When did audience members become so wanton and disorderly? Since theaters reopened a year and a half ago, reports of fights, vomiting, public urination, public sex, and the verbal and physical abuse...
Read moreThis article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences.At the Queens Museum, they’re getting ready for a show....
Read moreThomas Adès: ‘Dante’Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Nonesuch)It’s a great joy — a relief, even — to revisit a new work and feel just as ardently positive about it as at...
Read moreAnna Wintour, the editor of Vogue and global editorial director of Condé Nast, has been the maestro of every Met Gala since 1999. But this time, it’s personal.Not just because the exhibition...
Read moreApril Stevens, whose rushed recording of “Deep Purple” with her brother, Nino Tempo, became a chart-topping single in 1963 and won a Grammy Award, died on April 17 at her home in...
Read moreThis article is part of our special report on the Art for Tomorrow conference in the Italian cities of Florence and Solomeo.MOMBASA, Kenya — It is a tale of three cities.To the...
Read moreAt the CMT Music Awards this month, the least likely nominee turned into the night’s biggest story.In a room full of country music royalty, the artist Jelly Roll — a 38-year-old face-tattooed...
Read more“I didn’t like her child, actually,” Diana says.Diana’s off-puttingness is partially strategic; it keeps her safe from the harm that other people might cause by getting close. But her brittle-perfectionist facade conceals...
Read moreIt began, of course, with the songs, actual folk music. Well, with Belafonte’s interpolation, which in its varied guises wed acoustic singing with Black spiritual arrangements and the sounds of the islands....
Read moreAlexei Ratmansky was scrolling through social media recently when he came across a startling post.A video showed rehearsals from a production of “The Pharaoh’s Daughter” at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg,...
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