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One-Day Strike Called At Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston
"More than 96% of the union, which represents public-facing staff, library workers, educators, curators, conservators, and administrative and professional workers, voted to picket outside...
La Mama Theatre Rises From The (Literal) Ashes
No, La MaMa in New York didn't burn down. But La Mama in Melbourne did. Founded in 1969 and an important venue for developing...
Sylvère Lotringer, Who Founded Semiotext(e) And Brought French Theory To America’s Art World, Dead...
We leave it to you to speculate on which direction St. Peter will send him for that, but his work did spark enormous changes...
In A Time Of Crisis And Pestilence, Vaudeville As Social Critique
Not, in this case, the early-20th-century American genre of variety show. This is 19th-century Parisian vaudeville: popular boulevard comedies depicting simply drawn characters from...
Writers Ought To Be Trained The Way Actors Are
"Actors in training get to try out different techniques and approaches, learning to develop a character through movement, script analysis, or emotional connection; they...
Are Some People’s Brains Simply Wired Better For Dance?
Well, there's no point in trying to deny that some people have more natural aptitude. However, writes neuroscientist Gayle Doherty, everyone has the ability...
Why Arts And Humanities Are Crucial To STEM Education And The Tech Industry
In the latest university rankings from Times Higher Education, the top two schools for arts and humanities in the world are, perhaps surprisingly, Stanford...
Design Fiction? What Exactly Is That?
According to this manifesto, it's "a tool for reimagining the past, present, and future. It makes scenarios real enough to feel possible, inspiring dialogue,...
Hollywood Has Joined The NFT Gold Rush
Is this a potential long-term income source or an big old asset bubble? Opinions differ, but the studios aren't letting even a short-term chance...
Zadie Smith’s First Play Hits The Stage, Retelling A Canterbury Tale
The Wife of Willesden is an update to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," transferring the setting from a carriage carrying pilgrims to Canterbury...
Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony’s DC-Area Home, Finally Settles With IATSE
"After a two-year stalemate that sparked a feud with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra," — which cancelled several concerts this fall because of the standoff...
The Louvre Said That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is A Real Leonardo. Now The Prado Says...
The catalogue for this fall's Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Madrid museum has reclassified The World's Most Expensive Artwork into the "attributed works,...
‘Discovery Of A Lifetime’: Well-Preserved Tudor-Era Murals Uncovered At Yorkshire Manor
During restoration work at Calverley Old Hall, between Bradford and Leeds, workers discovered what turned out to be floor-to-ceiling paintings ("basically Tudor wallpaper") in...
At The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Annual New York Powwow
"Dance Magazine joined Saturday night's sunset bonfire to capture some of the competitions, and asked Thunderbird director Louis Mofsie and company dancer Michael Taylor...
Ocean Vuong Bombarded By Complaints From Australian 12th Graders Who Got His Writing On...
Student: "ur text was good but so confusing". Vuong: "mission accomplished". Student: "So u da one that got us all fucked up". Vuong: "Don't...
The Original True-Crime Dramas Were In Elizabethan Theatres
"More than four centuries ago a series of plays closely based on real murder cases appeared on the London stage. Their literary quality is...
Oxford’s Bodleian Library Was A Wreck Before The Eponymous Bodley Fixed It Up
"In 1598, … Sir Thomas Bodley, a retired diplomat and Oxford alumnus, offered to restore the dilapidated university library, entirely at his own cost....
Forest Whitaker’s Production Company Has Never Lost Investors A Dime. It Still Has Trouble...
Significant Productions, founded by Whitaker and run by Nina Yang Bongiovi, has made admired films like Fruitvale Station and Sorry to Bother You (that...
How A Nice Jewish Boy From Oakland Became A Busy Bollywood Actor
Richard Klein seemed well set as a math and science teacher and amateur performer in the Bay Area. Then, at 45, he up and...
How Julia Child Changed Americans’ Minds, And, Later, Her Own
Those under 55 may not appreciate just how differently people in the US thought about home cooking before Child's TV shows caught on. For...
Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Opens In A Climate No One Expected When It Was...
When plans for Asia's biggest contemporary art museum were announced back in 2007, Xi Jinping wasn't yet president of China, few people anticipated political...
How Peter Gelb Is Handling The Most Difficult Job In Opera, Now Even More...
A longread on how the Metropolitan Opera's general manager is handling the company's reopening and its long-term problems, what people inside and outside of...
A Universal Basic Income For Arts Workers? One Country Is Trying It
Ireland will launch a basic income guarantee program for artists and arts workers in 2022. The three-year initial plan will have a budget of...
Art Critic Reviews Work Without Noticing That It Depicts Rupert Murdoch
Robert Nelson of Melbourne's The Age wrote several hundred words about Jeremy Deller's Father and Son — life-sized grey wax candles, lit and gradually...
How Can Today’s Piano Students Learn To Improvise? The Same Way They Did In...
John Mortensen has made a thorough study of how music students in Baroque-era Naples were taught to improvise harmony and counterpoint, then a basic...
