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The Sundance Film Festival is venturing to a new ski town. After a year of deliberations, copious site visits and scores of plane rides, the board of the Sundance Institute has chosen Boulder, Colo., to host its film festival beginning January 2027. “Boulder is a tech town, a college town, it’s a really creative town,” … Read more

Leonard Polonsky, Philanthropist Who Supported the Arts, Dies at 97

David M. Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the tallest building in the Americas — a shimmering new 1 World Trade Center in place of the twin towers destroyed on 9/11 — died on Wednesday in Pelham, N.Y. He was 83. The cause was Lewy body dementia, his wife, Annie, … Read more

Siyanko agreed, though her next project is focused on New York City. The Down to Earth Festival, debuting in September, will bring performances to the stages of the City University of New York and to city parks. “The need for the festival is really obvious,” she said in an interview. “In the New York performing … Read more

Hollywood has yet to recover the jobs in film and television production that were lost when strikes by writers and actors brought production to a halt in 2023 as the industry was shifting, according to a report released Thursday. The report by the Otis College of Art and Design found that jobs in the entertainment … Read more

Last fall, on the second-floor stage of a cramped tavern called Neck of the Woods in San Francisco, Kat Moss was throwing elbows, shoving men twice her size into a packed circle pit and screaming into a microphone. Moss, the frontwoman for the Bay Area hardcore band Scowl, held her own. In the tight-knit circle … Read more

Marsalis: ‘Blues Symphony’ Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Jader Bignamini, conductor (Pentatone) I love when a new recording changes my mind. Previously, I had considered Wynton Marsalis’s Second Symphony (2009), known as the “Blues Symphony,” to be the least persuasive of his orchestral works. In 2019, he suggested that he felt similarly in an interview, saying, “It … Read more

“I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality, one of “infinite diversity in infinite combinations.” It was a vision that propelled and buoyed him through a nearly six-decade career. “This is why I get up in the … Read more

The Kennedy Center’s flagship opera company and symphony orchestra announced Thursday that they plan to present robust and fairly typical programs next season, the first full season since President Trump took over the institution. But one prominent work was missing from the lineup: Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s “Fellow Travelers,” an opera set in the … Read more

One ill-fated night in December 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald got into a drunken brawl that ended up in a Rome police station, where he punched an officer and was severely beaten by some others. In a letter to a friend ten years later, Fitzgerald described it as “the rottenest thing that ever happened in my … Read more