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Aaron Peckham started the site back in 1999 at least partly as a joke, but it quickly became a genuinely valuable reference, with users constantly submitting and updating definitions for sla…
Musicians say that his uncompromising approach to music " he is famous for marathon rehearsals and recording sessions, and for late-night salons where guests recite poetry, play music and ta…
A reporter visits Los Angeles County Museum of Art, conservator Kamila Korbela as she works on restoring Frank Stella's enormous Bampur. The challenge: the hue that's fading fastest is one o…
Management had Meyerhoff Symphony Hall open and ready for rehearsal for this weekend's scheduled season opening, but the musicians say they won't play without a contract " and they've now re…
From Cannes to Shanghai to Park City to Toronto, these events bring in visitors, create jobs, build a city's brand, and nurture culture. On the other hand, they can drive up prices, strain t…
"We are witnessing a great convergence between politics and culture, citizenship and commerce, ideology and aesthetics. Civic participation has been converted seamlessly into consumer practi…
"I've seen it many times when I'm conducting, and I see young children of various colors sitting in the front three or four rows," says the new music director of the San Bernardino Symphony …
Ryan Bancroft, a 29-year-old native of Long Beach who studied at CalArts, discovered classical music through a one-minute clip of Beethoven pre-loaded on his family's first computer, and he …
This past summer, an extreme drought in the Extremadura area of Spain that caused the Valdecañas Reservoir's water levels to plummet has revealed a series of megalithic stones. " artnet
Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play "often funny and pervasively unsettling, examines that lingering wound [of American slavery] through the frustrated sex lives, and taboo sexual fantasies, of th…
This portrait of a 15th-century Greek-Italian poet-soldier has, for the past dozen years, been on loan to the Prado from the Spanish collector Doña Helena Cambó de Guardans, who hopes …
Among the writers she worked with, first at Simon & Schuster and then at Random House, are Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ruth Reichl, Salman Rushdie, Lena Dunham, Gary Shteyngart, Allegra Goodman, T…
"I'd given up offering advice. Even when people asked for it, they resented getting it." Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case
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The beginning of a new academic year feels like a good time to work on making all of these resources more widely known. ArtsEngaged has the following available for people in the field who wa…
When I attended the celebratory press conference in 2015 that announced multiple major benefactions to the Met's Asian Art Department, little did I know that a few years later the Met would …
The Ohio State University's Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy (AAEP) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Arts Management to beg…
The Executive Director will create innovative ways for Theatre Forward to achieve its long-term vision of advancing American theatre and the communities they serve.
"The sculpture was almost certainly stolen in the early 1960s from the ancient Maya site. It passed through the inventory of a prominent Los Angeles gallery on its way to Paris. Its illicit …
"The [story] involves theft, adulterous affairs, a land deal gone wrong, a feud between families, two elite colleges, and some of the most famous poems in American literature." " Los Angeles…
"We do not have a diverse literary ecosystem in Canada; its diversity has shrunk rapidly in the past two decades. Two recent accounts amply demonstrate a narrowing of Canada's publishing act…
As more religious communities begin to incorporate robotics " in some cases, AI-powered and in others, not "it stands to change how people experience faith. It may also alter how we engage i…
"You cannot say, 'They don't work enough,' 'What do they want?' and all these kinds of phrases," says Muti. "I think still in Chicago people have not realized what they have. What the world …
"For all the achievements, one gets the sense that Gagosian still enjoys the hustle. He's certainly in no rush to retire. He's still signing new artists, still staging exhibitions, still off…
Has the philanthropic sector gotten so distorted that even when evil is recognized, the need to meet financial objectives is too great? " NonProfit Quarterly
