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"As any digital marketeer with their crosshairs on millennials will tell you, the way we "consume" culture has fragmented. Put in less depressing terms, we have a greater range of representa…
Reporter Michael Cooper joins the choreographer as he examines photos from the history of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and tells stories of the time Robert Mapplethorpe photographed …
Justin Davidson: "The Kennedy Center's new complex is not just more fluid, usable, and versatile than we had any right to expect " it is also the rare project that improved on its way from c…
The 16½-foot-tall sculpture, titled Quasi and perched on top of City Gallery Wellington to glare at passersby, was sent up from Christchurch by its creator, artist Ronnie van Hout " and W…
"The intangible exchange of energy between moving and witnessing bodies in real time is what makes the art form so impactful. It's a beautiful and grandiose idea that I imagine resonates wit…
The work is the latest blow to the 10,000-hour rule, the idea promoted in Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 book, Outliers, which has been taken to mean that enough practice will make an expert of any…
The parents of the boy, who had brought him from France to London on holiday, say that the full extent of his injuries is still uncertain, but that he suffered broken bones in the back, arms…
Amanda Hess: "As its gurus lead the men (and occasionally, women) in dabbing on eye cream, selecting West Elm furniture, preparing squid-ink risotto and acquiring gym memberships, they are b…
"The Regio V dig has already yielded skeletons, coins, a wooden bed, a stable harboring the remains of a thoroughbred horse (bronze-plated wooden horns on the saddle; iron harness with small…
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), a film-noirish comedy, was the first Hollywood film to show live actors and animated characters interacting in ways that looked seamlessly real. … Mr. Will…
A character called Le Sauvage, covered in black face makeup, is featured on one of 22 floats in a traditional parade as part of the Ducasse d'Ath, held in late August in a small town in Wall…
After weeks of Sunday protests in the Russian capital against the disqualification of opposition candidates for the city council, on August 10 famous actors, artists, and rappers started to …
For a long time, the prevailing posture of the Silicon Valley élite was smugness bordering on hubris. Now the emotional repertoire is expanding to include shame"or, at least, the appearance…
At age 90, the MIT professor has been an éminence grise of the American left for so long that it's easy to forget that he is, above all, an academic linguist who has made major (if controve…
The very language of friendship, for instance, is changing right before our eyes. Facebook has convinced us that "friend" can be a verb, often deployed in the imperative mood ("Friend me onâ…
A national online survey of 800 adults found that 83% of respondents believe that government funding of orchestras should be maintained or increased, 70% say orchestras are economically sign…
Nora Burnett Abrams, 41, will step in to replace Adam Lerner, the director and chief animator who stepped down this June after leading the museum since 2009. The Denver museum saw its attend…
"Theaters across the country may offer various accommodations, including captioning devices and sign interpretation. But the Kennedy Center is one of the few to add another layer to its live…
As with most really good ideas, it's not terribly complicated. It's simply a 'note to self' to check in on all past engagement relationships on a regular (at least annual) basis. This simple…
The Djerassi Program seeks a passionate and skilled arts administrator with grantwriting skills and a commitment to the work of individual artists to fill the position of Deputy Director o…
If you know The Cleveland Orchestra, you know that we promise you the extraordinary!
Siobhan Burke: "Those 90-minute lessons " advancing from a warm-up of the back and feet to more complex coordinations of the torso and legs to jumping sequences that flew across the room " w…
Since the advent of sound, movies treated jazz as a marker of modernity and youth, a soundtrack to a fledgling America further distancing itself from Europe and charting a path through its s…
A spokeswoman for National Museums Liverpool defended its use of the enhanced surveillance technology as an additional security measure for the exhibition, titled "China's First Emperor and …
Few of the newspaper obituarists seemed to know quite what he had done. He had been involved in something that had changed the way texts are interpreted; but it was not really clear why that…
