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RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and the British Council published a paper 'Heritage for Inclusive Growth' which says the sector's potential has b…
With "Crazy Blues," Mamie Smith opened the door to a surge of powerfully voiced female singers who defied the conventions of singerly gentility to make the blues a popular phenomenon in the …
The shutdown has suspended usual rules, positions and behaviors, suggesting there may be opportunities to not just rethink but take action.
A central figure in the rise of classical music in the city, Henry supported numerous arts organizations including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera, the Colburn School, L…
It is hard to think of a leading critic under fifty. There is no new generation in sight. This is unprecedented. Billington was barely thirty when he began at The Guardian, older than Nighti…
The chaotic creativity of remixed internet memes and the new linguistic structures that rapidly evolve from them allow us to express certain states of mind and have others immediately get it…
In a book called Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends, Burrows's name was listed under a chapter called "The Worst Novel Ever Published in the English Language.…
The tourist, on a trip to celebrate his 50th birthday, was visiting an art museum in northern Italy last week when he posed with the statue of a reclining Pauline Bonaparte. Her husband had …
Taken en masse, the books paint a damning portrait of the 45th president of the United States. But the sheer volume of unflattering material they contain can have the paradoxical danger of b…
Over the past decade, and at almost every step " from the design competition to the groundbreaking in 2017 " the project was dogged by controversy, subject to congressional hearings and, at …
When experts and pundits can't or won't say 'I don't know', the consequences can be dire. In the short term, bad advice leads to bad decisions. In the context of admitting uncertainty about …
It was a dance moment that went viral: Photos of two young dancers, Ava Holloway and Kennedy George, both 14, turned out and on their toes, each raising a fist against the backdrop of the st…
"With the calamities facing the world, rebuilding what has been is no longer our most pressing goal " reimagining the future moving forward is. The ever-changing present requires the arts to…
Most seminal event in classical music since global onset of COVID-19 on August 14th in Vail, CO!
The problem is that urban nightlife " no matter how risky " isn't something that just allows itself to be canceled. The need to socialize, relax, mingle, hear music and dance is a powerful f…
Fans come to see themselves not just as the audience for, or patrons of, a given "intellectual property" but (to paraphrase the old WestJet slogan) as owners too. This feeling of ownership i…
"The reluctance to produce shows with casts that are all or largely non-white disproportionately affects shows written by Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) playwrights and composers…
Being unable to see real works of art in person for months has made me realize just how much I have come to depend on seeing works online"and how I get more from that experience than I'd bee…
The artwork appearing on the toonie honouring his legacy is known as Xhuwaji, Haida Grizzly Bear. Reid painted it in 1988 on a ceremonial drum belonging to the Sam family of Ahousat, B.C. " …
"The need for accessible streets and sidewalks has utterly reshaped the contemporary cityscape, and the most profound change is also the most modest: the curb cuts that you'll find now at ma…
A white supremacist on YouTube will tell you all about race and IQ but if you want to read a careful scholarly refutation, obtaining a legal PDF from the journal publisher would cost you $14…
If white-collar workers are told the downtown office is forever optional, some will take their superstar-city jobs out of superstar cities. That much is obvious. But these shifts, even if th…
The truth of Fleisher is in his own questions, his dogged pursuit of answers (from spiritual healers to experimental treatments) is more interesting than the answer itself. You can't help bu…
While the pandemic has revealed the power of our shared public spaces, it has also magnified enormous disparities in quality and access to them. Demand has outstripped supply, in some cases …
You don't think minimalists can be virtuosos? Tell it to Ernest Hemingway. Tell it to Thelonious Monk. Tell it to the Japanese calligrapher who spends his entire life perfecting a straight l…
