"[The museum] has invited the illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme to take over its Instagram account every Monday during 2020. On the account he will post a different drawing each week, depic…
"The film entitled The First Temptation of Christ, by the Brazilian production company Porta dos Fundos, came out on December 3 and drew strong criticism from conservative politicians in the…
Since 1987, Chicago Sinfonietta has been a defiantly different kind of orchestra. The orchestra was founded by Maestro Paul Freeman to address the disconnect between the utter lack of divers…
"I have said that this pseudo-rational view of human nature led to a thinness, a superficiality, not only of judgment, but also of feeling." John Maynard Keynes, "My Early Beliefs"
"As Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's second unit director, and the first woman to ever hold the megaphone on a Star Wars movie, [Victoria] Mahoney got to experience all of it. Now that the…
In 2013, construction of the new metro system for Greece's second city uncovered, in an unusually well-preserved state, the major commercial crossroads of the town during the Byzantine era. …
Some of these developments are already underway (dealing with ballet's ethnic stereotypes, more varied colors in ostensibly skin-tone dancewear, more women running companies, the tap revival…
"Some grew up functionally bilingual, while others had to learn English from scratch. All overcame linguistic, cultural, and a variety of other hurdles to translate their acts for an English…
Under Assembly Bill 5, "Uber and Lyft drivers, musicians, dancers, singers, artists of all kinds, freelance journalists, etc., under contract now will have to be employed, rather than paid a…
"The US's most prestigious awards for romance writing, the Ritas, have been cancelled after a host of judges and entrants pulled out over an ongoing racism row involving the industry's large…
Gina Gibney's ever-expanding organization already operates two buildings (which include five theaters, 23 studios, a conference room and a media lab), a six-member dance company, and several…
Byron Stripling, the former lead trumpet of the Count Basie Orchestra, "has conducted the [PSO] as a guest and will make his debut as principal [pops] conductor in October. This is only the …
Her memoir, published in 1994, when she was 27, "established her as one of the most provocative writers of her generation, generating awe among readers who saw in her work an honest depictio…
"The plan, the American Federation of Musicians and Employers' Pension Fund " which covers more than 50,000 people, including Broadway musicians, players in some orchestras, and freelance mu…
"[Clive] Davis has more than thirty years of journalism experience, and was a regular freelance writer for The Times and The Sunday Times covering music, radio, theatre, comedy, and contribu…
Johnny Carson interviews Bette Davis on The Tonight Show. This episode was originally telecast by NBC on January 7, 1988: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related vide…
"To look back is to relax one's vigil." Bette Davis, The Lonely Life: An Autobiography
It was disheartening to realize that almost all of the statements issued yesterday by museums and their professional organizations "condemn[ing] the targeting of cultural sites for destructi…
When they started collaborating in 2011, they didn't plan on their composing careers revolving around the stuff of nightmares. And the work, they'll freely admit, can exert a psychological t…
"There are more resonances between programming and poetry than you might think. Computer science is an art form of words and punctuation, thoughtfully placed and goal-oriented, even if not n…
Both the retrospective and the prospective interpretations of the Hubble Constant have stoked ongoing controversy in the 90 years since Edwin Powell Hubble published the first definitive evi…
At least from small-press publishers, we're getting more work that looks at, not so much how do we survive the apocalypse as how do we live with nature? How do we live in this world? " Washi…
Writing to learn, as I am imagining it, is a divergent social practice fueled by a lovely cocktail of curiosity, imagination, experience, and ignorance. For my purposes, there are two kinds …
When the Taliban destroyed the historic Bamiyan Budha, the international response "was indeed collective, a near-universal eruption of outrage and dismay at the loss. At the United Nations, …
"This genre is called solarpunk. It attempts to radically reimagine the future, with technological solutions to environmental problems " think green cities, solar planes, recycle artists, bi…