 The art that is doing well in the market provides a place of escape from society. Right now, that's an escape to rules and boundaries and to easily digestible culture. But the inverse is…
Several L.A. dance spaces have faced displacement in recent months, posting pleas to save their studios on crowdsourcing sites like GoFundMe as rising rents create the same pressures that ha…
Five of Cab Calloway's family members " including two of his three living children " recently issued a statement saying they are "building a coalition of partners and friends to create a lan…
"We think it left Egypt after 1970 because in that time other artifacts were stolen from Karnak Temple," former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass told AFP. " The Daily Beast
A new scholarly paper focusses on early Christian artwork that, it argues, depicts women as priests and even bishops. "These images are especially important because of our limited evidence f…
The New York area still supplies the lion's share of participants. Los Angeles still runs a distant second. This year's exhibition has no artists located in the Great Plains or Mountain West…
Starting with his 1958 single "Chega de Saudade," Mr. Gilberto in his late 20s became the quintessential transmitter of the harmonically and rhythmically complex, lyrically nuanced songs of …
The composer will become the only living person to have a theatre dedicated in their honour in both the West End and on Broadway, which is already home to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. " The…
"You think, 'It's O.K. " you're like every other filmmaker,' but then you realize, 'No,'" she said. "It's like they set us up to fail " all they wanted was to be able to pat themselves on th…
The answer has very little to do with game days and much more to do with ringing money out of the spaces in the off season. Art suggests high-end. And a high-end vibe, these stadiums hope, w…
From now until the end of the summer season, Vancouver will be at 95 percent tourism capacity, according to Gwendal Castellan, manager of Sustainable Destination Development at Tourism Vanco…
He's directing "Gianni Schicchi." Along with the La Scala opera, a Milan museum is launching an Allen retrospective of his films. Placido Domingo encouraged him to direct the opera, he said.…
What happens when the fate of local colleges is not up to the public decision but to a single politician? In Alaska at least, it has meant the decimation of the state's higher-education budg…
It was shown on ITV London at the time but then forgotten about until the Bristol-based ITV News reporter Robert Murphy stumbled upon it when he was doing some research on Banksy. " Irish Ti…
"Psychologists and neuroscientists have long wondered what strategies our brains might use to overcome the problems of ambiguity and pace. There is a growing appreciation that both challenge…
"The craze for all things cute is motivated, most obviously, by the urge to escape from precisely such a threatening world into a garden of innocence in which childlike qualities arouse deli…
Because the benefits of the jobs " it's work that's interesting, even fun… " are worth it? " The Telegraph (UK)
It was the region's dance support organization. A spokesperson for Dance Manchester said that as an "old school" company, the organisation was too reliant on public funding to remain "fit fo…
"The policies that were in place almost parodied themselves. They were so specific on the one hand and totally missing the forest for the trees on the other that you really had to embed your…
"Whether the religious creeds of our childhoods helped or harmed us, whether we retain or reject them as adults, "something inside of us" is what those teachings remain: a language we'll alw…
The late architect Robert Venturi praised the designers Charles and Ray Eames for bringing back "good old Victorian clutter" into modern design. Nothing similar could be said of Apple, whose…
Called POST, the new complex will feature arts and music venues, entertainment spaces, creative workspaces, dining and shops. " dezeen
On July 1st, California became the first state in the nation to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their "artificial identity" when they are used to sell a product…
While for years the Academy made a concerted effort to limit the number of new member invitations and keep the number of voters to no more than 6,000, all the membership limits were abandone…
The topic of what Hannah Arendt called "public happiness" is largely ignored by those who think and write about contemporary culture. Apparently, politics and happiness don't go together any…