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Belarusian theatres, almost all of them state-owned since Soviet times, have officially remained outside of politics for 26 years. Everyone in management positions was appointed by the Minis…
The anthropologist Marc Augé gave the name non-place to the escalating homogeneity of urban spaces. In non-places, history, identity, and human relation are not on offer. Non-places used to…
A century after his birth, Stern is no longer nearly so well remembered as Bernstein, whose posthumous celebrity remains undiminished. By contrast, Stern is essentially unknown to Americans …
As the jazz world mourns Joe Segal's death Aug. 10 at age 94, I realize anew that Segal had found the best way possible to win converts to the music he revered: by welcoming the uninitiated …
From the experience in the theatre to when and where movies will be shown, to… " HuffPost
In complex systems, the last thing that happened is almost never informative about what's coming next. The world is always changing " partly due to factors outside our control and partly due…
"College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn't need a college diploma to have economic security," writes Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs a…
Josh Kosman: "If you'd asked me at the time, I could have unreeled a fairly high-minded manifesto about the central importance of honesty in criticism. None of it would have been wrong, exac…
Some of the subpoenas are for companies that Leon Black, the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, has used to build a collection that includes paintings by Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse and Pa…
The company realized last November that, given the current funding climate, it would not be able to sustain itself beyond the coming year. State and private grant priorities were shifting, A…
We need a significant, stable ongoing source of new funding for the arts that is politically insulated, inflation-proof, and expands the definitions of non-and for-profit arts. " Douglas McL…
The current crisis raises the question of what exactly a museum is. Is it a collection of objects, or the staff that bring those objects to life and makes them accessible to the public? 'We …
Those who bore easily are more likely to be depressed and anxious, have a tendency to be aggressive, and perceive life as less meaningful. Yet, psychology uncovered also a much brighter side…
One of the key facets of Jonas Barish's argument is that, throughout history and across cultures, theatrical activity has almost always been met by vociferous opposition. From ancient Greece…
Here in New Orleans, for example, where I am a relative newcomer, my friends who are longtime residents and who survived Hurricane Katrina greet the word "resilience" with a fiery disdain. T…
Art Basel organizers plan to present two new online viewing room initiatives in September and October, which they describe as "freestanding, thematic editions." Unlike previous iterations of…
"It's this process that we have spent decades, centuries developing in theatre of how much time it takes to make the thing. In my experience, the process will expand to fill as much time as …
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, New York, explained in a lengthy Twitter thread Tuesday why it objected to Trump's pardon for Anthony, who was arrested and ch…
"What they tell you they raise to help dance professionals and what they actually spend to help dance professionals is vastly different," former executive director Kesha Pate wrote. When she…
"Almost every aspect of classical music, as it is currently, cultivates a toxic and racist culture. That doesn't mean that every participant in classical music is racist, obviously. The spec…
This free, Instagram-advertised event is DistDancing, one of the few opportunities to see live dance at the moment and its founder Chisato Katsura is a member of the Royal Ballet. Katsura, 2…
Now that work is underway for the second season of "All Rise," which stars Simone Missick as an idealistic Los Angeles judge, five writers from the original staff of seven are gone. Among th…
So far, donors have been generous. Nearly 87 percent of those who bought tables for the canceled gala donated the sums to the company. Before scrapping their plans, the company had budgeted …
The design of Dreamstage simulates a traditional live event with virtual ticket offices, an entrance for the audience, artistic entrance, and a post-performance lounge. Ticket proceeds will …
One partial solution to the decline of media that often gets ignored"yet has the potential to both alleviate the deepening crisis and also help restore public trust in the media as a whole"i…
