"Often when I work with directors, or when I'm directing myself, what you think at the beginning often changes. That's fair and normal. But with this show [American Utopia], the ideas David …
Says Billington, who began at the paper in 1971 and has written roughly 10,000 reviews, "I shall shortly be 80 and, with the years, the stress of writing to a deadline doesn't get any easier…
A revival of Fires in the Mirror, Smith's 1992 solo show about the riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and the tension between Caribbean Blacks and Hasidic Jews there, is opening in New York ne…
"Where the average eye sees empty and drab building walls, [Camilo Fidel] López, the founder of the graffiti artists crew Vértigo Graffiti, sees blank canvases, opportunities to colorful…
"It's a big piece of evidence countering a major argument used by those arguing against ditching overdue fines for library books." " Forbes
"Witnesses report that three suspects rammed into the cathedral in Oloron-Sainte-Marie in southwestern France with a tree trunk strapped to their car." (Yes, a battering ram.) "Inside the ch…
The "East Bank" cultural quarter project " to include Sadler's Wells dance theatre, the BBC, the London College of Fashion, a new University College London campus, and both a public building…
My father had no knowledge of or interest in classical music himself, but he brought home a record for me whenever he passed through Memphis on business. This is the one I remember best. " T…
Sir Jonathan Miller's direction of The Mikado " his staging, dating all the way back to 1986, is now back " is the source of the treasure-hoard that has allowed English National Opera's surv…
The alto saxophonist has long found that the nine-piece-ensemble format stimulates his creativity, and over the years, he has made several nonet albums. " Doug Ramsey
"Arthur Farwell is probably the most neglected composer in our history." This assessment, by the late composer/critic A. Walter Kramer in 1973, rings ever louder today; Farwell has been deem…
Cultural organizer and producer Joon Lynn Goh speaks with Janna Graham, a research-based practitioner, curator, and lecturer, about connecting cultural work with political organizing. " Howl…
"Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the country's first ever exhibition devoted solely to the works of Native American women. Jeffrey Brown traveled to Minnesota and New Mexico to…
Says artist Olayami Dabls, founder of Detroit's MBAD African Bead Museum, "I decided that I would open up an African Bead Museum, specially learning that the beads embodied the culture and t…
"[Millicent Hodson's] reconstructions include the legendary George Balanchine's 1925 Le Chant du Rossignol, the tale of a Chinese emperor who favors the notes of a mechanical bird over the s…
"Nearly 130 years ago, a Harvard anthropologist visited Calais, Maine, a town on the border with Canada, and recorded songs, words and stories from members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. For ye…
"Thirty years after the release of A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy is on a roll with a Barbican retrospective and a slew of recent screenings. Here's a look back at some of her major works.…
"The Black Art Futures Fund was a topic of great curiosity at the 2019 GIA conference, if only because it seemed to the GIA crowd that founder DéLana R.A. Dameron is on to something new wit…
Bree Davies: "When I saw the conference workshop Innovations in Artist Housing: Inspiration from South America to address the 'Soho Effect', I was stoked. … [But] the panel on artist housi…
"It takes some courage to come to a conference of funders and tell them what they do wrong. In no uncertain terms. Especially if you are an organization that could use their money. But there…
"The ADA is often mentioned as some kind of total solution to a still inaccessible world. But as was pointed out at the beginning of Monday's panel, Variations on a Theme: Funding Disability…
Artist Angela Washko spent four years studying Neil Strauss's notorious womanizing instruction manual The Game, along with other materials of its kind, to develop The Game: The Game, a video…
Last week in Montreal was the annual conference of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. Kathleen McGuire was there's and she brings news of nine interesting pieces of…
It's happening more and more, as part of the curtain speech or separately: a speaker formally acknowledges that, for example, "we are on Lenape land" (in the case of New York City). Lauren W…
"The first major touring exhibition of artifacts from King Tut's tomb was a product of financial necessity. In 1961, archaeological sites in Egypt were in danger of flooding and the country …