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Dance/USA's most recent Annual Financial Survey (2017), shows that Nutcracker/holiday revenue now represents an average of 48 percent of the surveyed dance companies' overall season re…
The Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysées was graffitied by rioters; TV footage showed its interior ransacked and a smashed statue of Marianne, symbol of the French republic. French Preside…
This case touches on more than potential damages or royalties for 2 Milly. It goes to how our brains process meaning. What is the smallest bit of information that tags a person? What fragmen…
“First, meritocracy segregates talent rather than dispersing it. By plucking the highest achievers from all over the country and encouraging them to cluster together in the same few ci…
The process of giving artistic birth is said to court a kind of violence that the maker must reckon with. Recent books have wondered about the tension between varieties of addiction and crea…
Kodak once touted 2000 as a landmark year, when the number of photos taken worldwide first eclipsed 80 billion. Fast forward to 2017, when just about everyone has a cellphone camera in…
Does one kind of literature afford a more refined pleasure than another kind? Can we compare the pleasure induced by Virginia Woolf with, say, that induced by Agatha Christie? Is "Casey at t…
If an artist is supposed to propose new ways of seeing and creating, it's worrying when social media platforms feel like they're turning us all into sycophantic clones. – New York Maga…
How have we gotten to the point where we somehow feel like we've seen it all before, even as movies desperately keep trying to show us things that we've never seen before? – New York M…
IKAR's services incorporate Sephardic and Mizrachi-style drumming, chanting and droning (using a low-pitched, sustained tone as a harmony) with what Tigay called a "catchy melody on top" as …
Gupta told The Times that he will give up his seat as one of the L.A. Phil's first violins to focus on his activism, to teach and to develop his nonprofit Street Symphony, which since 2011 h…
Ken Robinson: “Schools operate as they do not because they have to but because they choose to. They don't need to be that way; they can change and m…
Code Listen is part of a multi-dimensional sequence begun in 2016, including workshops, discussions, music making and performances. Liu uses music to catalyze dialogue and healing around …
Reporting to and partnering with the Association Board of Directors (BOD), the Executive Director (ED) is the Association's primary ambassador and chief fundraiser. OrganizationThe San Berna…
Surprisingly, the premiere led to perplexed disappointment. Listeners agreed that the music was magnificent, but many did not hear anything "American" in it, after all. "Some of those who ap…
Deep learning is good at learning using many fewer connections between neurons, when it has many episodes or examples to learn from. I think the brain isn't concerned with squeezing a lot of…
“As we seek political and philosophical bearings in this time of renewed calls for a socialist alternative to capitalism, postwar efforts to bring Marxism and existentialism together h…
The proportion of income generated by the institutions themselves " through fundraising, tickets, commercial activities and other means " rose from 57% to 73%. – ArtsProfessional
While society is constantly redefining what constitutes as fine art, Killer Mike has a plethora of ideas to broaden the High's scope, including more involvement by members of Atlanta's infam…
All told, the five men allegedly stole more than 25,000 digital files, including feature films, trailers, TV episodes and audio tracks, which they stored on a server in France, according …
Ailey O'Toole's bizarrely brazen act of plagiarism " stealing lines, phrases, and structural elements from the work of at least three other writers " was uncovered last Friday, unraveling he…
We think we've learned not to overlook outsiders. Yet the orchestral scene today remains in thrall to safety. It favours those who've studied with the right people, at the right schools and …
With Kentucky's Actors Theatre of Louisville ending its short-play contests and festivals in 2017, City Theatre has emerged as the professional company most committed to championing an…
On the consumer side, streaming and social-media platforms have transformed the nature of music discovery, which was previously more proactive by necessity"requiring manual effort to open up…
To the women themselves, gender is almost a non-issue. The Art Newspaper spoke to three female directors who are shaping the future of museums in the Gulf about their efforts to build creati…
