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UK Artists Demand Action On Post-Brexit Touring Crisis
"We are extremely concerned by the lack of progress which has been achieved over the last three months to unravel the mountain of costly...
A $2 Billion Plan Would Transform LA’s Arts District
An Arts District cold-storage plant dating to the 1890s would be replaced with housing, offices, a hotel and shops in a proposal unveiled Thursday...
Theatre Festivals Are Reopening In The UK. But What Should Their Role Be?
Many will grapple with an uncertain theatre landscape and uncertainty over how audiences might behave as society opens up. And this is at a...
Poetry Foundation Picks A New President
Michelle Boone’s appointment "may mark a turning point for the foundation, which has been criticized as insular and slow to respond to changing times....
Bard Center Explores Connections Between Arts And Human Rights
The two-year, interdisciplinary MA plans to host in-person classes at Bard’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus and welcomes “current and aspiring activists, artists, and researchers” who are...
Getting In To A Concert Got A Lot More Complicated In The COVID Protocols
"Gone was the chance to rush to a concert after work and plop down into your seat as the curtain rose. Before they entered...
How Imagination Drives Answers
The sense of wonder we get when looking at a star-studded sky is a powerful one, even today an intense and even emotional experience,...
Ted Gioia On Finding Creative Success Outside The System
"For many of us in the creative economy, too much energy is spent on working the system. My response has been to operate in...
Inside James Turrell’s Roden Crater
It is Turrell’s most ambitious project, but also his most personal. He has spent 45 years designing a series of tunnels and chambers inside...
Microsoft Is Changing Its Default WORD Font… And A Billion People Will Read Differently
“A lot of customers, they really don’t even think about fonts or look at fonts. It’s only when they zoom in, that they see...
Why Modern Science Is Vulnerable To Science Deniers
Turns out this Science entity doesn’t have a single voice, and in many cases hearing what it has to say isn’t straightforward. As intellectual...
Where Threats To Academic Freedom Are
The example of Socrates has always been both an inspiration and a warning. Heterodox gadflies tend to get swatted. In the 21st century, however,...
The Rise Of Group Curation — A New Model?
‘We believe in a polyphonic time. Essentially the problem has been about dominant narratives and to get a much wider perspective. It is appropriate...
AI Routinely Misreads Emotion In Human Faces. Should We Worry?
Today affect-recognition tools can be found in national-security systems and at airports, in education and hiring start-ups, in software that purports to detect psychiatric...
A Philip Roth Bio Is Canceled — A Sea Change In Whether Books Are...
"I think this week marks a sea change in publishers’ interest in their authors’ behavior. The cancellation of Bailey’s books came just a day...
The Biographer Has Been Accused Of Abuse. Should We Ignore The Book?
"If an artist is a bad person, should that change the way audiences interact with his art? In this particular case, if the author...
Big Bump In UK Book Sales In 2020
UK consumer book sales climbed 7% to £2.1bn last year as people "rediscovered their love of reading" in lockdown, the industry body says. -...
Liam Scarlett, Death, And How The Dance World Deals With Scandal
"Scarlett’s death raises many issues. Foremost has been a widespread unease about the way that many dance companies in recent years have seemed to...
YouTube On Pace To Be Bigger Media Company Than Netflix
In its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, Google parent company Alphabet said YouTube brought in revenue of $6.01 billion in advertising revenue during the quarter —...
Samsung Founder’s Heirs To Donate Thousands Of Art Works In Inheritance Tax
The Lee family, including his widow and three children, expects to pay more than 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) in inheritance taxes, which is...
An Argument Against Our Meritocracy
It is obvious that “not everyone is born with the same academic gifts,” deBoer writes, but among teachers and educational officials there is a...
Police Bust Massive Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Zachary Horwitz collected $690 million from investors for movie deals authorities say were fictitious. The HBO and Netflix contracts he used to convince Russell...
Oscars Ratings Plunge 58 Percent From Last Year’s Record Low
Among adults 18 to 49, the demographic that many advertisers pay a premium to reach, the Oscars suffered an even steeper 64 percent decline,...
How A 1967 Recording By The Who Predicted Where Pop Music Would End Up
The contradictory impulses about pop’s progress and possibilities at its heart make The Who Sell Out sound like a perfect snapshot of music at...
Workers Discover Two Hidden Frescoes In The Uffizi
According to the museum, an unknown person “protected” the Cosimo II artwork before it was plastered over. “Maybe this unknown savior wanted it to...