The revamped MoMA invited people to visit for free on Sunday, before the official opening. Nearly 10,000 people took the museum up on its offer, and they needed to create new mental maps. "A…
Just days before MoMA was set to reopen after its big renovation and expansion, activists crashed both the outside and inside of a preview cocktail party for VIP guests. "The protesters gath…
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.…
"Jazz on Stage," an episode from a 1970 syndicated TV series. This episode was directed by Jack Lewerke and filmed during a performance at Shelly's Manne-Hole, a Los Angeles night club owned…
"I have no use for principles which demand human sacrifice." Eugenie Schwarzwald (quoted in Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander)
Assuming there is a future, "when historians of the future chronicle the last days of Britain, a pig's head may enjoy its own footnote." " David Jays
That's right: Fanfiction, with its hookups of likely and unlikely characters, its absolute refusal to live by the rules of the world set by authors like J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, edu…
The Lyons family of New York were a vital part of New York's Seneca Village. They "were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for bla…
The hours are good, the patrons can be terrible, the dreams live … for a while. "A lot of actors, directors and writers work front of house, with most of us spending our days auditioning, …
"It's time for cultural philanthropy to get more creative. … A small-but-growing number of funders are working with arts and culture organizations and individual donors to address inequiti…
The clarinetist who played at Barack Obama's inauguration talks about playing with passion, staying humble, setting goals, giving your all on every occasion, and overcoming negativity. (vide…
"Singleton demurs when described as a composer of classical music. 'I know that I write music. I'm a composer. So, categorization always gets us in trouble because it defines us very narrowl…
"Saeed Jones has worn many hats: teacher, poet, and culture editor at BuzzFeed, among many other things. (Also, he joins a growing group of writers willing to admit that they were high schoo…
"Threewalls, a cultural nonprofit that supports visual artists in Chicago, has announced that it will award $900,000 to artists who identify as African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, or Native Americ…
"Perhaps it was only possible in the neighborhoods of East L.A. that two gay, Mexican immigrants could partner with a religious sister to found one of L.A.'s oldest and most important altern…
"Dancer, choreographer and dance professor Leah Glenn wields that strong magic [and dance] to teach, increase understanding and make all lives better. And so it is no surprise that in 2012 w…
"In 2017, 41 percent of female-identifying and 18 percent of male-identifying students reported experiencing sexual assault at Tulane University in New Orleans. Since those stats were releas…
"Theater Latté Da [in Minneapolis] has announced the establishment of the NEXT Generation Commission, designed to support the creation and development of musicals by women and artists of co…
"[It's] one of the most overlooked success stories in our field: how a century-old theatre of color, once in a state of crisis, has been revitalized and rejuvenated. In a time when there are…
The narration begins, "You were too young to lose your mum, and we were too young to organize a funeral. So because we were in Yorkshire, with nowhere else we wanted to be and nothing else w…
Well, it's because of a brief scene with a map, you see. "It's not every day that a largely forgettable Dreamworks yeti movie can come under fire from multiple national governments for viola…
Can a madrasa that teaches children of suicide bombers to draw and dance help them get deprogrammed from hours and hours of militant videos? The school is sure trying, but "when they first a…
Swings are more than understudies " they have to learn multiple roles within one show. Twenty-year-old swing Debôrah Godchaser, who was barely born when Lion King opened, says she's learn…
In Columbus, Ohio, ballerina Rachael Parini was the inspiration for a 90-foot billboard that advertises the BalletMet company, but it means more than that to her " it means that young dancer…
A consultant tells the BSO that it needs a "vision" in order to deal with the debt and the uncertain future. The consultant said that "the BSO should be building a blueprint for the next sev…