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Montreal Symphony’s Next Music Director Is Rafael Payare
A graduate of Venezuela's El Sistema, the 40-year-old music director of the San Diego Symphony begins a five-year term at the Maison symphonique in...
Nina Ananiashvili Sent To Siberia (For Her New Job)
Once one of the biggest stars at both the Bolshoi and ABT, she returned to her native Georgia in 2004 (at President Saakashvili's personal...
After A Year Away, Boston Symphony’s Music Director Is Back
Andris Nelsons, who has been in Europe since before the pandemic started, returned to Symphony Hall to record three programs pairing Beethoven symphonies with...
The Ballet World In Degas’s Paintings Was A Mean, Sordid Place
"In Paris, its success was almost entirely predicated on lecherous social contracts. Sex work was a part of a ballerina's reality, and the city's...
‘One Of Last Great Shared Texts In Our Culture’ (And It’s A 70-Year-Old Comic...
"In a highly polarized culture … the most recent and arguably final example of a great American work of art loved broadly and...
Ellen Burstyn On Her Fame (She’s Been *Very* Fortunate)
"It was never really my intention to be a movie star," says the actress, who's probably about to get her seventh Oscar nomination at...
What New Anti-Money-Laundering Rules Will Mean For The U.S. Art And Antiquities Market
One of the provisions added to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021 makes antiquities dealers subject to the Bank Secrecy Act. One of...
Could Percussion Ensembles Become The String Quartets Of The 21st Century?
After all, "in 2009, critic Allan Kozinn declared in The New York Times, 'If you think about it, drums are the new violins,' pointing...
How Pete Docter Is Healing Pixar After #MeToo And #TimesUp
Things might have seemed iffy for the multibillion-dollar animation powerhouse after its founding creative director, John Lasseter, abruptly left in 2017 amid allegations of...
‘Obscenities, Inanities And Treason’: A Critic On The Riot At The U.S. Capitol
Philip Kennicott: "The whole drama, the body language, the flags and the onslaught, was borrowed from other dramas — genuine displays of revolutionary fervor...
MD High Court Rules Rap Lyrics Can Be Used As Evidence Against Defendant
"Three weeks before trial, Montague used a jailhouse telephone to record a rap verse, which was then uploaded to Instagram. , the State...
The Stage 100 For 2021 Honors British Theatre’s Response To COVID
"Arts workers in the NHS, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, actor Michael Balogun and theatre company 20 Stories High are among those recognised in this...
Parisian Billionaire’s Museum Is, At Last, Ready To Open
"At 84, the billionaire François Pinault will finally realise a 20-year plan to build a private museum for his contemporary art collection in Paris....
Orbán Gov’t In Hungary Fans Rightist Backlash Against Black Lives Matter Artwork
"Commentators on pro-government television chatshows threatened to pull the statue down if it was erected, and compared it to putting up a monument to...
Why Doesn’t The Entertainment Biz Give Proper Credit To Its Choreographers?
The Emmys and Tonys give their Best Choreography trophies without the TV cameras running; the Oscars don't even have a category for dancemakers, and...
Getting the Question(s) Right
As a blogger, I think I’m supposed to begin the New Year with reflections and projections. But the traumas of 2020 are still too...
Analyzing The Fallout From The New York Times’s ‘Caliphate’ Podcast
The Peabody- and Pulitzer-winning audio series lost much of its luster (and gave up its awards) when its primary subject was revealed to be...
Who Exactly Invented The Alphabet, And When?
The Sumerians had cuneiform and the Egyptians hieroglyphics, both complex and difficult to master, but who developed the system where each character represents a...
A New Print Magazine (!) About Theatre Is Here
"The folks behind Encore Monthly, a brand new magazine about theatre that just published its first issue …, think the time is ripe to...
How ‘American Dirt’ Went From Hot Title To PR Fiasco And Still Became A...
Despite the disastrous rollout of a book that had been advance-hyped by some as a Grapes of Wrath-level work of literature, Jeanine Cummins's thriller...
Squatters Invade Site Of Oldest City In Americas And Threaten To Kill Archaeologists
The place is Caral, estimated to be 5,000 years old and now a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Peruvian coastal desert about 125...
Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59
" was an aspiring actor and stand-up comic who began writing fiction in his mid-30s and shaped a witty, conversational and sometimes graphic prose...
Film Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Eligible For Golden Globes And SAG Awards But Not...
Disney bought the rights to the specially shot and edited footage of the Broadway production and planned to release it in movie theaters —...
To Save Itself, San Francisco Art Institute Might Sell Its Diego Rivera Mural To...
The long-financially-strapped school — which shut itself down last March, only to reverse that decision a month later after raising $3 million — has...
The Current State Of Lockdowns Around Europe
Rules vary quite a bit between the eight countries covered here. The Netherlands, which has seen a huge surge in cases, is quite strict;...