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DHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct the search for Executive Director of the South Carolina State Museum, the state's largest and most comprehensive museum.
The letter " organized by a group of artists and activists including Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis, Downtown Boys' Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, Evan Greer, Adult Mom, @k8_or_die, Carmen Perry, an…
Whip through that "Seinfeld" at double speed? Audio books already come with this feature, allowing readers to speed up the playback. But video producers object to the idea as it changes how …
In response to a new policy on e-book purchases imposed by Macmillan Publishers and effective Nov. 1, King County Library System will be boycotting the publisher's upcoming e-books, declinin…
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University is now seeking a new Director who will articulate a bold and dynamic vision that leverages the Agnes' impressive strengths, collections…
Ted Mundorff: "Since 1927, attendance has gone down, though box office remains the same. It usually sits around $10 and a half billion dollars. I've always been very bullish on movie theater…
"British Sign Language clapping is used by the National Union of Students since loud noises, including whooping and traditional applause, are argued to present an access issue for some disab…
Mr. Hoffman, whose infamously anarchic work, "Steal This Book," included tips on how to shoplift, might be amused to have his papers end up in so solemn a setting as a university research li…
At the moment, at least, people seem to prefer podcasts and music that make them feel as if they're alone in the room with the performers. And that in turn has an appreciable effect on the k…
People come for all sorts of reasons: "One woman clearly thought it was going to be like the movie Austenland and she'd meet her husband here." " The Guardian
A spokesman for the University of South Wales said "projected recruitment figures for the degree mean that we will not have enough students in future to be able to continue to provide a high…
Two years ago, ICOs lured billions of dollars into blockchain companies and spawned a cottage industry of pilot projects. For a while, a blockchain seemed a salve for just about any problem.…
In June, Patrick Drahi, a French-Israeli telecommunications billionaire, took Sotheby's private in a deal worth $3.7 billion. The purchase, by Mr. Drahi's BidFair USA, returned the only publ…
Only two per cent of actors actually make a living from acting alone and 90 per cent of actors are out of work at any given time so that means, more often than not, actors have to make money…
Every industry takes a toll and holds its own responsibility when it comes to environmental impact, and as life goes on, action to minimise this is necessary. Festivals, promoters and event …
Since concerted excavations began in the middle of the 18th century, Pompeii's rich homes, tombs and public buildings have been plundered by looters, exploited by profit-hungry private excav…
James Russell: "MoMA has long built its origin story of Euro-American Modernism around its great holdings, but that story no longer consists of a single, mainly male, heroic narrative. Inste…
Under Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, the city is aiming to build monuments at an unusually rapid rate to honor women, people of color and others previously overlooked. B…
"What do the brains of jazz musicians look like as they create their art on the fly? Using an fMRI machine, Dr. Charles Limb found that activity in the medial prefrontal cortex shot up, whil…
"So what are newspapers and web producers up to, besides making extremely expensive pivots-to-video? And why are these outlets willing to bet people like their journalism enough to watch ent…
As Auden says, poetry is "a way of happening". It takes the passage of time, the reality of loss, the absorption in a sharpened kind of seeing or hearing, and makes all these into speech tha…
An auctioneer spotted the painting in June while inspecting a woman's house in Compiegne in northern France and suggested she bring it to experts for an evaluation. It hung on a wall between…
Over the last 15 years, as cruise-ship hoards and souvenir schlock have overrun the village of Oia on Santorini's northern tip, Atlantis Books has become an unlikely oasis of authenticity an…
"The people who helped me the most were the librarians," Cummings told Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes interview broadcast in January of this year, adding that the public library was the o…
Police came across the more than 80 objects by accident during a house search of an antiques dealer in a suburb of Buenos Aires. They include daggers with swastikas, a ouija board and magnif…
