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Gallery Assistants Aren’t Earning A Living Wage
Perhaps not a shocker, but in a 300-gallery survey, results painted "a portrait of an industry beset with income inequality." Assistants' top pay was...
Violetta Elvin, Royal Ballet Prima Ballerina, 97
Elvin, a Russian dancer who also performed with the Bolshoi, "gave London audiences one of the first tastes of Russian style. ... Elvin created...
Preserving The Jail Where Oscar Wilde Was Imprisoned
The prison was closed to the public in 2013 on "health and safety grounds," but actors including Kate Winslet, local politicians, and more want...
In England, An Attempt To Redefine Culture
For Leeds 2023, the festival's creative director says they'll try to "let culture loose" to reach everyone in the city during their year. Lyn...
What Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Do To Our Ideas Of Free Will
You can already see a divide in the literature - positive stories about people with ALS or locked-in syndrome learning to use neural transmitters...
How ‘In The Heights’ Became The Post-Pandemic Movie Of The Summer
Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose Hamilton, filmed, made Disney+ a lot of money last year (and ensured musical theatre fans had something to watch over and...
The 106-Year-Old Dancer Who Hates The Word Old
Eileen Kramer still dances every day. And she also "writes a story a day from her Sydney aged-care facility, publishes books and has entered...
Mary Beard: Ancient Rome Never Disappoints
The Cambridge classics professor (and Twitter, TV, and book star) says that our desire to compare the U.S. to ancient Rome is normal -...
The Prado Is Taking Its Art To The Streets
In replica form, that is. "Exact replicas of masterpieces from the Prado museum, including paintings by Goya, El Greco, and Fra Angelico, have been installed...
The Hollywood Bowl Is On Plan C, Full Reopen
As vaccines spread and COVID-19 numbers drop, "concert and theater venues are scrambling to keep up and figure out when and how to welcome...
The Science Of Pleasure
It goes way - way - beyond dopamine. "You could say that dopamine is to happiness what petrol is to a car; it’s an...
The Era Of The Big Comedy Film Is Over
TV shows, TikTok, live mini-shows, Instagram Stories, and memes - comedy has changed. Even the second Borat movie, though it was made and was...
Australia’s National Arts Policy Needs A Rethink
After the terrible effects of COVID-19 on the arts, what should Australia do next? One think tank says the country, where arts funding dropped...
Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Famed Canadian Architect
Oberlander, who died at the age of 99 in May, had a long, rich career whose influence continues to grow. She was "an early...
There Is No Such Thing As Renaissance Philosophy
The facts just don't bear it out. "It’s questionable that there ever really was a ‘movement’ other than in the mind of 19th- and...
Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Of Colorful Books Like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, 86
Ehlert created 38 books for young children as an author and illustrator. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, which she illustrated with her signature collages, has...
Los Angeles Is The United States’ Largest City-State
Or else it's something else. But it's no mere city. "Los Angeles fits the city-state frame well, certainly better than it does a lot...
The Two Women Who Preserved The Stories Of The Tulsa Race Massacre
The first, Mary E. Jones Parrish, was a relative newcomer to Tulsa when the events of May 31, 1921, went down. She was an...
Some Indoor Theatres Have Migrated Outside For Their First Reopening Season
The earliest decision-makers were not at all sure this was the direction to go. Ask then-newly installed interim director Shirley Serotsky at the Hangar...
Opera Singer Adrian Angelico Says The Art Form Helped Him Come Out As Trans
Angelico specializes in trousers (or pants, in the US) roles. He says that one day, he finished a rehearsal at covent Garden and realized...
Ai Weiwei’s Thoughts On China, Colonialism, And Controversial Statues
On culture wars as a symbol of democracy: "It’s not only democracy, it’s about art as symbols of our existence. You know, whenever we...
One Potential Fix For That Cecil Rhodes Statue At Oxford
Turn him to face the wall in shame. That way, those who demand the statue stay get their demand met, but the implication is...
Swiss Ballet School Fires Director And Manager, Suspends All Classes
An investigation reveals psychological abuse, abuse of power, nepotism, and "serious pedagogical dysfunctions" at the Rudra Béjart School, "leading the Board to terminate the...
Hollywood Producers Want A Union, Too
Can a producers' union ever work in the biz? They need it. "More than 100 feature film producers ... recently ratified the constitution for a...
Could Museums Become Like Libraries?
That is, welcoming to all, free, and more a central part of public life? There's a little problem with this idea, which former Queens...
