Girls outnumber boys up to 20 to 1 in ballet classes, and so it seems like ballet would be one place " maybe the only place " where women would have the majority of leadership roles. Nope. "…
The promise " unlimited films for $10 a month " went far beyond its founders' capital and far beyond what the market could support. But for a limited time in 2017, MoviePass was poised with …
Used to be, the U.S. TV landscape had a few reality shows, nothing spectacular, nothing great. But 1999 changed things: "The drama, the spectacle and arguably the artifice of reality televis…
Taylor's sundial sculpture Timepiece has been used " or, as she thinks of it, co-opted " by a pro-Brexit party called the Time Party, who are using it both on their website and in their merc…
Smith not only cleared up the reputation of President Ulysses Grant " showing that "Grant's poor reputation as president had been fostered in part by biased graduate students at Columbia Uni…
Well, that's poetic, and sounds incredibly Irish. The director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland says, "We're in competition with a lot of venues backed by private drinks companies, wi…
Barbara Newhall Follett saw her first book " about a wild little girl who longs to be free from structures of brick and glass " published when she was 12. By the time she was 25, "Barbara be…
Siddons was an advertising copywriter before her buddy Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, urged her to write about Atlanta " which she did. But that wasn't her only topic. "'The South is…
It's an important question as The Goldfinch, based on a rather lengthy novel, hits theatres. And then … what about movies based on Stephen King books? "The more sophisticated the source ma…
The painting, by Daniel Buren, is described as "a cotton canvas with white and red vertical stripes," and the attacker was being held for psychiatric evaluation. " BBC
Sometimes you just need a study to back up what seemingly everyone (at least the women) already knows: "The fields of design, production, and technical theatre are the most male-dominated…
For one thing, there's a limit to what you can portray on screen (who knew?): "The film depicts only a fraction of the staff required for similar occasions, as they would simply not fit o…
Reporting to Celebrity Series of Boston's President and Executive Director, Gary Dunning, the organization seeks a seasoned professional to fill the role of Director of Finance.
The University of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts, seeks applicants for a tenure track, Assistant Professor in Arts Administration to begin August 2020.
This form of advertising lets the advertiser, like the artist or the label, play a shortened version of a music video as an advertisement in front of other videos. Under some conditions " li…
"It's like a lawyer: if you find that the person you're representing is a murderer you can't then go around bewailing the fact you defended them " that was your job." " The Guardian
YouTube is doing something about the proliferation of hate on its video site. According to a blog post published on Tuesday (September 3), it took down five times more channels and videos pr…
Golden Age evangelists love to wax rhapsodic on the artistic triumphs of their preferred series, but those same critics are quick to pull the "mass appeal" card to defend those series' faili…
The Las Vegas-based network, which operates a classical station in the city and a news station which is re-transmitted throughout the state, expanded into Reno (a market that already had two…
"The latest episode is tied to the fight for control of the commission, which will shift from the mayor's office to an independent agency Oct. 1," pursuant to legislation by the city council…
An Armenian born in Iran and raised in Iraq, Martin came to New York to study and met Scorsese in the early 1960s. He worked on the director's first feature (Who's That Knocking at My Door?)…
The more original shows Netflix orders, the more likely it is to cancel those that don't perform well. The company relies on an "efficiency metric" to decide what shows should be kept and wh…
The system will use game mechanics to engage users " people will be able to earn "points" each time the assistant shares one of their answers. " CNBC
The refrain "adapt or die" haunts many performing arts organizations, so it's fascinating to find one that heeds the warning, discovers what it needs to do"and then actually does it. " The P…
Zukerman, 74, has Alzheimer's. She was diagnosed about three years ago after her two daughters insisted that she get checked. At the time, Zukerman thought nothing of the memory slips… " A…