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"HarperCollins Children's Books has announced the debut of Heartdrum, an imprint devoted to publishing books by Native creators that introduce young Native protagonists and showcase the pres…
"A new orchestra of musicians from multiple South Asian countries aims to promote understanding through music. Co-founder Nirupama Rao discusses the role orchestras can play in building brid…
"A priority for educational philanthropists is to help schools compensate for social inequalities, which was true of the funders who supported arts education in Baltimore and Boston. But inc…
"The purpose of this study was to explore a fledgling community-school music partnership, Making Music, and to examine the benefits and challenges of this partnership. The partnership was in…
The nation's largest city has the nation's largest Native American population, with 112,000 individuals representing more than 75 tribal nations. Most of those people arrive in New York City…
It's generational, really: "The old consensus decreed that in order to build a respectable legacy, an estate should protect what the artist had already put out and be discerning with anythin…
As the monument "Rumors of War" prepares to leave Times Square for its permanent home in Richmond, some security officers talk about their time as special "art ambassadors" slash security gu…
To be blunt, well, ugh: "Beyond the curious clicks they draw, gift guides often allow publishers to sell outright sponsorships or subtly blend content and commerce through back-end deals wit…
As In the Cut is reissued, "What is more shocking about the book in 2019 than 1995 … is not the violence, or the fact of a woman having sexual desire, but how little else has changed " fro…
McClinton, who was mourned on actors' Instagram feeds and Twitter posts as soon as word spread that he had passed, was "a noted director who was a favorite of the playwright August Wilson an…
Well, no time to confront those fears like filming a Noah Bambach movie, of course. Julie Hagerty has been in everything from Airplane to Lost In America (and a whole lot more), but it was n…
Because of the music, Lauderdale "had become the de facto social director of Portland's underground political scene, staging rallies, parties and functions at coffeehouses, private homes and…
Yalom, who was a professor of French at Stanford before she segued into writing history books for a wider audience, admired the salons of the 18th century in France and ran one of her own in…
And on the other hand, dancers really have to keep their feeds up to become big stars. It's a responsibility far away from the rehearsal studio. " The Observer (NY).
"The choreographer's commitment to dance as a catalyst for social change can be seen at a museum show in Seattle and in a new work for the Alvin Ailey company." " The New York Times
In Portland, Oregon ArtsWatch's Matthew Neil Andrews is writing a series about classical music and meaning. For instance: We know music can help people process trauma (think of the Boston Sy…
Lesbians, the producers of The L Word thought after the show ended its run in 2009, would become more omnipresent in mainstream U.S. culture. Maybe true, but no queer women's ensemble show a…
German researchers started working on this new dictionary in the 1890s, thinking it would take 10-15 years of work. But "the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (T.L.L.) has seen the fall of an empire…
One of the ideas of Les Arcs was to make skiing holidays easier and more affordable for French holidaygoers. "This huge block of holiday apartments is cantilevered into the hillside, one sid…
Fines probably seemed like a great idea at the time " an encouragement for children (and adults) to keep track of time, keep track of library books and DVDs, and go back into the library to …
Broadway is … people, of course, and despite how touristy some of the shows can get, "there's still a weird, gritty New York patina in there somewhere," says one of four photographers sent…
And a very merry apocalypse to you too. Artist Anne Hardy got the Tate Britain commission this year, and she says she worked back from the Winter Solstice, "creating what could be a ransacke…
Playwright Aleshea Harris, who won the Obie Award in 2018 for Is God Is, "is part of a vanguard of young, African American playwrights boring into questions of race and history through humor…
The Cuban artist has been making important work first in Cuba and then in Puerto Rico for decades. "But outside the Caribbean archipelago, she has been largely ignored. Until the mid-80s, ma…
"In the following conversation, theatremaker Lauren E. Turner recounts her courageous healing journey from the depths of sustained racialized trauma working in a New Orleans theatre to the l…
