A UCLA conference gathers a creative and philosophical group to ponder the contemporary artist's place in society. The age-old question persists: Can art change the world?Forty years ago, ar…
ASPEN - Appropriately for an art form that is loose, anti-establishment and always in flux, there is no perfect agreement on just what defines a fringe festival. There are fringe festivals w…
Theatres bring Shakespeare searingly alive time and again, so why are art galleries content to leave the old masters in their graves?Former Dr Who stars David Tennant and Catherine Tate are …
Evangeline Ordaz, an attorney as well as a playwright, addresses hot-button issues in her plays such as Bordering on Love, a play that addresses both immigration and same-sex marriage within…
Michael Taylor, one of the country’s most respected curators of modern art, is moving from the Philadelphia Art Museum to become director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College…
Comedian, actor, banjo player, and, yes, art collector, Steve Martin is caught up in a massive art scandal that’s rocking the European art world, according to numerous reports.
OH. EM. GEE.---the Illinois state legislature legalized civil unions and we at The Neo-Futurarium received our very first Pride Art Exhibit! Take a look at this piece by photographer (also o…
NEWPORT, R. I. — It’s one of my favorite museums in New England, or anywhere for that matter, yet hardly anyone has heard of it.
I’m usually inundated with press releases for upcoming shows, seasons and what-not, but when the below release came through, promoting a wild-sounding, street-based performance piec…
It was a big night for the American Repertory Theater, an even bigger night for ART artistic director Diane Paulus, and quite an evening for “The Aliens.’’ All were multipl…
Some brief thoughts on this latest and diverse weekend of culture-vulturing in the Bay Area...1. Campo Santo presents Denis Johnson's "Nobody Move": Intersection for the Arts recently decamp…
Seth Rudetsky's Broadway at the Art House Series will be bringing a number of Broadway veterans to Provincetown, Massachusetts for performances this summer. In addition to Rudetsky&apo…
Judy Rosenblatt, starring in this revival about Peggy Guggenheim, a rich woman who did what she wanted, has the most important quality for the solo role: attitude.
Art, Yasmina Reza's comedy about three friends and the artwork that comes between them, has been a staple of stages worldwide for over a decade now, and it's easy to see why: it's funny, it …
For a growing number of artists, professional training is taking place at for-profit art schools, rather than at nonprofit colleges. Daniel Grant looks at these money-making institutions and…
Visual Fringe, the visual-art aspect of the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, has been installed and will open Wednesday night with 128 works of art, most of them for sale. The …
HANOVER, N.H. — Any account of the origins of silliness, high jinks, and all-round tomfoolery in contemporary art would have to devote a decent-size chapter to Fluxus. The 1960s and &#…
Donations to local arts and culture groups exceeded goals in the first Art Day of Giving Wednesday -- bringing in more than $1.4 million.
A sip of champagne, a high end sponsor, a VIP crowd . . . theatres and concert halls are starting to feel like airport business lounges. The results could be disastrousTheatres, concert hall…
As Sam the piano man explained when he sang "As Time Goes By" in the film, "Casablanca": "You must remember this/ A kiss is still a kiss/ A sigh is just a sigh." ♦ ♦ ♦ The …
Midday, 1960, Anthony Caro, painted steel, 7' 73/4" x 37 3/8" x 12' 1 1/4" (233.1 x 95 x 370.2 cm), collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, photo: MMA There are two ways t…
As Sam the piano man explained when he sang "As Time Goes By" in the film, "Casablanca": "You must remember this/ A kiss is still a kiss/ A sigh is just a sigh." ♦ ♦ ♦ The …
I’m standing on Harrison Avenue waiting for the bus. Not just any bus. On this chilly, spring day, I’m waiting for the Art Bus, a shuttle service created to get gallery-hoppers t…
THE RECORD: CONTEMPORARY ART AND VINYL A brilliant survey of art inspired by vinyl records, album covers, and turntables. Through Sept. 5. Institute of Contemporary Art. 617-478-3100, www.ic…