Unlike the previous one, which was across the 405 freeway from the Getty, this one is "100% on our side of the 405, immediately north and west of us, and on our property," according to Lisa …
"As a playwright and attorney, Mary Kathryn Nagle is used to building a case and crafting a narrative. But when it comes to bringing attention to sovereignty issues and Native communities, s…
"MoBBallet, an organization founded by Dance Magazine contributing editor Theresa Ruth Howard in 2015 to preserve and promote the legacy of black dancers in ballet, hosts its first symposium…
"I think in many ways we as a sector have pigeonholed foundation program officers. We have internalized this idea that their role is one of micromanager and compliance officer, whose jobs ar…
"The inaugural three years (2015-2018) of the Creative City pilot program supported artists of all disciplines to reimagine places for art in Boston, engage public imagination, and inspire c…
"The brainchild of Rev. Yolanda Norton, a Hebrew Bible scholar and the H. Eugene Farlough Chair of Black Church Studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Beyoncé Mass explores how …
"When people talk about the healing power of music, they are generally referring to the listener, but one orchestra in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont is founded on the idea that mu…
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart's buoyant operatic comedy, is built on an infrastructure of political discontent. Although it sheathes its claws in time for a happy ending, this is an opera w…
"For years, [Heidi Gustafson] has been engaged in a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary exploration of the mineral … While there has recently been renewed interest in creating paints from natu…
"'Bad light makes you unhappy,' Maurer once said. He repeatedly proclaimed his love for the light bulb, which became his trademark. While other designers saw it as something to keep hidden u…
"Why was Bologna, the largest city in northern Italy, so receptive to women artists? … 'A few factors include the city's unusual political structure and the diversity of artistic patronage…
For all the lore that exists around "Brooklynese" (not to mention the insistence of the Brooklyn borough president), a pair of linguistics researchers found that there was no evidence for th…
But she did it only by email, which meant she'd have time and space to craft her answers " and, writes reporter Mark Lawson, "the precise replies suggest that her public reticence may come f…
The Las Vegas-based network made news in September when it announced "severe cash flow issues," laid off its staff in Reno, and saw its CEO resign. Now the new interim chief says "We were ve…
Yes, it's a tricky issue: the video platform, along with Facebook, is facing pressure from many sides to remove violent and extremist content; review and removal by humans is slow (and traum…
Brigitte Fassbaender had a long and admired career as a mezzo, and after retiring from singing she went on to run the opera house in Innsbruck, Austria. In her recently-published memoir and …
Heather MacDonald: "It is a grotesque inversion of the proper hierarchy between public accomplishment and private sexual behavior to sacrifice an artist of Domingo's stature for the sake of …
The organization " which used to be called the American Dance Institute until it moved from Rockville, MD into a huge former lumberyard in Catskill, NY " lets dance artists spend one or two …
Not to be left behind in such matters by Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman, the Kingdom announced that the Saudi Museum of Modern Art " to be "designed according to a modern creative concept influe…
I started exploring the long-inaccessible contents of my father's record cabinets when I was in junior high school. There I found $64,000 Jazz, a sampler released in 1955 as a promotional ti…
Visitors' general state of confusion is unlikely to be dispelled unless MoMA rethinks its new installation strategy, which may satisfy curators' desire to shake up static displays, but will …
Says Stuart Kells, "Shakespeare certainly did have books, and he certainly read them. Why, then, have we found none of his manuscripts, and why are there no books with an authentic Shakespea…
From the kindergarten kid who threw a snowball with a rock in it at her, to her father (the school principal), to Hal Prince humiliating her in front of the entire company of Evita, to John …
It started with Beauty and the Beast on Broadway in 1994, followed up three years later by The Lion King. Yet Disney Theatrical Group didn't become a corporate behemoth churning out pale cop…
As of this year, the World Health Organization thinks so, and the American Psychiatric Association has included "internet gaming disorder" in the DSM. More than a few people are skeptical, i…