Art and Culture

As the old saying goes, where there's a will, there's a way.   Sadly, the will must have been lacking among administrators at the New York Philharmonic when it came to the matter of whether the $550 million renovation of Lincoln…
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Michael Billington says Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor offers clues to the Bard’s identity (Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor, 20 May). “It could only have been written by…
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The German-born ex-director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt, is still in the fight to become Florence’s next mayor after a first round of voting over the weekend put him firmly in second…
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Previous issues of the Prison Mirror, which has been publishing since 1887, sit on display in the Minnesota…
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Ballet may be ballet no matter the century, but it also needs relevance in the moment. Modern life, either in its horror or euphoria, isn’t separate from the art form. How could it be? A ballet is not just a pretty thing on a stage. It…
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Edmond Public Schools in a battle over books in its school libraries.  The state’s high court in a unanimous decision said Superintendent of Public Instruction…
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece closed down the Acropolis in Athens during the afternoon on Thursday for a second day as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures.The…
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The recent analysis of 16,327 compositions scheduled for performances revealed that 7.5% of works were composed by women (down from 7.7% in the 2021/22 report on the same topic). Of these, 5.8% were composed by white women. Works by…
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When my daughter was born last year, I was fifty-three years old. I’d wanted a child so badly for so long, and her arrival may well be the most wonderful thing ever to happen to me. And yet I…
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Morality takes a hike in Claudio Monteverdi’s final opera, “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.” Bold in its satire and explicit in its sensuality, even more than 350 years after its creation, the work gives its ruthless lovers, Nero and Poppea,…
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