By DOREEN CARVAJAL / ArtsBeat/The New York Times PARIS – Vandals deflated a giant sculpture that resembled a sex toy this weekend, bringing down an installation by the provocative American artist Paul McCarthy in the heart of the French capital’s luxury neighborhood, Place Vendôme. On Saturday, Mr. McCarthy and local authorities said he would not…
Read moreBy Helena Smith in Athens / The Guardian American-born soprano’s links to Greece celebrated as fans try to reclaim ‘La Divina’ as a national icon 37 years after her death Her devotees may be legion but in Greece, the country she identified with most, Maria Callas never quite got the recognition she deserved. Now, 37…
Read moreBy PATRICK HEALY / ArtsBeat/The New York Times Al Pacino will return to Broadway next October in a new play by David Mamet, “China Doll,” their latest collaboration after having a commercial hit with the 2012 revival of Mr. Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Glengarry Glen Ross.” The producers announced the show on Thursday and named its director,…
Read moreBy BEN SISARIO / ArtsBeat / The New York Times She tweeted about it for days. She Instagrammed in anticipation all evening. She went on “Good Morning America” to talk about it, whipping up a complicit entertainment news media. And then at midnight on Monday, as promised, Taylor Swift’s latest single, “Out of the Woods,” was…
Read moreBy NEIL GENZLINGER / ArtsBeat/The New York Times Season 2, Episode 3, “Go Where I Send Thee” The opening scene of Monday night’s “Sleepy Hollow” episode was clearly a result of one of these two writers’-room bets, or perhaps both: – “Ten bucks to the first person who can work ‘jinba ittai’ into the…
Read moreBy Sarah Crompton / The Telegraph (UK) Tamara Rojo – artistic director and star dancer with English National Ballet – tells Sarah Crompton about the sort of performers that appeal to her, her radical plans for her current company, and her frustrations with former employer the Royal Ballet. “I used to sleep really well,” says…
Read moreBy BEN SISARIO / ArtsBeat/The New York Times Adele fans will have to wait until at least next year for a new album, according to a statement from her label tucked in a new financial report. Speculation has been running high for months that Adele — whose 2011 album “21” sold more than 25 million…
Read moreThe Australian Ballet lands en pointe in USA this week for its 33rd international tour News By Stephanie Wood , The Sydney Morning Herald & Text Refrence : Ballet NEWS UK The Australian Ballet has departed local shores and has arrived in California, USA for the West Coast premiere of its most successful work, Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake….
Read moreWell, Did What’s-His-Name Like It? By BEN BRANTLEYOCT / The New York Times Big names drop like hailstones in Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play,” the kind that look like diamonds from a distance and then melt away before you know it. As a star-struck young man observes at the beginning of this deliriously dishy revival,…
Read moreThe Most of Bob Dylan By ALLAN KOZINN / The New York Times When music fans in the 1960s described Bob Dylan’s songs, in terminology of the day, as “heavy,” they didn’t know the half of it. A hefty new edition of Mr. Dylan’s collected work, “The Lyrics: Since 1962,” due from Simon & Schuster in…
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