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The Art Of Power Dressing – How Our Wardrobes Came To Define Us
Centuries have gone into the making of these rules and assumptions — and a bit of sleight of hand, as well. Men were not...
Hollywood Is Fighting Over Remaking Movies For International Audiences. Why?
“It’s a natural process because every platform has a ceiling. If Netflix has 80 million subscribers in the U.S., they’re done. They can’t grow...
Yeccch! Advertisers Try To Muscle In To Streaming Services
To get more advertisers to move their dollars to streaming, the TV executives are working furiously to gather all the streaming fans for the...
Why Does Social Media Make Us Feel Bad? There’s Science For That!
Concerns around social media have become mainstream, but researchers have yet to elucidate the specific cognitive mechanisms that explain the toll it takes on...
Why Is Spotify Getting Into Virtual Concerts Just As In-Person Performances Are Coming Back?
The demand for remote performances is presumably waning, which is why it's weird that Spotify just entered the virtual concert business and thinks people...
Still Ticking: The Mousetrap, Running For 67 Years In London, Gets Set To Resume...
For 427 days, an old wooden board inside the foyer of St Martin’s Theatre in London was stuck on the number 28,199. It had...
Cuban Artists Demand National Museum Take Down Their Work Until Fellow Artist Is Released
In an act of protest, the artists are now calling for any of their works on view in the museum to “be covered in...
Can Robots Help Ease Loneliness?
In 2018, New York State’s Office for the Aging launched a pilot project, distributing Joy for All robots to sixty state residents and...
Finalists To Fill Trafalgar’s Fourth Plinth
Mayor Sadiq Khan said it was the "most international line-up" of artists. The landmark has been home to a rolling commission of artworks since...
We Need A New Model For Selling Music. How About This?
"I sometimes feel we’re losing sight of how valuable music is. I get messages on Patreon or Instagram from fans telling me how my...
In Rushdie’s Defense…
In his new book, “Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020,” Rushdie attempts to perform a defensive castling move. He suggests his work has been misunderstood...
NFT Of One Of YouTube’s Most-Viewed Videos Of All Times Is Sold For Beaucoup...
Sunday's spending spree means the mysterious anonymous bidder will become the owner of the Charlie Bit My Finger clip. But it also gives them...
Amazon Buys MGM For $8.45 Billion
For Amazon, snapping up MGM — which has more than 4,000 movies and 17,000 TV shows in its catalog — is a way to...
Biden Sets Aside Tradition, Fires Four Members Of The US Commission Of Fine Arts
On Monday, the Biden administration sent letters to architect Steven Spandle, landscape architect Perry Guillot, sculptor Chas Fagan and commission chairman Justin Shubow asking...
Comparing The Careers Of Mike Nichols And Tom Stoppard
The paths they each followed are telling. If you are even marginally involved in the theater, it is impossible not to envy the state...
Survey: Boards Of LA’s Arts Organizations Don’t Reflect The Demographics Of The Region
While nearly 74% of L.A. County is nonwhite, only 19.5% of the museum board members identified as nonwhite. - Los Angeles Times
What Accounts For The Enduing Popularity Of Orwell?
There is no doubting the clarity and vigor of his prose, but when it comes to assessing his capacity to face up to grim...
How A Property Tax Transformed The Detroit Institute Of Art And What It Does
This model of financial support has not only allowed the DIA to weather the storm of the past year, but has also given the...
Fragility Of The Web: When All Those Hyperlinks Expire
This often irreversible decay of Web content is commonly known as linkrot. It is similar to the related problem of content drift, or the...
IPSOS Poll: Sixty Percent Of Canadians In Favor Of Requiring Vaccine Passports For Entry...
While the vast majority were in support, opinions were somewhat divided across demographics. - Ludwig Van
Eugene Robinson: The Power Of DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza’s Yellow Letters
"The fight for justice has produced many unforgettable images over the past year — former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck;...
Do We Need A Way To Appeal Decisions Made For Us By Machines?
Any decisional mechanism, whether human- or machine-operated, will generate errors. An individualised appeals mechanism might reduce the volume of errors. But it might also...
Marin Alsop – A Career Of Firsts
Alsop satisfies exactly none of these stubborn criteria for conducting an orchestra, which is perhaps why her career has been an exercise in exhausting...
Coming: A Clash Over Where We Work?
A poll by the Best Practice Institute and reported in Newsweek found that some 83 percent of CEOs want employees back full-time, while only...
Finding The Balance Between Dance Body And Mind
Dancers can spend their whole careers seeking out a rich mind–body connection. Achieving that sense of integration can be incredibly satisfying, leading to better...