Art and Culture

In 1969, the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, in Washington, D.C., debuted a new exhibit: “The Rat: Man’s Invited Affliction.” The display—complete with live rats—was different from what people were used to seeing from the venerable…
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“That’s the entire mission of the school Not ‘You come to us’ but ‘We bring dance to you.’ And we want people in the room who can say, ‘I was just like you and now I’m out in the world dancing.’” – The New York Times Source…
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The rapid expansion of data centers has sparked battles over electricity, water and land use. Now a…
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In 1956, an article in the Japanese newspaper Mainichi shinbun asserted that “no other musician has had so vast and important an influence on the world of Japanese music as Manfred Gurlitt.” Without him, the history of Western classical…
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The New School will employ 65 fewer full-time faculty members in the fall than it did last year, Kessler said. Based on the most recent federal data, that reduction would amount to roughly 36 percent of its 2024 full-time faculty work…
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By John KillackyTillie Walden’s Charity & Sylvia transforms archival fragments into a resonant portrait of devotion in early 19th-century Vermont.Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden. Drawn & Quarterly, 266 pages, $30.Tillie…
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Yale University’s master’s programs in visual arts and music would fail. Harvard University’s master’s degree in museum studies would fail. The Juilliard School’s undergraduate and graduate programs in music would fail. – The New…
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Overview Creative Transformations: Results of the National Arts Participation Survey is the sixth study in the landmark research series exploring Australians’ attitudes towards, and engagement with, arts and creativity.  The National…
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As Martha, he hosted a highly popular monthly cabaret and collaborated with, among others, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Opera Philadelphia. He also had a notable career, under his own persona, as an actor and theatermaker, most…
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Matt Williams, a creator behind such TV shows as “Roseanne” and “Home Improvement,” stood in the back of the Sheen Center in Lower Manhattan recently, greeting dozens of Broadway producers and others who might invest in his new musical…
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