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Only two per cent of actors actually make a living from acting alone and 90 per cent of actors are out of work at any given time so that means, more often than not, actors have to make money…
Every industry takes a toll and holds its own responsibility when it comes to environmental impact, and as life goes on, action to minimise this is necessary. Festivals, promoters and event …
James Russell: "MoMA has long built its origin story of Euro-American Modernism around its great holdings, but that story no longer consists of a single, mainly male, heroic narrative. Inste…
Since concerted excavations began in the middle of the 18th century, Pompeii's rich homes, tombs and public buildings have been plundered by looters, exploited by profit-hungry private excav…
"What do the brains of jazz musicians look like as they create their art on the fly? Using an fMRI machine, Dr. Charles Limb found that activity in the medial prefrontal cortex shot up, whil…
Under Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, the city is aiming to build monuments at an unusually rapid rate to honor women, people of color and others previously overlooked. B…
As Auden says, poetry is "a way of happening". It takes the passage of time, the reality of loss, the absorption in a sharpened kind of seeing or hearing, and makes all these into speech tha…
"So what are newspapers and web producers up to, besides making extremely expensive pivots-to-video? And why are these outlets willing to bet people like their journalism enough to watch ent…
Over the last 15 years, as cruise-ship hoards and souvenir schlock have overrun the village of Oia on Santorini's northern tip, Atlantis Books has become an unlikely oasis of authenticity an…
An auctioneer spotted the painting in June while inspecting a woman's house in Compiegne in northern France and suggested she bring it to experts for an evaluation. It hung on a wall between…
Police came across the more than 80 objects by accident during a house search of an antiques dealer in a suburb of Buenos Aires. They include daggers with swastikas, a ouija board and magnif…
"The people who helped me the most were the librarians," Cummings told Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes interview broadcast in January of this year, adding that the public library was the o…
The Getty fire, which broke out near the Getty Center along the 405 Freeway, has burned more than 500 acres. " Los Angeles Times
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
Dock Boggs plays and sings "Pretty Polly" at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. Before the performance, he talks about making his first phonograph records in New York in 1927: (This is the late…
"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it." E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
"MoBBallet, an organization founded by Dance Magazine contributing editor Theresa Ruth Howard in 2015 to preserve and promote the legacy of black dancers in ballet, hosts its first symposium…
"As a playwright and attorney, Mary Kathryn Nagle is used to building a case and crafting a narrative. But when it comes to bringing attention to sovereignty issues and Native communities, s…
"The inaugural three years (2015-2018) of the Creative City pilot program supported artists of all disciplines to reimagine places for art in Boston, engage public imagination, and inspire c…
"I think in many ways we as a sector have pigeonholed foundation program officers. We have internalized this idea that their role is one of micromanager and compliance officer, whose jobs ar…
"When people talk about the healing power of music, they are generally referring to the listener, but one orchestra in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont is founded on the idea that mu…
"The brainchild of Rev. Yolanda Norton, a Hebrew Bible scholar and the H. Eugene Farlough Chair of Black Church Studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Beyoncé Mass explores how …
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart's buoyant operatic comedy, is built on an infrastructure of political discontent. Although it sheathes its claws in time for a happy ending, this is an opera w…
In a tweet, art historian Maria Paphiti found that the 2,700-year-old vase had been sold at Christie's auction house in May for nearly 7,000 euros ($7,700). The vase was given to Thatcher by…
"A lot fewer people are buying to wear and a lot more people are buying to sell." StockX, a high-end sneaker resale company based in Detroit, recently reached a jaw-dropping $1 billion US va…
