Simon Rattle to Return to His Roots, Taking Over the London Symphony

Perhaps no single theatrical image sums up Broadway‘s 2023 more effectively than Jessica Chastain’s Nora leaving her dreary, unfulfilled doll house life to exit directly into the unlimited possibilities of an honest-to-god New York City street. Unless maybe it’s that huge tree that sprouts up smack dab in the middle of an abandoned Southern plantation […]

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered one of the longest known plaques baring Musnad, or the pre-Islamic southern Arabian script, at the Al Ukhdud excavation site in the country’s Najran region. Other artifacts, including three gold rings and a bronze bull’s head, were also uncovered. The country’s heritage commission announced the finding of these pre-Islamic […]

For its 12th edition, Frieze New York has once again returned to the Shed, the arts center in Hudson Yards. With 68 exhibitors, the fair, which opened to VIPs on Wednesday morning, was the first held since Frieze acquired the Armory Show, its main New York competitor. That should have lent the event some extra […]