Newly-Discovered John Singer Sargent Portrait On View At Paris’s Musée d’Orsay
The striking 1882 portrait Madame O’Connor reveals how Sargent was already experimenting with some of the same styling ideas that would go on to define...
For The First Time In 53 Years, Manhattan Theater Club Has A New Artistic...
On December 1, Nicki Hunter, who’s currently the company’s associate artistic director, will take the helm from Lynne Meadow, who grew MTC from a...
Jacob’s Pillow To Present Its First-Ever Fall Performances
Just months after most of the flagship summer festival was cancelled following the workplace death of a crew member, the dance mecca is hosting...
Lear deBessonet’s Number-One Goal For Lincoln Center Theater
“The work we make here I want it to be something that anyone of any background — whether they are visiting New York City...
Poll: More Americans Prefer To See New Movies By Streaming Than In Theatres
About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past...
Indie Filmmaker Henry Jaglom Dead At 87
As one biographical blurb put it, “Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and the only true maverick of American cinema,...
What’s Ari Shapiro Doing Next After Leaving NPR? He Honestly Does Not Know
“There’s no big reveal. Maybe the reason people just assume that there’s some big next thing is that they can’t imagine that you would...
How To Test Whether An Argument Is Valid
An argument is essentially a collection of sentences. One of the sentences is the ‘conclusion’, and all the rest are the ‘premises’. The conclusion...
What Propelled The Rise Of Civilization? War
Ultrasociality was the secret of survival in this perpetual arms race, making it the ultimate military technology — or war the ultimate social technology....
The Movie Hospital — Where Damaged Movies Go To Be Reborn
Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in...
Making The Case For Fra Angelico
“Fra Angelico,” which opens Friday and runs through Jan. 25, is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year. Bringing together more than 140 works...
Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Decline
"Although cities develop new activities and abandon old ones, they do so in a way that keeps their coherence constant. This suggests that such...
Harvard Has Been Quietly Dismantling DEI Programs
Over the last several months, Harvard has made significant changes to identity-focused programming — eliminating or rebranding entire programs abruptly and with minimal, if...
Higher Ticket Sales, Younger Audiences, Artistic Stability, Successful Fundraising — Things Are Looking Up...
The situation wasn’t good for the orchestra in the ‘00s and ‘10s: the messy opening of the Kimmel Center, difficulties with its conductors, musician...
How Architects Are Using AI To Transform The Creative Process
“Instead of having to go build a prototype physically or a model room, you can take people on this journey and then make the...
On America’s 250th Birthday: Where’s The Pittsburgh Symphony’s American Music?
Of the symphony’s 20 classical subscription concerts, only two of them feature American works in those all-important, major-work slots. Both of those concerts will...
Iceland Tries To Make Peace With The Tourism Boom It Sought Out In The...
In 2010, to boost an economy still reeling from a 2008 banking crisis, Iceland’s government took advantage of the global attention brought by a...
Merriam-Webster Adds More Than 5,000 Words To Its Collegiate Dictionary
The 12th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update. To make room for the new words (including “hard...
Chinese Distributor Altered Australian Film To Make Gay Male Couple Straight
Early this month, moviegoers who saw preview screenings of the horror movie Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, posted on Chinese social media...
A Donald Trump-And-Jeffrey Epstein Statue Appears On, And Disappears From, DC’s National Mall
“The bronze-painted installation, titled Best Friends Forever, depicts the two men smiling at each other, each with an arm and leg raised as if in...
Houston Symphony Extends Music Director Juraj Valčuha‘s Contract
The 49-year-old Slovak conductor, previously chief conductor of Italy’s RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, took up the position...
NJ PBS To Close Down Next Summer
The contract between the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and New York City PBS station WNET — which has operated NJ PBS since 2011,...
Ballet Dancer Sues London Police For Stomping On His Foot And Ending His Career
“Alexander Loxton, who played the ‘older Billy’ in the West End musical Billy Elliot as well as dancing with the Royal Ballet …, says he suffered a career-wrecking...
Drunk Bats, Lizards Eating Pizza, And Cows Painted With Zebra Stripes: The 2025 Ig...
In addition to prizes presented in ten categories, the 35th first annual award ceremony — the theme: digestion — featured appearances by actual Nobel...
UK Music Venues Are Dying. Might A BYOB Business Model Save Them?
“Some clubs are charging £5 for a ticket, you get to the bar and it’s £12 for a double,” meaning cash-strapped students will stay...
