04/24/2024. When Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, asked director Lileana Blain-Cruz what she wanted to stage, she didn’t need any time to think about her answer: “El Niño.” A couple of years ago, she had already been h...

04/24/2024. “In the West, you have no idea.” So begins Peter Morgan’s play “Patriots,” which opened Monday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. The line is spoken by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, referring to the foods, sights and mus...

04/24/2024. In 1995, 14 wolves were delivered by truck and sled to the heart of Yellowstone National Park, where the animal had long been absent. Others followed. Since then, a story has grown up, based on early research, that as the wolves increased in numbe...

04/24/2024. The notion of creating a safe space for an audience to experience a work of theater tends to provoke the tough-guy purists, because it sounds like coddling. Shouldn’t the stage be a place of daring, unhampered by any content revelations that mig...

04/24/2024. Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series, “Persepolis,” about growing up in and leaving Tehran, Iran, won her international acclaim and millions of book sales, turned away from the form two decades ago and hadn’t looked back since. ...

04/24/2024. There’s something in the American Southwest that not only calls out to generations of artists, but has enabled some of the greatest American and European painters to ascend to the realm of visionary. In the early and middle part of the last cent...

04/24/2024. BLUM announced the representation of New York-based artist Ryan Sullivan on the occasion of his first solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation also marks the artist’s first solo ...

04/24/2024. Sometime in the late 18th century, a sign appeared outside a shambly butcher’s hut in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon: “The Immortal Shakspeare was born in this house,” it announced, using a then common spelling of his name. De...

04/25/2024. Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas. An exhibition of their work will...

04/25/2024. “Not tonight,” Cait Bailey told a photographer trying to take her picture inside an area cordoned off for special guests at a Louis Vuitton party at the Miami Beach Convention Center. “Not this time.” Bailey, 34, suggested he i...

04/25/2024. In 2023, the seashores, lakeshores, battlefields, historic sites, monuments and more that make up the National Park Service had 325.5 million visits, an increase of 4% from the year before. The National Park Service director, Charles Sams III, pra...

04/25/2024. San Francisco’s top governing body spent time Tuesday discussing what most residents surely would not consider a major priority for the city: whether Julie Park and Tom McDonald can raise the roof of their $2.1 million Victorian home by 7 feet, ...

04/25/2024. LAUNCH LA with the generous support of the Beverly Connection and through an Artist Project Grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs presents RE: PURPOSE. This public art...

04/25/2024. The creative team behind the 1999 hit horror film “The Blair Witch Project” is calling for increased retroactive compensation for the movie’s three stars, as well as “meaningful consultation” on an upcoming reboot. The req...

04/25/2024. A disability lawyer is a legal professional offering services to people submitting SSDI claims and appealing for denied benefits. Although appealing for the SSDI is extremely easy, approvals take time. It is important to prove that all your disabilit...