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"At this moment, when the US is deep in the throes of an impeachment investigation, it is startling and bracing to be immersed in the debate over the country's founding principles, however s…
Morgan Williams: "The purpose of my research was to shed light on some of the complexities, nuances, and challenges of putting DEI theory into practice within foundation funding for arts and…
Antonio C. Cuyler: "In this article, I explore three research questions: What role should foundations play in achieving creative justice? What behaviors do foundations practice that might un…
"On Thursday, October 24, 2019, the Afro Yaqui Music Collective took the stage on Pittsburgh's North Side for an evening of jazz-fusion fueled activism in the name of unjustly forgotten or s…
"[Ann Hobson] Pilot played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for four decades before retiring from the orchestra in 2009. She is one of four African-American musicians who broke the color b…
"'The [Every Voice] project, in a way, seeks to kind of un-straightwash and un-whitewash music history, especially in the classical sphere,' said [countertenor Reginald] Mobley, a native of …
Thomas Morton came to Massachusetts with the Puritans in 1624, but he was there strictly on business. What's more, he didn't fear the surrounding landscape as the devil's dwelling place, he …
Scott first became (in)famous 30 years ago with his installation What is the Proper Way to Display the American Flag?, which has incited controversy virtually every time it has been exhibite…
Colin Dunne doesn't wear the Celtic-ized costumes or hold his torso and arms rigid; he frequently dances in sneakers or barefoot; he sometimes improvises, which is almost unheard-of in tradi…
Arifa Akbar, who will succeed Michael Billington in the new year, has been a contributing reviewer and reporter for The Guardian for several years; she's currently arts editor at Tortoise Me…
The Stage senior reporter Georgia Snow talks to women working as directors, designers, and administrators in opera in the UK " who tell her that things are getting better, but not fast enoug…
"[His] humorous, freewheeling fiction traced the shocks and jolts of romance, aging and everyday life, in an experimental but plain- spoken style … [He] published well over 500 short stori…
"The shock of the first modern, 'industrial' war extended far into the 20th century and even into the 21st, and changed how people saw the world and themselves. And that was reflected in the…
The new piece by composer Alex Mills and librettist Brian Mullin, titled Leonardo and premiering this weekend at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, focuses on da Vinci's relationship with …
In the $450 million project announced four years ago, two smaller buildings and a plaza have already been added to the MFAH's campus. The expansion's centerpiece, the 183,528-square foot Kin…
The first female writers in the kingdom have generally been thought to be Marie de France in the 12th century and Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich in the 14th. But scholar Diane Watt argu…
It was ten years ago that the Palau de la Música Catalana's name was all over Spain's newspapers: €24 million had disappeared from the hall's bank accounts in a corruption and kickb…
I've never bought a copy of Rolling Stone. but I did buy The Rolling Stone Record Review, a mass-market paperback that came out in 1971, and I read it until the glue dried up and the pages f…
"The new work, Black Exhibition" " which he developed under the pseudonym @GaryXXXFisher " "is described in the script as an attempt 'to look at a queer black male psyche through the lens of…
"That was me being able to look certain people in the face and say: 'You're wrong.' So many people have dictated what my intentions were with Slave Play. One of the things they've always art…
Leslie Jamison considers "the enduring appeal of the afflicted woman " especially the young, beautiful, white afflicted woman: our favorite tragic victim, our repository of rarefied, elegiac…
"The 76-year-old screen icon … had a 'very limited stroke which is reversible', her family said in a statement. 'Happily she has no loss of motor function, although she will of course have…
"The Justice Department is going on the offensive against the anonymous author of A Warning, telling them in a letter obtained by CNN Business that he or she "may be violating 'one or more n…
"Paris's National Picasso Museum and the Giacometti Foundation are teaming up to manage the new institution for at least the first five years, from June 2020 through June 2025. (After that, …
"If the question is whether, a century from now, his operas will get new productions, his symphonies will circulate more frequently, or pianists will take on his études, Mr. Glass couldn't …