"This marks the second chapter of the so-called 'Neustart Kultur' program (New Start Culture), which was first launched last July with a bailout of €1 billion dispersed across cultural…
From 2020: I'll never again take another first date to Mario's Deli, invite her to tell me all about herself, and wonder as I listen whether she might possibly be the girl of my dreams. That…
"I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men Continue reading Almanac: John Steinbeck on loneliness at About Last Night.
The president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music speaks about the school's historic acquisition of Opus 3 Artists. " Aaron Dworkin
The doubts engendered in me by the shifting ground (related to the proximity to the La Brea Tar Pits) under the cranes being used for construction of LACMA's new Geffen Galleries caused me t…
Jean-Daniel Bouchard said although his twin passions may seem like something of a contradiction " farming can be gruelling physical labour and involves plenty of financial mathem…
From "The Elephant Man" to "Chicago," "Cats" to "Thoroughly Modern Millie," Huntley was the designer behind the wigs and often-elaborate locks that helped define the lasting visual impressio…
By emptying stages and dancefloors, the pandemic has generated an urgent need to reimagine the live music experience " both for artists and the audience stuck at home. So, how is Covid resha…
Her inaugural poem made her a superstar. And while her rise may seem swift and meteoric, Sharon Marcus, an English and comparative literature professor at Columbia University, says we're ove…
His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, He…
"There's this idea that because we're removing the names we're somehow removing the stories in what we're learning, and that in fact is not the case. It's really just sharing in our schools …
On Thursday morning, the orchestra released its operating results for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 2020. The big news: a deficit of $11.7 million, the largest in its history. Last year's …
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once described play as '[b]ecoming and dissolution, building and destruction without moral implication, in eternal innocence' " as an act to be found 'in …
McGee, the prodigious dean of Detroit's visual arts scene whose works can be seen everywhere from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Broadway Station of the People Mover and who made inval…
SPCM, one of our community's premier independent music schools, seeks a creative and thoughtful leader with a deep commitment to music education, experience working with the community, and a…
Elton John says his tours can absorb the costs and the paperwork, so theoretically Brexit's horribly negotiated touring musician deals (note: what deals?) don't affect him. But, he adds, "I …
For popular music fans, "rock created the music publications we read today. R&B created rock. Blues created R&B. And Mamie Smith made the blues a national sensation." " NPR
Kate Hartson, a fit 67-year-old who once ran a small press specializing in dogs, had all the trappings of a liberal book editor, including an apartment on the Upper East Side and a place in …
Five Florine Stettheimer works showed up in 2020. But there was a bit of an issue: "Only two turned out to have been actually created by Stettheimer. Of the other works, two were removed fro…
Nothing against the (many) kick-ass, and asskicking, Black actresses of the science fiction universes, but for something closer to reality? Enter Queen Latifah. " Los Angeles Times
Nemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. "Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical streak she would occasionally indulge, as sh…
Warning people off doesn't work: "We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or 'prebunking' it, but new research shows that the best time to fact-check a false headline " a…
Mwazulu Diyabanza is a Congolese activist who would prefer France's museums were open so he could get some attention for taking African objects from their displays "to highlight what he sees…
In Springfield, Oregon, if you see people wandering around with choose your own adventure-style art books in their hands, don't be surprised: "Three writers, an executive editor and an illus…
Paul Huntley has been doing wigs for so long that he can remember helping construct Elizabeth Taylor's braids for Cleopatra. He's been on Broadway since 1973. But now, after a fractured pelv…