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"The Louvre is being held hostage by the Kim Kardashian of 16th-century Italian portraiture: the handsome but only moderately interesting Lisa Gherardini, better known (after her husband) as…
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications to join the organization at an exciting time of institutional accomplishment and growth.
Cave art had a profound effect on its twentieth-century viewers, including the young discoverers of Lascaux, at least one of whom camped at the hole leading to the cave over the winter of 19…
Karl Ove Knausgaard: "I'm not thinking of how long it takes to read a book but of how long its effects can be felt, and of the strange phenomenon that even literature written in other times,…
"It's not gossipy, cosy or cliquey," observes long-time contributor Alan Bennett. But, in a mostly productive way, it is cliquey. It has always had favourites and has nurtured them. With pag…
The works have been organised into themed categories, such as identity, adventure and love, sex and romance. " BBC
Popular music aesthetics did much more than invert or blur the line between high and low culture. Instead, it provided the grounds for a thorough fracturing of those two positions into a new…
Some attribute the Kusama craze to the Instagram generation, with young people lining up to take selfies in the artist's "Infinity" rooms of mirrors, colors and lights. Others say her compel…
Though the hits-driven nature of publishing has not changed in recent years, the nature of those hits has. Due to a number of coalescing factors"including a shrinking physical retail market …
Felicia Fitzpatrick: "With its European roots, ballet has always valued Eurocentric body shapes and skin color, leaving little opportunity for Black ballerinas to even attempt to engage with…
The combination of extemporaneous performance and preëxisting art form enacts a trust across time and space. In the heyday of silent pictures, filmmakers expected that their movies would …
No doubt social media in particular seems to represent the triumph of the writerly type over the writing itself. But DeWitt, Baker, Whitehead, and Atwood are among our most accomplished writ…
"A widespread public bewilderment at the 'Deconstructivist' showcase buildings that they are told is great modern architecture is well known. But less well understood is that most of the Wes…
Neighborhoods with higher street density not only have more patented innovations, but more citations of the patents they generate. This suggests that neighborhoods with denser streets help f…
Situated along the banks of the Huangpu River on Shanghai's version of Museum Mile, the new outpost is a collaboration with the West Bund Group, a Chinese state-owned development corporation…
"Alter the status of women and you have affected all the most intimate and significant nodes of life: the relation of wife to husband, mother to child, sister to sibling, daughter to parents…
It's probably no surprise that Hallmark channels have increased their annual Christmas movie count by 20 percent since 2017, but Lifetime has more than quadrupled its output in the last two …
Gia Kourlas: "He had a different partner this week because his regular one, Lindsay Arnold, had a death in her family. It didn't make his dancing better or worse. It remains consistent in it…
Sure, there's Heinz Hall, where the Pittsburgh Symphony performs, but that's 2,700 seats, and smaller ensembles can't really fill the hall. It's depressing to be in a half-empty hall, even w…
St. John writes a letter to Roberto Diaz, president of the school: "You and the Board have failed both this venerable institution and the Curtis community." " Lara St. John
A new study reports that it "turns out that your penchant for variability, such as when you toss a new ingredient into a recipe or follow a creative hunch into the unknown, is often driven b…
Without the blunt, binaristic borders between zones " humanities versus sciences, humanities versus social sciences " the disciplines could connect across the much more complex and multifari…
Vinyl sales have been surging in the last few years, as CD sales stay flat and digital downloads decrease. In the United Kingdom, data from 2016 reveals that vinyl LP sales revenue surpassed…
Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of nation's leading regional theatres. The Executive Director will join Artistic Director N…
Published in August, Mr. Dubois's novel "Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon" ("All Men Do Not Live in the Same Way") is a story narrated by a man languishing in a…
