Day: January 25, 2011

The National Arts Index is intended to function much like stock indexes. By its measure, the recent, recession-strapped years have seen big declines not just in nonprofit arts but pop concerts and movies as well. […] Billed as ‘the largest data set ever assembled describing arts and culture in America,’ the National Arts Index released … Read more

When Claude Lévi-Strauss died a little over a year ago at age 100, he left behind a curious and contested legacy. For the French, he was the intellectual equivalent of royalty. In 2008, editions of his works were published in the gilt-lettered Pléiade collection, an act of canonization rare for a living French author; in … Read more