How many of the people who authored those statements actually visited the Black Lives Matter website before posting is unknown. What is known, however, is that the stirrings of support state…
The app, founded in 2007, is credited with playing a central role in opening up higher education to the public. Institutions such as Stanford University; the University of California, Berkel…
Listening on transistor radios and Walkmans, many Dubliners who had long been intimidated by the book found that they not only understood it but enjoyed it and recognised themselves in it. "…
"Police shootings? I can't imagine what special insight a museum director brings to the subject. But if you're going to talk about them, at least say something smart." " National Review
How do we sustain the infrastructure to make the kind of highly professional theater that we have come to revere without pushing the actual artists to the fringes of that ecology? How can we…
As the famously passionate fans of the Harry Potter franchise rise up to express raging disappointment at the bigotry espoused by its creator, and the surprisingly passionate fans of Live P.…
Southern California museums are navigating complicated health and safety protocols while also seeing to the regular work of preparing new exhibitions, caring for art, managing employees and …
Starting with the 94th Oscars ceremony, the Academy will return to a guaranteed 10 best picture nominees, as was the case for the 82nd and 83rd ceremonies, before it shifted to a system that…
When the NBCC statement was posted, a foreword was appended which said, in part, "In the course of our committee's discussion with the rest of the board, a board member responded to the stat…
The instructions detail how to deal with a confirmed case of COVID-19 on a set. Anyone in the cast or crew that was within six feet of the infected person for more than 15 minutes may need t…
Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for the Director of Development position at one of nation's leading regional theatres.
The Conversation, founded in Melbourne in 2011 with university and state government funding, now has ten editions in various countries and 150 employees as well as dozens of freelance contri…
On one side, new faces have meant less tolerance for the flippant bigotry that has long been a part of stand-up"Shane Gillis, for example, recently lost a spot on Saturday Night Live after p…
It is common to assume that an AI could achieve immortality by creating backup copies of itself and thus transfer its consciousness from one computer to the next. This view is encouraged by …
Put simply, dancers who aren't ready to go back shouldn't have to. As desperately as we miss dancing, we have to put our health"and the health of our communities"first. But as artists who of…
"Clearly, we're not bringing anybody back to work anytime soon in person, based on those guidelines," Aurora Managing Director Julie Saltzman Kellner told The Chronicle by phone. "To be hone…
Museums have an opportunity to make a contribution to civic discourse that plays to their intrinsic strengths. It is obvious that many of our political and civic institutions have failed in …
The themes of racial (in)equality and (in)justice that are now starting to get the attention they deserve have been material for Faith Ringgold for her entire career. Yet, faced with the dea…
On Thursday, management laid off 284 staff members, some of whom had worked there for decades and lived in campus housing. An additional 100 people remain on temporary layoff, leaving 123…
Anthony McGill, New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist, launched a new mini-genre of musical protest on May 28 when he tweeted a video of himself playing "America the Beautiful," transp…
"This is O.K. for me because I am trying to live in a different world, besides the world of the illness. I'm trying to live in a world of the spirit wherein I am concentrating on things such…
"The discoveries were little short of miraculous: pieces of third-century pottery engraved with one of the first depictions of the crucified Christ, along with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and wi…
The video platform is launching the multi-year initiative to fund content hosted on the site "to center and amplify Black voices and perspectives," as YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki put it in a …
"By December, the city's largest performing arts presenter will have missed out on revenue from about 800 shows, events, and rentals since mid-March, when it closed the doors to its halls be…
"[We] reached out to more than a dozen black artists" " painters, actors, musicians, poets, quilters, hip-hop artists " "across the state to discuss what they think is at the center of today…