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"Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night-light; she knew that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wond…
Equity describes the policy as one that aims to "promote sustainable, optimistic and fulfilling careers" for its members and other arts workers. To achieve this, it claims a "radical overhau…
Blumenthal's Mission: To present the best in the performing arts and in partnership with others, share and employ the arts as a major catalyst to strengthen education, build community cohesi…
The Playwrights' Center, located in Minneapolis, MN, is currently accepting applications for two positions, General Manager and Director of Marketing and Communications.
There are two ways of telling the story of celebrity, and both are true. The first narrative holds celebrity to be a modern invention. There were always famous people, but they made their na…
"It was a balancing act of extraordinary deftness that only someone with strong self-discipline and steely ambition could pull off. Yet history has not dealt kindly with Gropius, especially …
"We look at cathedrals returning to being the cultural hubs that they once were. Each cathedral around the country is desperately looking for a cultural agenda for their own sustainability."…
"An attack on meritocracy is invariably an attack on higher education, where meritocrats get sorted and credentialed. So the turn against meritocracy prompts big questions. Has meritocracy i…
His 1970 solo show at the Grand Palais in Paris meant to establish Bacon in the very highest echelons of living painters " even, he hoped, as a peer to Picasso. Then his erstwhile lover, the…
"In hindsight, we can see how rarely one technology supersedes another: the rise of the podcast makes clear that video didn't doom audio any more than radio ended reading. Yet in 1913, a jou…
Whitman wrote a sequence of poems title "Live Oak, With Moss" " inspired, scholars believe, by his romance with one Fred Vaughan " but scattered them throughout his 1860 edition of Leaves of…
Be wary of lists such as these. The Guardian attempts to select the best dance this century. But with dance spread out all over the world, can a critic (or group of them) choose (let alone j…
Sentences and phrases of human languages, all human languages, have an inaudible and invisible hierarchical structure. When we are children, we impose this structure on the sequences of soun…
Dmitry Yakovlev, head of one of Russia's leading indie comic producers, the St Petersburg-based Bumkniga, was unfazed by the minister's dig. "Medinsky's comment was pure stupidity, therefore…
The Theater on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts "was the charismatic Ms. Corwin's baby. She proposed it to the library in 1969 and, told that she …
"Compact, at 22,000 square feet and 82 feet high, the library is among the finest and most uplifting public buildings New York has produced so far this century. It also cost something north …
The DeVos Institute invites applications for its Global Arts Management Fellowship " a three-year, cohort-based intensive for arts and cultural executives. Apply by Nov. 15.
Two burglars cut through a fence at the artist's Paris property and tried to take apart one of his sculptures made from the now-removed old lead roof of Cologne Cathedral, probably to sell t…
"Though they've been ignored or underheard, African-American composers have long been crafting ambitious music dramas. Some of the works cited below exist in complete editions, ready to be p…
Is it a sensitive portrait of a segregated Black community? Or is it a parade of stereotypes performed in embarrassing dialect? Is it a triumph of the American melting pot, with the sons of …
"Dance moguls Debbie Allen and Nigel Lythgoe are organizing a new two-week festival next spring" " titled, simply, the Los Angeles International Dance Festival " "featuring local and global …
His career goes all the way back to 1946 at Stratford, through a 1970 Midsummer Night's Dream and a nine-hour Mahabharata from the '80s that arguably changed theatre history, to a new book t…
"Are orchestras dying? These smaller groups are alive and well … The … orchestras presented below offer perhaps five programs a year, with freelance professional players, on a fraction o…
"Findings from the Ruderman Family Foundation's just released effort, Disability Inclusion in Movies and Television, show that … 55% would like to see characters with disabilities portraye…
Bill Irwin finds Beckett's remarkable use of language something of a balm at a time when the use of words has grown so imprecise. "Our culture runs away from words," he bemoaned. "It seems t…
