Art and Culture

Celia Fushille is stepping down after 17 years as artistic director (the first after founder Michael Smuin), passing the reins to Amy Seiwert. “Seeing these artists I’ve worked with for so long, and what Amy is pulling out…
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About the Opportunity National Black Theatre (NBT) seeks a Director of Development with an energetic, entrepreneurial attitude, a collaborative spirit, and a well-founded dedication to and excitement for the mission of this…
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An ode to one of the greatest working-class art forms of our time. Ad Policy Bayley fights IYO SKY for the WWE Women’s Championship during Night Two at Lincoln Financial Field on April 7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…
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Since today is the 120th anniversary of Willem de Kooning’s birthday, I am reminded by my staff of thousands of his fervent efforts “to break the willed articulation of the image.” Which, as it happens, is not dissimilar to the goal of…
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Metro Arts Commission puts Executive Director Daniel Singh on administrative leave | WPLN News …
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“I didn’t have the stamina for Balanchine,” he said. “When you’re onstage, you’re dancing all the time. The first time I danced ‘Square Dance’” — a 1957 Balanchine ballet — “I was dying. I couldn’t breathe.”Lopez, who first saw him dance…
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The Turner Prize, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious visual arts honor, has named the four nominees for this year’s edition, which marks 40 years of the program. The nominees are Claudette Johnson, a Black British artist…
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Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter and tweeting angrily at Elon Musk as if the billionaire would actually notice. Stults’s partner, Daisy Krigbaum, was addicted to Pinterest…
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Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, with a reputation-making power that derived from her fine-grained, impassioned readings, expressed in crystalline prose in The New Yorker and other publications, died…
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which has a history of attracting top conductors, including Fritz Reiner and Leopold Stokowski, announced on Wednesday that its next music director would be Cristian Macelaru, a Romanian-born maestro…
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