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Institutions must evolve, not simply to survive but to command their futures. While I feel far too removed from the Corcoran to comment with authority, what I can do is offer an inspiring model of re-imagination outside ...

Most photographs from the 1930s and 1940s depict a monochromatic world seemingly removed from contemporary society. The black-and-white images sometimes appear as though they belong...

"Last Resort" co-creator Shawn Ryan is speaking out on the cancellation of his ABC series. Ryan announced the show was not receiving a full-season order...

NEW YORK -- Cirque du Soleil will mark the 25th anniversary of its first trip to New York next year with a visit by its...

Barbara Chandler Allen is known for being called a "place maker." She has a knack for changing places, she said during our interview, by bringing in art, music, or sometimes even plants.

What is most notable about the art of Lerman is the way in which he incorporates an element of humanity into the texture and surfaces of the glazed terracotta he employs.

Some art is timeless. A line drawing of a nude model or a watercolor depicting a bowl of fruit can transcend space and time--unmooring from...

As Carrie tracks Brody, Ned Martel will be tracking their every move in weekly recaps of Showtime’s Emmy Award-winning series “Homeland.” Check back each Monday morning to join the conversation on one ...

After listening to the luscious renditions of “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live” in Arena Stage’s often tunefully adept if dramatically inert revival of â�...

For its season opener, the Washington Chorus paid tribute to Leonard Bernstein with a thoughtful program stuffed with some of the American composer’s best-known works Sunday afternoon at the Kennedy Center Concert...

Generations of university music majors have cut their teeth on Walter Piston’s iconic “Harmony” text. It’s a great book but not the best way to get to know and understand Piston’s music. ...

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The issue of physical stamina goes hand-in-glove with vocal stamina. The collected material of Drama Queens certainly offers a list of heavy-duty physical challenges.

Whitney Cummings was relatively unaware of the many, many, many bad reviews her NBC sitcom received .... That is until sone fateful night. “I was...

I've never heard a musician say a bad or even indifferent word about Levon Helm. The common thread is their reverence for Levon's playing and spirit verges on the supernatural. At his funeral, the pastor begged us not to...

Sir Anthony Hopkins doesn't suffer fools gladly. Not even icons like Sir Alfred Hitchcock. "I think later in his years, he could have retired because...

You may be surprised to hear the same person composed the scores for the hormone-pumping vampire flick "Twilight" as well as Terrence Malick's "Tree of...

By Alyssa Coppelman With Barack Obama’s re-election, the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, and, not least, [last] Friday’s premiere of Lincoln, it seems a...

"Games Of Thrones" Season 3 has its first teaser trailer ... emphasis on the teaser. The video below features graphics for the show's March 31,...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday for many reasons. I love the tradition of getting my friends and family together for a big meal. I love...

NEW YORK — With John Eliot Gardiner on the podium, Beethoven rocked. The 69-year-old British conductor brought his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir...

LOS ANGELES — The bowler hat and cane that accented Charlie Chaplin's costume in "Little Tramp" has sold for $62,500 at an auction in Los...