The politics of nostalgia doesn't capitalise on people's memories of particular past events they might have experienced. Instead, it makes use of propaganda about the way things were, in ord…
Although I spent college and most of my NBA career in Los Angeles, it wasn't until I retired from basketball and began my second career as a writer specializing in African American history a…
Parker was a huge supporter of civil rights and gave most of her estate to Martin Luther King (whom she had never met) when she died in 1967. When King died, the estate was transferred to th…
According to the publisher's own history, Elliott founded the magazine during a summer holiday from Keele University, where he was studying. "He produced the first edition on the kitchen tab…
Gary Garrels is the fifth senior official at SFMOMA to depart over the past few weeks. Also gone are Nan Keeton, deputy director of external affairs; Marisa Robisch, director of human resour…
Although the museum calls Hiroshi Sugimoto's design a "revitalization" of the sculpture garden, its critics feel it is much more than that. They are especially concerned with the proposed ch…
"The systemic racism that runs like rot through the structures of the classical music world exists somewhere between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure. And right now, i…
"Bad habits may be broken. Theater companies large and small will be weaned off the conservative commercial values of Broadway, freed of the timidity of white theater artists and audiences w…
When Kristin Makholm took the helm in July 2009, the museum was virtually bankrupt and had been closed for about 18 months after losing its lease at the Ramsey County Government Center. But …
You might argue that furloughs are inevitable, given the inability of theaters to perform indoors in front of more than 50 people under current city and state guidelines. But it's not the fu…
"In a way, the screen now represents a bit of an insult to those who are making the decision as to who will join the orchestra. Do we really believe that today's musicians cannot come to a f…
Under its new ownership, Yale Union will be christened the Center for Native Arts and Cultures, serving as the new national headquarters for the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. "This…
Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR's radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept many Americans from commuting to work and school. The n…
"Whatever we do right now," Gustavo Dudamel said, "has to have an impact not only in the time we are living but also to help us achieve what we can do in the next years. That's why we were n…
The sculpture of Jen Reid was erected on Wednesday but removed by Bristol City Council just over 24 hours later. Ms Reid had been photographed standing on the empty plinth after the Colston …
"Early in the spring-2020 semester, I had planned to say quite a bit about Homer's figurative use of disease and the literary tradition it initiated. But as we concluded February in exhauste…
There's a difference between a harassment campaign and suffering the consequences of hateful behaviour. Clearly, we all understand that there is a line that shouldn't be crossed, a point in …
"Perhaps because I spend a lot of time listening to people with crazy opinions, I am sympathetic to the view that the only way to live a healthy intellectual life is to expose oneself consta…
While the numbers of Blacks in dance has continued to grow, the corresponding increase in the overall presentation of Blacks in dance has been relatively nominal and stagnant. To date, compa…
If such monuments do have a connection to history, it is because they attempt to shape it, not reflect it. To believe we can learn history from them is like a judge choosing only to hear tes…
For much of the 1970s and 1980s the Anna Wyman Dance Theatre was regarded as one of Canada's foremost modern-dance companies. In 1975 it became the first modern dance troupe to tour Canada a…
As the heart, lungs, gut and other organs transmit information to the brain, they affect how we perceive and interact with our environment in surprisingly profound ways. Recent studies of th…
It wasn't quite like being in a recital hall, but it did give me a chance to enter another romantic world in real time with a real person on the other end of the phone line. " NPR
Stimulus packages for the arts and culture range from the £1.57bn package announced by the UK this week to smaller packages in countries such as Zimbabwe, Estonia and Costa Rica. " The Gu…
It is strange that "cancel culture" has become a project of the left, which spent the 20th century fighting against capricious firings of "troublesome" employees. A lack of due process does …