Art and Culture

Another public media outlet is instituting layoffs and job cuts to offset a budget shortage. San…
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When PEN America celebrated its 100th birthday two years ago, it was a rousing if sober celebration of a nimble defender of free expression around the world.Once a small writers group best known for its staunch defense of imperiled…
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“A French court on Tuesday acquitted film director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager. … She sued for defamation after Polanski called her…
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison has responded to a…
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Amsterdam concert hall cancels Israeli group's shows over protest plans | NL Times …
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“The Kirkland (Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts) will become a curatorial department to the Denver Art Museum,” explains DAM director Christoph Heinrich. “The unique situation is, of course, that this is a…
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When the curtain rises Saturday evening on Los Angeles Opera’s “Turandot,” composer Giacomo Puccini’s last work will feature the L.A. debut of the production’s biggest star: monumental stage sets designed in the early 1990s by David…
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In Britain’s bucolic Cotswolds region, the arrival of summer is typically marked by a migration. Specifically, the return of a rarefied group to grand country houses in counties like Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire, where preparations…
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Perhaps no single person has done more to buoy up classical ballet in contemporary culture than Benjamin Millepied, the choreographer for Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 thriller Black Swan. He was already a star among balletomanes thanks to his…
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While a student in The Juilliard School’s Dance Division, Madi Hicks struggled to get through two classes: music and ballroom dance. “I’m tone-deaf. And I don’t count music well,” she says. Though now a successful choreographer and…
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