In an unusual scrambling of institutional power dynamics, Ms. Schlenzka has taken a step back from her curatorial position, while a cohort of artists — loosely guided by the choreographer Sarah Michelson — has assumed a collaborative leadership role. The yearlong project, “02020,” seeks to reimagine what Performance Space might be; a refusal of the status quo, it puts the vision of artists at the center of an organization that professes to care deeply about art and the people who make it.

While only 12% of the people in the world could read and write in 1820, today the share has reversed: only 14% of the world population, in 2016, remained illiterate. Over the last 65 years the global literacy rate increased by 4% every 5 years – from 42% in 1960 to 86% in 2015.Sep 20, 2018