"Tango first emerged on the outskirts of the city, as the perfect poetic and musical medium for the outcast and marginalized to tell their stories. With this in mind, perhaps queer tango is …
Until just a few years ago, the very few times queer characters were shown at all in Bollywood movies were as figures of mockery. Now, very occasionally, a film with a sympathetic portrayal …
"It's a little known fact that in 1972, minimalist artist Frank Stella donated the painting Isfahan III (1968) to the Museo de la Solidaridad in Chile, a new institution that invited artists…
It's not the liberal arts vs. corporate education. And it's not soft skills vs. hard skills. It's both a dichotomy and a lexicon we must eliminate. First, the dichotomy: the education needed…
I'm picking up a Zipcar and hitting the road later today for a three-night caregiver's holiday on Long Island Sound. During my absence, Mrs. T will be looked after around the clock by the do…
Curators intended the June exhibition, titled "Art and Cultures in Bulgaria between the 16th and 18th Centuries," to examine the influence that Islamic art had on Bulgarian Orthodox religiou…
Ramasar, who was sacked from, and later rehired by, New York City Ballet following his role in the nude photo-sharing scandal at the company, is playing Bernardo in the new production by Ivo…
"The question … is far more complicated that it first appears. (What does 'best' mean? What does 'the arts' mean?)" There isn't all that much evidence to look at, but Chris Jones surveys w…
"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself." Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Continue reading Almanac: Dickens on se…
It struck me the other day that ever since Mrs. T went into the hospital, our life has come to resemble Groundhog Day, an endless succession of repeat performances. I am, like Bill Murray, s…
For many, many people going to a concert hall or a museum is a foreign, anxiety-producing prospect. If we want new communities to take advantage of what we have to offer, we need to develop …
In January, all seven of the most-watched YouTube Gaming channels weren't run by happy gamers livestreaming the game du jour. They were instead recorded, autoplaying videos advertising video…
That a company engaged in conservative or liberal political activity did not affect Republicans' opinions of that company, but it did for Democrats. (As previously reported, Democrats didn't…
Marina Harss: "Imagine if one of America's most respected modern-dance companies realized that its funding model was no longer sustainable and had to cease operations. This despite having na…
"Our research shows that most pay TV households already have Netflix so even if cord-cutting accelerates, Netflix won't get a whole slew of new customers. In [other] words, people are cuttin…
The scientific analysis "showed brushwork, and a liveliness to that brushwork, that is quite consistent with other works by Rembrandt," said Shan Kuang, a conservator at New York University'…
"This is not a fight the BBC is picking nor a contest my party promised if we got elected. If the BBC ends up in decline, it will be the government which will be accused by the very people w…
The BBC was given rare access to the preparations and spoke to three experts involved. " BBC
The fan-fic phenomenon seems to have gotten its start in the wake of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, with William Hogarth and Alexander Pope riffing on the adventures of Swift's hero (a…
Dance as a basis for problem-solving is a growing field within psychology research. It underlies some of the theories behind dancing as therapy for people with Parkinson's Disease, for examp…
Victory Hall Opera in Charlottesville is working on a production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites with Deaf performers acting the roles in American Sign Language alongside singers. T…
He has a history of handling thorny issues like cybercrime and data privacy. As a Parliamentary Secretary in Theresa May's cabinet office, Dowden was the Minister for Implementation of the G…
I am a white, male, liberal administrator working in New York's nonprofit theatre community. I see firsthand how the word "diversity" has kicked up a lot of dust throughout the industry. Yet…
"The Berkeley Tool Lending Library is one of the Bay Area's great public gifts, a free-to-use service for Berkeley residents looking for anything from saws to ladders to a hard-to-find screw…
"That's the message embedded within a clause recently added to the E.U.'s negotiating mandate, which says the British government should 'address issues relating to the return or restitution …