With an average enrollment of 125 students, Hunter's art department is one of the largest in the US. The college assistants are usually given one-year contracts, with benefits, and they are …
With fundraising for the Colburn School project stalled, Frank Gehry released to The Times images of his concert hall models for the first time. As the architect's design demonstrates, the t…
In the U.S., current theatrical distribution is about 50/50 between hard drives and satellite delivery, according to Jason Brenek. He believes cloud-based tech offers a more efficient altern…
In March of this year, Yi-Wen Jiang posted a comment on the Chinese social media platform WeChat in response to a post by San Francisco Symphony associate principal viola Yun Jie Liu. Jia…
Trump fancied several of the pieces in the U.S. ambassador's historic residence in Paris, where he was staying, and on a whim had them removed and loaded onto Air Force One, according to peo…
In France, there are several words for "to complain": there's "se plaindre", used for regular old complaining; there's "porter plainte", for complaining more officially. And then…
The TikTok Holocaust trend saw users " for the most part, teenagers " uploading videos of themselves pretending to be Holocaust victims entering heaven. Many were outraged, describing the vi…
A Danish collective of jazz musicians have perfected their far-right counter-protest strategy. "Free Jazz Against Paludan" follows the far-right politician Rasmus Paludan around the count…
One wonders how straw man arguments function. Our answer is that straw men arguments do their rhetorical work not on the speaker depicted as made of straw, but rather on an audience of argum…
zFestival Arts has filled a recent need for low-cost music and art collaboration focused on technological empowerment. They are now launching a fall program -- zFestival unAcademy -- to show…
A child today will be a historian of 2020 in the future. What sources will they turn to? How will they verify scattered memories? How will people tell the story of the tumultuous times that …
"This is an unprecedented percentile which we hope augurs well for a future cinema that is free of any sort of prejudice and discrimination." " Toronto Star
Over decades and centuries, mutual aid has helped people pay rent, buy groceries, and acquire medicine; it has given workers something where there is so much nothing to be had, and it has gi…
So what to make of the apparent growing strength of cancel culture and affiliated movements? Here is the fundamental point: With the rise of social media and low-cost communications, virtual…
To a ten-year-old child a year is a tenth of her existence, and thus feels like something of a stretch. For someone who's twice her age a year is only a twentieth of the time they've already…
To an outsider, someone from, say, Toronto or Seattle or London, a conversation among New Yorkers may resemble a verbal wrestling match. Everyone seems to talk at once, butting in with quest…
One potential avenue to spare redundancies is a move to a four-day workweek. While the idea has been toyed with for decades, new and adaptable working situations ushered in by Covid-19 have …
The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged all parts of the economy, and culture workers are among the hardest hit. Yet some have managed to keep their jobs " and even thrive " while others are st…
For the U.S., the firm's annual study projects a 65.7 percent decline from $11.4 billion in 2019 to $3.9 billion this year. The firm warned that "the whole cinema ecosystem will be dramatica…
We've reached a sort of meta-crisis of scientific authority, one in which our leading experts have lost their faith in the public's faith in the leadership of experts. " Wired
In May 1884, long before the likes of Kim Kardashian achieved celebrity through the careful curation and promotion of self, a young unknown named Marie Bashkirtseff staked her desire for fam…
The decisions suggest that the theater world will likely continue to feel the effects of the pandemic long after artists and audiences are again allowed to gather. Eliminating a position, as…
Too often schools are tasked not simply with caring for their students but with repairing an entire social order. Schools can do so much we do not ask of them, like developing solidarity, fo…
"Of course, people don't come to cities for jobs alone; people come to places such as New York and London to be around other people. They come for the addictive energy that you get only in p…
Building a politics around the idea that a college degree is a precondition for dignified work and social esteem has a corrosive effect on democratic life. It devalues the contributions of t…