"During her [time] at Pew, the organization has evolved from a foundation focused on grant-making [mostly in and around Philadelphia] to a nonprofit with national scope and its own operation…
Abhishek Majumdar has written a trilogy of dramas about the decades-long cycle of violence in Kashmir, another about Hindu nationalism, and one about the 2008 riots in Tibet's capital. That …
His confinement, pending trial on embezzlement charges that many observers contend are politically motivated, has now been extended to July 4. Nevertheless, he continues to work remotely, di…
"[The company's] figures showed it had brought thousands of new people to the art form during recent months. It has achieved 75 per cent capacity in its 2000-plus seater Coliseum with 47 per…
Yes, it's apparently a real question: as clubs gradually disappear and the membership of the remaining groups ages, admitting women would seem to be an obvious way to keep things going. But …
It's not just about the Fortnite lawsuits. "Choreographers and performers have danced around this issue for more than a century. In 1892, Loie Fuller was denied a trademark for her famous 's…
Continuing its good tidings, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., just announced a special acquisition: Yayoi Kusama's very first Infinity Room, called Phalli's Field, which she made in…
I was surprised on Sunday when the NY Times ran a long front-page article about the status (or lack thereof) of the $450.3-million Leonardo da Vinci painting. I was even more surprised when …
Parul Sehgal: "Who's afraid of Glenda Jackson? Most people, and with some cause. She became famous for her electrifying portrayals of history and literature's most unconventional women … I…
John Yau: "Being dispossessed must have haunted him his whole life, as did the endless bureaucracy involved with getting the documents you need to travel from one country to another, to sett…
In an essay that won Brown University's Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize for Excellence in Real World Writing, undergrad Jamila Wilkinson writes about how, as a young girl, she studied for years …
That's the charge made by a few leading arts figures, among them Madani Younis, creative director of London's Southbank Centre: "This paternalism on the one hand allows institutions to co-op…
For instance: "I'm looking for inspiration in three ways: quality, intimacy and creativity." "New Work, New Work, New Work." "I want ideas. I want debates, opinions. I want words that move u…
The ten-year, £300 million agreement will allow a new worldwide streaming service operated by the Discovery Channel to stream both new and archived natural history shows by the BBC to vie…
"Here, in our second edition of this list, we bring you a group of individuals each working to strengthen the impact, reach, social responsibility or financial stability of a field that is s…
"Discussions began immediately after the group, known as WBUR's Board of Overseers, learned that General Manager Charlie Kravetz" " credited with building the station into a public radio pow…
That adds up to more than 4% of the entire nation's GDP. "That figure is based on detailed data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (part of the Department of Commerce) and the Nationa…
"The strike " started on March 10 " is going into its fourth week, with no solution in sight. There is continued deadlock in negotiations for a new labor agreement over salaries and pension …
If only this were an April Fools joke. As part of "spring cleaning," the clergy of a parish in GdaÅ„sk asked their faithful to bring objects "linked to the occult and magic" to a bonfire …
At least that's what they've been doing at the International Theater Exposition of São Paulo, which is "squaring up to an era of right-wing populism with a celebration of otherness, diffe…
Li Ka-shing, 90, renovated an old hilltop monastery to house the collection of 100 devotional sculptures and 43 handwritten scriptures. While construction was completed in 2015, the museum's…
The French company Short Edition has already placed machines that will print out a free short story on request at various locations around France and the U.S. Now three of the devices are be…
The Armenian-American maestro, a three-time Grammy nominee (he conducted Dmitri Hvorostovsky's final album, Russia Cast Adrift), was named artistic director of the theater in Yerevan in 2016…
"The new shoes" " made by the British shoemaker Freed in partnership with the UK troupe Ballet Black " "come in two versions, bronze and brown, and they're a huge leap forward for inclusion …
The New York Times apparently wants us all to be more productive, since it's hammering away at the subject from many fronts. " Andrew Taylor