"Listening to you also reminded me of my own adult son, who is autistic. When Ezra was a child, my wife and I sometimes hesitated to bring him along to concerts or movies for fear he might do or say the wrong thing." - The Wall Street Journal
The CSRL study says most local NPR stations lack the resources to systematically gather and report on local news, and in turn, spend too much of its limited resources covering issues that the wealthy care about. - Inside Radio
For decades, Mr. Jameson’s voluminous work — more than 30 books and edited collections as well as reams of journal articles — has been required reading for graduate students (and some precocious undergraduates), not just in literature but also in film studies, architecture and history. - The New York Times
Matthieu Kassovitz's 1995 prize-winner is still considered the reference film about the crisis in France's suburban housing projects. After almost 30 years, Kassovitz and stage director Serge Denoncourt have turned it into a hip-hop musical — with the new subtitle "So Far, Nothing Has Changed." - AP
My work explores the ways in which creative individuals prioritise information differently to their less creative counterparts. In one of our studies, my research collaborators and I used a classic task to see how the brain responds to another type of high priority information: surprising information. - Psyche
In dancer shorthand, this is what’s known as being thrown on. It’s scary sounding, isn’t it? Phelan, on Instagram, wrote that she was given about four minutes’ notice. - The New York Times
Olivier Roy argues that culture in the sense we have understood it is being inexorably eroded. It’s not, as some of his countrymen believe, that one culture is being replaced by another - say, Christianity by Islam. It’s that all culture is being hollowed out by technology, data, globalisation, bureaucracy, and consumerist individualism. - Ian Leslie
According to the statistics department at the country's Ministry of Culture, the total attendance figure for more than 1,450 museums and 46,000 monuments is, at 46.8 million visitors, up 13% from 2022 and 7% from 2019. - ARTnews
The publication of research papers drives university rankings and career progression, yet the relentless pressure to publish has contributed to an increase in fraudulent data. Unless this changes, the entire research landscape may shift toward a less rigorous standard, hindering vital progress in fields such as medicine, technology and climate science. - The Conversation
"Golson played an integral role in the transition from bebop to hard bop through his short but vital tenure with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and with his own influential Jazztet. … Few jazz musicians can claim as many bona fide standards to their credit." - WRTI (Philadelphia)
The ruins of the ancient Persian capital, built in the 6th century BCE, are an important locus of Iranian national pride and a major tourist attraction. Now lichens, algae-fungus hybrids, infest the stone monuments, dissolving minerals and penetrating surfaces by 1.5 cm, slowly breaking the ruins down. - AFP (MSN)
When management fired the entire main company in August, the dancers said it was because they tried to unionize; management said that a social media video the dancers made violated longstanding rules covering DBDT members' behavior. The dancers respond that those rules are rigid and severely outdated. - KERA (Dallas)
Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that employment in the industry peaked in 1997 at 91,100 jobs; as late as 2008 there were 84,600. By 2021, that figure was down to 51,161, though an additional 3,721 jobs were added in the next two years. - Publishers Weekly
Dance Data Project's 2024 survey of the 150 largest ballet and classically-based companies in the U.S. shows little change in the gender balance among artistic directors, still roughly 60% male and 40% female. And more women were replaced by men last year than vice versa. - Dance Data Project
But not quite fully reassembled. Giorgio Vasari's 1541 portrayal of the Five Virtues, painted for the ceiling of a Venetian palazzo, was broken up and sold off in the mid-1700s. Except for one cherub in the corner and a bit of Faith, the panels have now been recovered and restored. - Artnet