"Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the country's first ever exhibition devoted solely to the works of Native American women. Jeffrey Brown traveled to Minnesota and New Mexico to…
Cultural organizer and producer Joon Lynn Goh speaks with Janna Graham, a research-based practitioner, curator, and lecturer, about connecting cultural work with political organizing. " Howl…
"[Millicent Hodson's] reconstructions include the legendary George Balanchine's 1925 Le Chant du Rossignol, the tale of a Chinese emperor who favors the notes of a mechanical bird over the s…
Says artist Olayami Dabls, founder of Detroit's MBAD African Bead Museum, "I decided that I would open up an African Bead Museum, specially learning that the beads embodied the culture and t…
"Thirty years after the release of A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy is on a roll with a Barbican retrospective and a slew of recent screenings. Here's a look back at some of her major works.…
"Nearly 130 years ago, a Harvard anthropologist visited Calais, Maine, a town on the border with Canada, and recorded songs, words and stories from members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. For ye…
Bree Davies: "When I saw the conference workshop Innovations in Artist Housing: Inspiration from South America to address the 'Soho Effect', I was stoked. … [But] the panel on artist housi…
"The Black Art Futures Fund was a topic of great curiosity at the 2019 GIA conference, if only because it seemed to the GIA crowd that founder DéLana R.A. Dameron is on to something new wit…
"The ADA is often mentioned as some kind of total solution to a still inaccessible world. But as was pointed out at the beginning of Monday's panel, Variations on a Theme: Funding Disability…
"It takes some courage to come to a conference of funders and tell them what they do wrong. In no uncertain terms. Especially if you are an organization that could use their money. But there…
The place that Dubliners call the House of the Dead (really, the House of "The Dead," of course) has been sold. "Last week city authorities announced a plan to turn the House of the Dead int…
That was October 22, and the train was in southeast London. The soloist from the Royal Phil eventually received a private message on Twitter from someone who said he recognized (from a secur…
The Nomura Award is in its inaugural year, and it gives $1 million to a living artist. Salcedo won "for her body of work produced over the last 25 years, which has focused on the human co…
The Nutcracker, which is the source of much funding for ballet companies across the Western world and especially in the U.S., is a huge tradition " and one that, increasingly, audiences are …
He wasn't president for long (31 days, actually), but during that time, he sported his (then famous) sword from the (then famous) Battle of Tippecanoe. In 1979, it was stolen from the Connec…
The tradition, which has been focused in Japan but spread out from there via the internet (of course), gets people wearing "costumes" like "just got out of bed and grabbed the first thing I …
The only time you'll see an actor with a disability in a Hollywood movie is when the actor isn't disabled, and the movie is the kind of thing that disability activists call "inspo porn." (Th…
Themes of surveillance, sexuality, gender inequality, and evading censors are certainly, sadly relevant in 2019. East German artists knew all about all of that, and "their subversive and oft…
What does Deborah Rutter really want to do with the expanded, busier, more national " perhaps " Kennedy Center? "The New York Times
Malevich lived and worked in Belorus " and "for 25 years [this painting] has been on display in the city of Hrodna, near the Polish border, with the label:Â Malevich?" But does Belorus fin…
The Golden Rule begins with imagining oneself as selfish, but try Mengzi instead. "Mengzian extension starts from the assumption that you are already concerned about nearby others, and takes…
Are all of those mindfulness apps easing our stress? Ha. Getting us more addicted to technology, more like. " Fast Company
At least, it will if it can get some funding. "Much of the problem is financial " with huge challenges in securing funding for such labour-intensive work. And when British productions do man…
Think memoir, travel, family history, history of the world. That's what a good cookbook is. " Literary Hub
Myra Melford is a composer as comfortable in jazz scenes as she is composing for new music ensembles. "Call it an 'organic approach to composition,' which is how her one-time teacher Henry T…