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"One of my happiest moments, in my years as a journalist, was when I got Ice-T to stop saying something homophobic and cruel in his live shows." " Greg Sandow
"My desire to give evolved from going to a lot of museums, art galleries and live performances," he says. "It took years to develop my taste, but once I was on the ground, seeing what these …
Last Friday, when art historians confirmed its authenticity through X-rays to see if the original painting was there, Ermanno Mariani got the curious call, and the voice was oddly familiar. …
Kehinde Wiley's official portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald's painting of the first lady, like the Obamas themselves, broke boundaries. L.A.-born, New York-based Wiley and New York-…
Her blunt views on culture were summed up in a 2008 blog which complains "I simply can't stand going to exhibitions, museums, opera". " BBC
Over the past few centuries, philosophers of time have worried about divine eternity, absolutism and Kantian idealism. Our current fixation on presentness, and whether it is a real feature o…
"The BBC came very close to erasing all of the original Python tapes, at least from the first season. What happened was that we got word from our editor that the BBC was about to wipe all th…
The museum is betting that in a city where tickets to the Museum of Ice Cream cost $38, visitors will be willing to pay for the privilege of experiencing photography in a way that feels m…
Once upon a time, none of these stories had yet been fixed on a page (or a clay tablet), but were carried in the physical bodies of the people who committed them to memory. Long before Johan…
Philippa Chong asked them. "Critics were understandably ambivalent towards amateur reviewers despite their appreciation for general readers' enthusiasm about books. … If the critics I inte…
Put simply, life is beginning to look ever more complex and ever more collaborative. All this has fractured Western biology's consensus on Darwin. " Slate
On the surface, yes, of course they were " and there are some modern-day emoji that look surprisingly like their Pharaonic predecessors. The differences, though, are deep. " The New York Tim…
"I don't play music and I don't paint, but I always thought architecture was an art and I try to practice it that way. Architecture is intuitive. It's humanly expressive. You're putting your…
Michelle Herman: "In that very first class, long before I had any idea what I was doing, … I had a moment of what seemed like perfect clarity: My body and my mind were working as one. And …
A key point that many people don't realize is that the site does not use any algorithms: each review that goes into a movie's or TV show's Tomatometer score is read and evaluated by a human …
"Performance Space New York [formerly P.S. 122], the historic performance arts nonprofit in Manhattan's East Village, will shift to a new, artist-run model for 2020. A cohort of NYC-based ar…
The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra seeks a strategic, business-minded leader with a passion for classical music, high emotional intelligence, and collaborative style to serve as President &a…
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The Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale was founded in 1969 as the world's first law enforcement service to specialize in art and cultural heritage. Its agents have worked from R…
Despite his success with revisionist productions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller plays, Ivo van Hove seemed an unlikely choice to direct a major revival of the Bernstein-Laurents-Son…
Erik Lee Preminger (his father was film director Otto Preminger) started traveling with his mother while still an infant, got his first jobs with her show before he was old enough to go to s…
Should Jeanine Cummins have written the book? Lauren Groff doesn't know. Should she have reviewed it? She doesn't know! "Perhaps this book is an act of cultural imperialism; at the same time…
"According to a company press release [about the two artistic directors], Öhman is leaving to accept a directorship at Swedish contemporary dance presenter Dansens Hus. Waltz" " whose ap…
Jader Bignamini's first performances with the DSO were unexpected: in 2018, due to cardiac surgery, outgoing music director Leonard Slatkin had to cancel the final concerts of his tenure wit…
"FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
