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True, the Guerrilla Girls famously asked if women had to be naked to get into the Met (the percentages are not great), but the unseen labor of women artists and women museum professionals is…
Who could say it better than Philip Kennicott? "The old-fashioned, ceremonial unveiling of a statue is mostly extinct as a cultural spectacle. New art works are generally introduced quietly,…
The Canadian Opera Company is trying to figure that out, but it's complex. The pseudo-Asian characters Ping, Pang, and Pong have been renamed in Toronto, but tenor Julius Ahn, who sings Pang…
Sure, there's more craft beer and more restaurants than there were 10 or 15 years ago " and there are also a lot of Millennials who left Columbus for the city, and then returned because Colu…
So we're pursuing "joy" instead " something that comes and goes and that we don't feel we need to sustain. Could this actually be a boon for the arts as we start to realize that collective e…
We don't know who he is, or at least many of us don't, but one instructor says it's time for writing students to take lessons from his clear prose. He has great topic sentences! He knows how…
Kickstarter, where thousands of artists and writers and circus performers and musicians and etc. have gotten millions of dollars of funding, fired two union organizers a couple of weeks ago.…
The answer is yes. Yes, they sure are. And it's not just Harry Potter or And Tango Makes Three. "Our government doesn't actually ban books, does it? Sure it does! The federal gov…
College students actually do just fine without it, or so Cal State says. This probably won't shock a lot of humanities majors, but an administrator says, "The traditional pathway, where we h…
A post about race and racism from The Relevant's former managing editor went viral, and the fallout "has already led to a 'sabbatical' for Relevant Media Group's founder and CEO, an outpouri…
As the end of WWI led to economic crises, many German towns and villages issued their own emergency cash, or "notgeld." The designs range widely from local legends, including fairytales, to …
At City Ballet, the master is coaching other dancers in a piece created for him by Jerome Robbins. "Dance, to Mr. Baryshnikov, is about five points:Â the head, the two hands and the two fe…
Some have few speakers, 12 speakers of Wakhi, for example. "For all the justifiable concern about language loss " thousands may go dormant globally " there have been success stories, l…
With a dedication to diverse input, RoT seems less a performing ensemble and more a living organism. The group has studied yodeling, Tuvan throat singing, Korean p'ansori, Persian classical …
"As yet, we have only a sketchy understanding of access consciousness, and there are many controversies over the details of the neural systems involved, but in time we should be able to fill…
Over the past two years, ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) videos have ballooned on YouTube, where some of their creators " known as "ASMRtists" " boast millions of subscribers and…
Mr. Pinsky, 48, was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg as president of the city's Economic Development Corporation just before the height of the 2008 financial crisis. In that role, he negotiated …
Heffington moves like a trailblazer because he is one. His creative visions have rebooted the way the pop-culture world thinks about dance, and the way the dance world thinks about success, …
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center seeks an Education and Artistic Associate to join its staff. This is a full-time position.
Reporting to the President and CEO, this executive position provides leadership in the realization of the organization's marketing and communications department.
What if the problem is something that can't be solved by existing for-profit media platforms? Maybe the answer to fixing social media isn't trying to change companies with business models bu…
Los Angeles already had one dance festival, but Lythgoe, producer of So You Think You Can Dance, knew that if he hadn't heard of it, it wasn't getting enough publicity. So he and Allen creat…
We create symbols, then alter their meanings. Some argue vehemently that monuments, such as Confederate statues, should be left in place"that their part in history should not be "erased." Bu…
The actual theatre didn't physically collapse, though: the company that operated the venue in York for the past two summers, with a second replica at Blenheim Palace near Oxford this past su…
"Researchers … found that the orchestra and Cleveland Institute of Music, where many orchestra members teach, together contributed $172.1 million to the regional economy. … Activities at…
