Andrew Jackson's and Trump's assertions of US power over Indigenous peoples call attention to their singular political status as nations within a nation, and they speak to the continuing Ind…
"In [Soft Power], a stand-in for Hwang named DHH is hired by a Chinese producer to try to stage a theatrical production in Shanghai. Then, after a stabbing that mirrors Hwang's own, he falls…
"What started as a quiet digital backwater is now increasingly growing in prominence, drawing the attention of audiences and moneyed interests alike. … And the story of how we go here can …
One small silver lining, he says, is that artists feel less pressure to churn out commercial material, freeing them up to experiment. "We are not expecting anything," he says. "There are no …
"While [Kristin Colvin] Young's job involves the responsibilities that immediately come to mind when you think of stage management " like calling the lights and sound during shows " her role…
"[She] painted bold, colorful works, often inspired by nature or music, and traveled in the same circles as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and other artists who were redefining painting …
Anne Midgette: "No figure in classical music is more iconic than the conductor, or more misunderstood. … No job in music is harder to quantify, and no job is, when it's done well, more imp…
Radio Ambulante has a Facebook group with thousands of members in more than 19 countries. Editors there decided, "Let's go back to the first place and do this but offline. We don't want to h…
A collective called Culture Declares Emergency argues that the new funding strategy proposed by Arts Council England "neither addresses the urgency of the climate and ecological emergency no…
The MacArthur-winning modern choreographer is creating a new solo on the star ballerina for the opening of this year's Fall For Dance festival in New York. Brian Seibert talks with the two o…
People don't fully acquire the ability to suppress clutter in a crowded scene and focus on what they're looking for until around age 17. Other research has found that the ability to pe…
With more than 22,000 works hanging in the chain's roughly 1,300 restaurants, Nando's is arguably the best place in the world to check out work by contemporary South African artists. And the…
"The 21st-century arts economy continues to evolve, and mosaic careers are what will enable us to keep pace with it. These are careers made up of many different parts, in different sizes. So…
One of my Twitter followers asked over the weekend if I'd post a list of my favorite film scores. This is, needless to say, an impossible task, but I did spend a few minutes drawing up the f…
Does anyone still wear " gloves? A lady's elegant, elbow-tweaking white gloves? Or a gentleman's svelte riding gloves? Spot these on stage, my friends, and you can rest assured that you are …
At the New York City Ballet's Fashion Gala, premieres by Lauren Lovette (costumed by Zac Posen) and Edwaard Liang (costumed by Anna Sui). " Deborah Jowitt
The process and the permanence of recording never seemed to entirely sit well with her. There are some likely treasures out there somewhere that we've never gotten to hear. " David Patrick S…
"On February 4, 1960, the Associated Press ran her obituary. It read, 'Zora Neale Hurston, author, died in obscurity and poverty.' And with those words, syndicated in The New York Times and …
The 2019 shortlist features three authors previously nominated for the Giller Prize. Ohlin was shortlisted in 2012 for the novel Inside, Crummey was shortlisted in 2001 for th…
Peter Ditto created a survey website to learn to what extent different moral frameworks shape outlooks on political questions, and indeed the greater world. His findings were compelling, but…
For many years, Silicon Valley and the machines that came out of it were presented as personally, economically, and socially transformative, agents of revolution at both the level of the ind…
It's the insiders"the poets, the tenured"who like to "problematize" poetry and wield their whatabouts. The "prose poem" is one of the most abiding whatabouts. It remains an outlier, a proble…
Inventors are significantly more productive when they are working in larger geographic clusters. The study finds that when inventors move from a smaller to a large cluster, they experience i…
What would our debates about fiction look like, I sometimes wonder, if our preferred verbal container for the phenomenon of writing about others was not "cultural appropriation" but rather "…
Boston University Metropolitan College seeks to fill a full-time, non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor starting July or September 1, 2020, for the graduate pr…