Martin Scorsese's Movie Poster Collection at MoMA
If you cleaned out your closets would it be this interesting? On view in the Theater Gallery at the Museum of Modern Art through October 25, “Scorsese Collects” presents a range of movie posters from...
View ArticleTop 5 Theater Shows to See in France This June
June is a fantastic month to be planning a visit to the theater if you are in France. Theater billings from Paris to Toulouse offer a splendid array of practitioners from home and abroad, including the...
View ArticleFlashmobs & Swan Lake at Ballet Festival Korea 2015
The fifth annual Ballet Festival Korea launches today, bringing a month of festivities to get involved with for experienced ballerinas and novices alike. Kim Ji-Young, the principal dancer of the...
View ArticleThe Union Jack May Well Fly High on Tony Night
Expect to hear a number of British accents when the winners of the Tony Awards are announced on Sunday, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall, a complement to the brogue you’ll hear at he very beginning,...
View ArticleTop 5 Theater Shows to See in the UK This June
June is set to be a month in which UK theaters are putting the emphasis on epic style productions. Theaters across the nation will be presenting operas on a grand scale and the National Theatre Wales...
View ArticleUkulele Orchestra of Great Britain: “30 Plucking Years”
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has clocked up 16 million minutes of playing together this month as they celebrate their 30-year anniversary.Formed in 1985, the sixteen handed musical ensemble...
View ArticleThe Four Most Hotly Contested Races of the Tony Awards
If you want to see rich, beautiful and/or talented people having near-nervous breakdowns, tune into the Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, and wait for the announcement of the winner in the following...
View ArticleThe Diametric Extremes of Doug Aitken
Multimedia artist Aitken is extremely busy. A survey of his work opens at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt on July 9. “Station to Station,” the art project that traveled 4,000 miles by train across the...
View ArticleGodzilla: Ageing Monster Gains Japanese Citizenship
The Shinjuku ward of Tokyo has announced it has a new citizen – Godzilla.The iconic fictional monster who terrorized Japan’s capital city 61 years ago in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film “Godzilla”, has this...
View Article10 Upcoming Highlights: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra 2015/16 Season
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra have announced their 2015/16 Season “A Celebration of Masters” following their recent return from a successful five-country seven-city tour of Europe in celebration...
View ArticleRadicals on Film: The Intertwining Legacies of John Ruskin and Peter Fuller
Peter Fuller was like a punch in the guts to the art world from 1969 to 1990, and until his last breath he was a radical. His writings spanned art history, psychology, sociology, Marxism, aesthetics,...
View ArticleMixtape Brings Five Gigs To Five Cities
This month, there’s a five-city music tour coming to Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Pune, featuring bands such as Indian rock legends Indus Creed, a drum ’n bass act Dark Circle Factory, live...
View ArticleQ&A with Mixtape Founder: Naveen Deshpande
One of the people responsible for keeping the cultural calendar brimming with exciting musical events in any of the Indian metropolises is Naveen Deshpande, of the artist and event management agency...
View ArticleRaise a Glass to This Year’s Aix-en-Provence Festival
The next time you sip a martini, you’ll be pleased to know you’re drinking a drop of operatic history.The Aix-en-Provence Festival was founded in 1948 by Lily Pastré, an opera-loving heiress whose...
View ArticleThe 5 Things You Need to Know About Tony Awards 2015
Heart Over Commerce The conventional wisdom held that the 800-plus Tony voters, many with a financial stake in the productions that were nominated, would mark their ballots for the more mainstream —...
View Article5 Films to See This Week: "The Nightmare,"“Liliom," and More
“The Nightmare” — Film Society of Lincoln Center (through June 11)Rodney Ascher returns to fringe subjects, following the Kubrick conspiracy theorists of “Room 237” (2012), with a documentary about...
View ArticleSix Shows To Binge-Watch This June
The TV calendar this June is brimming with choice – pick from science fiction, thriller, comedy or drama. Netflix premieres a new show “Sense8”, brings back “Orange is the New Black”. HBO introduces...
View ArticleFestival Croisements: "Made in China" Theater Premier
Festival Croisements is back this year bringing French culture to mainland China in three months of artistic displays.Originally launched in 2006 the festival is a celebration of the relationship...
View ArticleTop 5 Gigs & Concerts to See at Festival Croisements 2015, China
Celebrating its 10 year anniversary, the Festival Croisements 2015 is now in full swing!The French cultural festival is the largest of its kind outside of France as well as being the largest...
View ArticleMarion Cotillard in the NY Philharmonic’s “Joan of Arc at the Stake”
The world is not lacking in versions of the story of Joan of Arc. Since her death on May 30, 1431, charged with the crime of heresy and burned at the stake for her role in the Hundred Years’ War, her...
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