Art and Culture

May 28, 2024 Last summer, I agreed to…
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The Theater Center is seeking a part-time publicist to join our team and help promote our shows and events. This position requires working on-site three days a week and involves close collaboration with our Marketing Department to…
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The New Group, one of New York’s leading Off-Broadway theaters, is seeking an experienced front-line fundraiser to serve as the DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT. This senior-team position will lead all fundraising efforts and manage a growing…
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What goes around comes around? I may be one of the few active cultural journalists who covered in real time the late-’70s introduction in the US of the buyer’s premium (then a flat 10% for all winning bids) at art auctions. European…
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Florence Lockheart Friday, May 24, 2024 With the project's biggest show to…
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These days, the worst threat that Claude Monet’s canvases are liable to face is being targeted by climate activists with mashed potatoes or soup, as well as burning in the occasional house…
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This week, Defector has turned itself over to a guest editor. Brandy Jensen, former editor at Gawker (RIP) and The Outline (RIP), and writer of the Ask A Fuck Up advice column (subscribe here!), has curated a selection of posts around…
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The school, which has seen a big drop in enrollment over the past five years, had not notified staff or students as of this afternoon and only alerted its accrediting agency on Wednesday, the first day of the summer term. – The…
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I TOOK HELEN VENDLER’S course on major British poets at Harvard, but I didn’t become her student until after I left college.I was devoted to her. She was already a giant, “the ‘Colossus’ of poetry criticism,” by the time I met her well…
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Before you start yours, consider this: What you think is riveting about your life might not seem so to others. As one publisher put it, too many submissions are “just the writer’s own story, which is ultimately boring.” – The…
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