Features
Artist's Voice: Paul Kahn — The Disabled Sensibility
Something remarkable is going on in the world. Disability arts festivals seem to be springing up all over. Add to…
Ying String Quartet in Tod Machover’s '…but not simpler…'
The spring concert season has brought two intriguing examples of enterprising ensembles intent on exploding these preset expectations and inviting…
Call me Shorty
The movie script that changed my life wasn’t Howard Koch’s Casablanca. And it wasn’t Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation. Neither was it…
A reason for gratitude and hope
Everett Quinton, star alumnus and artistic director of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, shares stories from his early days as an…
The New Greek and Roman Galleries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
The new Greek and Roman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are the triumphant result of 15 years of…
Writing In The Desert
Writer Jan Cornall tells how the red trees and orange canyons of the West MacDonnell Ranges inspired her imagination, and…
Extraordinary Aliens: A guide to living in America as a foreign artist
For all of America’s political failings, braggadocio, and cultural frothiness, the fresh desire to start a new life, embodied by…
Artist's Voice: Domenic Salerni
When I am asked what I am doing with music, I invariably must pause. As a nineteen-year-old violinist enrolled in…
Gérard Mortier at City Opera — Maestro in the House
The last thing that new Met general manager Peter Gelb expected to confront on February 28 this year was the…
Peter Gelb Stages a Worthy Debut at the Metropolitan Opera
Major cultural institutions are not noted for their agility with change. Board structures, subscribers’ tastes, administrative ballast, and the sheer…