The Morgan Library & Museum presents Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling, an exhibition exploring the rich history of storytelling through remarkable objects from the Morgan’s ...

When news circulates of a previously unknown work by a canonical composer, the best response is often to pay no heed. The hype that surrounds such discoveries routinely exaggerates the value of ...

The second movie released in a year’s time to involve fashion designer maven Coco Chanel, the brooding drama “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” delivers its goods on constant repeat. A fictionalization ...

Stravinsky seated with Rimsky-Korsakov (left corner), photographed in 1908. I'm pleased to continue presenting interviews by Mary Rousculp Hoffman which she recorded during her years as Program ...

At the intersection of art and culture and of style and genius, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky met and loved each other for a few madly passionate seasons before going separate ways to become legends ...

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary ...

It began with a bassoon and ended in a brawl. One hundred years ago today, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky debuted The Rite of Spring before a packed theater in Paris, with a ballet performance that ...

As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...

The couturier and the composer apparently enjoyed an affair, though biographers have discovered little about it. That frees up director Jan Kounen and co-writer Chris Greenhalgh, working from his ...

KPBS FM Radio Film Review: “Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky” By Beth Accomando Air date: June 17, 2010 HOST INTRO: Coco Chanel was the subject of a recent biopic, and now she’s the subject of another.

THIS was my first trip to California. I had never wanted to go. Up to the last minute I could not make up my mind whether to give in to the persuasion of a convenient neuralgia and send George ...

Picking up where Coco Before Chanel left off, Coco & Igor tells the story of an illicit liaison between the forty-something Coco and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Anna Mouglalis (erstwhile muse to ...