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“Queen’s Gambit” To Be Made Into Theatre
Level Forward, a company whose founders include Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, said on Monday that it has won the rights to...
How Children Have Changed After A Year Lived On Screens
Since U.S. schools began closing down roughly a year ago, the country’s children have been adapting, learning and getting creative with how they use...
Study: Yes, People Really Don’t Know When To Shut Up!
"Only 2 percent of conversations ended at the time both parties desired, and only 30 percent of them finished when one of the pair...
Can Clubhouse Be The New Facilitator For Artworld Conversation?
"I thought it was about time I spent a day actually paying attention. What is the art world talking about on Clubhouse? Does the...
What’s Wrong With Just Stopping During The Pandemic?
"We are living through a collective trauma, a once-in-a-lifetime historical moment, and taking "time off" is not a symptom of laziness. In fact, I...
Ballerina Dances On Frozen Bay To Raise Awareness Of Endangered Swans
This is Ilmira Bagrautinova's way of objecting against the construction of a port in Batareinaya Bay, a popular beach about 100 km west of...
Subsidize Old News Media? That Will Stifle Innovation
"The standoff between Big Tech and the Australian government has resulted in 90 per cent of what Big Tech has agreed to pay media...
Dr. Seuss’s Estate Made Its Decisions Based On Its Creator’s Legacy
"We make changes to the books our children read all the time. In 1812, the Brothers Grimm changed the evil mothers in traditional fairy...
A Year Of Turmoil At The American Shakespeare Center
Over the last year, American Shakespeare Center—a $4.3 million theatre company in Staunton, Va., known for producing the Bard’s work in repertory with a...
Battleground Over Truth (Whatever That Is)
"A striking feature of our current political landscape is that we disagree not just over values (which is healthy in a democracy), and not...
Six Philadelphia Museums Combined Resources During COVID. It Transformed How They Do Their Work
"After much discussion, we developed structures to jointly fundraise and equitably disperse proceeds between us relative to budget size. More importantly, we learned about...
COVID Accelerated Trends By Ten Years. What Does That Mean For Classical Music?
According to NYU Stern School of Business professor and New York Times best-selling author Scott Galloway, the pandemic has accelerated the progression of trends...
Still Trying To Sort Out The Critic’s Role In A Very Changed Reality
"Critics no longer have the power to make or break an artist’s career. Rather, art critics depend more and more on maintaining friendly relationships...
Artists Hope Biden Immigration Policies Will Make It Easier To Collaborate Internationally
Now that the bans are reversed, immigration lawyers who work with artists, including Ashley Tucker, director of programs at the Artistic Freedom Initiative in...
The Mind As Computer? It Doesn’t Work That Way
These kinds of metaphors reduce us to achievement-driven and advantage-seeking entities, condemned constantly to self-optimise, as if our highest purpose is to be effective...
Culture Is Everywhere Online. But How To Find It?
"We have evolved to be clever enough to create massive amounts of choice in every field, but I, for one, have yet to evolve...
Maybe Human-Centric Design Isn’t The Best Way To Design?
"What if situating the human at the heart of design isn’t enough to steer innovation in the right direction? What if it’s precisely what...
The Man Whose Job Is To Convince Us To Go Back To Movie Theatres
Adam Aron’s job is to persuade movie studios and moviegoers to re-embrace the theatrical experience, once things open up again and more of the...
How One Jazz Musician Figured Out How To Play Live With Friends Over The...
Usually it's not possible because of slight (or more) lags in sound over the internet. But by tweaking software (and lots of experimenting) Dan...
Changing Roles For Museums Mean Confusion In How They’re Supported
What does it mean for museums to be responsive to their communities? Is it museums’ mission to provide an educational experience or meet changing...
A Tour Of Plays In Storefront Windows
Presented as a “walking tour with theatrical displays,” and running Feb. 19-21, the performance was not a traditional narrative play, but rather a collection...
Explaining Taylor Swift Musicologically (It’s Cool!)
Alex Ross: "Music appreciation is having a resurgence, although the music being appreciated has changed. Early in the twenty-tens, song-explainer videos began proliferating on...
Australia’s Big Festivals Try To Play During COVID – With Mixed Success
Adelaide’s festivals were luckier than most. On the final Friday of last year’s season it was announced gatherings of more than 500 would be...
Is It Really Possible To Crowdsource Misinformation On Twitter?
This is not a fact-checking program, exactly, because it will not involve trained fact-checkers. Instead, participants in the Birdwatch pilot can identify tweets they...
Needed Corrections In Explaining How The Brain Works
"As a neuroscientist, I see scientific myths about the brain repeated regularly in the media and corners of academic research. Three of them, in...