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I work with civic data and teach about the power of data collection, so I want to believe that data (in the form of video footage depicting police brutality against Black people) can effect …
In a capitalist society, viewed from the point of view of consumers, cheap food looks like an unequivocal democratic good, because it enables people to feed themselves, even on relatively lo…
While it is certainly not inevitable that children lose their sense of wonder as they grow up, and while adults are in principle as capable of experiencing wonder as children, it is to be ex…
The prison library program will give each of the 1,000 prisons the same 500-book collection selected by the project's leaders. The collections, which Dr. Alexander called "freedom libraries,…
Stephen Russell at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed the course "Prescribing Art: How Observation Enhances Medicine" to teach students to slow down and observe without worryi…
India has banned video-sharing social network TikTok and messaging platform WeChat along with 57 other Chinese developed apps over national security and privacy concerns, as tensions between…
Yes, they has been used in the singular since the late Middle Ages, but people complained about it, and looked for a different solution, back then and ever since. The effort to come up with …
"The only thing that really matters in life is your progeny, the people who come after you, the people you send out to the world. They're either toxic or nontoxic." " Los Angeles Times
Natalia Boesch: "Living-room ballet has always been a big part of my life, whether I was working out choreographic ideas or just giving myself barre. But, as I write this, living-room ballet…
Laurence Tomei and Douglas Nelson say that, as mentioned, online undergraduate classes should have no more than 12 students. In person, on campus classes should be no larger than 18 students…
Belarus Free Theatre " outlawed by its homeland's dictatorship, forced to rehearse and perform in secret, and with its artistic directors living in asylum abroad " has years of experience us…
Amazingly, not only has the group continued the girls' education online, it has used the constraints to its advantage by bringing in guest artists for master classes and increasing one-on-on…
I don't know how I've managed to survive the simultaneous losses of my beloved spouse and the art form to which I have devoted more than a decade and a half of my life. But I'm still here, a…
In Barcelona, they performed for plants. But at Madrid's Teatro Real, it's a real staging for a real (though smaller) audience. "The opening scenes of merriment have taken on a sombre tone, …
"[Terrence] Orr's vision included growth for the entire organization. Ticket sales, PBT School enrollment and the organization's physical footprint in the Strip District all increased while …
It's a bit of welcome news after major cuts from the city government: "467 Philadelphia-area arts and culture groups plus more than a thousand individual artists are receiving a total of $4 …
The budget passed by the City Council cuts municipal support for the arts citywide by 40% to $5.84 million, and even that amount is $1 million more than the mayor proposed as he attempted to…
"Ordained on the same day as his brother, Ratzinger proved to be a talented musician and went on oversee the recording of numerous masterpieces and concert tours around the world by the Rege…
"Ava DuVernay, Stanley Nelson, Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis have all made movies that help explain our nation's current efforts to face hundreds of years of inequity. Here's what they said…
"Literary critics say [that Bless Me, Ultima,] Anaya's World War II-era novel about a young Mexican-American boy's relationship with an older curandera, or healer, influenced a generation of…
"For decades, the Met's programming has been associated with a kind of elegant classicism. The Breuer, it seemed, would allow the museum to strike a new balance between grandeur and somethin…
Something is palpably different among playwrights of the millennial generation, who are envisioning, demanding and conjuring into existence a new and more diverse spectatorship. Their relati…
Lilli Palmer interviews Thornton Wilder in an extremely rare TV appearance on The Lilli Palmer Show. This clip was originally telecast on NBC in 1952:Â
(This is the latest in a series…
"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Continue reading Almanac: Dodie Smith on depression at About Last Night.
What is increasingly clear is the necessity for new hybrid models in arts funding, based on broadening the donor base, more imaginative financial planning, and development strategies for the…
