Will China save the Classical music industry...? The short answer is: one day, maybe. We know that piano sensation Lang Lang, for example, serves as a role model for 20 million young Chinese piano students. As a result, the instrument has become a status symbol in Chinese households. A similar...

Today's music video industry would probably not exist if Jean Cocteau had not paved the way with his film The Blood of a Poet (1930), one of the fascinating works currently on show at the Guggenheim Museum as part of the exhibition "Chaos and Classicism." Fresh out of Opium rehab...

With the spectacular ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing last year, China made a dazzling debut on the world stage, showing off its potential supremacy in the new millennium. Three top Chinese "go-to" artists, who had once turned their back on their own country, were brought back to great acclaim...

Why is it that many artists today are still experimenting with the idea of synesthesia of the senses in performance art? The short answer is: Vasily Kandinsky. Before him, Richard Wagner gave a first hint in his opera "Tristan and Isolde" (1865): waiting in despair for his beloved Isolde for...