"We've always been a teaching and training organization. And one of the things that we realized will help ensure our ongoing relevance is that we need museum professionals who more accuratel…
"There need to be multiple voices channeling that learning, from multiple stakeholders who have a cultural authority in this conversation. And I think that's somewhat new, but it felt really…
"Tara Beagan's drama about a Blackfoot woman seeking to avenge her sister's murder confronts the violence suffered by Indigenous women from the standpoint of those affected." " The Guardian
"There have been quick and outwardly-positive changes that highlight inclusivity, but broad and meaningful change requires long-term work and systemic shifts in how theatres operate. … It'…
"While it was nominated for two Tony Awards, it did not win any of them. It has no stars, a tiny cast, and no special effects, and everyone both onstage and backstage are Broadway newbies. A…
"Making a ballet company more diverse doesn't happen overnight " and it needs to happen at the level of its youngest students, to create generations of dancers who look like all of us. PNB's…
Pennebaker's documentary filmmaking stretched across more than six decades, and in that time, he "chronicled a who's who of other pop music and entertainment world figures and icons over the…
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen: "Fantasy cannot be dismissed as mere entertainment, especially when we keep repeating the fantasy. Fantasy " and our enjoyment of it " spea…
One animator said, "I will only get myself in trouble if I comment on the 'other' version," so there's that point of view. Another: "I think some of my colleagues forget that when you work o…
And not just the lobby " some hotels commission artists or exhibits for every bit of space, including rooms, conference rooms, cafeterias and much more. " The New York Times
During a conference on "Bürgerböhne" " or participatory theatre for citizens " "it became clear to me that not all countries"or even communities"have the same ideas about how participatory…
Lorne Michaels: "He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on. … He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, h…
Nafissa Thompson-Spires' first book, the short story collection The Heads of Colored People, is short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize (a prize for a book that follows Burn's "bold footsteps…
The artistic director of the Fulham Opera (which is doing Die Meistersinger this summer) says there's good reason for smaller opera halls: "The immediacy, the storytelling, the quality of th…
That is, reader's block means you're not reading a book. Why? " The New York Times
The federal government is not happy with the town of Tournal, where, after years of argument and discussion, a crane pulled apart the bridge over the Scheldt, in sections. "A crowd on the ri…
But she said no, every time, and the film seems to have turned out OK. "It broke the box office record set by Avengers: Endgame for per-screen average, taking in $351,330 in four theat…
The author of the viral hit short story "Cat Person" says that it's not easy. to deal with constant questions about sex. "Write a book about the way young women use words to fight back again…
After decades in peril " "Mao's Communist government debated tearing down the complex, or creating a vast Soviet-style wedding cake palace opposite it." " the Forbidden City complex has beco…
Then it became a "productivity tool" for work, and "regular folks don't want to organize their private lives as if they were office jobs." But it's not too late to save the technology, if we…
Tim Waterstone " no longer associated with the stores that bear his name " says that "the competition simply wasn't up to scratch. 'I didn't feel guilty,' he says. 'I'd just have to say, no,…
Paley won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant for her work. Her methods met with resistance during the era of quantification and textbook standardization, but "in addition to teaching children, she m…
Of course, eccentric dance wasn't new when the movies started recording it. "Eccentric dance can trace its origins to ancient times and has roots in many cultures. But perhaps no place did i…
Wow, thanks for your data mining project, New York Public Library! Why, though? Because "until the 1976 Copyright Act, US works were not copyrighted unless they were registered, and then the…
The timeline: Last August, "more than 40 artists removed their work from the exhibition Hope to Nope at the Design Museum in London after the museum housed an event hosted by the…