It's a given that celebrity image is built on smoke and mirrors. But we're in a curious spot today, where the music industry is manoeuvering to convince audiences that the veneer of an artis…
"The tools and rules of social media are increasingly swallowing up scholarly work, whether we join the new platforms or not. Where once discernment, hard-won expertise, and glacial, scrupul…
PRODUCTION MANAGER / TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: The University of Illinois Springfield Performing Arts Center seeks an experienced Production Manager / Technical Director to manage backstage operat…
Matthew Scully: "Actually, if there's political insight to be gleaned from all this, it probably has more to do with inflatable reputations, gullible audiences, and the spell of progressive …
The current distinction between creators and influencers has much more to do with what platform a person gains her fame on than her gender. " The Atlantic
Previously, only applicants who needed additional vetting " such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups " would need to hand over this data. But now appl…
Protesters said the sexual abuse 35 to 45 years ago was far more widespread than the number of current suits would indicate. They described a culture within the theater in which sex between …
Lawmakers thought they were buying the orchestra enough time to re-examine its costs, raise more money for its endowment and develop a sustainable fiscal structure that would not entail sacr…
The museum has been through three contentious redesigns before, but the thing it needed all along was more room. Its collection"which includes pre-Columbian relics, as well as modern showpie…
…what if the opposite is true? That your secrets, the things only you know about yourself, are in fact the most trivial, most banal things about you? In a society where many of us who don'…
Brian Raftery makes a persuasive, entertaining case for the enduring impact of a passel of classics, from "American Beauty" to "American Movie" to "American Pie." Among them: "The Matrix," "…
There are days when sitting in a room that noiseless sounds appealing. But some people are so unaccustomed to such levels of quiet that, after just a few minutes inside the chamber, they bec…
As in small companies. More and more small companies are appearing not as smaller echoes of larger companies, but as viable alternatives that allow artists more creative possibilities. "…
Since the early 1990s, we've come to develop a more thorough and accurate understanding of what a brain engaged in creative thought "looks like." The key, it seems, is integration: the firin…
They might not be the prettiest, or the most interesting architecturally. But significant bits of history happened there. And they're in danger of being torn down or falling down. " CityLab
Mark Swed: "It is still the quirkiest major music festival in America, and possibly anywhere. If anything, Ojai has become even more a habitat for compulsive experimentation as well as a mag…
"When is a writer erudite, a renaissance person, a polymath"and when are they merely trespassing superficially into areas of knowledge they haven't mastered, imposing their own prejudices or…
The term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics "intersect" with one another and ove…
Steve Slater: "This is nothing new, and it is not confined to the arts. We see the same pattern repeated again and again in fields like education, health and the police, all of which suffer …
The concept of reason itself is built on a profoundly gendered blueprint. But a surprising rapprochement might be in sight: between feminists who criticise the mind/matter split, and certain…
Andrew Doyle makes the argument: "The best critics are able to appreciate a piece of work on its own terms, whereas the worst seem to believe that success should be measured on the basis of …
It makes sense. As iconic architectural spaces that are mostly free to enter, museums have a lot to offer today's media-savvy protestors. " Museums Association
The paper of record showcases a dozen performers " dancers, musicians, street performers " in New York, shows you their work in a multimedia package, and gives some insights into their lives…
Facebook currently employs 25 curators and administrators to run its artist-in-residency program and its Analog Research Lab. (The company also has a designer-in-residency program run by …
"Lonnie Bunch gave 14 years. He has built an incredible foundation. We want someone just like [him], who was transforming, who could inspire the really terrific people we have at the museum …