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"Reproduction" is set in Brampton and explores the nature of family " both blood relatives and chosen family. The writing, as reviewers expect from Williams, is beautiful " he's written many…
"Perth and Sydney have recognised [their responsibilities] by commissioning diverse local artists working in diverse forms. These festivals are engaging with their place in contemporary cult…
"Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec were first given two-year suspended terms in 2015 after being convicted of possession of stolen goods over the huge trove of works by Picasso, including nine …
"What of the storefronts, those famous Chicago institutions where a full house can mean 80 people and where artists frequently toil for little or even no compensation? Can they claim a signi…
Says Max Hollein, "Art cannot solely be perceived in regard to its beauty and craftsmanship. You also have to evaluate it in light of its political messages. … If you have one of the great…
The country's first post-Soviet president, the autocratic and eccentric Sapurmurat Niyazov, banned opera in 2001 as "incompatible with Turkmen mentality." His successor (and former dentist),…
The daughter of the late King Sihanouk. she began dancing at age 5; by age 16, she was a leader of the royal dance company and a mainstay of Cambodian cultural diplomacy. She fled the countr…
Allegra Kent, Conrad Ludlow, and the New York City Ballet dance the second movement of George Balanchine's Symphony in C. The score is Georges Bizet's Symphony in C, composed shortly a…
"In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushm…
Madison School District in Phoenix, AZ seeks Executive Director for The Madison Center for the Arts. Apply now for this great opportunity!
Wood's earlier essays are more sure of themselves, more eager to please, packed with the kind of aphoristic insights that might have undergraduates reaching for their highlighter pens… In …
The story is already legend: In D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood, Donald Campbell had been cranking go-go music from the speakers of his store at the corner of 7th and Florida Street since 1995, and…
The Times Square area was never the exclusive preserve of theatergoers, but Broadway culture elevated the neighborhood's rough and raffish character. Today, not even all Broadway theaters ha…
The textile is long-considered a major cultural icon both in France and England. In light of Christopher Norton's findings, one news source trumpets that the tapestry is definitely French " …
These changes are symptomatic of several wider cultural shifts that, in combination with rising costs and declining public funding, are 'squeezing' the low-to-mid end of the market: the rise…
2017 was the first time women held a greater share of management jobs than men, and in 2018 they once again had a majority of jobs in that area, though their share fell to 52% (from 59% in 2…
The production presented this week at Suffolk University in Boston, is, according to Wilder's estate, the first time all seven one-acts will be performed together in a single program." " Ame…
National Museum Cardiff has put on display a painting of a Madonna and child that had for decades been dismissed as a crude copy of Botticelli's style. Ironically, it had been thought a Bott…
Whether the Chicago brass would be recognizable in a blind test is open to debate " many of the regional styles that once differentiated orchestras have been sanded over in this age of jet-s…
General Jean-Louis Georgelin, a brusque army man appointed by President Macron to oversee the reconstruction of the fire-damaged cathedral, was speaking to the cultural affairs committee of …
After all, argues Courtney Escoyne (reacting to news of a second Polunin documentary), it only encourages him. "I'm not sure that it matters what stance this documentary takes. It's yet anot…
"Provocative subject matter isn't foreign to [the director of Queen & Slim], who was raised in the Bronx by a Cuban mother and a Jewish Greek father, whom she describes as 'freedom fight…
"Reading on my phone is not a perfect cure for my drowsiness, which seems to be a condition of aging, and stress, or both. I'll never again be 14 years old with an insatiable appetite for on…
Adam Frankel, a former member of Obama's speechwriting team: "'Something about this draft just doesn't feel right.' That, or something like it, is probably the most frequent feedback a speec…
It's not enough that the speaker is living to say that the language he or she speaks is alive. A living language is one that endures and produces other languages, which is precisely the case…
