The pressure on ballerinas to maintain extremely thin figures is notorious for leading to eating disorders. The Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, England's second city, is meeting this p…
Reading Mozart's correspondence is like being tugged by an enthusiastic, garrulous friend right into the green room of 18th-century European culture. The cast list extends from Empress Maria…
Marina Harss: "When the CompañÃa Nacional de Danza took the stage at the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in southern Spain on Wednesday, it was in many ways like…
It was called Bookman, started in 1895, and was the only place you could see which books were selling. "Once invented, the best seller could be discussed in literary journals, trade publicat…
"Of the total amount, the government has currently released £880 million ($1.14 billion), which has been split into two funding rounds. The first round of £622 million ($805.3 million)…
"After analysing data from 54 studies conducted on 6,984 participants between 1986 and 2019, [researchers] found music training was ineffective at enhancing cognitive or academic skills, reg…
The study, conducted by outside consultants at the board's request after two major scandals broke earlier this year, "found problems and deficiencies at all levels of the hierarchy " from th…
The company's annual fall festival, much praised ever since its 2017 debut, is off this year; most plans for next season, including Jennifer Higdon's latest opera and Sondra Radvanovsky's ro…
"The ubiquitous app built on short video clips seems frivolous at first, with its lip-synching, dance challenges and goofball celebrities. But this is how a rising generation communicates ac…
A 1965 BBC interview with the British painter Francis Bacon. This was the pilot for a TV series that did not go into production, and the interview was never broadcast. The interviewer is Jul…
"The test of whether a picture is any good"that is to say any good for you, which is the only thing that counts"is not whether it thrills you but whether you can remember it." Maurice Grosse…
In 2014, he secured $17 million from Mrs. O'Donnell to create the institute of art history. In 2017, UTD partnered with the late Margaret McDermott to create the Richard Brettell Award in th…
The move to Freeview, the digital network free to all UK residents, has been under discussion for years and is motivated by "a passion to get as much content to as many people as possible an…
Introduced in 1832, the radical idea was called the National Equitable Labour Exchange " a system of currency built on the idea that labour is the source of all wealth, and that goods should…
Tim Parks: "All of narrative fiction, I've suggested, can be sorted into four grand categories. Each presents a rich world of feeling in which any number of stories can be told and positions…
Netflix dominated the 72nd Emmy Award nominations on Tuesday, breaking the record for the most nominations ever, and a newcomer to the streaming universe, Disney+, scored a nomination in a b…
Anyone concerned with the question of charismatic political leaders necessarily stands in the shadow of Max Weber, the great German sociologist who wrote sketches of the subject not long bef…
"Inside a cavernous steel hut in the middle of Glasgow's Springburn Park, the sweeping arc of keyboards, lids and carved panels has been taking shape … Using mainly upright instruments, wi…
"The 'Theophrastan character' is not often mentioned today, perhaps because it is so little known as a genre. Yet for centuries this was what 'character' meant in literature. A list of famil…
Along with AMC and Cinemark, Regal closed down U.S. sites in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic " which profoundly altered the spring and summer slate. "Wonder Woman 1984" was moved to O…
"A new report [by the RAND Corporation] claims that … the true size of the market in illicit antiquities may be 'much smaller' than is regularly reported. Perhaps more controversially, the…
"Silkroad has to exist outside of Yo-Yo, but Yo-Yo is an inalterable part of Silkroad," said the singer/banjo player/fiddler/opera composer. "Both of those things have to exist at the same t…
Joseph del Pesco, International Director of KADIST: "Sales of art in the US reached $29.9 billion in 2018 … Imagine if just 2 percent of that $29.9 billion did some good. That's 600 millio…
"Dancers are harming themselves trying to achieve the look. The continued preference for ultrathin bodies seems particularly out of step with current cultural conversations around body posit…
PlayPenn doesn't have new leadership yet, but its old leadership is gone. Earlier this week the organization's board accepted the resignation of its founding artistic director, Paul Meshejia…