Art and Culture

Incidentally, it’s my birthday today. So, hey – I have the perfect gift all figured out. Just click on any image you see… Click on any image in this post to help me on my birthday. You had a nifty idea. Combine hip-hop with one…
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"I've been rejected my whole life," actor John Leguizamo told me. After starring in over 100 movies, earning a Special Tony Award, an Emmy Award, and building a prolific body of work…
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Where to start with the Mackintosh building of the Glasgow School of Art? With its fearless originality? With its ability to run many gamuts – dark, light, massive, intimate, crafted, industrial, refined, rough, its spaces long, narrow,…
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May 13, 2024 First, some quick…
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At gallery dinners, William Palley is generally the youngest guest in attendance — or at least one of the youngest.“There is a real need for a next generation,” Palley said in a recent interview.Indeed, given a 10 percent decline in the…
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Transparency around the symphony's finances and decision-making is also sorely needed. The leadership’s failure to release financial documents has only added to our unease. Open dialogue and regular financial updates on operations and…
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in the summer of 2024. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale…
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MBW Views is a series of exclusive op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say.  The following op/ed comes from Daouda Leonard (pictured), manager of Grimes and founder of Los Angeles-based AI development studio…
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Classical music has lost a generation’s worth of music lovers beginning in the late-90s with the rise of file-sharing and Napster. A significant part of the reason might be: metadata. Metadata are the tags that travel with…
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In 2018, Kristine McDivitt-Tompkins—an American expatriate living in Chile and the former CEO of high-end outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia—donated to the Chilean…
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