“What was truly surprising for me was going into a space that was ancient, and to crawl around the ceiling and look at the walls and realize that they were looking at things acoustically. It wasn’t just about the architecture. They had ...
“The black-and-white photographs, taken in the 1940s and ’50s by different photographers, are being exhibited by Cahiers d’Art, the gallery of the eponymous art magazine.”
“This type of dance is particularly brutal. I was the first person to do it for an extended period of time. … I have a lot of friends who are professional athletes, and we like to get together and have a couple of beers and exchange horror ...
“According to Operabase, an online opera database, in the years 2009 to 2014 there are only 3 women amongst the 60 most performed living opera composers in the world. Saariaho comes in highest at number 33. In all opera composers performed in ...
“Despite its outward appearance as being more female-friendly, despite there being less puppeteering than in pop music, despite the seeming prevalence of “male feminists” in the scene, women in the indie music scene say that sexual ...
“The Mongol 482 may be just a ‘middle-range, everyday’ pencil. But it’s also one of the most famous pencils in history … Because the Mongol 482 has written its autobiography” – with the “as told ...
“Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s largest concert promoter whose holdings include Ticketmaster, on Thursday reported revenue of $7.6 billion in 2015, up 11 percent from the previous calendar year on a constant currency basis.”
“When he introduced himself to the actors on the first day, he said that he found beginning work with an American cast both exciting and ‘paralyzingly terrifying – maybe I will find that it’s a whole new ballgame.’ By the ...
“Advertisers, who are paying record prices for air time, find themselves in an awkward position. They want to attach themselves to the glamour of Hollywood without having their brands tarnished by the controversy over the all-white slate of ...
“In 2012, The Times reported that Oscar voters were 94% white and 77% male. Four years later, the academy has made scant progress: Oscar voters are 91% white and 76% male, according to a new Times study. Blacks are about 3% of the academy, up ...