Category: Arts and Culture

  • Free U of G Courses on Equity, Disability

    Free U of G Courses on Equity, Disability

    A free collection of interactive learning modules is teaching the world to appreciate our differences and build a more accessible future, reimagining how we understand bodies and minds that are outside societal norms.  Bodies in Translation’s (BIT) Worlding Difference Platform is an online platform and research project launched by the Re•Vision Centre for Art and…

  • Dorset Players closing 97th season with dazzling ‘Company’

    Dorset Players closing 97th season with dazzling ‘Company’

    DORSET – Ninety-seven seasons is the stuff of legend, whether in the world of theater or any other public interaction endeavor. That’s the campaign the Dorset Players are looking to wrap this coming week with a giant cast taking on the song and dance modern classic “Company.” The 1970 six-time Tony-award winning show’s music and…

  • UMB Council for the Arts & Culture Spotlight: Olive Waxter

    UMB Council for the Arts & Culture Spotlight: Olive Waxter

    UMB Council for the Arts & Culture Spotlight: Olive Waxter May 21, 2025 UMB Council for the Arts & Culture The president of the Hippodrome Foundation, Inc., works to share the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center with the community and is committed to bringing more arts experiences to the UMB campus. As part of its 10th…

  • Arts Commentary: The Battle for Imagination — Unravelling America’s Cultural Infrastructure

    Arts Commentary: The Battle for Imagination — Unravelling America’s Cultural Infrastructure

    By Debra Cash Abolishing cultural infrastructure and the deregulation of emerging technologies are two sides of the same anti-intellectual coin. “Art is inclusive. It brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth, art embraces diversity, and that’s why art is a threat  —  that’s why we are a threat — to autocrats and fascists.”…

  • Arts Commentary: The Battle for Imagination — Unravelling America’s Cultural Infrastructure

    Arts Commentary: The Battle for Imagination — Unravelling America’s Cultural Infrastructure

    By Debra Cash Abolishing cultural infrastructure and the deregulation of emerging technologies are two sides of the same anti-intellectual coin. “Art is inclusive. It brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth, art embraces diversity, and that’s why art is a threat  —  that’s why we are a threat — to autocrats and fascists.”…

  • A former executive of the Korean Federation of Arts and Culture Organizations, who fled the country ..

    A former executive of the Korean Federation of Arts and Culture Organizations, who fled the country ..

    Suspicion of selling shares at a cheap price and receiving hundreds of millions of won 사진 확대 the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Yonhap News Agency A former executive of the Korean Federation of Arts and Culture Organizations, who fled the country for 10 years after being accused of malpractice and embezzlement, was arrested and…

  • Organizations Work to Embrace the Soft Power of Art

    Across the globe, more and more cities and countries are investing in the arts, with the aim of driving economic growth — and burnishing their images. On a recent sunny Tuesday, 17 people sat in a circle in a gray-and-white loft space, listening intently as the Swiss Cameroonian curator Simon Njami waxed poetic about the…

  • Organizations Work to Embrace the Soft Power of Art

    Organizations Work to Embrace the Soft Power of Art

    Across the globe, more and more cities and countries are investing in the arts, with the aim of driving economic growth — and burnishing their images. On a recent sunny Tuesday, 17 people sat in a circle in a gray-and-white loft space, listening intently as the Swiss Cameroonian curator Simon Njami waxed poetic about the…

  • Katharine Boyette enhances arts across Kerrville community

    Katharine Boyette enhances arts across Kerrville community

    Community Arts Program Director Katharine Boyette says her role at the Kerrville Convention and Visitors Bureau is to work toward creating public art in the Hill Country, and enhance arts and culture in the Hill Country area. “I run two large-scale public arts projects per year,” she says. “The program promotes arts to both Hill…

  • Collected Gallery Brings Affordable Art to Northeast

    Collected Gallery Brings Affordable Art to Northeast

    LJ Bergren opened Collected Gallery to help bring art, beauty, and handmade goods into as many homes as possible. In this unique art gallery, she embraces affordability and supporting artists. Collected Gallery features many different mediums, such as prints, ceramics, jewelry, and lithography. Artists are local and nationwide and are on contract for at least six months,…