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Assistants are mad as hell, and they have the law behind them now, too. "Subjected to grueling hours, low pay, few benefits or protections and the vagaries of monomaniacal bosses, assistants…
Will "boy films" or "girl films" dominate? And also, WTF, Hollywood? " The Guardian (UK)
It used to be magazines and the Photoshopping that went into making cover models and celebrities look even thinner and more "perfect" than they already are. But this time it's regular people…
In the U.S., at least, kindness and empathy are on a statistical decline. So what can parents do? Stop the focus on success, and focus on what we can do that's decent and good. "The point is…
Catholic Scottish composer James MacMillan, whose version of the "Stabat Mater" " a meditation on Mary, the mother of Jesus, suffering during the Crucifixion " is at the Lincoln Center this …
Let us count the ways in which we've been force-fed dour, vitamin-deficient biopics of our favorite authors. Why. So. Serious. On top of being ponderous, such work bristles with the insecuri…
If public libraries are not for the rich, they probably are not otherwise for the poor. To understand the public library as a benevolent form of welfare would be to entirely miss the radical…
Artist Angela Washko spent four years studying Neil Strauss's notorious womanizing instruction manual The Game, along with other materials of its kind, to develop The Game: The Game, a video…
Paul "liked watching the dancer figure it out. He liked giving you a challenge or an obstacle or a directive and then sitting back and seeing what you would do with it. He was also famous fo…
Last week in Montreal was the annual conference of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. Kathleen McGuire was there's and she brings news of nine interesting pieces of…
"Clients are asking for storage for paintings, art, design, antiques and collectibles but we've also been moving large scale bronze as well as marble garden sculpture into storage." " The Ar…
It's happening more and more, as part of the curtain speech or separately: a speaker formally acknowledges that, for example, "we are on Lenape land" (in the case of New York City). Lauren W…
Like other mass media that boomed around the same time"radio, movies, monthly magazines"syndicated news diverted people's energies and attention from local culture with alluring, slickly-pro…
Philosophy, Aristotle tells us in his Metaphysics, begins with wonder. History does too. It starts with obvious perplexities but also with our realisation of the strangeness of the everyday,…
The major exhibitors typically insist on a 72-day period of exclusivity for the films that play on their screens. During the monthslong talks with Netflix over "The Irishman," representative…
The Santa Fe Art Colony was established in 1986 with public funds through the Community Redevelopment Agency, allowing for the adaptive reuse of factory buildings into artist studios. A 30-y…
Of course, age creates physical limitations. But there is artistry in their dancing and musicality, in the way they hang a fraction behind the beat to create the lilting sensation of floatin…
"The first major touring exhibition of artifacts from King Tut's tomb was a product of financial necessity. In 1961, archaeological sites in Egypt were in danger of flooding and the country …
Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) wore black, dyed his hair green, broke with his family, refused to get a regular job, did absinthe and opium, had too much illicit sex, and, of course, died youn…
The Golden Age of TV, the halcyon period that dates from the premiere of The Sopranos in January 1999, has been drawing to a close for a while now, but as the streamers lay out their plans f…
He created, and often wrote scripts for, The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family, Love on a Rooftop, The Girl With Something Extra, and Bridget Loves Bernie. (He also wrote 17 episodes of Bewit…
In September, the trustees of The Roundhouse declined to accept a £1 million grant from the Sackler Trust, controlled by the family which owns the company that makes OxyContin. Said a Rou…
In news received with consternation by many city arts organizations, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Finkelpearl would be stepping down by what the ex-commissioner called "mutual agreeme…
Before it lost public sympathy with a badly misjudged action on the London Underground, the British activist group's agitprop had had a good deal of success, thanks to its "instinctive under…
"When the museum reopened last year, Aline Nyirahumure, who is from Rwanda and runs the African cultural center Kuumba in Brussels, was not impressed. Much of the money went into a new build…
