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New Access: Super High Resolution Images Of Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Drawings
The V&A partnered with the Factum Foundation to create the high-resolution color, infrared and 3-D scans in 2019. And last year, in honor of...
What Happens To Whistleblowers Who Outed Their Arts Organizations?
After the open letters are published, the articles are out, and the declarations are made on social media, what happens to the people behind...
What Small Chicago Arts Groups Have Learned About Working Online
Before the pandemic, in-person classes offered by the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company tended to be small, with only 8 to 10 students. But over...
Why Cities Won’t Be Done In By COVID
Despite the long tradition of anti-urbanism in the U.S. that always seems to see the demise of cities just around the corner, they will...
Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museums Ponders A Name Change
After reporting in the Kansas City Star turned up evidence that William Rockhill Nelson, the Nelson in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was a segregationist, the...
When Everything Is Seen Through A Screen, What Is Theatre?
"Digital performance has only exacerbated the definitional crises during this year of hard and soft quarantine. At a recent UCLA roundtable on the subject...
Proposed: Why The Art World Needs Populism
"On closer inspection, there is an asymmetric battle between a grassroots struggle to redistribute power, and those who place institutional preservation at the center....
The New Elite: Those Who Have Been Vaccinated
"A leisure class of the newly vaccinated will mean that hotels, catering services and other businesses will be scrambling to employ bartenders, servers and...
Hollywood Waits With Its Blockbusters. Streaming Is Still A Risky Path
Even as the studio insists that its streaming strategy is a one-off response to the pandemic, it might not be able to rebuild those...
How Social Media Has Rewired Our Cultural/Political Discourse
This expanding cornucopia of tech and entertainment has served as a compensatory narrative of progress and advancement for an empire in decline. The future...
The Case For Simpler Grant-Giving
“Are we giving to organizations that are actually doing the best work? Or are we giving to organizations that are giving us the best...
Cable TV Cord-Cutting Accelerates During Pandemic
In the interim, expect a flood of cable programming to start migrating over to streaming in anticipation for the day when cable is no...
Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Nazi Looting Restitution System
More than 80 years later, his 300-year-old violin — valued at around $185,000 — is at the center of a dispute that is threatening...
The Theatre Of Dreams
We are neurochemically predisposed to find our dreams meaningful, which may suggest that they do have a pedagogical function. Even the common advice to...
Could Amsterdam’s Radical Effort To Transform Itself Leave Capitalism Behind?
In April 2020, during the first wave of COVID-19, Amsterdam’s city government announced it would recover from the crisis, and avoid future ones, by...
The Psychology Of Massive Multiplayer Online Games and The QAnon Delusions
"The art of creating the connections and building communities of others who also come to believe and amplify them is a virtuous circle that...
Bipartisan? Biden Should Think Arts
"It’s worth recalling that federal support for the arts throughout modern American history has been bipartisan. The Federal Art Project (1935–43) commissioned artworks by...
A Checklist For Happiness? It Doesn’t Work That Way
"Every cultural message we get is that happiness can be read off a scorecard of money, education, experiences, relationships, and prestige. Want the happiest...
Here’s What The New American Elite Looks Like
"From the American Revolution until the late 20th century, the American elite was divided among regional oligarchies. It is only in the last generation...
Students At The Glasgow School Of Art Protest School’s Pandemic Paralysis
"The pandemic will have caused frustration to students everywhere and it must have been difficult for university authorities to react to the ever-shifting situation....
Baltimore Museum Bought Art By Women in 2020. So…
"I would like to officially state that I’m thrilled that the museum has collected art by women, in 2020 and in any other year,...
Why Storm The Capitol? “I Came To See The Art!”
“Faced with the photo evidence, Pham then allegedly admitted to climbing over torn-down fences to get inside. But still, he insisted his reasons were...
Why Love Work? It Doesn’t Love You Back
Over the past few decades, this ethos of cheerless duty has been overtaken by the imperative to love your work. Graduation speakers, human resources...
Philadelphia Opera Leading The Streaming Pack
Compared with other American companies, Opera Philadelphia is laying claim to the mantle of making new material during the pandemic. Still, what’s most...
Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Attractive
Are conspiracy theories truly more prevalent and influential today, or does it just seem that way? - NiemanLab