Classical art was probably meant to be admired in museums or studied in textbooks, but leave it to the internet to turn it into funny memes. These paintings may be centuries old, but somehow they ...

Classical art may have been created to capture beauty, history, and the human condition—but who says it can’t also deliver a punchline? These funny classical art memes take timeless works of ...

This week, TV Editor Tim Lowery and Staff Writer William Hughes provide some help with your 2025 pop culture resolutions via recommendations for a music-listening companion show and the opening salvo ...

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts welcomes the New Year with a line-up of entertainment in its ...

December 16, 2024 • NPR Music's classical expert is an omnivorous listener, who treated the music of 2024 as sustenance for a year of zigzagging emotional highs and lows.

First, stepping onto the soapbox. As we reach the Winter Solstice of 2024 in Knoxville’s arts and music world, we can definitely feel positive and optimistic about the achievements of individuals, ...

Our selection of the best classical Christmas music is a snapshot of many Christmases-past: feelings of joy, celebration, reflection and nostalgia are bound up in these beautiful, timeless scores.

Now John Tiffany, the magician director of the Harry Potter plays, aims to sprinkle the star-making dust over the stage ...

The bursting schedules of concerts at the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre and South Bank Centre, and the strength of music in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff, among other cities, show a ...

But of course, we play Western classical music not only because we are obligated to, but also because of the rich history and legacy that has been left behind. We love to keep the legacy going and ...

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Overly-generous daughter doesn't give mother her usual ‘monthly contribution’ so she can have spending money on vacation, mother becomes ‘cold [and] distant’ 6 ...