Art and Culture

Why do people read the news? To journalists, that may sound like a stupid question. We read news because it’s critical to democracy! Because it’s the fascinating narrative of human existence! Because it’s a daily heroic tale of…
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Woodruff Arts Center employees play an integral role in creating and supporting great art and education initiatives at the nation’s third largest arts center. Comprised of three Art Partners—Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra…
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The collapse of a major art school, which has operated and invested in Center City since the 1800s, will also put a large real estate portfolio featuring some of downtown Philadelphia’s most recognizable buildings on the market. –…
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Reports to: Executive DirectorStatus: Full Time/Exempt POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES The Chief Sales and Marketing Officer (CSMO) is responsible for identifying and activating comprehensive strategies based on the institutional…
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Louise Colet A particularly well-read member of my staff of thousands has alerted me to the fact that on a Friday night at 11 o’clock, August 26, 1853, Gustave Flaubert wrote this letter to his on-again-off-again paramour Louise…
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In student housing, Demiray was quickly making new friends. She was closest with her roommate, a horn player. They would gather on staircases at Lenfest with other students to sing choral music for fun. After attending a party during her…
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When Amy Kaissar wrote her graduate thesis on the topic of nonprofit theatre subscriptions, her basic argument was: They’re not dead; we just haven’t invested in them. Now, 19 years wiser, and after 15 years in leadership…
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It is a symptom of the fact that the whole system of art consumption and display otherwise feels itself deeply vulnerable to all kinds of other criticisms about its entanglement with wealth and power, in very fraught times. –…
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The cost of living crisis undermines the right to participate in cultural life. Australia’s federal cultural policy, Revive, acknowledges and even celebrates the entitlement of all Australians to have access to culture (a liberty…
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In my early years as a cultural journalist, I was an enthusiastic booster of NYC’s “Percent for Art” commissions, whereby 1% of the budget for eligible, city-funded construction projects was allocated for the creation of artworks for…
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