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The workers come from nearly every department at MOCA, including visitor engagement, education, exhibitions, communications, retail and audio-visual, but not curatorial. Among their motivati…
Tyler Cowen: "The effects of pushing wealth out of the for-profit sector would be far-ranging. Wealthy donors might be more likely to pressure nonprofits for luxury consumption experiences, …
Our analysis is revealing. It shows that typically, where PWYC tickets and performances are publicly available, they are taken up disproportionately by existing customers. One producing thea…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I write about a new book by Rob Kapilow whose subject is American popular song. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * The "listicle," a na…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the New York transfer of Bedlam's off-Broadway revival of The Crucible. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Bedlam's small-scale revival of Arthur …
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Chopin's B Minor Mazurka, Op. 33/4, on Italian TV in 1965: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space e…
"He was no good in discussion, not because any amount of argument could shake his faith, but because the mere fact of hearing another voice disconcerted him painfully, confusing his thoughts…
For me, the most jaw-dropping instance of curatorial (and directorial) trend-chasing was the Met's announcement that the Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman had been commissioned by the museum…
At Bloomberg, Tyler Cowen has a short post on some unintended consequences of a wealth tax, and his is (let's say) an unusual take. " Michael Rushton
The Chicago Reader is hitching onto the train of news outlets pivoting to nonprofit life, under the umbrella of the newly-founded Reader Institute for Community Journalism, set to launch in …
Reading books aloud might seem like an easy way to make money " you just sit there and read " "but I can assure you it isn't. I narrated my own audiobook in 2014, an experience that I descri…
It's a study of human behavior. And it's a study of the ways in which the architecture of public spaces is designed to control the ways humans move, perhaps by funneling people towards an ex…
The Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a two-year visiting faculty position, beginning August 2020.
A new study, commissioned by the mayor's office and released on Wednesday, finds that the city is home to 748 Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theater organizations responsible for 3,000 jo…
For the third time in as many years, the White House has proposed a federal budget that would shutter the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corp…
The World Performing Arts Capitals, a joint project of the International Theatre Institute and UNESCO, "twin a major metropolis like London or New York with a smaller city or town, similar t…
While the disruption has hampered the ability of newsrooms to fully cover communities, it also has damaged political and civic life in the United States, the report says, leaving many people…
Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic in London (and former artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore): "People are listening in a way they didn't 10 years ago, 20 years …
A decade long study at The Australian Ballet has delivered some surprising results as to what works in stretching and what is actually damaging to the body and increasing the risk of injury.…
"As soon as James Griffin gets off the school bus he tells his mom, 'Go dance, go dance.' James is 14 and has autism, and his speech is limited. He's a participant in a program for children …
"To put it bluntly, the Marciano Art Foundation was never a real museum. Yes, it had access to a collection"some 1,500 pieces acquired primarily by Maurice Marciano, including L.A.'s trendie…
"We hear people saying that the boom is back but that doesn't seem to be translating into a richer arts and cultural centre. Ireland has a really strange relationship with arts and culture. …
Choi took the fiction prize for her novel Trust Exercise, while the nonfiction award went to Sarah M. Broom's memoir The Yellow House. Winning the young people's literature category was Mart…
"The Metropolitan Opera has run small deficits for the past two years and faces rising capital expenses " including for the repair of its white travertine exterior " prompting S & P Glob…
"Defined as 'a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it', Oxford said the words…
