Jean-Michel Basquiat was part of a constellation of young graffiti artists who used New York City’s streets and subways as their canvases before going on to take both the art world and hip-hop culture by storm. - The New York Times
In fact, while design thinking is not exactly the same as the scientific method we learned in school, it bears an uncanny resemblance. - Smashing Magazine
Alice Topp and Jon Buswell, resident choreographer and technical director at the Australian Ballet, have just launched a Melbourne-based troupe called Project Animo, whose roster will be made up of performers in their 30s and up who have retired from the country's major established companies. "They've learned their craft," says Topp, "they've experimented, and now they're in a place...
These plays arrive at a time of intensified attention on racial inequity in many corners of society, including the theater industry. - The New York Times
Thomas Swick: "The epigraph page is like a ceremonial gate ushering us into the realm of the author with his or her beloved quotation from a great mind or celebrated scamp that perfectly reflects, or distills, the essence of what follows. … I am always disappointed when I don't find one. It's like looking at a man in a...
"A longtime professor at Georgetown University, published two seminal academic books examining the place of art and nature in Dickinson's poetry, The Passion of Emily Dickinson (1992) and The Gardens of Emily Dickinson (written with Louise Carter, 2004). Dr. Farr also ventured into the realm of fiction and poetry, penning an epistolary novel about Dickinson as well as...
The factory — where the organs of Verizon Hall at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York, Merton College Chapel in Oxford, and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles were built — burned to the ground last week. While scans of the company's final design drawings still exist, completely lost are...
A jury made up of museum professionals selected Kasia Redzisz, a senior curator at Tate Liverpool, to be artistic director of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, the museum's outpost in the Belgian capital. But the museum's board partly overruled the jury's decision, appointing as co-director Bernard Blistène, the jury's runner-up and director of the Pompidou's Paris flagship until the end of this...
"As Hollywood faces a deteriorating relationship with China, it appears committed to keeping the flame alive even if that means going to humiliating lengths. … On June 11, Hong Kong authorities announced that any movie deemed 'a threat to national security' would henceforth be banned from distribution. … The policy, which mimics mainland rules that already have stifled the...
"Yende took to social media to share her experience, saying she was 'stripped and searched like a criminal offender' during the ordeal, which lasted more than two hours. While she was not asked to remove her clothes, she says, the police told her, without explanation, to take off her shoes and kept her in a cold, dark room. She...
"The National Endowment for the Arts announced Wednesday that it will make $80 million in pandemic relief available to more arts and cultural organizations, including first-time applicants and those that have never received support from the federal arts agency. The relief funds will also support local arts agencies that will distribute the federal dollars to grass-roots organizations in their...
"The Scottish Government and the city council have joined forces to offer £1.3 million worth of support to leading venue operators to help offset the impact of possible restrictions and extra health measures. … The Fringe funding is aimed at helping to pay for the costs of creating temporary outdoor venues, which public health experts say are much less...
