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George W. Bush, Painter (What Does His Art Say About Him? About Us?)
"Bush’s painting style is inelegant: his subjects’ eyes are often misaligned, his colors are sometimes muddied, and even though he attempts to create depth...
Science: Turns Out Musical Taste Corresponds To Personality
It turns out that there is more to the question than appears on the surface, and multiple psychological studies have supported the idea that...
Prices For NFTs Swoon (Collapse?)
Perhaps, according to recent figures published by Nonfungible.com, which show that the average price of NFTs plummeted almost 70% from a peak of around...
Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Anounces A Fifty Percent Expansion
The expansion would add nearly 100,000 sq. ft to the museum's current 200,000 sq. ft pavilion complex, which features concrete walls, bands of red...
Valery Gergiev, Politics and Putin
By arranging himself with the powers that be, Gergiev has maneuvered his way to a singular position in Russian cultural politics. On January 30,...
Survey: How Students Attitudes About Arts Education Are Changing In The COVID Era
Student responses show that their biggest concerns are the high cost of tuition for remote classes and the changes to their social lives on...
Kennedy Center Turns 50 (And Unveils Celebrations)
The 50th anniversary celebration is part of 1,110 dance, theater, jazz, comedy and musical concerts and events in the 2021-2022 season. The total represents...
A Computer Code Written In Cree
My desired output for this language is graphical based. I originally envisioned it as a kind of “Processing for Indigenous Languages”. Where the output...
Live Theatre Returns To Live Theatre In NY — And It’s… Different
The line of people he came to greet waiting to see the first performance of Blindness at the Daryl Roth Theatre off Union Square...
The Transitory Influence Of Hemingway
So what can Hemingway tell us about what American writers owe to Hemingway? Whatever that debt is, it’s a lot, according to the various...
Art At Scale: Putting All Of The UK’s National Collections Online
Art UK brings together over 3,000 public collections on one shared, economically efficient platform, allowing them all to reap the benefits of scale and...
How Reporters Are Fighting To Save The Storied Tribune Newspapers From A Hedge Fund
The worried reporters would need to recruit community allies. Hire a public relations firm to sway public opinion. And most crucially: Figure out how...
Are Virtues Of The Past Casualties Of Progress?
If we cannot slow down and grow cautiously, evenly, gradually into our new technological and political possibilities and responsibilities—even the potentially liberating ones—the last...
Producer Scott Rudin, “Monster” Boss
Even as others have been canceled or have dialed back their aggression, Rudin's behavior has continued unabated, leaving a trail of splintered objects and...
The Tensions Between Meritocracy And Equity
"Between those who see meritocratic admissions as giving fair rewards to hard work and ability, and those who demand that schools focus on students’...
Entertainment Venues Fear Problems With A Vaccine Passport
Out of 700 businesses surveyed by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), which represents businesses like nightclubs, bars and festivals, 70% felt that vaccine...
How We Make Language
Today, our world has over 7,000 languages, each with its own words and particular grammar. These languages are so mindbogglingly different that you might...
“Godzilla” Is A Hit — And It Could Change How Movies Are Distributed
It’s the kind of hybrid release that would have seemed impossible to pull off prior to the pandemic. Today, it’s the clearest indication yet...
Machines Will Save Us/Machines Will Kill Us — Time To Figure It Out
"We once obsessed about how to restrain machines we could not predict or control — now we worry about how to use machines to...
Why Is Shakespeare Still Such A Big Part Of Our School Curriculum?
This has serious consequences for what ought to be the primary function of high school study: developing a love of reading that will last...
They Tell Aspiring Writers To Read Read Read. What If That’s Wrong?
"Now that I am a published writer, it is against this backdrop, of limited exposure to books in my adolescence, that I find the...
Venice Passes New Rules Restricting Biennale Business — Will They Help Or Hurt?
It may be a hasty measure in which practical consequences have not been thought through, or it may, as some suggest, be an indirect...
American Museums Versus Looted Art — They’re Failing
"In 2008, the AAM admirably pledged to fight the trade in looted antiquities by passing a set of guidelines for its member institutions that...
The Arts Went Online During COVID — What Happens When Theatre Audiences Return?
“Right now, a streamed concert that sells well will just about cover the cost, and we have to proof every second of the video....
A Supreme Court Ruling On Computer Code Has Hollywood Worried
"While a copyright dispute about computer code might not seem like a subject of particular consequence for them, an opinion from Justice Stephen Breyer...