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There exists in the hearts and minds of at least some in the nonprofit arts sector a sense that the work they present is superior to most or all popular culture " and that those who patroniz…
Calling all painters! Join us in exploring the beautiful shores of the Bay of Fundy on the Parrsboro Shores where the highest tides in the world are found. Juried applicants get a chance to …
"Serebrennikov was a particularly Russian type of rebel: one who sought, and attained, mainstream success, often with the blessing and support of the state." Until, that is, his sudden arres…
It was, for Scruton, impossible to conceive of society without prejudices and exclusions, discrimination and inequality. That's why his views, despite mellowing over the years, never substan…
The third edition of the study, spearheaded by USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative founder Stacy L. Smith, was announced Tuesday, revealing that for 2020, the percentage of female nominees in…
Students of Asian American literature have often been far more familiar with what is wrong with Aiiieeeee! than with Aiiieeeee! itself. From the earliest days of its publication, many Asian …
Within anthropology, Mead is still revered, but mostly as a way to understand the discipline's origins. In the popular mind, Mead's name has all but vanished, her reputation whittled down to…
Netflix has acquired all rights to the untitled Leonard Bernstein film that Bradley Cooper will direct, star in and produce from the script he co-wrote with Oscar-winning Spotlight scribe Jo…
"There's a massive hole," producer Lyndsay Magid Aviner said of the lack of urban dance on New York stages. Coming from the circus world, the Aviners said they believe there's a broad audien…
"I am also interested in consent, by far the least attended to aspect of the play, which we encounter in the especially difficult junction between sexuality and trauma. At this strained inte…
The controversy over "Attack Helicopter" is another case study suggesting that rejecting "art's for art's sake" in favor of "art for justice's sake" doesn't necessarily yield more justice. I…
"A few minutes into the speech, secretary of culture Roberto Alvim said, 'The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and it will be national, it'll be endowed with great capacity fo…
Doubts about the authenticity of the painting, which depicts the artist giving some serious side-eye, first arose in 1970. But research conducted jointly by the National Gallery of Norway (w…
The sessions, attended by leaders from New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Charlotte Ballet, were held i…
"A usually cheery online community of quilters has been ripped apart by a sewing challenge depicting a No. 2 pencil erasing the 'in' from the word injustice. Some members of the National Qui…
"[Alice] Guy-Blaché was in the room when the Lumière brothers held the first-ever cinema screening, in Paris in March 1895. By the following year, she was making her own films. And while t…
"Dutch design company Jora Vision will use Pushkin's works as inspiration for the 17,000-square-meter Lukomorye park, named after the mythical Slavic land in which Pushkin's fairy tales take…
"Writing on her blog, Not Another Music History Cliche!, and standing as a pillar of classical music's niche on Twitter, Linda elegantly deployed her encyclopedic knowledge, research skills,…
AI-assisted editing won't make Oscar-Âworthy auteurs out of us. But amateur visual storytelling will probably explode in complexity. Even tools for one-to-one video messaging might evolve…
"Rianto, is a master of the Lengger Lanang, a traditional [Javanese] dance performed by men dressed as women. But Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, has seen rising intolerance i…
Just capitalism and sheer wackiness, or what? (Paltrow's "This Smells Like My Vagina" candle costs $75 and sold out almost immediately, for one thing.) But there's more. "The Goop Lab is …
"But as is the case with other musical genres indigenous to Spain, they initially developed with no ties to one political ideology over another. Zarzuela is nowadays perceived in the nationa…
The woman next to us very politely turns round and shushes them. It does no good. They are out for the afternoon, they are going to make a loud and long fuss over a Capri Sun and they are go…
From 2006: I woke up this morning at nine-thirty, an hour later than my normal get-up-and-go time. As I descended from the loft in which I spend my nights, it struck me that I had nothing wh…
"I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better." Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
