An Opera Production In South Dakota That Shows What Opera In A Community Can...
The most enthusiasm was reserved for Delta David Gier, who was closing out the South Dakota Symphony’s season with one of the ensemble’s great...
Auction Of Buddha Relic Gems Suspended After India Threatens Legal Action
The Piprahwa gems were discovered on the estate of an English landowner in India in 1898; they were inside reliquaries labeled as containing the...
Soprano Picked To Lead Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
Patricia Racette, who made her debut at the Met in 1995, is known for her portrayals of Puccini heroines. She has also ventured into...
Our Depopulation Crisis
Fewer working-age adults entails a shrinking tax base, even as the need for public services swells. Education, healthcare, infrastructure, public safety and welfare will...
Bewildered And Frustrated, Hollywood Doesn’t Know How Trump’s Tariffs Will Work (Or Even if...
How would tariffs on overseas film production work when the industry's so internationalized? Whom would be charged, at what point? Are such tariffs even...
How Do You Tariff Foreign Films? Here’s A Better Way To Help The Movie...
While tariffs are unlikely to have the effect Trump claims he wants, a federal tax credit program for filmmakers—something California politicians spent years advocating...
Trump’s Kennedy Center CEO Attacks Lin-Manuel Miranda And “America’s Got Talent”
Ric Grenell complained after Monday’s episode revealed that Miranda, who has declined to perform at the venue after its Trump-led makeover, will be mentoring contestants in...
The Uncertain Future Of One Of The Smithsonian’s Most Popular Museums
Now it is in the cross-hairs of President Trump, who issued an executive order in March that seeks to address what he described as the Smithsonian’s...
George Clooney’s “Good Night, And Good Luck” Breaks Another Broadway Record
“(The show) brought in $4,003,481.50 last week, becoming the first Broadway play to surpass $4 million in a single week. The play also broke its own...
How LACMA’s New Building Will Change The Art Inside
The discussion offered a glimpse into the animated debate that the museum’s 45 curators have been engaged in over the last five years, reimagining...
How Spotify Came To Own The Music
If you spend enough time on Spotify, it’s easy to sense, inchoately, that the platform is taking advantage of everyone involved. - The Nation
Reckless Tourist At Colosseum In Rome Survives Getting Impaled On Metal Fence
Last Friday, a 47-year-old man scaled a metal fence at an entrance to the ancient landmark, then fell and was impaled on one of...
The Louvre’s Leaky Roof Nearly Damaged A 13th-Century Painting
“A powerful hailstorm breached the Louvre’s roof (on Saturday) afternoon, causing water to drip into the Salle Rosa room hosting its headline exhibition, ‘A...
House Republicans Propose Giving Kennedy Center $257 Million For Repairs
“A House committee approved a budget proposal last week that called for allocating $257 million to the Kennedy Center for capital repairs and other...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper is Sold, Ending Legal Struggle
“On April 28, a bankruptcy court ruled that the (Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) will be sold for $1.4 million to McFarlin Building LLC....
Soprano Patricia Racette Is Next Artistic Director Of Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
Racette has a long history with the company: she first performed there in 1993 and has returned numerous times since; she made her debut...
Percival Everett’s “James” Was Not Initially One Of The Pulitzer Fiction Finalists
Here’s what happens when the Pulitzer board either (a) considers none of the three finalists submitted by the jury in a category a worthy...
Houston Ballet Selects A Baryshnikov Protégée As Its New Executive Director
Sonja Kostich studied at Baryshnikov’s School of Classical Ballet and was 17 when he invited her to join ABT. She went on to dance...
Trying Out A New Finale For “Don Giovanni” — Mozart’s Requiem
At Berlin's Komische Oper, stage director Kirill Serebrennikov has replaced the opera’s moralizing final sextet with an epilogue: a solo dancer represents the dead...
How JMW Turner Became The Painter We Know
A fellow painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon, thought that “Turner’s pictures always look as if painted by a man who was born without hands” who...
Is The Future of Theatre Immersive?
"I think it's an empowering situation when participants are able to not just immersive themselves in a world but actually affect that world and,...
Trump Versus The Arts World
Trump has depicted the Kennedy Center as a crumbling building that he will return to its former glory. Never mind that he has offered...
Dara Birnbaum, Video Artist Who Subverted Media Messages, Is Dead At 78
“Hosts of video artists … owe a debt to Birnbaum, who found clever ways of upending the one-way stream of information that pours forth...
France And EU Establish Enormous New Fund To Attract American Researchers
“The role of science in today’s world is questioned. The investment in fundamental, free and open research is questioned. What a gigantic miscalculation,” von...
Beloved Indie Florida Bookstore At Center Of Censorship Fight
Management began reviewing all store materials after receiving a complaint from a customer against profanity on a greeting card. What began as a purge...
