The World’s Biggest Arts Event Returns — But Has It Learned To Manage The...
A record-breaking 3841 Fringe shows were registered in 2019, consequently, like many in Edinburgh I enjoyed having ‘my’ city back in the summer of...
A Makeover Of A San Diego Contemporary Museum Defies Critics’ Concerns
The redesign, led by the firm’s founder, Annabelle Selldorf, has gracefully unified a jumble of buildings from various eras, added 30,000 square feet of...
Are Netflix’s Glory Days Over?
Globally Netflix announced it expected to add only 2.5 million new subscribers in the first three months of the year, well down on the...
Flameout: When Pop Stars’ Careers Suddenly End
The writing on the wall is only easy to read in hindsight. At the time, it’s all a blur. - The Guardian
What Makes The Difference Between A Dialect And A Language? Depends On Who’s Answering...
For governments, the quip that "a language is a dialect with an army and navy" is more-or-less true — so Czech and Slovak, Hindi...
How The World Is Uncoupling From Russian Artists And Culture
Few places now seem to epitomise Russia’s cultural decoupling from the west better than the large, empty walls of GES-2, created as Moscow’s answer...
A Critic’s Lament For The Humana Festival Of New American Plays
Jeremy Gerard: "There are so many reasons to mourn its passing, but I will dedicate my Kaddish to this: We critics tend to be...
The New York Times Names Its Next Top Editor
Joseph F. Kahn, currently managing editor (the number-two position in the newsroom), and previously Beijing bureau chief and then international editor, will succeed Dean...
Ballet Companies All Do “Swan Lake”. What Makes One Version Different From Another?
"The story is old, the steps are old, and that's all part of Swan Lake's endurance – it's a classical ballet. So how does...
American Conductor Quits Post At Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre
“There’s no way I could ever be in denial of what is happening in Ukraine,” he said during a series of interviews over the...
“Spain Is Ugly”, Says An Editor At The Country’s Largest Newspaper
Andrés Rubio, travel editor at El País, has just published a book arguing that Spain's natural beauty and historic cities and towns have been...
At Most American Universities, The Struggle Over Ideas Is Not Free-Speech-Versus-Woke Censorship. Not At...
Lucas Mann, an English professor at a UMass branch campus: "For a professor at a school like mine, ... the trick isn't convincing students...
Hundreds Of Italy’s Historic Theatres Are Closed And Becoming Derelict
"428 in all are closed, half of which are publicly owned. ... The (Ministry of Culture) has financed €420 million for performances in 2022,...
Really Bad Look: San Antonio Symphony Fires Music Director Emeritus For Conducting His Orchestra
The orchestra's board made the surprise decision — the stated cause being breach of contract — after Lang-Lessing announced that he will conduct the...
Culture-War Censorship Bleeds From School Libraries Into Public Libraries
"Conservative activists in several states, including Texas, Montana and Louisiana have joined forces with like-minded officials to dissolve libraries' governing bodies, rewrite or delete...
The New York Times Appoints A Classical Music Editor
Rachel Saltz, who joined the newspaper in 2003 and became dance editor in 2015, will now supervise classical music coverage as well. Her predecessor,...
A Painting Languishing On A Rural Australian School’s Wall Turns Out To Be A...
The artwork spent 150 years at a school in the Blue Mountains that's now owned by the National Trust of Australia, which sent the...
Composer Harrison Birtwistle, 87
Birtwistle's work was widely championed by many notable conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Christoph von Dohnányi and Oliver Knussen, as well as soloists...
Pianist Radu Lupu, 76
Lupu had retired from public performances in 2019, after several years of canceling many engagements due to poor health, and had not recorded since the mid-1990s....
What’s The Point Of Canceling Russian Artists?
"Cultural boycotting as an acceptable collateral consequence of war is egregious. There’s no reason to discriminate against individuals. Thousands in Russia, as well as...
Ann Hutchinson Guest, 103, Specialist In Dance Notation
Hutchinson Guest was knowledgeable about a number of dance notation systems, which seek to preserve choreography as its creators intended rather than relying on...
Artists, Musicians Seek To Overturn California Law On Binding Contracts
The Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act would overhaul California’s Seven Year Statute, removing a damages provision that discourages artists from leaving record deals...
AI Is Getting Awfully Good At Writing. This Has Big Implications
It turns out that with enough training data and sufficiently deep neural nets, large language models can display remarkable skill if you ask them...
Great Bookstores: The 130-Year-Old Pasadena Icon
By 1915, Vroman’s could count traveling dignitaries, engineers, scientists, men of finance and New York book editors as customers. Anticipating their requests, the store...
Here We Go Again — Is The Shroud Of Turin Real?
This week sees the release of a new film, Who Can He Be?, in which David Rolfe argues that, far from the shroud being a definite...
