Art and Culture

San Francisco Ballet artistic director Tamara Rojo is known for taking risks. She says that, with the exception of…
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The backlash surrounding Lupita Nyong’o’s casting as Helen of Troy — and her sister Clytemnestra — in the upcoming epic “The Odyssey” has quickly evolved into another online culture-war battle over race, beauty and representation in…
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The Twomblys’ granddaughter, Maia, discovered the negatives – and she has a new appreciation of the photographer: “I remember her now not as an 80-year-old woman, but as a 30-year-old. It’s like she is no longer my grandmother but…
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An imposing new figure is greeting visitors inside the main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in South Kensington. Standing on one side of the domed hall, across from the galleries dedicated to medieval and Renaissance…
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This Week’s Highlights: Artists this week were busy with the past — and the political forces around them were busy editing it. Davóne Tines’s operatic adaptation of Langston Hughes’s 1931 monologue The Black Clown…
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Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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About Several books of poems have been published in recent years by Moloko Print, Statdlichter Presse, Phantom Outlaw Editions, and Cold Turkey … The agenda is just what it says: news of arts, media & culture delivered with…
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A long contentious battle over the future direction of NPR affiliate WLRN-FM Miami (91.3) has been…
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Previously chief artistic officer at Santa Fe Opera, Lomelí — who had an 11-year career as a tenor — has spent more than a decade over the years working with The Dallas Opera as consultant, artistic administrator, and founding director…
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Timeline’s new theater complex is at 5035 N. Broadway in Uptown, in the stretch north of Lawrence and south of Foster Avenue. The Argyle stop on the CTA Red Line is a block away. It’s a $46 million project built within the shell of a…
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