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When we learn how the world is made through words, we also learn to be sceptical of our current iteration of reality and more tolerant of other perspectives. If life can be differently worde…
"[Science fiction] isn't a new genre in Indian cinema, but it has nothing like the profile it has in the West. … While Hollywood has a long tradition of making more naturalistic films abou…
In an interview with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, CEO Bob Bakish cited ViacomCBS's content library, which includes 140,000 TV episodes, 36,000 films and 750 series, as enough ammo to fight the…
Goli Sheikholeslami, who since 2014 has led a major turnaround as Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ), will take the helm at New York Public Radio (which includes WNYC, classical station WQXR, NJ Pu…
The eponymous avians in Ashton's The Two Pigeons are meant to be living symbols of the relationship between the two human leads, called the Young Man and the Young Girl. Reporter Jennifer Lu…
From 2013 to 2017, the number of orchestras in China leaped from 32 to 82. In 2019, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra celebrated its 140th season, and the orchestra, along with its conductor, …
"In a video recorded during the airport protest Friday, hundreds of demonstrators can be seen participating in a sit-down and heard singing and clapping to an a cappella version of 'Do You H…
This year there will be roughly 100 large, multi-day events"attended by more than 10,000 people each"around the United States. Live Nation, the concert and festival promoter, is now arguably…
"Many in this new generation of female producers are taking alternate paths to the industry's top rung " picking up skills in the nonprofit theater world, which has become an important breed…
My own views on this contretemps are conflicted. By all accounts I've seen by art professionals, this is a powerful work, intended by the Russian-American artist to be seen as a critique of …
As one senior ACE executive put it this spring, "Relevance is becoming the new litmus test. It will no longer be enough to produce high-quality work." Now many ballet company execs, choreogr…
"Museums depend heavily on philanthropy. How do they start dissecting what's okay and what's not in terms of their policies?" says Komal Shah, a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern…
"Genesis was capable of making dozens of inferences about the story and several discoveries. It triggered concept patterns for ideas that weren't explicitly stated in the story, recognizing …
"It is impressive how the process has been turned into memes and audiovisual content with such extraordinary speed. There are artists creating posters and songs and whatnot, but artists also…
Since the protests began on June 9, artists have been wondering about their role, and many have taken up the job of disseminating information to the wider public. " Artnet
"Printed news started out as, essentially, collections of letters to the editor. Newspapers did not routinely employ full-time reporters until the 19th century. At that point, the older mean…
Justin Davidson: "The Berkshires, the bucolic swath of Western Massachusetts where urban refugees can get their weekend dose of gardens, waterfalls, and even the occasional moose sighting, e…
Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch, along with English, assign Greek this particular honor. In the Baltic languages, it's Spanish; the Bulgarians use "Patagonian." And the Gr…
"The Philadelphia Orchestra Association has withdrawn its invitation to Plácido Domingo to appear as part of its Opening Night concert on September 18, 2019. We are committed to providing…
"Mark [Rosewater, head designer,] explains how, once he and his team come up with the creative concept for a particular Magic set, there are lots of other things to think about. They have to…
"It's all about awareness and action. The artist's job is to raise consciousness and cut through the complacency. I asked playwrights to meditate on the theme of, 'Wake up"act now!' We're cr…
"The art collective teamLab's new, immersive museum in Tokyo attracted more visitors than the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last year, and twice the combined number of visitors to the three D…
"On Saturday afternoon, the orchestra's board voted unanimously for a transition plan … which calls for the exit of the orchestra's top leadership [and] brings a temporary close to weeks o…
Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains, which recounts his escape from Iran to Indonesia and onward to Australia by boat, has just won the $25,000 National Biography Award, the fourt…
"While other budding jazz musicians of the 1940s were enamored of the daring bebop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Mr. Wilber, … a clarinetist and saxophonist who was a …
