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"Williams is a courtly, soft-voiced, inveterately self-effacing man of eighty-eight. He is well aware of the extraordinary worldwide impact of his "Star Wars" music"not to mention his scores…
"Kusama's enormous popularity stems not just from the transformative experience of her photogenic art or its digital reach, but from her compelling personal narrative as well [as her] cultur…
The growth in nonfiction stands in contrast to fiction. Despite the publication of highly anticipated novels such as Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, sales fell to £582m in 2019, down 5.…
"A foreign correspondent who wrote books about terrorism and international intrigue" " he worked at The Washington Post and Newsweek for many years and at his death was world news editor of …
Cathy Berberian performs her own Stripsody, for solo voice:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Frid…
"If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one."
John Galsworthy, Swan Song
Continue reading Almanac: John Galsworthy on the future at About Last Night.
Netflix's once heavily guarded vault of secret statistics has slowly opened up over the last couple of years, a gradual juicy reveal of viewer habits with some major caveats. " Irish Times
Laszlo Surmeyan danced lead male roles before becoming, in 1986, one of the company's first principal character artists. This season has marked his farewell to the company after a remarkable…
"It's not an uninteresting moment to be part of CalArts," said dance dean Dimitri Chamblas. "The school is ready to re-question, reinvent … innovating in this particular moment of time " i…
The coronavirus pandemic and the administration's botched response to it are damaging the engine of American innovation in three major ways: The flow of talented people from overseas is slow…
"Social movements like #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo have started important conversations about an industry with entrenched disparities. With that in mind, we asked entertainers" " actors Ali St…
The Authors Guild said its members had lost on average 43% of their regular income since the start of the crisis. The Freelancers union said over 80% of its members were reporting loss of in…
Michael Kimmelman: "With one in four American adults living with disabilities, designing for accessibility and diversity should hardly be considered a chore or just a compliance issue. It's …
It took a pandemic to stop the gluttonous consumption of other places, trips that relied centrally on the have-nots"armies of hotel workers, cleaners, food preparers, bartenders, pool attend…
Emily Powell: "In some ways, it's hard to say, because our trends have completely evaporated. Before the pandemic, I could have told you, 'Oh, the first sunny day, and this month will look l…
Howard Reich: "Should the organization succeed in presenting live events, it will deliver us from the current deluge of online performances by every musician who happens to own a smart phone…
"They parked all too easily; slung their fold-up camp chairs over their shoulders; and waited obediently in a socially distanced line to enter the grounds, cracking jokes behind their masks.…
"By midnight [of the first day, July 20], cumulative nationwide gross takings totalled $502,000. … Earlier in the day, state media had reported that the total included more than $150,000 o…
The Stuttgart Ballet is performing a program of solos, duos, a trio, and a socially distanced adaptation of Maurice Béjart's Bolero for 249 people in the theatre and 1,000 cars at a drive-i…
It all played out over the weekend on Julia Bullock's Facebook page, where David Tucker began a spat with a couple of hostile comments about the protesters detained by Federal agents in Port…
"Dubbed Frick Madison, the space will serve as a temporary home for the historic collection while the grounds of the Henry Clay Frick House on Manhattan's Upper East Side undergo an extensiv…
"Troy Powell, the 51-year-old artistic director of Ailey's junior touring company and a teacher at The Ailey School in New York City, was dismissed following an investigation commissioned by…
As COVID-19 rages on, the star jazz pianist was more than a little nervous about performing indoors in a small venue, even one as out of the way as the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, P…
Trained at the Paris Opera Ballet, she became an international star in the title role of Carmen by her husband, choreographer Roland Petit (for whom she continued to dance for decades, somet…
If there's one lesson to be learned from the pandemic, it's the benefits of flexibility. In a matter of months, we've converted parking spaces into cafés, restaurants into food pantries, cl…
