Even if the person wearing dreadlocks is not racist himself, the group says, the chosen hairstyle "conveys racism." It calls cultural appropriation "a form of passive oppression, a privilege…
“I don't fault my friend for fleeing the theatre. This is art that hurts, though, to me, the pain seems entirely appropriate, even welcome. It's not art of the cloying variety; it does…
“Disney princesses have extremely small waist-to-hip ratios that are nearly impossible to achieve naturally,” write anthropologist Toe Aung of Pennsylvania State University…
Charles McNulty: One of a kind, Channing was a like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Gracie Allen, with a personality voice that could make a tune completely her own. When she sang, pixie …
“The dictionary meanings of words are only potentially meaningful until they are actually employed in a context defined by the relation between author and audience. So how did it happe…
“While our political transformation was reflected emphatically at the ballot box in 2016 and even more so in 2018, the effects of O.C.'s increasing diversity haven't been felt everywhe…
Of course he was better-known as a politician. But he was also a considerably accomplished amateur artist. His artistic work has had relatively little notice next to his political career, bu…
The rise of Taipei, a realignment in New York, Saudi money… the art world has never been so internationally dispersed… – Artsy
Gregory Tucker: “What has long been hailed as Baltimore's ‘other major league team’ is about to risk losing its major-league status. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Boar…
And yet, that’s what some thought when push buttons first appeared on machines: “Do you not think that this prodigious diffusion of mechanism is likely to render the world terrib…
Audiences for podcasts are growing quickly. And the number of podcasts is also exploding. Podcasters are scrambling to find ways to support their work and business models that work.
Shot as 40-minute films in vibrant high-definition colours, the Bite-Sized Ballets series will kick off with an adaptation of the Tortoise & the Hare, to be followed by Elves &…
Often, reporting results after a grant can be long, arduous and ultimately not of much use. To anyone. So now there’s a new initiative to see if reporting can be made more useful and l…
The “School of Rock” features very talented students who can really play their instruments and sing. So just where do you find the talent that can carry the show?
“Today, experimental philosophers and philosophically inclined psychologists are designing experiments that can help to answer some of the big philosophical questions about the nature …
“The virtue of reading like a historian is that critique or disavowal is not the primary goal. On the contrary, reading historically provides something more destabilising: it requires …
Historically, diversity is something America fights, or accepts begrudgingly with remorse and reservations, or fights anew when it challenges economic dominance. In a country born of the ori…
The mayor called the structure an "iconic and historic theater that holds a special place in the hearts of Stratford residents." The fire was just devastating, she said. – Hartford Cou…
When exactly did Broadway theatre become a popular phenomenon? When it embraced other media that spilled into the public consciousness. – Commentary
“Traditionally, forgetting has been regarded as a passive decay over time of the information recorded and stored in the brain. But while some memories may simply fade away like ink on …
The union says actors wages for staged readings in developing projects haven’t increased since 2007. But it believes that actors in this early stage ought to get a cut of future profit…
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Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) serves three primary roles: world's leading presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and commun…
One of the paradoxes of life is that our big decisions are often less calculated than our small ones are. We agonize over what to stream on Netflix, then let TV shows persuade us to move to …
The stolen silkscreen was old enough that concerns about it being used once again to make new prints are nonexistent. But as a relic of a those heady, prolific Factory days when Warhol an…