Writers are individuals whose job is to find language that can cross the unfathomable gap separating us from one another. They don't write as anyone beyond themselves. But today, writers hav…
"Since the dawn of the internet, the problem of phony art being sold has only grown, experts say, and the primary coin of the forgery realm has long been the fake print, which is relatively …
Under the Trump Administration, the challenge for cultural workers who agree to participate in official events is akin to swimming upstream in boiling waters. Civil servants, thinking of the…
"The 20th century economy rewarded being the same, suppressing whatever made you weird and interesting. But this economy doesn't reward that. This economy has shifted far more in the directi…
"Based on responses from our survey, a high share (66%) of cultural workers identify as White (non-Hispanic), compared to just 32% of New York City's population. In contrast, Hispanics, Blac…
Ousted chief Deborah Dugan's explosive claims threatened to overshadow the star-studded show itself, which is scheduled to air on CBS. Her brutal portrait of the Recording Academy as a chumm…
"However difficult to imagine, across those eventful decades, countless people embraced the idea that what happened in the concert hall and the opera house was inseparable from the destiny o…
His theory of disruptive innovation made him a key influence on Silicon Valley powerhouses like Netflix and Intel and twice earned him the title of the world's most influential living manage…
The festival has been in turmoil for the past few years after letting its artistic and executive directors. Finalists are conductors Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Craig Hella Johnson and Julian Wachn…
"The China Independent Film Festival has held 14 editions and shown some 1,000 films since it was established in 2003 in Nanjing, the capital of coastal Jiangsu province. Many of the titles …
It is not clear how Campbell will rebrand the museums, but he casts the de Young as a strong American arts institution and the Legion as a "treasure chest like the Frick, Kimbell or Neue Gal…
"Researchers at InsuranceProviders.com analyzed data from the Occupational Information Network, a national organization developed through support from the U.S. Department of Labor …, to de…
"Worn by audience members during a performance, the glasses project dialogue directly onto the lens, allowing the wearer to follow the action without having to glance toward the sides of the…
The letter, addressed to Art Basel global director Marc Spiegler and Adeline Ooi, its director Asia, did not mince words when airing complaints about the state of the fair amid the Hong Kong…
The author got a seven-figure advance, the first print run is half a million copies, the book jacket features gushing blurbs by famous writers, and the book got loads of coverage in The New …
Study your Master in puppetry at Central European universities in Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, BiaÅ‚ystok! The PuppeTry focuses on different artistic and teaching methods of the particip…
"The thinking goes: If Marfa, the pint-size Texas town located a three-hour's drive from the nearest airport, can become a site for pilgrims seeking to commune with Donald Judd's Minimalist …
Zach Finkelstein: "Company X is a prestigious music apprenticeship festival for instrumentalists and singers. They take in about $15 million a year in revenue, own over $80 million dollars i…
"While best known for his anchor work [as co-founder of what is now The PBS NewsHour], which he shared for two decades with his colleague Robert MacNeil, Mr. Lehrer moderated a dozen preside…
Among the key findings: 74% of American adults engage with the arts via electronic media, 54.3% attend arts events, and 53.7% create or perform art themselves. Three states, D.C. and metro C…
Some three-and-a-half weeks after Mehta's death, the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf has appointed Reagan Arthur, currently senior vice president and publisher at Little, Brown, to succeed …
In 2004, Steve Dunstone and Timothy Awoyemi, on a Police Expedition Society goodwill trip, were on a boat on the Niger River being greeted by the people of a southern Nigerian town. As the e…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Broadway premiere of A Soldier's Play. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama can be a mixed ble…
Decca's original-cast album of the 1950 Broadway production of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, directed by E. Martin Browne and starring Alec Guinness, Robert Flemying, and Irene Worth: (Th…
"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise." George Orwell, "Lear, Tolstoy and …