Stanley Drucker, 80, is retiring from the New York Philharmonic after 60 years, the longest tenure of any player in the orchestraâs existence.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ebca8f0f3eed03b7a40f9feafa47a6aaOver the next six months in Venice, the artist Ragnar Kjartansson will be relentlessly painting the portrait of a man who poses before him in a Speedo.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=8a4ce9881b742591d1f424343192f57eâControversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography,â a show at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, squandered our mercy for a rambling survey.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3efc09432c0ea3e69fd5f1cd1ea7fb58President Obama intends to nominate Jim Leach, a former Republican congressman from Iowa, as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a1a460fbedf1d2cf4d8c07f6574aa747Geoffrey Naufftâs play is an artful, thoughtful and very moving story of a gay couple agonizing over differences in their religious faiths.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=16d4e53b75cc8bfd1f07ba2b45347251Affecting a curmudgeonly stance, Michael Lewis writes of how he deigned not just to let a woman into his life, but also three children.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=bdc11a3a0ee68b66a409e038825a1da1More than almost any other band in the indie-verse Dirty Projectors have dedicated themselves to the more dazzling points of musical technique.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=5d3254e1ad5dc815c1260573c428f14fDespite last fallâs high voter turnout and renewed enthusiasm about public service, producers pitching series set in Washington have seen their pilots struggle this year.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=e26a1ff8e9bbac5e89d5e86ac2698eb5With the Trey McIntyre Project, which made its New York debut at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday night, the choreographer is finally on his own.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2493e2b9de0654320f866eb4e56d4906Two new unconventional medical dramas begin Thursday night on NBC and USA.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=39ed72f2b6dd2882e767c236b61a2e67Phish started its three-night stand at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on Tuesday with the same smiley, unassuming stage presence.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=00c46d76e21f8543e7eec5635091d94bTwo years after The Times left its longtime headquarters, the basement of that building is being converted into a 60,000-square-foot space for exhibitions of art and historical artifacts.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a2e90beb9ff66439022ed96db192d872The board of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has eased restrictions on some grants to arts organizations to help them weather a downturn in fund-raising and income.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=e1dea6acb7bac5a6d3190402219a795bCHICAGO (AP) -- Koko Taylor, a sharecropper s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet Queen of the Blues, has died after complications from surgery. She was 80.
trackback:http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=7ebf4b661a8e5f53f8896fa84c08db96This flexible student group played an energetic and pleasingly varied program on Tuesday at Paul Recital Hall at the Juilliard School.
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