Acclaimed actor John Malkovich and noted violinist, composer and conductor Aleksey Igudesman perform this Friday night at ...

Content warning: This article contains mentions of child sexual abuse. Medill Prof. Jim DeRogatis is a longtime music critic; over the course of his career, he’s written for Rolling Stone, the Chicago ...

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The music critic Anthony Fantano’s YouTube following (3.05 million) dwarfs Rolling Stone ’s print subscription base (414,000 as of 2023). Even national politics now revolves around topics that would ...

“Literary criticism is often seen as indispensable to intellectual life, perhaps because the form matches the content. (An essay about literature is itself literature.) And dance critics and their ...

The reshuffling of the critical deck on the Times theatre desk wasn’t a singular event, but rather part of a broader move in the culture department there, affecting theatre, pop music, television and ...

Yet as time progressed, it seemed that those standards were constantly shifting. Once the digital age collapsed the distance between the critic and the consumer, accuracy and insight gave way to ...

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For the music critic John Rockwell, Soho was an ideal home base. He could walk to see performances by Meredith Monk or Steve ...

Justin Tranter, a 45-year-old musician who has co-written smash hits by Chappell Roan and Justin Bieber, was annoyed. Social media, in Tranter’s view, had been overrun by music listeners (especially ...