The department of UIS Performing Arts Services seeks a Development Manager. This position manages the FRIENDS of UIS Performing Arts Center program which includes responsibility for devel…
"What qualifies as artistry is ultimately a subjective assessment. Winning medals " or not winning them " has little bearing on whether a dancer will progress to a successful career. Even so…
Experts have speculated last year's tumultuous stock market, combined with tax code changes that doubled the standard deduction without a need to itemize charitable contributions, has led…
"It was never the books as objects that people worried would vanish with the advent of e-readers and other personal devices: it was reading itself. The same change was prophesied by Thomas E…
The list of the cities with the highest share of college grads overlaps considerably with the list of leading metros, with eight places showing up on both. " CityLab
"One of the true gifts of surfing is the privacy of it. That's going away, and it's at a great, great, great hazard to the experience. We're so infatuated with getting looked at now"look at …
This year more than ever, we are seeing a transatlantic schism between film festivals over how to handle these acclaimed directors, each of whom have very different backstories. " Deadline
In the wake of the second world war, Russia and the West feared the domino effect of enfeebled countries like Albania falling into the clutches of imperialist capitalism or communism. Each s…
"Time, as it appears to us, is made of indivisible moments that are parts of succession… A single moment cannot have a duration. Something counts as a duration only if it is a temporal com…
"To criticise our praise for the wealthy and powerful as excessive inevitably raises the question of meritocracy. To what extent do we live in a meritocracy, and is that a good or a bad thin…
The latest withdrawal at the Shed highlights the increasing tension surrounding institutions accepting support from trustees whose sources of income are controversial. " artnet
Today's meritocrats still claim to get ahead through talent and effort, using means open to anyone. In practice, however, meritocracy now excludes everyone outside of a narrow elite. " The A…
A polite crowd of about a dozen future service dogs attended an August performance at Ontario's Stratford Festival as part of their training. While a silent curtain call might disappoint act…
"Unfortunately the simple reality is that the organization was never set up with sufficient funds to properly care for the collection and the physical plant long-term much less offer meaning…
"With such a long hiatus " and Pogorelich's track record " the release demands a certain critical wrestling to the ground, in terms of his once-lauded genius, and of broader questions, inclu…
Butler University's Jordan College of the Arts (JCA) invites applications for a full-time, 9-month faculty position in the Department of Arts Administration beginning August 2020.
One gimmick in particular stood out: A pair of works presented turned away from the audience, and sold as one lot, without any idea of what they looked like. "They are going to be two of the…
The singer reached an impass with her recording label, which owns masters of the original songs. So Swift says she'll simply re-record them all so she has control. Travis Andrews untangles t…
Since its inception in 1969, the public television show has redefined what it means to teach children through TV, with music as its resounding voice. Before "Sesame Street," it wasn't even c…
"He was a very strong face for the Charlotte Symphony, but he worked his butt off behind the scenes with the power players in Charlotte. He got people to realize that this was something impo…
"We usually assume that literature exists to depict life, but Russians often speak as if life exists to provide material for literature. Russians, of course, excel in ballet, chess, theater,…
The rise of digital video is bringing back more than just bloated bundles and bills. Many companies are returning to TV's original business model: selling you anything and everything but the…
Fewer than one-third of businesses do. "Most individuals surveyed by the funder wanted more cultural opportunities where they live (55%), but businesses were less enthusiastic: they prioriti…
"You don't want to have either Fox or MSNBC after you. Those are huge distractions of the time of individual board members and senior management." " The New York Times
Arti Prashar: "We operate in a climate where we have been asked to grow and grow, following a business model that just doesn't work for the arts " of seeking bigger turnover and bigger and w…