"The central question that the museum presents is the degree to which a national memorial to the history and culture of a marginalized people, set in that nation's capital and funded and sup…
"In recent months, Senator Warren has become an even more effective storyteller. During a rally last month she conjured the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in rich detail: "It was March 25,…
It would be easy to say that all money under capitalism is corrupt so what can we possibly do? Well, I do know one thing we could do. We could nationalize the art museums. " The Guardian
"As a composer and researcher in cognition and music, I have been thinking about my mother's hallucinations and what they might tell us about the nature and role of music today. Neurological…
It started with Beauty and the Beast on Broadway in 1994, followed up three years later by The Lion King. Yet Disney Theatrical Group didn't become a corporate behemoth churning out pale cop…
The Australian film box office numbers show a simple fact: Aussie films are less popular in Australia today than they were 30 to 40 years ago. " Spectator
As of this year, the World Health Organization thinks so, and the American Psychiatric Association has included "internet gaming disorder" in the DSM. More than a few people are skeptical, i…
Sadie is the unlikely new Emily Post of the theatre community. In June, just before leaving for sleepaway camp, she put Magic Marker to paper and laid out what she calls her Broadway Rules, …
"The once-beloved institution that has been closed for four years has delayed the [planned Nov. 3] reopening of its new Pennsylvania Avenue space. … Some of the delay was caused by unfores…
The performance-competitions that were made famous by the documentary Paris Is Burning, introduced the world to voguing, and arguably inspired RuPaul's Drag Race have generally judged their …
As it begins a $7 million capital campaign to fund a new Learning Center for Arts and Intersectionality that will host workshops and after-school programs, upgrades its archives and library …
"Santos started out playing Latin big band music at resorts in upstate New York's Catskills, and performed with Machito's orchestra at New York's city's Palladium in the 1950s. Over his long…
"The problem is that Facebook doesn't offer free speech; it offers free amplification. No one would much care about anything you posted to Facebook, no matter how false or hateful, if people…
The Royal New Zealand Ballet's artistic director, Patricia Barker, "says she realized that a season devoted to women's works shouldn't be seen as a huge undertaking, but something that could…
The project, called "Cannes on Air," includes adding another floor to the Palais des Festivals, building a new museum of cinema history and a state-of-the-art 12-screen multiplex, and establ…
The musicians' walkout in March and April of this year was the key factor in the increase in the CSO's deficit from $900,000 in 2017-18 to $1.1 million in 2018-19. On the other hand, operati…
I can't imagine how a record of concerted works by Berg and Bartók made its way into the classical bin at the musical instrument store in Smalltown, U.S.A. Granted, Isaac Stern and Leonar…
Edith Halpert's career as a pioneering gallery owner who specialized in modern American art is memorialized in a new exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum. " Terry Teachout
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.…
"For Socialism did indeed die with the guns of August of 1914 when the Socialist masses rejected proletarian solidarity and enthusiastically embraced nationalism and fratricidal war instead.…
Emoji sink or swim on less democratic tides. They aren't quite words, of course, though they're certainly word-adjacent. (Three out of four Americans regularly deploy emoji in text messages,…
Bring your love of the arts to leadership positions with arts institutions through NYU Steinhardt's MA in Visual Arts Administration. Prepare for a dynamic career in the commercial or non-pr…
"Touring with a message is not for the faint of heart. From considerations about how to market the work to concerns about safety, touring to cities where, in general, that message may not be…
"If today's advanced economies have reached (or even exceeded) the point of productivity that Keynes predicted, why are 30- to 40-hour weeks still standard in the workplace? And why doesn't …
"I do not agree that the novel is doomed to become a marginal cultural force " but I can see why writers whose first successes came in the pre-digital age may think so. Gone are the days of …