"The U.S. government made us paper Indians " our ancestors are here," Jack proclaimed last week at Sand Point. To close and remove the archives is to physically remove the ancestors (word is…
Some 49% of these respondents say use of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation in the next decade, 33% say use of technology will mostly stren…
Increasingly, I'm hearing from politicians, activists, and people like my journalist friend who say that maybe we 1990s-era internet activists blew it. The story goes that we were so shortsi…
One of the nation's most prestigious movie houses, Indiana University Cinema (IU Cinema) presents and examines the world's most entertaining, fascinating, and thought-provoking films and inv…
The return to piracy is both a bit of a meme and a bit of a reality. And its return is absolutely the result of a market that giant companies have built to intentionally trap customers into …
Two days before Weizman, a professor at London's Goldsmiths College, was due to fly to the US from Britain, he received an email from the US Embassy telling him that the visa waiver on his B…
"This turn of events has been both somehow shocking and predictable. In June of 2019, archaeologists surveyed some of the area awaiting construction, which would include replacing existing f…
Recent debates have tended to confuse rather than clarify matters. In left-of-center discourse, "liberalism" and "leftism" are often invoked as respective shorthand for neoliberalism and soc…
Greece and Britain have the opportunity to renew their respective stories by leading the way in creating a museum for the 21st century. How it would be organised would be open to discussions…
Once, Michael Lind observes, "trade unions, participatory political parties, and religious and civic organizations compelled university-educated managerial elites to share power with them or…
Camila Prins says she first realized she wanted to be a woman at a Carnival party at age 11, when, like the other boys, she was allowed to dress like a girl as part of the burlesque festivit…
The sheer profusion of actors online has foreclosed their need to be real at all: the armies of bots and the Russian sockpuppets, the corporate tweeps and the AI deepfakes. One can just as e…
" It's time to get our heads out of our collective asses and wake up to the fact that having a New York zip code does not make you a better actor by default. Nor does wanting a better qu…
Over the last few years a pool of Italian biologists, anthropologists and geochemists conducted a series of forensic tests on the skull and accompanying lower mandible, which were unearthed …
In the 1950s and '60s, Elmyr de Hory is believed to have forged over a thousand works by major artists. Many have been removed from museums. Others, some experts say, have not. Mark Forgy ha…
Australians took 12.3 million daytrips and 13.4 million overnight trips within Australia that included arts activities in 2018 " an increase of 14 percent and 20 percent respectively since 2…
"No matter where I've worked, it has always been obvious that if everyone agreed to use language in the way that it is normally used, which is to communicate, the workday would be two hours …
"Indigenous performance has been grossly under-reviewed and while the tide is shifting, the lens with which predominantly white critics view the work has been problematic. The lack of IBPOC …
"This choice might immediately strike some as counterintuitive; it certainly runs against the dominant conventions of criticism, in which theatres offer free tickets to all critics actively …
"Although it is theoretically 'points-based', the reality is that it will be impossible to accrue enough points with a salary below £25,600 (without a PhD) unless the role is on the short…
Yolanda Bonnell isn't the first artist to say that white critics get away with not knowing the cultural reference points of work outside of their own interests " but doesn't cutting reviewer…
According to the museum's most recent 990 tax forms, filed in 2018, LACMA is carrying $331 million in county bond debt that was used to pay for construction of the Resnick Pavilion, the Broa…
"The management may demand in respect to its right to object to any song, speech, dialogue, business, costume or gesture that forms part of the production, that may offend the ticket buyer; …
Research from Arts Council England (ACE) and innovation foundation Nesta has revealed "a widening gulf" between large and small organisations' capacity and capability to adopt " let alone ma…
More than eight out of ten survey respondents agreed that "workers in the arts and cultural sector who share controversial opinions risk being professionally ostracised". The overwhelming me…