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Residences are such a prominent feature of contemporary creative life that there’s an important gathering, the TransCultural Exchange’s Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts.
Read MoreUPDATE: Either/Orchestra’s 25th anniversary concert comes to New York—an unforgettable confluence of talent revisiting more than two decades of memorable compositions and arrangements.
Read MoreResistance, at least in Boston theater, is futile.
Read MoreOur opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.
Read MoreNot many movies try to wring poignancy out of a distraught man standing in a field, shouting his anguish to the sky, while holding two severed limbs.
Read MoreDramatist and director Wesley Savick faces a number of fascinating but formidable theatrical challenges, and the generally compelling Yesterday Happened (how could it not be, given its story?) takes an honorable, visually striking swipe at the problems.
Read MoreOur expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Read MoreEach month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Cultural Commentary: On the National Arts
There’s nothing benign about what just happened on the banks of the Potomac. Indeed, the president’s move makes history of the most nefarious kind: for the first time, the federal government has hijacked what is supposed to be the nation’s premiere arts institution in an effort to explicitly censor voices and viewpoints it deems undesirable.
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