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How did New Age end up carrying so much baggage in our musical memory? Its fall from grace, when it once soared, might be due to New Age's status as one of the most heavily marketed musical …
"I shall be firm straight and even cruel to be faithful. I SHALL DANCE. Yes . . . I shall dance. Say it over and over and over to infinatum [sic]. I shall dance I shall dance . . . I will li…
Lone wolves, domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and militiamen on the far-right fringes who have long trafficked in an expansive body of published manifestos and propagandist fiction. …
"Reading books is something I was once did compulsively, willingly and joyfully. But as I get older and spend more of my life online, reading books has become harder. Studies suggest I'm not…
The decision to remove fines is a growing nationwide movement. Already, dozens of U.S. libraries have fully or partially eliminated overdue fines (usually for teens and children), according …
Provincial cuts to the Ontario Arts Council will leave small magazines struggling to pay writers and illustrators, silencing important minority and marginalized voices, and putting the magaz…
A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies (IT) drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world and …
The two unopened scrolls that will be probed belong to the Institut de France in Paris and are part of an astonishing collection of about 1,800 scrolls that was first discovered in 1752 duri…
As social beings, we are hard-wired to interpret breaks in the flow of human communication. We recognize the pregnant pause, the stunned silence, the expectant hush. A one-beat delay on an a…
Marrow was a lifelong champion for the arts. She began working at the Getty in 1983 as a publications coordinator, and went on to serve in various high-ranking roles. Her longest and most su…
Jerry Saltz: "Much of modernism and its concerns now feel long ago, forged in a time of rapid industrial change when white European males assumed they ruled the world. The demands of our tim…
Mark Swed: "He's been an unstoppable powerhouse, and, in the end, we may very well have to conclude that he's human, and that maybe he couldn't have done all the great things he did without …
Jersey City is seeking partners capable of developing and operating an innovative, world-class cultural destination that reflects the energy and diversity of Jersey City.
In case you are unaware, video games and video game music have come a long way from the 8-bit MIDI sound effects of Donkey Kong. Â It's a musical realm that has produced its own roster of …
Published in September, Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept tells of how the CIA planned to use Doctor Zhivago as a propaganda tool during the cold war. But Anna Pasternak revealed in the Su…
The report describes the EU as being at a "turning point" due to societal and political challenges such as social cohesion, rising extremism and populism, global competition and "environment…
"Recent accusations that have been made against me in the press have created an atmosphere in which my ability to serve this company that I so love has been compromised," he wrote in a state…
Celebrities have always used their social-media accounts as confessional booths, but at some point in the past year Instagram stars began interrupting their otherwise aspirational feeds with…
Paying attention is not easy to do. It demands "a state of openness that assumes there is something new to be seen", and the discipline to "resist our tendency to declare our observations fi…
Andrew Jackson's and Trump's assertions of US power over Indigenous peoples call attention to their singular political status as nations within a nation, and they speak to the continuing Ind…
One small silver lining, he says, is that artists feel less pressure to churn out commercial material, freeing them up to experiment. "We are not expecting anything," he says. "There are no …
People don't fully acquire the ability to suppress clutter in a crowded scene and focus on what they're looking for until around age 17. Other research has found that the ability to pe…
"The 21st-century arts economy continues to evolve, and mosaic careers are what will enable us to keep pace with it. These are careers made up of many different parts, in different sizes. So…
The 2019 shortlist features three authors previously nominated for the Giller Prize. Ohlin was shortlisted in 2012 for the novel Inside, Crummey was shortlisted in 2001 for th…
For many years, Silicon Valley and the machines that came out of it were presented as personally, economically, and socially transformative, agents of revolution at both the level of the ind…
