Michael Andor Brodeur looks at the NFL's decision to add "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" to "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games, and ponders other anthems (because that's what they are) rang…
One potential avenue to spare redundancies is a move to a four-day workweek. While the idea has been toyed with for decades, new and adaptable working situations ushered in by Covid-19 have …
"Paraguayan Guaranà " a language descended from several indigenous tongues " remains one of the main languages of 70% of the country's population. And unlike other widely spoken native to…
"Team names and locations were not attached to the submissions when a panel of six professionals … judged them, so it was with surprise and delight that the jury discovered it had selected…
"His 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years was an anti-capitalist analysis that struck a chord with many readers in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Graeber's rigorous, readable radica…
" Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World, which will get matinee and evening performances (socially distanced, of course) on Sunday, October 11 at the London Palladium, the theatre where…
The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged all parts of the economy, and culture workers are among the hardest hit. Yet some have managed to keep their jobs " and even thrive " while others are st…
"As it evolved, jazz remained a resistance music precisely because it was the sound of Black Americans building something together, in the face of repression. But at the end of the 1960s, �…
For the U.S., the firm's annual study projects a 65.7 percent decline from $11.4 billion in 2019 to $3.9 billion this year. The firm warned that "the whole cinema ecosystem will be dramatica…
In the old-yet-new-again debate over the licence fee (charges to every UK household that owns a TV) that funds the national broadcaster " and appointed by a Conservative government that does…
"Virtual rehearsals had been running for five weeks when [company members] got the news: Colorado Ballet's PPP loan had run out, and [all] of Colorado Ballet's dancers were being furloughed.…
"The recipients will be selected by Department [of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications] officials. Their proposals must be 'efficient, effective, economical an…
It's funding, of course. Over the long term, it's probably increasing income from exported BBC programming. But in the near term, it's what to do about the TV licence fee that funds the whol…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review American Shakespeare Center's webcast of Othello. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Virginia's American Shakespeare Center was one o…
Rudolf and Peter Serkin play Schubert's G Major March, Op. 52/2, live in 1988: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wed…
"Nothing is more difficult than talking about music: if it is a prickly business for musicians, it is almost impossible for anyone else"the strongest, subtlest minds go astray." Camille Sain…
It's with dejected déjà vu that I report the imminent departure of some 90 Metropolitan Museum staffers from more than half a dozen departments. " Lee Rosenbaum
Two years ago ArtsEngaged created the Facebook group Become Indispensable as a mechanism for people interested in community engagement in the arts to learn and share. That group's advisory b…
In May 1884, long before the likes of Kim Kardashian achieved celebrity through the careful curation and promotion of self, a young unknown named Marie Bashkirtseff staked her desire for fam…
We've reached a sort of meta-crisis of scientific authority, one in which our leading experts have lost their faith in the public's faith in the leadership of experts. " Wired
The decisions suggest that the theater world will likely continue to feel the effects of the pandemic long after artists and audiences are again allowed to gather. Eliminating a position, as…
Too often schools are tasked not simply with caring for their students but with repairing an entire social order. Schools can do so much we do not ask of them, like developing solidarity, fo…
"Of course, people don't come to cities for jobs alone; people come to places such as New York and London to be around other people. They come for the addictive energy that you get only in p…
"An art form and industry built on 'Yes, and …' face a world of 'no,' 'maybe,' and 'who knows.' … Whether it's reshaping content to fit a new medium, staring down the possibility of perm…
Building a politics around the idea that a college degree is a precondition for dignified work and social esteem has a corrosive effect on democratic life. It devalues the contributions of t…