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The most popular game/platform in the world shows us how some of the darkest chapters of labor history can easily repeat themselves in virtual reality.
For the foreseeable, capitalist American future, full and equitable access to live, professional performing arts will depend on subsidy.
A terrifically significant, and eccentric, trio of films are turning 50 this year: Marjoe, Pink Flamingos, and Silent Running.
What will guarantee obsolescence? If members of the BTCA continue to embrace a “whatever is, is right” attitude to Boston’s stage scene.
Both the Gershwin Prize and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exist to glorify popular song. Both, in fairly short order, relaxed their initial high artistic standards.
By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.
This BarabásiLab exhibition is inspiring because it exemplifies a powerful integration of art and technology.
This movie reminds us that — if there is any meaning to life at all — it’s what you bring to it, not what it brings to you.
Theater Commentary: “1776” — American Theater Jigs as Democracy Dies?
Maybe I am an alarmist and the rich and powerful know something the rest of us don’t. Perhaps the midterms will not put another nail in the coffin of democracy. Apparently, it will be business as usual for the A.R.T. and other American theaters — until it can’t be.
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