Not David Marchese's writing; he does a fine job. But Cage showed up for the interview wearing "oversize sunglasses, a dragon ring the size of a walnut and a black velveteen jacket over a Br…
"The program at Curtis is one of the most intense and stressful of any educational programs in the world. My cousin [a former director of the school] believed in its mission. It will and mus…
"I find the field to be rather bad at evaluating the quality and usability of research. Often desperate for another advocacy hook, arts leaders at all levels have historically misused resear…
"Where they are right now " making that transition between heavy construction and the other things a museum does " is the most fragile and sensitive time for any organization," said Justin J…
Laura Miller: "For many kids, reading the Scary Stories books represented a first tentative step toward growing up and into independence. … Unlike, say, a Playboy magazine, they weren't ab…
In Nigeria, 65 percent of the population is under the age of 18. Unemployment is endemic. One community organization created a jobs program through dance. "At the end of the day, dance is a …
Nearly 16,000 pages of letters, speeches, newspaper articles and other suffragist documents are now available on By the People, a crowdsourcing platform launched by the library in 2018. The …
"In 2019, inclusive spaces that are comprised of voices from the neurodiverse and disabled community are still extremely rare. Despite the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (A…
"The exponential expansion of the culture sector rests entirely on a quite narrow demographic of white, middle class, educated staff and visitors who have signed a social contract on what an…
How is the decision going down with people who've hosted awards shows in the past? Pretty well, apparently. " New York Magazine
"In the play's first few moments " its preamble, really " [Heidi] Schreck lays out the elements for its perfect union of form and function: direct address, displayed enactment, meta-theatric…
Brooklyn director Terry Greiss worked with the NYPD to develop a program called To Serve, to Protect, and to Understand, which brings officers and civilians together with meals and acting ga…
He began his career on conventional instruments and spent six years as the Concertgebouw Orchestra's principal cellist before becoming one of the key artists of the European period-instrumen…
"The pieces were originally composed by Proust in his early 20s for inclusion in his first book, Les Plaisirs et les jours (Pleasures and Days), a collection of poems and short stories first…
"The settlement brought the court battle to a close just as it threatened to air more dirty laundry about both Mr. Levine … and the Met" " which would be why settlement terms weren't discl…
"Directions on how institutions should incorporate these objectives were left intentionally vague. Rather than issuing blanket checklists, the city wanted individual institutions to formulat…
"The painter, known for his wry, carefully composed investigations into the nature of art making " say, analyzing every shade of paint used in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, then rende…
"[Alf] Clausen joined The Simpsons during its second season and worked on the show for 27 years. When he was let go in 2017, he said he received a call from Simpsons producer Richard Sakai, …
To be clear, government censorship wasn't involved, although a number of right-wing politicians criticized the show. Titled After "Freedom of Expression?", the exhibition at the Aichi Trienn…
"The Faber story certainly speaks volumes about the mix of passion, shrewdness, and luck that it takes to keep such an operation afloat; it also raises the question of who, ultimately, a pub…
When Avichai Scher was a young student, no teacher or other authority figure ever said a word to him about when or how to start wearing a dance belt, which led to some very embarrassing mome…
Psychopaths are sick, deranged, lacking in moral conscience. In other words, they're nothing like you or me. But this is false. Rather than freakish outliers then, psychopaths reveal importa…
When I watch a dance that I've also seen a few years earlier, I perceive it differently. Has it changed? Maybe. Have I changed? Of course. I've viewed and written about all but one of the Ky…
Phil Kennicott: "Now the war has come to Walmart. And Hooters. And Sam's Club and McDonald's, and an unnamed but homey looking restaurant that has a $7.99 Lunch Special. If this doesn't look…
Der Rosendorn (The Rose Thorn), about a young woman's argument with her own vagina about which of them men care more about, had been thought to date from the early 16th century. But a strip …