"This inorganic layer that is really clearly visible on the Temple scroll surprised us and induced us to look more in detail how this scroll was prepared, and it turns out to be quite unique…
"It sometimes seems to me that academic success is designed for people who are already wealthy, just as first-class seating in airplanes is designed for tall men. Underfunded humanities are …
Darren Walker: "Unfortunately, some people have framed having a diverse board as oppositional to having a wealthy board. These are one-dimensional ideas. I'm simply saying that you can have …
"Financially it is not sensible for us. And a lot of people criticise the critics, so it will be quite good to let others have a go and, I suspect, find out that it is not as easy as it look…
Research by the Visitor Experience Forum and BOP Consulting on practices at 140 museums, galleries and visitor attractions found that 39% of respondents paid their entry level visitor experi…
"Now that a new coalition government has been formed, sidelining the right-wing nationalist League, Dario Franceschini, the center-left politician who was behind the hiring foreign experts i…
Reporter Claire Armitstead talks to prestidigitators who use their craft to comfort children in refugee camps, restore movement to hemiplegia patients, assist in research on cognition; treat…
"Birds enter popular culture from the earliest times, and they continue to pervade literature and art throughout the classical period. They are mentioned in the very first sentence of Europe…
"In 2015, artist Prumsodun Ok formed Cambodia's first all-male and gay-identified Khmer dance company " in his living room. Part of his mission was to support the revival of an art form all …
"The best argument against cancel culture is that the whole thing is a myth, existing only in the furious minds of outraged social media users. People who are canceled usually don't stay tha…
The unfair labor practices complaint charges that Baltimore Symphony management has failed to bargain in good faith, "unlawfully locked out the musicians … [and] failed and refused to prov…
"Over a period of 15 years, from 1967 to 1982, [he] wrote some of the most brilliant and distinctive plays on the British stage. Yet he became sour and paranoid about the failure of the arti…
"A report from SMU DataArts ranks the most 'arts-vibrant' communities in the United States based on the number of artists and arts and cultural nonprofits it has, as well as the number of pe…
The 59-year-old conductor's contract was to have expired at the end of this season; he'll now remain on the job through 2022-23. In his 14 years there so far, he's brought the KCSO increasin…
In an escalation of what has reportedly been a long feud, staffers of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities "arrived at their offices in Southeast before the holiday weekend to find…
Following "profound and healthy debate" at its Extraordinary General Assembly, the International Council of Museums postponed indefinitely a vote on whether to adopt a new definition of muse…
From 2009: Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence and D.G. Myers of A Commonplace Blog are jointly conducting a serial symposium called "The Function of Book Blogging at the Present Time" …
"Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on." Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?
The Harley-Davidson Museum seeks a dynamic and visionary Chief Curator to lead its exhibitions and collections.
"Our failure to figure out how to pay entry and midlevel people a real wage will ultimately seriously negatively impact our very ability to survive. Â It's not a sustainable situation, and…
Everyman Theatre invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at this robust and growing Baltimore company.
Alex Ross: "Conservatives in the orchestra and in the audience may be reassured, but this retrenchment is a troubling signal from a historically great orchestra that ought to be assuming a l…
While museums have been embracing performance art, the investment-minded commercial art world has been slower to get on board. There is one obvious reason. " The New York Times
BMI announced record revenues this morning, with $1.283 billion, up 7% over the previous year. The performing-rights organization also distributed and administered $1.196 billion to…
Known to some as the "Earlier Mona Lisa," the painting has spent much of the past five decades hidden in a Swiss bank vault. Acquired by a secretive consortium in 2008, the painting has sinc…