“A Globe investigation has uncovered a culture of blatant sexual harassment at Berklee with at least three male professors… allowed to quietly leave since 2008, after students reported being assaulted, groped, or pressured into sex with their teachers, according to court documents and interviews with more than a dozen people. Administrators at the renowned music school tolerated lecherous behavior, former Berklee students and employees said, and often silenced the accusers through financial settlements with gag orders attached.”
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Director Of New York’s Armory Show Ousted After Complaints By Eight Women
“In interviews, a total of eight who had worked with him at the Armory Show, Artnet and Louise Blouin Media said he made sexually inappropriate comments to them, and an additional 11 people said they had observed or knew about Mr. Genocchio making these comments, often in the workplace.”
When Is An Opera Not An Opera (Or – Where Does An Opera Start And A Space Begin?)
“The non-opera parts aren’t add-ons; we’re doing an exhibition. For two weeks, we’re occupying this space, and the experience of this project lasts that entire duration. It’s not the sort of thing where you go to see an opera and maybe stroll through a gallery on your way out; we want to make a social gathering place where people come and hang out, and also there’s this opera happening as an extension of that.” Only the performances are ticketed; all the other offerings are free and open to the public.
Art Historians Say Reproduction Fees Are Killing Art Scholarship
Historians face bills of thousands of pounds to illustrate academic books with little commercial potential, the 28 signatories say. “We urge the UK’s national museums to follow the example of a growing number of international museums and provide open access to images of publicly owned, out-of-copyright paintings, prints and drawings so that they are free for the public to reproduce,” the letter says.
Watch David Hallberg Teach A Tech Guy To Dance
The ABT star shows a butch, slightly stiff video producer how to do an assured waltz and a gracious stage bow – and even gets him doing a changement. (video with transcript)
A Manifesto For The Arts In Difficult Times
Rip Rapson, president of the Kresge Foundation: I choose “to view this moment as an inflection point, not a new stasis. It is a call to reassessment … recalibration … recommitment. The nonprofit and philanthropic sectors have spent decades trying to create and assemble the building blocks of opportunity and justice. That architecture is woefully incomplete to be sure. But it is an architecture at once complex, dynamic, and resilient. Our charge is to continue fitting together those building blocks in a coherent, inclusive, impactful way.”
Buddhist Thought Is More ‘Western’ Than You Think
Robert Wright, a scholar of science and religion, argues against the all-too-common belief in the West “that Buddhist ideas defy clear articulation – and that in a sense the point of Buddhist ideas is to defy clear articulation.” In fact, he writes, “not only have Buddhist thinkers for millenniums been making very much the kinds of claims that Western philosophers and psychologists make – many of these claims are looking good in light of modern Western thought.”
Hurricane Irma Unburied Some Ancient Artifacts
The items once belonged to the extinct Calusa tribe, which lived on the island between 700 and 1200 AD. Archaeologists have long suspected that the area was rife with historical artifacts, but the excavation of public land is illegal and wouldn’t have been approved by the local government.
Television Still Hasn’t Stopped Reliving The Night Trump Was Elected
“There seems to have been an immediate need to memorialize it, even as its consequences are still playing out. And these depictions are still rolling in – while South Park and Saturday Night Live were able to recreate the moment almost immediately, shows with longer production timelines are only now getting around to it. But why are we even still interested in reliving the election?” Rachel Withers offers some ideas.
Wikipedia’s Hundreds Of Millions Of Articles Were Written By One Percent Of Its Users
Today, Wikipedia is home to 43 million articles in 285 languages and all of these articles are written and edited by an autonomous group of international volunteers. Although the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation diligently keeps track of how editors and users interact with the site, until recently it was unclear how content production on Wikipedia was distributed among editors. According to the results of a recent study that looked at the 250 million edits made on Wikipedia during its first ten years, only about 1 percent of Wikipedia’s editors have generated 77 percent of the site’s content.