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Is it ego, recognition from others, the catharsis of a journey of self-discovery or the conviction the information contained in the book is something the world desperately needs? That's a co…
"I honestly think there's almost no story you can't tell through food. If you want to read about women's lives throughout history, you can do it through cookbooks. If you want to teach math,…
In a study published in a German scientific journal, anatomist and musician Andreas Otte deduced that Bach"a gifted organist and harpsichordist"had an exceptional reach at the keyboard. " Na…
"Everyone has these experiences. We all see pattern. We see what we like, or feel spurred on by. Some of us see the lineaments of social life like a bright line connecting the texts of an ar…
The UK's international trade secretary, Liz Truss, announced on Thursday that she hopes to launch "the world's most advanced freeport model" as soon as possible, promising it will create …
"In virtually every case, there lurks a question that each musical leader must ask themselves: Should I get involved or stay on the sidelines? Â It is a valid query, but one that is filled…
"Even leftwing performers in Edinburgh seem unsure what the best response to current affairs should be. Some feel that making Brexit party leader Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP, …
The researchers come up with some startling findings. In a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Quentin Brummet and Davin Reed say that urbanites move all the time, f…
Most textbooks have said that the first English sonnet sequence was Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella (1591). Yet three decades earlier, Anne Vaughan Lock's A Meditation of a Penitent Sin…
With many of Hong Kong's main cultural institutions being government-operated or -funded, a large number of workers in the arts-and-culture field are considered civil servants, which means t…
In a letter on behalf of the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Opera, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Symphony, the Seattle Theatre Group and a who's who of other ritzy local inst…
"La Folia" seems to have appeared first as a folk-dance tune in late medieval Portugal. Over the next century, it spread to Spain and Italy and composers started adapting it; in the 17th and…
"The first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, … Ms Morrison placed African Americans, particularly women, at the heart of her writing at a time when they were largely re…
New features and series from the streaming giants deal frankly with such subjects as corruption, government dysfunction, the drug trade, religious and communal violence, and female sexuality…
According to a letter from the dancers' unions at the Rome Opera Ballet to the theater's board (a letter which Italy's largest press agency published in full), Eleonora Abbagnato screamed ob…
That quote comes from a longstanding guide at the museum, who added, "I did not think it was possible to show such amateurism." Paris's most visited painting has been moved while its usual r…
The world's most visited museum has become a victim of its own success, with its usual crowd control problems made even worse by the move of the Mona Lisa to a new room. So reservations, whi…
"Restorers at the laboratory for wooden objects at the Grand Egyptian Museum have begun fumigating the gilded coffin" " the outer one, largest of three (the two inner coffins are the ones th…
The humanists tried out a lot of new punctuation ideas, but most of those marks had short life spans. Some of the printed texts that appeared in the centuries surrounding the semicolon's bir…
The same challenges apply: What are the films that can work theatrically, that can compel people to come? How can we make that collective experience really rewarding and transformative so th…
The President and CEO will be the chief visionary, strategic, and operational leader and will guide the ACT project as a champion for the diversification of varied programs and cultural offe…
Speaking during its opening weekend, Fergus Linehan, a Dubliner who has been the festival's director since 2015, said many performers had refused to be paid in sterling. " Irish Times
It is hardly surprising that, especially in the United States, where the arts were expected to conform to democratic tastes, the demanding high Modernism of Adorno's aesthetic philosophy has…
"A credible and qualified professional from outside Curtis and the cultural community of which it is a part ought to take an unsparing look at what if anything happened, and why, and how any…
According to Equity, theatre employers are not always paying industry standard terms and conditions on funded projects, despite it being a requirement of receiving a grant. It described the …
