Attendance dropped by 1% in both 2017 and 2016, and by 0.5% in 2015. But new figures from the national tourism agency show a decisive turnaround, with attendance across 444 museums and art g…
Franz Boas concluded that "there is not one human culture but many, and he started referring to 'cultures,' in the plural. He was engaged in ethnography, and he believed that the job of the …
Nottage is the only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: for Sweat and Ruined. The former reached Broadway, while the latter " a story about women in war-torn Congo " played a su…
The controversy at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival (aka Banglewood) in Massachusetts broke out over the use of didgeridoos in the 1990 work Thousand Year Dreaming by 80-year-old New Zealan…
Louis Menand: "There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. Apart from be…
Until April (when she left amid worries about "corporate sabotage"), Chase Robinson was "vice president of production and finance' at De Niro's Canal Productions, drawing a $300,000 salary. …
"Here there's a problem where even when the community values this, they think it'll be supported by wealthy industrialists. But those days are over, and we need to say we've got a lot of wea…
First, we're not talking about Scots Gaelic, the Celtic language closely related to Irish. Scots is the language of Robert Burns and Irvine Welsh and a few million souls in the Scottish lowl…
He's led the sort of life that generates fascinating stories, which is perhaps what makes his much-anticipated memoir, "Possibilities," such an occasionally frustrating read. " Los Angeles T…
"The ballet company and a redevelopment company are joining forces to unveil a major arts-driven development for a well-established Carmel intersection. It includes a four-story mixed-use bu…
When Janet Eilber, artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, stepped through Jacob's Pillow's front curtain to introduce the group's performance, she mentioned that this was the …
A group of about 800 so-called National Portfolio Organisations " from giants like the Royal Opera House and Southbank Centre and its residents such as the National Theatre (who receive tens…
"Members of the nation's newly empowered far right " from grass-roots organizers to federal lawmakers " say their movement would not have risen so far, so fast, without YouTube's recommendat…
Kunihiko Hashimoto, then a 26-year-old insurance worker, attended a New York Philharmonic concert in Tokyo in 1979, and he went backstage afterward to meet Bernstein, soon to turn 61. They f…
"On 12 August, 24 national branches [of ICOM] " including those of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Canada and Russia, along with five museums' international committees " requested the postpon…
Rochester Cathedral has mini-golf (okay, an "educational adventure golf course'). Norwich Cathedral has a "helter-skelter" (a tarted-up sliding board), ostensibly so that visitors can get a …
"Meritocracy has created a competition that, even when everyone plays by the rules, only the rich can win. But what, exactly, have the rich won? Even meritocracy's beneficiaries now suffer o…
"By terms of a settlement announced Monday, Aug. 19, [Carole] Shorenstein Hays will give up her half ownership of SHN, operator of the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatre. [She] will retain her …
"How, then, do you avoid the cringingly awful? The shows so bad you feel you're never going to get those precious moments of your finite life back again? McGowan smiles and looks up " as she…
"In both rural and urban areas, innovation is closely tied to the degree of presence of the creative class, with the innovation index being positively associated with the percent of the work…
"We are just as ignorant about what has been happening to our faces when they're scanned by the property developers, shopping centres, museums, conference centres and casinos that have also …
Charles Desmarais: "As important as the Arnautoff murals are, as art and as American history, the issues raised by the attempt to destroy or obscure them are larger than this single controve…
"I turned the essay in at the end of June, substantially the same as what appears here. A regretful Folio Society editor told me that Marvel Comics (evidently the co-publisher of the book) i…
"In my late twenties (living in Portland, Oregon as an artist and emerging curator), I recognized that the art institutions at the time had settled on mission-priorities that would follow th…
"There is anecdotal evidence that gender affects every step of the publishing process. In 2015, Catherine Nichols submitted proposals for a novel to agents and publishers under both her own …