People in a Quebec town and across the province were shocked after learning in January that footage from a derailment and explosion that killed 47 people was used in the drama starring Sandr…
The platform, called LIVR, aims to make theatre "more accessible to all" by giving users a "fully immersive 360-degree experience" of live performance from their homes. Subscribers can strea…
To exist as a book, the pages with their letters and spaces need a reader. We may think of books as unchanging material objects, but they only, as it were, happen when read; they have no …
The nightly two-hour show, which is carried on nearly 200 radio stations nationwide and boasts an estimated audience of 1.3 million, might not identify as ideological or political, at lea…
"Who and what defines art and quality, which institutions matter and how they are accessed, who knows whom, whether advantage is accumulated from a prejudiced past, and where conscious and s…
The challenge is bringing the 1955 canvas " an example from de Kooning's celebrated but also contested "Woman" series, known for their grotesque, even savage renderings of the female nude " …
No-platforming is when a person is prevented from contributing to a public debate, either through policy or protest, on the grounds that their beliefs are dangerous or unacceptable. Open-spe…
"Criticism" in The New York Times Book Review tends to look "positive," by academic standards, not because it always says the book is good but because it offers market advice as to whether y…
As more corporations and real estate developers across the country turn to murals to hawk their products, controversy follows. In New York City, for instance, Target had to apologize for a m…
In Sotheby's recent New York Old Master sale, a copy of the Mona Lisa soared past its estimate of $80,000-$100,000 to sell for $1.69m. It seems extraordinary that someone would pay so much f…
"Whether it is photography, painting, sculpture, or design, the arts define who we are at Cartier. Some of our creations were directly linked to the aesthetics of the Mughal period in India …
On every campus, I meet scholars eager to share what they know outside the walls of their institutions. They find themselves stalled by three factors: lack of knowledge on how media works as…
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says that if Spotify pays this cut it has to "artificially inflate" its prices "well above the price of Apple Music." But if it doesn't pay, Apple applies "a series of …
The history of the United States is a history of bias and brutality and hubris, but it is also a history of idealism and hard work and soaring optimism. What emerges is an invitation to rega…
For instance, on the simplest task, if someone was generally not prone to boredom, they tended to perform better when listening to the most complex form of music than with either simple musi…
"We want this public asset used for the maximum public benefit. Not only is there a housing crisis, there's also a crisis in terms of us being able to preserve culture." " KQED
In written English right now, there's little consensus on this question. National publications have not settled on a regular style. The Atlantic, for instance, used both (emoji, emo…
"The plan recognizes the shifts in art-making in the 40-odd years since we were founded," said Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu. "Many artists create work on a larger scale, and we want to cr…
TDC is a leading management consulting and research firm that works across the nonprofit sector. For 50 years, TDC has worked exclusively with nonprofit, governmental, educational, and phila…
Rural counties that are home to performing arts organizations experienced population growth three times faster and higher household incomes (up to $6,000 higher) than rural counties lacking …
"They're moving us to a swamp, with no opportunity to grow our vision," said Sami Scott, who helped organize a petition drive against the orchestra's proposal. That petition has accumulated …
Parks and squares are littered with markers that failed at their only job: to keep their topics from falling into oblivion. You may have paused a thousand times at the feet of that mounte…
Although he was never a household name, anyone with a record collection almost undoubtedly owns one of Blaine's songs. By his own count, he played on more than 6,000 tracks over the course o…
In recent years, we have witnessed public calls to decolonize the museum space: the return of objects taken from other cultures, fierce debates about who has the right to tell whose story, e…
"It's time for arts writers, critics, journalists, gatekeepers, and arbiters of culture"anyone whose job it is to bestow attention onto others"to reconsider how to allocate that currency. Mo…