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One month ago this past Saturday, Mrs. T and I were sitting on the couch in our living room in upper Manhattan, watching Gone With the Wind on TCM, when she went into a full-scale respira…
Glenn Gould plays his own transcription for solo piano of Maurice Ravel's La Valse. This performance was originally telecast by the CBC in 1975: (This is the latest in a series of arts- a…
"One of the advantages of almost losing everything is the knowledge that everything is a gift. It's given and can be abruptly taken away. There's no entitlement. Few of us, fortunately, get …
The Artistic Genius is male because men are most fit to be Artistic Geniuses. The goalposts of greatness are hyper-specific, socially manipulated, and ultimately less interested in the aesth…
Cecilia Alemani, born in Milan in 1977, has directed the High Line's art program since 2011, where she has commissioned large-scale works by artists such as Kerry James Marshall, Carol Bove,…
Languages do exist, but they are not necessarily the things we take them for. On the one hand, we each have an understanding of at least our mother tongue that allows us to produce sentences…
What's worth saying with certainty is that there needs to be more opportunities for musicals to be developed and showcased outside the auspices of commercial or not-for-profit producers, wit…
The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) wishes to appoint an Artistic Director to provide exceptional leadership to Australia's pre-eminent music performance training institution.
"Community music has a growing programme of scholarship and international projects. As a musical practice that emphasises people, participation, places, inclusivity, and diversity, those tha…
"Theatre artist Michael Cotey was in rehearsal at the Goodman Theatre when the news of the devastating Parkland shooting broke. 'I started thinking about ways theatre artists could respond t…
"These are the works of Mario Moore, a 32-year-old Detroit-born artist who recently painted a series of portraits honoring the African American service workers on the Princeton campus, where…
"Reconciling one's dance and racial identities can be a complicated, emotional process, especially since the dance world is so slow to embrace change. But as the overdue push for diversity i…
"Jecorey Arthur uses his extensive knowledge of music to educate kids, entertain people of all ages, and give back to his community. He performs and records his own music under the name 1200…
"Teachers in a wide variety of venues, including university professors, who seek a multicultural-intercultural-global array of songs, instrumental pieces, dance, and listening selections are…
"Researchers at Indiana University have been digitally preserving recordings of Native American songs made on fragile wax cylinders more than 100 years ago." " YES! Magazine
"In the Arts, we've created new avenues for securing long-term, affordable spaces for arts and cultural organizations. We're also collaborating with grantees to find alternative organization…
"I was doing text and photo paintings and paintings solely with text. I had ignored photography for a long time, thinking it was a high school infatuation, but now I had this idea that I wou…
Rev. Dr. David Antwi, Head Pastor and founder of UK-based church Kharis Ministries, made the controversial statement during a service. "You are a thief if you play church instruments and col…
Taking into account that actual tuition and fees are already essentially free, could there still be significant effects when students know for certain that their schooling will cost nothing?…
'You live on one continent and work on two others.' You have 'a firsthand knowledge of the sunrise over the Po, the sunset over Shenzhen, the crackle of the midday sun as the Acqua Alta wets…
Ballooning budgets and years of delay are becoming a regular feature of prestigious cultural construction projects in Germany. For a country that thrives on a reputation for efficiency and e…
Cellist Zoe Keating publishes her yearly streaming earnings in an effort to spark conversation about music royalties and help other artists better understand their finances. "I wanted people…
Who better to portray godlike aliens, aerial crime-stoppers and lethally elegant badasses than dancers? Dance training is excellent preparation for the bodily toll of action films and long d…
"Banksy is a talented graphic designer with a flair for self-promotion, no more or less. He is not an artist. His work lacks the breadth and ambiguity to carry multiple interpretations vital…
"I certainly did not know, for example, that the earliest recognised dust jacket belongs to a literary annual entitled Friendship's Offering of 1829. Nor that e.e. cummings's self-published …
