Tag: community
Bowser Bruised as DC Arts Soap Opera Ends — For Now
The mayor of DC -- and all the battling political stakeholders of the city's cultural scene -- now have a chance to act like adults. The artists deserve it.
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.
The Bronx Fires as Metaphor for Community Erasure
Reflections on a documentary about the structural racism that erased a community -- and the people who rebuilt it.
Two Cities Getting Arts and Culture Right: Kansas City
This red-state city in the heartland offers best practices and innovation in arts and culture.
Nari Ward Uses Found Materials to Ground His Work in Community
The Harlem artist transforms items from his local community into profound and evocative artworks that keep their origins visible.
Of Sound Mind: Fitz Patton Sees Theater As Tonal Adventure
Sound designer? Composer? Photographer? Publisher? Call him what you like. But call: he's listening.
Lear deBessonet Makes Theater as a Hopeful Public Proposal
This community organizer/director also aspires one day to recreate the Federal Theatre Project.
LIC Artists Pledge to Resist Amazon Art Washing
Cuomo, de Blasio and Amazon betrayed the cultural communities of Queens. An artist collective says no.
Pastors, Skaters, Lady Gaga: Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson on 2018’s Best Films
Vox's film critic joins CFR's Sean Douglass and Jose Solís to review their "favourite" movies of the year.
Calling ‘Doctor Atomic’: In Santa Fe, Peter Sellars Revisits the Bomb
An interview with the world’s undisputed leader of disruptive opera directing.
Spanish Masterpieces Bridge Cultures at the San Antonio Museum of Art
500 years of Spanish art makes the point that culture links us, rather than separates us.
Oh, My “D-Illyria” For Shaina Taub’s First-Rate ‘Twelfth Night’
The rain fell steadily, once stopping the show for maybe 15 minutes. I refused to budge.
Peter Hujar Is a Better Photographer Than Robert Mapplethorpe
Hujar’s photos of artists and drag queens, skyscrapers and farm animals, and so much more animate a powerful retrospective at The Morgan.
Measuring the Impact of the Arts? Planning Here, Planning Now
Advancing neighborhoods through data and cultural investments.
Ordinary Citizens Can Be Civil Rights Activists. Just Ask Edna.
Meet someone who survived Jim Crow and demanded justice.
What Makes Us Special Is What Makes Us Powerful
What I told my seven-year-old son and why it matters to artists and activists.
When It’s Time to Protest, Are You On the Right Side...
A protest has the extraordinary ability to shed light on the fractured internal relations of our country.
How Out-of-the-Way Arts Institutions Build Community
Crystal Bridges and Grace Farms, out-of-the-way museums focused on expanded community access to art.
The State of Community Theater in Trump’s America
Should community theater function as a cultural reflection under Trump, or should it focus on escapism? Thoughts from patrons and producers alike.
RIP RGB, RIP GOP, RIP USA
None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die.
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Herman Cain (and Republicans Unable)
And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr., with his open pants, evangelical FUPA and his hands veering into prime side-boob territory with -- hey, doesn't she have a name?
