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Are Board Members Of UK Cultural Institutions Being Punished For Disagreeing With The Government?
The science author and historian Sarah Dry withdrew as a trustee of the Science Museum Group in March after she was asked to support...
Should You Become An Art Critic? Take This Test!
"Your ability to express what you see in an artwork, to explain why it is good, and to examine the ways in which it...
Venice Cruise Ship Ban Ends — Ships Return To The Lagoon
Residents were caught by surprise on Thursday when a cruise liner sailed into the lagoon city for the first time since the pandemic began,...
AI Is All Around Us Now. But Is It?
"In the past, statistical analysis at this scale was limited by the complexity of the task and the lack of mathematical and computational tools....
The Scholar Who Proved Homer Didn’t Exist
The Iliad and the Odyssey weren’t written by Homer, because they weren’t written at all. They were products of an oral tradition, performed by...
Tickets Or NFTs? Do You “Own” The Experience?
"Tickets are keys to experiences. These keys have a finite life and finite utility. That’s because the majority of rights issuers want to maintain...
What Ails The Classical Music Industry
"The problems have built up over at least the last half century and they cannot be solved overnight. But there are a host of...
How Our Technology Can Change Our Character
There is the possibility that technology can come to influence or reflect our values in ways that are beyond our control. For example, wearable...
Experiments In Opera: Philip Glass At The Circus
The revelation of “Circus Days and Nights” is existentially simple and direct. Cut through a thin layer of tawdriness and cheap tinsel that may...
English City Experiments With Design In Public
Set to open in autumn next year, and operate virtually, online until then, the £4.5m Farrell Centre will occupy a former 19th-century department store...
Princeton Drops Latin And Greek Requirements For Classics Study
"The policy change at Princeton presumes the existence of various potential contributions that classics students knowing no Latin or Greek could have been making...
Music Stars Demand Streaming Music Regulation
It argues that streaming via services such as Spotify and Apple Music be legislated more like radio. “The law has not kept up with...
New York To Stage A Mega-Concert In August To Signal End Of The Pandemic
Seeking a grand symbol of New York’s revitalization after a brutal pandemic year, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a large-scale performance by multiple...
Why Are Non-Profit Endowments Under-performing The Markets?
Today, it’s possible to capture the average growth of the stock market through passive index funds, which if balanced with some government bonds, have...
Conceptualizing The Palestinian Museum
"As part of the new programs strategy I developed in 2019, we reconceptualized our mission as providing emancipatory learning experiences about Palestine. A learning...
Why Do We Take The Tyranny Of Time For Granted?
“For most people, the last class they had devoted to clocks and time was early in primary school,” Kevin Birth, a professor of anthropology...
Amsterdam Is Falling Apart
"Sinkholes are appearing in its small streets, and nearly half its 1,700 bridges are rickety and need repairs, frequently requiring trams to cross at...
Study: The Size Of Your Eyes’ Pupils Correlates With Intelligence
Now work conducted in our laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that baseline pupil size is closely related to individual differences in...
How Economics Lost Its Imagination
Here’s the dirty little secret that few of my fellow economics professors will admit: As those “perfect” research papers have grown longer, they have...
Maybe We Shouldn’t Dismiss Magic So Quickly?
"Despite the often blood-soaked history of the use of the term ‘magic’, we must remember that Western history is filled with thinkers who have...
What Amazon’s Purchase Of MGM Means For The Streaming Wars
It's an inevitable progression, and not surprising Amazon would do it first. Unlike Netflix, it has failed to reliably produce original hits. And unlike,...
Dozens Of Artists Commemorate Tulsa Race Riot In A City That Used Not to...
“For generations, the worst event in Tulsa history wasn’t spoken about in public,” said Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum in a statement. “Today, artists are...
After 25 Years Leading Cincinnati Ballet, Victoria Morgan To Step Down
As one of the very few women to lead a major ballet company, Morgan championed women choreographers long before the rest of the dance...
Record Numbers Have Moved Out Of Canada’s Big Cities. Will Artists Return?
"The pandemic has changed the way people think about geography. I think that you can connect with community anywhere, but there's something to be...
A Hacked Scan Of An Egyptian Nefertiti Bust Challenges Traditional Models Of Cultural Ownership
Despite the fact that Nefertiti and many other works of African cultural heritage reside within the “white cube” of the museum, the developing digital...