Yascha Mounk: "These claims … sound far too much like the sort of thing educated people want to believe. But a meticulous new paper published in the American Economic Review, one of the wo…
"Two former employees of Santa Fe-based immersive arts and entertainment company Meow Wolf allege in a new lawsuit they were subjected to discrimination and unfair pay practices, and then wr…
"With more than 40 productions to his credit, Charnin penned lyrics for seven Broadway musicals and directed seven shows as well. He won his Tony Award for best original score, with composer…
The 70-year-old Austrian " formerly music director of the Houston Symphony (2001-13), Calgary Philharmonic (1995-2003), and the major orchestras of Bordeaux, San Sebastián, and Salzburg "…
"Masazumi Chaya, the associate artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater since 1991, will retire on Jan. 5, 2020, after the company's annual City Center season. But he'll still…
Compagnie CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston dances Merce at Jacob's Pillow " Deborah Jowitt
Here are some excerpts from a brief but illuminating chat I had ten years ago with Douglas Crimp, the influential critic, curator and art historian who died Friday at the age of 74. " Lee Ro…
"The Blind Dance Company currently has ten blind dancers, some of whom lost their eyesight later in life. 'Many blind people love to dance, and stopped dancing when losing their sight,' [com…
"Thirty Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing (DDBHH) theatre artists, administrators, and scholars gathered in Boston 15-17 March 2019 for the Deaf Theatre Action Planning Session (DTAPS). â…
"Employers in the creative industries risk alienating diverse young talent by 'needlessly asking for degrees' for entry-level jobs, according to a new report. This was identified as one of a…
"Artist Nan Goldin, her P.A.I.N. group, and other opioid activists staged an action at the Louvre in Paris this afternoon, calling on the museum to remove the Sackler name from one of its wi…
"A key part of the Western musical tradition, opera is an art form that's, unsurprisingly, associated mainly with white artists and white audiences. But, as with so many aspects of culture a…
"Addressing the important work of justice and labor to vision a better world, Alexander speaks to Mellon's aims by 'identifying the leaders, the scholars and thinkers and justice workers and…
"He was a man of the left, though of no political party, gay, but neither closeted nor out, Jewish, but agnostic, unless you count music as a religion. On this July 4th weekend, WNYC's Sara …
"Black women are among the least represented demographic in the $135 billion global gaming industry. … But an emerging generation of millennial women of color is now beginning to carve out…
"In Singapore, … many still hold to another century's view of the roles of men and women. Victims of sexual misconduct often face shame and blame, and the global reckoning seems far away. …
Writing under a pseudonym, an Iranian woman who studies and practices traditional Persian dance, describes both the art form and attempts to preserve and perform in in today's Islamic Republ…
Wendy Rosenfield travels to the International Association of Theatre Critics gathering in Montpellier, shares stories with colleagues, and realizes how much she didn't know. " Broad Street R…
"Mr. Johnson had appeared in New York theater productions and on television shows including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakthrough in…
"Readers will only be able to find the 67-year-old humor magazine at comic book stores and through subscriptions. After issue No. 10 this fall, there will no longer be new content, except fo…
Late in the evening of July 1, say Chicago police, seven people tagged with white spray paint the Anish Kapoor sculpture Cloud Gate in Millennium Park. The tags were cleaned off by 10:30 the…
"Independence National Historical Park [is] the fourth-most-visited national park in the country. It welcomed 4.6 million pilgrims last year alone " ahead of Yellowstone, Yosemite or Zion (a…
"When $444 million in line-item budget vetoes were announced Friday, the [Alaska State Council on the Arts] was given notice it would have two weeks to shut down, said Benjamin Brown of June…
Alex Ross recounts the story of Karl Muck, the elegant former director of Kaiser Wilhelm's Berlin Court Opera, who came to the BSO in 1906 and was there for an unfortunate decision, shortly …
As one gallerist put it, "With this extradition law, however, the firewall protecting our freedom of expression is effectively removed and everybody falls into self-censorship. One would wor…