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The Assistant Dean of Mannes Prep will be a seasoned professional with experience leading and developing high level pre-collegiate and/or collegiate arts education programs.
"If you're one of the millions of people to re-embrace vinyl records, it's worth knowing where they come from and how they're made." (It ain't pretty.) " The Guardian
The warning against treating characters as if they were real stands as a gatekeeper to the academic discipline of literary criticism. Students who can't abide by the rule will get bad grades…
The plaintive question came from Sara Mearns as she and her colleagues listened to the decidedly avant-garde music choreographer Alexei Ratmansky had selected for his new work, Voices. Ratma…
It is no secret that in contemporary America there are many people who hardly read at all, and then another sizable group who, though they keep up with news, sports and the latest fads in se…
"The president's vow to rid cultural and educational institutions of 'leftist' values is changing the game at the institutions charged with fostering cultural production." Here's a rundown o…
There is a direct correlation between museum shows and spikes in interest at auction. "It confirmed in a reasonably analysed way that there is a relationship and, therefore, to support museu…
Actor and educator Kila Packett writes about the Los Angeles Drama Club's Shakespeare Youth Festival (active year-round in Watts and East L.A.) and the trip by four students and six teachers…
The emphasis on participation " on culture as something that more people should actually do " is newer. This is the difference between being in a play or a band and buying tickets to watch t…
"[He was] an implacable enemy of anyone who wanted to study the legendary Irish writer for almost any reason. … Though his ability to thwart scholars and Bloomsday fans diminished after 20…
The item, titled Head with Horns and acquired by the Getty Museum in 2002 for a price reported to be between $3 million and $5 million, was quietly reattributed to "unknown artist" last mont…
The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which operated at both Wright's original Taliesin home in Wisconsin and his Taliesin West in Arizona, will cease operations this June. The School's bo…
The movie was set to be one of Hollywood's epic disasters, on track to lose $100 million. "But a funny thing happened on the way to the cinematic scratching post. Word-of-mouth buzz began to…
"For two decades, CollegeHumor rode a number of online trends and movements. The company started as the brainchild of literal teenagers, and it outlived many competitors because of this prec…
"Outrage is the perfect negative emotion to attract attention and engagement " and algorithms are primed to pounce." Worse, "misleading content on social media tends to lead to even more eng…
The Left thinks of fairness as egalitarian "equal outcomes" distribution, and the Right thinks of fairness as meritocracy (i.e., the winner takes the spoils, the qualified take the reward). …
When we "go to work" in the arts, we often mean actually going to an official and shared physical workspace. But there's more and more opportunity and reason to cut the tether altogether " t…
"Eight colorful banners designed [for the 1976 Bicentennial] by Alexander Calder that were lost for decades, then thought destroyed, and then serendipitously found and displayed for about si…
"Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf," a TV musical featuring Art Carney and Bil Baird's Marionettes. The score, based on the music of Serge Prokofiev, was arranged and performed by Paul …
"O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Heroism"
Continue reading Almanac: Emerson on fear at About Last Night.
Orange County Museum of Art seeks a highly skilled and effective fundraiser to oversee completion of its $73M capital campaign ($50M secured to date) and build a development team in preparat…
Kyle Buchanan: "Of course, the decision to blow up the best-picture category wasn't greeted with nearly as much enthusiasm in June 2009 … Industry veterans worried that the expansion would…
Before joining the VSO, Angela Elster was senior vice-president of research and education at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she played a key role in opening the TELUS Cent…
The strategy lists four principles guiding whether ACE will invest public money: "ambition and quality", "inclusivity and relevance", "dynamism", and "environmental responsibility". The ACE …
A 2018 study published in the journal Nature Climate Change announced tourism alone"that's nonessential pleasure travel"is responsible for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The t…
