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TikTok " which is owned by Beijing-based startup ByteDance " has been repeatedly criticized by US politicians who accused the short-form video app of being a threat to national security beca…
Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind. " Aeon
Extraordinary times need astonishing remedies. In this very rich country, private wealth has soared to six times the value of annual GDP. So take a deep breath and jump in. A once-in-a-lifet…
On June 12, the U.K.-based cinema giant had called off its planned $2.1 billion takeover of Cineplex, which would have created one of the world's largest cinema companies with more than 11,2…
But the orchestra says it will look for ways to perform in smaller ensembles. TSO musicians will also continue to perform virtual concerts. Since the start of the pandemic, musicians a…
"[Roselyne] Bachelot, 73, is returning to politics after eight years working as a commentator in radio and television. Prior to that, she served as the minister of ecology and sustainable de…
For now, it's a small-scale relaunch: only 600 audience members in a roughly 2,000-seat house (so social distancing can be maintained) and chamber music rather than full-fledged opera. There…
"The union, which represents 51,000 actors and stage managers around the country, said it had given the green light to two summer shows in the Berkshires region of Western Massachusetts: an …
A native of Bermuda who settled in the UK after World War II, he performed " "against the odds," he once said " to perform in 40 feature films as well as numerous TV movies and series. "His …
Elizabeth Alexander of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: "We were going to do it anyway, [but in] this moment … it seems very clear … that we all need to be thinking very sharply about ho…
"An alumnus has filed a suit to save a fresco at the University of Kentucky that depicts enslaved people; a Black artist whose work is shown with it also wants the mural to stay." " The New …
"Our sales go up with political and economic turmoil and down during times of prosperity," says Jake Stevens of Verso. "It's really amazing to see all the different types of books that we ex…
Of course, Zoom is not the answer to saving the arts for the digital generation, but it does pose the question: Why don't we have better alternatives? For many institutions, fear that improv…
"In September 2018, a devastating fire ravaged Brazil's National Museum [in Rio de Janeiro]. Now, yet another Brazilian cultural institution " the Federal University of Minas Gerais' Natural…
Congratulations! Your MFA in directing is about to be put to good use, effectively proving your father wrong about your job prospects. Your firm grasp of Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory, not…
"San Jose Dance Theatre [has] announced that it [is] launching a professional ballet company, as well as a trainee program and a new pre-professional training division. This is good news for…
How can one story simultaneously broadcast a contemptible message of myopic reverence for America's Founding Fathers to some, while others take from it an equally powerful repudiation of eve…
"Avatar: The Last Airbender … first ran from 2005 to 2008 on Nickelodeon, and swiftly made a name for itself as a politically resonant, emotionally sophisticated work " one with a sprawlin…
FDR's Works Progress Administration was the closest Washington had come to emulating European arts subsidies. At the same time, the New Deal made a devil's pact with race " and the WPA was n…
If we are experts in music, we need to know about now. Imagine a scientist who said: 'You know I only repeat the experiments of the 19th century. I've really worked at them. I get fantastic …
Among the at-home dances I've seen recently, one strikes me as truly suitable to performers who have to be isolated: Anna Sokolow's 1955 Rooms, recreated for the pandemic as Rooftop Rooms. "…
In my Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I pay tribute to Ennio Morricone and Johnny Mandel. Here's an excerpt.
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"Writing a good movie brings a writer about as muc…
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Mr. Harriman"I never got used to calling him Dick, not even after I grew up, moved to New York, and became a full-time critic of the arts"was the most genial of impresarios, a…
"As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair."
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Continue reading Alman…
When Michelangelo turned seventy, as he does at the beginning of Michelangelo, God's Architect, he had nineteen more years to live, every one of them spent at work. As dear friends died and …
