The campaign that was intended to celebrate the partnership of Gene Russell, a Black pianist and producer who died in relative anonymity in 1981, and Dick Schory, a White percussionist and a…
In the centuries prior to western industrialisation, stools or benches were common household furnishings, but chairs were special-occasion objects, usually the exclusive property of the weal…
What if adaptation is not what is needed? What if we are asking the wrong questions? We are asking how to integrate our structures: staff, collections, exhibition schedules, board membership…
We should be deeply skeptical of Trumpian fantasies of business-as-usual on the horizon. There is evidence that the pandemic, when it comes to attending live entertainment events, is changin…
The Lewis Prize for Music seeks applicants to provide a range of communications services, particularly around public and media relations. This includes engagement for its third round of fund…
Mr. Perlman has been so ubiquitous that it is easy to take for granted his status as "the reigning virtuoso of the violin," as his marketing materials put it. But with his 75th birthday arri…
Connery nonetheless celebrates his advance on a tenth decade as an avatar of old-fashioned masculinity. His role as James Bond " hating the Beatles at the height of the their success " helpe…
Under the plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to hold august institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall accountable for hiring more members of historically marginaliz…
According to producer Edward Snape, the current situation "will stop work happening in the first place", because producers will not be able to proceed with planned projects uninsured. "Witho…
Virtual conventions are long. People are watching at home, in their rooms, instead of in giant ballrooms packed with other excited fans. Trying to bring some of that convention energy to peo…
"There's a language there, and the language comes out of so many years of study. And the idea that the orchestra can't move a couple of paces in a certain direction toward what they would do…
Of the removed videos, 3.8 million were taken down for child safety reasons, 3.2 million for spam or scams, 1.7 million for nudity or sexual content, 1.2 million for violence and 900,000 for…
"To skim to inform" is the new norm for reading. What goes missing are deep reading processes which require a quality of attention increasingly at risk in a culture and on a medium in which …
If we cured all the world's cancers, made the perfect smartphone and achieved the ideal form of representative government, but everyone was just as miserable after as they were before, then …
Gail Sheehy, a lively participant in New York's literary scene and a practitioner of creative nonfiction, studied anthropology with Margaret Mead. She applied those skills to explore the cul…
"The biggest issue [in the vinyl industry] is the broken supply chain," said the Vinyl Alliance, a trade industry group in April 2020. Increasing shipping costs, a lack of live concerts at w…
With the amendment now in place, book importers and international publishers have to provide only book titles and author lists to the Ministry of Information, with the understanding that the…
While it is certainly not inevitable that children lose their sense of wonder as they grow up, and while adults are in principle as capable of experiencing wonder as children, it is to be ex…
Historically, museums have used themed exhibitions, acquisitions schemes, or public programs to signal a shift, but otherwise they continue with business as usual. Real shifts must be seen f…
Some of the people who make visual effects for Hollywood's biggest blockbusters believe they have found a way to help: By embracing open source, they want to open up doors for traditionally …
Someone's social dignity can be damaged whether or not she accepts her society's standards. One way this can happen is if she is a member of different social groups with conflicting standard…
Dancing Earth engages in Indigenous futurism " art that incorporates Indigenous perspectives of what the future could look like " by embodying interconnected communities and social change in…
As in other countries around the world, new cases in Italy are being driven by young people, with several clusters traced back to nightclubs crowded with maskless patrons. Yet the new rules …
The outcome of the debate over AI's inventorship status and other intellectual property rights could have substantial consequences, particularly for creative industries. " Vice
The project, called Perform, looked at the amount of aerosols and droplets generated by performers. The findings could have implications for live indoor performances, which resumed in Englan…