Tag: arts education
How Duke’s Interdisciplinary Dance MFA Is Delivering
An update on the inaugural class of Duke University’s two-year MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis.
The Global Narrative for Arts Education Is Changing
Will a piece of paper forever change how we talk about arts education? Probably not. But it's a very, very good place to start.
Filmmaker Olympia Stone Receives Bruce Museum Retrospective
"Rewind/Fast-Forward: Celebrating the Artist Documentaries of Olympia Stone" is set for Nov. 7 at 7pm.
The Canon Explodes: The Museum World Aims for Diversity
"We have to move from tokenism to transformation..." For the future-forward American museum, that process appears to be underway.
Privilege and Punishment: Felicity Huffman and the Prestige Problem
With legacy enrollment dramatically rising at America’s top colleges and universities, who needs fraudulent admissions anyway?
Making a Frame: How I Found an Augusto Boal Book in...
Looking back on more than three decades creating community and drama around the world using the techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed.
5 Tips for Finding Community as a POC Arts Professional
Key spaces and crucial opportunities to share ideas and resources to generate that sector-wide shift.
‘We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!’ (Or, ‘Don’t Pay Artists!’)
If you won't pay artists -- or respect HR laws on exempt and non-exempt employees -- maybe you don't deserve our donations.
What I Got Out of My Lunch with the New NEA...
In June 2018, President Trump appointed Mary Anne Carter to be Acting Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. The press at the...
Learning and Unlearning from the Bauhaus
A centenary spotlights how the school's influence lives on, but needs redefinition for today.
Duke University to Offer the Dance MFA We Need Right Now
Where success will be measured by positive social change, not just reviews.
Look at the Activist Artists Who Actually Walk the Talk
Now is the time to get political. Some of us are already doing that. Brilliantly.
NEA Acting Chair Mary Anne Carter Replies to CFR Open Letter
"It is my mission...to expand access to the arts everywhere throughout the nation."
Elon Musk’s School: For Rich Families Who Don’t Care About Arts...
Ad Astra has some innovative but very flawed ideas about modern education.
Boys in What? Sometimes It’s Just Beautiful and That’s OK
Fathers don't have to an obstacle to their sons taking ballet.
Superfine! Is a New Kind of Art Fair: Welcoming and Affordable
Affordable values -- and a love of both artists and collectors.
My Lunch Also Rises: NBC’s Nauseating Vision of High School Theater
"Rise" twists itself in knots to position Mr. Mazzu as a hero. In fact, he's a giant ass.
Who’s Ari Rapkin Blenkhorn? A Total Technology Badass
Women in tech? Rare. Women in tech in the arts? Rarer still.
What Is Censorship? The Tale of Michael Weller’s “Buyer Beware”
Yesterday morning I read up on Brandeis University's decision to cancel a production of Michael Weller's new play, Buyer Beware. Or at least that's...
Bevin Is Right On Liberal Arts Education: KY Voter
"Why should a taxpaying truck driver like me pay for people to study this stuff?"