Art and Culture

Two weeks after Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Berlin’s senate for culture commissioned a legal report to establish whether a cultural centre in the German capital’s Neukölln district had violated the city’s…
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It is the quintessential novel of the hedonistic jazz age, a roaring 20s story about the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby became an enduring classic, inspiring films and…
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Surplus funding of $3 million from Metro’s FY23 budget, on top of $2 million that was already promised, will be directed to Metro Arts to pay off a “mounting deficit” and fully fund grant commitments made to independent artists…
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BERLIN — Museums are strange. Serving as one of few establishments claiming to represent both the past and the future, their colossal mandate warrants scrutiny, more so in Berlin than in most other places. For a couple of decades after…
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His mother, a Russian Jewish immigrant from Odessa, was devoted to reading and to seeing that her sons succeeded.Mr. Serra drew incessantly from an early age — in part, he admitted, to compete for his parents’ attention with his…
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The resignation of Esa-Pekka Salonen as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony is dominating classical-music news because Salonen made no secret why he quit: a falling out with the board over his elaborate artistic plans and…
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A side note on names. “Chris” — for “Christine,” for “Christ” — is self-evidently ironic: Chris is an anti-savior. “Carrie White” is an interesting combination. “Carrie,” as King takes pains to point out, is not a nickname for Carol or…
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The executive team of ABA comes from Europe and the US, the world of the arts and the world of business. We have run major arts organizations, advised the largest corporations in the world, worked with corporate leadership teams in…
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“Mao” is missing.Orange Coast College is asking for the public’s help in locating an Andy Warhol art piece depicting Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong that was stolen from campus. Orange Coast College authorities were notified last…
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It didn’t even last 24 hours on stage. In 1832, The King Amuses Himself — a play by Victor Hugo — premiered in Paris. It was banned the next day. It couldn’t be performed in France, but the text was still published. It ended up in the…
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