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"From the dull art of crafting Thanksgiving turkeys out of handprints to the bad politics of making headdresses out of turkey feathers, the point of contact between Indians and non-Indians b…
He's Casy Reitz, currently executive director of New York's Second Stage. "Before taking the position at the Second Stage Theater in September of 2010, Reitz was director of development at t…
"It can't be overlooked that San Francisco has some heavyweight car-free peers. Once, pedestrianized urban cores were largely the domain of enlightened mid-sized cities in northern Europe. B…
If a freelance journalist writes for a magazine, newspaper or other entity whose central mission is to disseminate the news, the law says, that journalist is capped at writing 35 "submission…
Tosches and his fellow music writers Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs were labeled "the Noise Boys" for their wild, energetic prose, a world away from fan magazines like Tiger Beat and Seven…
"It has become clear to me that John and Caryn Havlik's work is distinct, inimitable, and intrinsically New York"and that this beloved team must stay with us. A show like New Sounds can only…
While the glass art industry blows oxygen and life into intricate glass chandeliers, vases, bowls and complex sculptures, it also consumes hefty amounts of natural gas and propane while fill…
As humanities majors slump to the lowest level in decades, calls are coming from surprising places for a revival. Some prominent economists are making the case for why it still makes a lot o…
Shigeru Ban, a designer of houses and visitors' centers and condominiums and towers, is perhaps more famous as a designer of emergency shelters, for people suffering from earthquakes and flo…
"Until recently, this debate over whether actors literally lose themselves in their roles was largely a matter of conjecture. However, a pair of research papers in psychology published this …
"The current streaming culture we find ourselves in marks music and wide open spaces of exploration into nothing more than a commodity, and because of this, we're increasingly driven away fr…
"The main contention of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books " that reading print can be a sociable, active, and even seditious activity " is so sensible that it seems incredible that…
Seriously, why would anyone go to the movie in theatres 11 times? Sometimes you need distance to figure something like that out. "In The Matrix, I realized, I had found a message about my…
Maybe. They're doing a lot better at reading comprehension exams, for instance. On a new "benchmark designed to measure machines' real understanding of natural language " or to expose their …
Bots worm their way into everything, including the once much more intimate Instagram Stories. Why? To get more engagement back. (There's a Russian "secret app" for this social media marketin…
Or, more specifically, whom are they for? "Doing it just for an audience ties criticism to weird stuff about selling a show, which I'm sort of uncomfortable with. But if critics are reviewin…
Friedeberger was inspired by his time as a European refugee in Australia during WWII. "Whereas many abstract painters of the 60s were working on a large scale with fields of unmodulated colo…
The thing about horror is that it has always been about amplifying regular fear. The genre "works against false comfort, complacency and euphemism, against attempts to repress or sanitize th…
Neda Ulaby on the woman who shaped the course of ballet in the US and also, famously, in Cuba: "To this day, says American Ballet Theatre's Kevin McKenzie, young ballet dancers who want to l…
The protest was held at the end of a show sponsored by BP (British Petroleum) to protest the museum's ties to the company. One, a 19-year-old named Eden, said, "Who will there be left to see…
Tosches, who had a taste for rock and country (and their far fringes) "and his fellow music writers Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs were labeled 'the Noise Boys' for their wild, energ…
Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, says that he decided not to worry about what the audience thought, or more specifically thought of Asian Americans. "I had to stop caring. Because even as …
Group up? Spend more money on new, fresh content? Somehow find, and fund, top talent? Everything is up in the air with all kinds of streaming services debuting and European producers wonderi…
The elegant young American artist and the surly older French Impressionist inspired each other " and, because both destroyed or left little information about their friendship, a lot of art a…
The basic problem? A dashed line (one that violates international law as decided by a court at The Hague in 2016). "Malaysia's censorship board initially agreed to permit Abominable to…
