"Memorial Day is notoriously one of Chicago's bloodiest weekends. Last year, 36 people were shot and seven died that weekend. In 2017 and 2016, the number of shootings was even higher. When …
"There is growing presence, visibility and representation of [Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic] artists, as well as a vision that they should be part of the mainstream. … However, we now …
"Despite museums' well-meaning (but not always successful) efforts to adjust their tones and practices to 21st-century standards, auction houses continue to present African artifacts through…
As one of her projects as artist-in-residence at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Kirsha Kaechele has created a cookbook called (yes) Eat the Problem, full of recipes that turn Aus…
"What if all ballet dancers had agents and ballet companies had scouts? What if once a year there was a ballet combine, at which pre-professional dancers and 'free agents' could showcase the…
"Suddenly the worst thing that can happen to a creative person has happened to me. … Somehow I became respectable. I don't know how " the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and…
"The program," called San Francisco Museums for All and involving 15 institutions, "will run June 1 to September 2, with no limit to the number of institutions or times eligible participants…
It took David J. Peterson about six weeks to create Dothraki and a summer in a subsequent year to create Valyrian " and, as with Elvish and Klingon before them, those languages have taken on…
The artist/architect, whose parents survived the Holocaust (though more than a dozen aunts, uncles and cousins did not), talks to Tim Teeman about Through the Lens of Faith: Auschwitz, an in…
"I was in hair and makeup next to a [Nurse Jackie] castmate, British actress Eve Best, and I told her I couldn't get out of my mind a news story I had just heard: that a kid in Baltimore, my…
"Laundry literacy programs have recently sprung up all over the country, … and thousands of children have benefited from the chance to hone their early-literacy skills in an everyday setti…
Michigan Opera Theatre has issued a Request For Proposals to developers for a tower up to 480 feet high that "may include mixed use, corporate, residential, restaurants, retail, etc." " Crai…
Starting in January 2018, Rebecca Brill started sending out short excerpts from Sontag's published diaries on Twitter every day. And what happens when one does this? "You will start talking …
Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, Standard Operating Procedure, American Dharma) actually directed a few commercials for Theranos several years ago, before the company's frau…
"For some, commemorating slavery is a vital part of addressing contemporary injustices. For others, it is a distraction [from those injustices]" and other pressing problems. The debate is pl…
He joined the company in 1983 and grew to become one of its stars, and in 2001 he became the boss. When he departs in 2020, McAllister will have been the longest-serving artistic director in…
"The analysis of content aired and published by Radio and Television MartÃ, a sister agency to the better-known Voice of America, was launched by the broadcasters' parent organization." I…
When the Swiss conductor, now 61, steps down, he'll have been at the orchestra's helm for 13 years. The end of his contract term coincides with that of the musicians' labor agreement. " The …
"The musical has canceled its [preview] engagement at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatre, which was supposed to start this November. … Magic Mike: The Musical's writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacas…
"The evening Impressionist/Modern and Contemporary sales at Christie's this month felt like a bit of a throwback to the old days when more museum-quality works graced the sale catalogues." "…
The staff gauged the rate at which the postwoman is depositing new releases in the Rifftides mailbox and decided that we should pick up the pace of telling you about some of them. " Doug Ram…
Justin Davidson: "In 2003, [Frank] Gehry gave the Los Angeles Philharmonic its new home and showed that, every once in a while, a work of architecture can transform all it touches " in this …
Gia Kourlas got Tharp and Sara Rudner, who danced in the work's 1979 premiere, together with Misty Copeland and Isabella Boylston, who are performing in ABT's upcoming revival. "It was livel…
"Michigan ranks 47th in the nation for its ratio of students to certified librarians " it's also in the bottom five in literacy. The two statistics have legislators like State Rep. Darrin Ca…
"Dance Magazine spoke to 33 people from all corners of the industry" " among them Paloma Herrera, Judith Jamison, Liz Lerman, David Dorfman, Meredith Monk, Donald Byrd, and Trey McIntyre " "…