"Since the attempted coup of 2016, according to Turkey's ministry of education, … 301,878 books [have] been destroyed as the government cracks down on anything linked to Fethullah Gülen, …
Despite many an international headline to the contrary (not to mention the wishes of some local campaigners and residents), no ban has yet been adopted into law or even government policy. Th…
Phil Kennicott: "Death and remembrance, at least, come with the customs and norms that have been shredded in most of the rest of public life. If nothing else, death still inspires a pause in…
Though researchers have toiled on the subject for many years, none has categorically found that playing video games has harmful effects. Indeed, the absence of conclusive evidence was remark…
"After [premiering at] Venice, American Dharma screened at the Toronto and New York film festivals and picked up strong reviews. But the idea of Bannon getting a platform at all ignited a ba…
As ideas go, human extinction is a comparatively new one. It emerged first during the 18th and 19th centuries. Though understudied, the idea has an important history because it teaches us le…
"In a cultural medium whose producers, audiences and critics are still predominantly white, [Jackie Sibblies Drury's] Fairview challenges playgoers to think about how the different backgroun…
Pacific Standard has about 20 full-time employees, 25 writers on contract and dozens of freelance writers who contributed to the publication, Nicholas Jackson said, adding that the employees…
Lauren Wingenroth: "A Google search of that question will yield hundreds of results of impassioned arguments about whether or not we should consider dance a sport. The fact that breaking was…
That's what most of Seattle's major arts organizations are doing, writing to protest Washington State proposals that would dramatically increase the number of workers eligible for overtime p…
"Last May, The Guardian reported that Judith Mackrell would step down from her post after a 23-year run, and Alastair Macaulay announced he was giving up his position as The New York Times' …
Rule changes mean that from autumn, employers wanting to recruit non-European artists will no longer have to advertise the role to citizens of the European Economic Area first, and artists w…
"He had recently read my book "Contested Will," about the controversy over the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. Like most scholars today, I freely acknowledged that Shakespeare had…
Instead of extending promo deals to keep customers from dropping TV service, they're simply extracting more revenue from those who haven't formulated an escape plan. Either way, companies li…
The Pew data makes clear how this happens: some people are just uninformed, while others cling to opposing political values. People with a high degree of familiarity with what nutritional, m…
I didn't read any of the program notes for the Wendy Whelan-Maya Beiser-Lucinda Childs-David Lang piece the day at Jacob's Pillow. I didn't even read the spoken text. Why then, did I find te…
It's been two years since I posted my effort at categorizing the benefits of the arts. The subject is an urgent one because of both the social and political pressures to justify funding and …
Getting to know opera via recording is like on-line dating " no reason why it shouldn't work, and it often does. Then you walk into something like Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane with well…
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Development Director (DD) will lead in the engagement, identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major donors and corporations, leveraging the…
If they do, they can get €400 tickets. And if they try to wade in the Trevi Fountain the way Anita Ekberg did in La Dolce Vita? €450. Those guys in centurion costumes who pose wi…
"A French street art association is the unexpected beneficiary in the years-long legal battle brought by the French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas against Facebook over censorshi…
Britain's biggest bookstore chain was near bankruptcy when James Daunt became CEO in 2011, and "[he] steered Waterstones out of a death spiral by rethinking every cranny of the company, from…
Now that Warren Kanders ("the tear-gas CEO") has been chased off the Whitney's board, "which institution might wind up in the crosshairs next? We looked at the makeup of various museums and …
"In almost all the ways that concert promoters measure the success and smooth operation of their events, Woodstock was a failure." Crowd control. Sanitation. Traffic. Profit. (The producers …
It was the first symphony orchestra in the entire Far East, founded in 1879. (That's only 37 years after the New York Philharmonic, the United States' oldest orchestra.) Says music director …