Inclusion in fairs can be make-or-break for galleries, especially smaller ones. But it feels as though the balance of power is shifting back to exhibitors. This might well be overdue when it…
"The past two decades have been especially defining for the medium. The Internet, social media, politics, social mores, and public discourse on race and gender have altered dramatically; ske…
The uplifting symbolic content of civic buildings such as the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond or the University of Virginia in Charlottesville came at the expense of human freedom, as sla…
"The figures are still shocking in terms of people who don't exercise or who are not aware of the reality that diet is actually extremely important," she said. "If you want to have a future,…
In a field known for big egos and explosive emotions, stage managers combine calm, nimbleness and competence that balances left- and right-brain attributes. They have to have an eye for deta…
Billionaire philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen said she was chosen from a group of 500 who had been nominated for the prize, narrowed down to a list of five finalists. In an interview, Berggru…
"Finding performances online is a very impoverished view of the inspirational value of making live art. Art should be live. I know this myself because I've grown up throughout the whole peri…
Maybe that's been happening on a global level. Maybe still we need more of it. There are always arguments for and against processing reality through genre escapism and there are always "heal…
"In recent months, Senator Warren has become an even more effective storyteller. During a rally last month she conjured the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in rich detail: "It was March 25,…
"The central question that the museum presents is the degree to which a national memorial to the history and culture of a marginalized people, set in that nation's capital and funded and sup…
"As a composer and researcher in cognition and music, I have been thinking about my mother's hallucinations and what they might tell us about the nature and role of music today. Neurological…
It would be easy to say that all money under capitalism is corrupt so what can we possibly do? Well, I do know one thing we could do. We could nationalize the art museums. " The Guardian
The Australian film box office numbers show a simple fact: Aussie films are less popular in Australia today than they were 30 to 40 years ago. " Spectator
Sadie is the unlikely new Emily Post of the theatre community. In June, just before leaving for sleepaway camp, she put Magic Marker to paper and laid out what she calls her Broadway Rules, …
"The problem is that Facebook doesn't offer free speech; it offers free amplification. No one would much care about anything you posted to Facebook, no matter how false or hateful, if people…
Emoji sink or swim on less democratic tides. They aren't quite words, of course, though they're certainly word-adjacent. (Three out of four Americans regularly deploy emoji in text messages,…
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"If today's advanced economies have reached (or even exceeded) the point of productivity that Keynes predicted, why are 30- to 40-hour weeks still standard in the workplace? And why doesn't …
In the past, many actors would list these expenses as miscellaneous itemized deductions on their taxes. But the 2017 tax reform law eliminated that provision, affecting thousands of performi…
"I do not agree that the novel is doomed to become a marginal cultural force " but I can see why writers whose first successes came in the pre-digital age may think so. Gone are the days of …
In June, days before the book was expected to go on sale in the United States, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt postponed the publication and recalled copies from retailers, an unusual and costly m…
Although we're still starved of the bottom end of the list and, disappointingly yet tellingly, any box-office data for its theatrical releases, we can start to see what is and isn't working …
In a survey conducted by the union " which represents more than 31,000 musicians, 90% of whom are freelancers " 48% of respondents said they had experienced workplace harassment. More than f…
"We've known for a long time that the Art Institutes lied to students about losing accreditation. Now, we know that the Department of Education misled them, too," said Eric Rothschild, an at…
"The effect of this legacy for mixed metaphors and a lack of public funding of the arts is a numbing of artistic innovation and an enlivening of artistic repetition. Companies often opt for …