Organize…
Anthony Tommasini: "Elements of dismaying ageism run through the chronic bemoaning over the graying of classical and opera audiences, something that bothered me even before I entered this ol…
Martin Di Caro, an award-winning transportation correspondent at Washington's public radio news station from 2012 to 2017, was outrageous enough in hitting on junior employees at WAMU, local…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a PBS webcast of Kenny Leon's 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * PBS continues …
Pablo Picasso paints for the camera in 1949 in a scene from Visit to Picasso, directed by Paul Haesaert: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appea…
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things." G.K. Chesterton, interview, New York Times (November 21, 1930) Continue reading Almanac: G.K. Chesterton on pur…
Showing a courage and candor that's been in short supply among museum officials navigating the choppy waters of racial tensions, political unrest and economic difficulty, Salvador Salort-Pon…