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"Currently, Mexico is going through a change of government, which has reduced the national budget for culture and has been removed a lot of art scholarships. On top of this, more and more st…
"Philanthropy is an exercise in power, by definition by the wealthy. It's an attempt to have some public influence. And in that respect, it's a plutocratic element in the democratic setting.…
Francois Caradec's Dictionary, newly translated into English by Chris Clarke, lists some 850 gestures that "successively address each part of the body, from top to bottom, from scalp to t…
The 200 Van Gogh paintings which Jan Cornelis Traas restored for the family between 1926 and 1933 represent nearly a quarter of the artist's works. It remains highly disturbing that a restor…
The fate of Chaucer's unfinished works suggests there may be something to be appreciated in the peculiarly suspended state in which fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Throne…
Under the musical direction of Nicholas McGegan for 34 years, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) is recognized as "America's leading historically-informed ensemble" (The New …
Lazy rhetorical devices plague our political discourse. But there is something especially grating about a candidate calling for a "conversation" when asked about an issue. It rings with the …
Today, only about 40 people speak the Tayap language, and Don Kulick predicts that the language will be "stone cold dead" in less than 50 years. How did that happen? Perhaps more importantly…
"We trick ourselves into thinking we know what is needed to be happy: a promotion, a new car, a vacation, a good-looking partner. We believe this even though we know there are plenty of peop…
"While squabbles over session approval are not uncommon at academic conferences, the conflict in medieval studies feels like a struggle for the future of the field, one that sometimes pits o…
"When our society is having to confront the murder of women, how can we dare to applaud the killing of a woman?" said Cristiano Chiarot, the head of the opera house, the Teatro del Maggio Mu…
Lyndon Terracini was responding to a call from Australian composers, directors, musicians, and vocalists, who have called for a "revolution" to remove what they describe as gender bias, s…
Women comprise the majority of museum employees, but in most cases they earn less than their male colleagues. " Washington Post
Shane Dawson is a capricious conspiracist. In the middle of his paranoid rant about the moon, he places his hands sincerely over his chest and says: "Once again, it's a theory. I don't want …
"Simple stereotypes about the Middle Ages aren't just wrong; they have become weapons for white supremacy. As the great spire of Notre Dame fell, I knew the disaster, whatever the cause turn…
We want to quantify, data-fy and measure everything. And if not, then see literal images that we can quickly grasp. Are we losing the ability to imagine (and to dream)? " Aeon
Signature Theatre, one of New York's leading off-Broadway theatres, is seeking a DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND AUDIENCE SERVICES to join the senior leadership team and report to the Executive Di…
Given her absence from my generation's digital public square, it is a gift to "see" Morrison through reflections from Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey, the critic Hilton Als and the poet Sonia Sa…
"Although movies and television have long toyed with doomsday scenarios, we're now seeing deeper, more poignant treatments of the issue, with scenes of children and young adults trying to gr…
In a letter to Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley dated Friday, new Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III reiterated the institution's position that it is legally bound to keep the name of the …
Dominique Meyer, who is French and has been director of Vienna State Opera since 2010, has been celebrated for increasing revenue at the Austrian institution at a time when many opera houses…
Michael Kimmelman: "When was the last time you lingered for pleasure at Kennedy Airport? When was the last time you felt happy to be there? An architectural advertisement for the thrill of a…
"To resist globalisation, we need to insist on the importance of the local, whether that's local food, local dialects, local industries. At its most successful, Irish cinema tells local stor…
"When we are performing our normal, practiced tasks everyday, we often are " counterintuitively " not paying attention to all the little details of what we are doing; our prefrontal cortex i…
Browsing and accessing classical music online has been a chore. The data structures were set up for pop music, not classical. Finally, companies are working on some solutions. " The New York…
