While the arts may not always seem to be an obvious area for investment, the sector has uniquely comprehensive impact. Cultural activity creates social cohesion, builds neighborhood identity…
The classic Chicago accent is heard less often these days because the white working class is less numerous, and less influential, than it was in the 20th century. It has been pushed to the m…
The Director of Marketing and Communications (DMC) is a key member of the senior management team of Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) and
Once upon a time " specifically, from the dawn of the "talkie" in the 1920s until just a few years ago " Hollywood's calculus regarding how sequels got made was simple. A movie came out, did…
"I believe there needs to be a radically different institutional framework for cultural intermediation that brings both official and everyday culture and cultural actors together in order to…
Museums, galleries and universities often find themselves confronted with a common problem here. On the one hand, they are working hard to make themselves more approachable and accessible " …
In concert with news of Ellen Salpeter's departure, which will occur in June, the museum announced a change in its leadership structure through which deputy director and chief curator Ale…
What should you do in order to become the kind of person an intellectual is? What kind of life permits doing what intellectuals do? How can you begin to have such a life? This is what you as…
PDX Jazz, a 501(c)(3) non-profit and the premiere jazz presenting organization of Portland, Oregon, is seeking an extraordinary leader to take the helm of our successful organization at an e…
When Max Hollein joins the Met he will share responsibility for running the institution with Weiss in a new power-sharing arrangement which may prove difficult to manage. Similar arrangement…
Cannes earlier banned any films without theatrical distribution in France from its Palme d'Or competition. That essentially rules out Netflix movies, which are released either day-and-date "…
These days, virtually every aspect of day-to-day life is fed into corporate databases and used to predict and influence all kinds of behavior. Surveillance corporations don't just respond to…
Neurologists and psychiatrists admit they still don't fully understand OCD or how it works. The condition can't be cured, but it can be managed, dialing down the barrage of obsessive thought…
Even the term 'immersive' has become overused. It is being used to flog everything from fine dining to frozen roast potatoes. Some theatre companies liberally sprinkle their marketing copy w…
I believe that art has its own life, independent of the people who make it. And I know that artists are, at least as much as the rest of us, complex creatures. I don't enjoy damning anyone. …
Whereas several Eastern European countries have laws that limit free speech about the Holocaust, including Poland, Ukraine and Latvia, the bill targeting the sale of critical books "would be…
It's not just men, often of a certain generation, who seem unsettled by this newfound determination to speak out " demonstrating cultural leadership while doing so. I've heard some women in …
The crew defines "ill-ability" as "creating advantages from disadvantages" and "an adaptation of power, strength and creativity." It's clear from the video what they mean: The crew isn't jus…
"When I think about the writers and books I have worked with, it's the dialogue about shape that I most remember. A draft of a story in which a kind of sonic boom goes off at the beginning d…
Outsiders have long been curious how admissions decisions are made. Most of the time this desire for transparency stems from a desire for fairness: Given how few acceptances elite institutio…
"I no longer believe that the Internet can be saved: it's too late. The arguments that it can be saved by a bill of rights-style Magna Carta or through more specific regulation are too littl…
The rise has been fuelled by the growth of psychological thrillers and the success of big names like Lee Child, James Patterson and Dan Brown. Last year, 18.7 million crime books were sold -…
Casa Verdi is "a sumptuous neo-Gothic mansion built in central Milan by Verdi. Completed in 1899, the building was created as a sanctuary for musicians who found themselves poverty-stricken …
Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito is the most viewed YouTube video of all time, with more than 5bn views, but temporarily disappeared from the site and had its hold image replaced by a…
UK record labels enjoyed a 10.6% surge in earnings in 2017 to £839m, thanks to the digital popularity of a new generation of artists including Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Dua Lipa and Stormzy.…