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In 2016, Rinder led the move of the museum from its original home, an architecturally significant but seismically challenged structure, to an acclaimed new building. The $112 million project…
A modest room with fewer than 100 seats, Tula's is a movie-set-ready jazz joint: cocktail tables bathed in golden light, wood-and-mirror-paneled bar, intimate stage, flat black ceiling, slow…
Nearly 70% of its 80 full-time students can't afford to pay their tuition, which comes to about $13 USD per month, according to an official DCMA press release. While the school has received …
For players, the NSO has become more appealing than ever. It has long been one of the best-paid orchestras in the country. Now, it's also seen as among the more dynamic ones. The orchestra i…
A recent survey of independent bookstores across Canada by BookNet received responses from a total of 69 stores, with 80 locations. One consequence of this dearth is that online book purchas…
There has been a proliferation of luxury celebrity writer "camps" that promise insight on how to be a successful writer. Is this an indulgence for the well-off or something practically usefu…
Various production choices " no host (unless you count Homer Simpson), crummy disco music, a puerile announcer " are partly to blame. But the main problem is the award itself. The Emmys don'…
According to the study, 34% of all 16-to-24-year-old music listeners surveyed admitted to using "stream ripping" apps or services to illegally copy music. When all respondents (ages 16 to 64…
"This morning I got a request for a song called "Medicine for Melancholy," by Rivers Cuomo," Kantor said, sitting at the organ as a recent game got underway. "During batting practice, I got …
"We are used to seeing a museum as a building, a precinct, an institution and a collection. Museums are indeed spaces of particular kinds, but these kinds of international visits, exhibition…
The class of 2020 at the Toronto-based academy is comprised of 16 boys and 11 girls. " Newsweek
Eliasson is known for his environmentally-themed work, which includes the installation Ice Watch, displayed during the UN Climate Summit in 2015. He is the subject of a retrospective show cu…
Michael Chabon: "Maybe the world in its violent turning is too strong for art. Maybe art is a kind of winning streak, a hot hand at the table, articulating a vision of truth and possibility …
This is a textbook example of how a narrow viewpoint and blind devotion to procedure can lead you to bad ends. It's the permanent-collection equivalent of following a navigation app's direct…
The metaphor of a "marketplace of ideas," where some sort of rational choice theory means the eventual selection of the best quality information, looks naive in an environment where junk new…
"Merit is a sham," the preacher saith. "Merit itself is not a genuine excellence but rather"like the false virtues that aristocrats trumpeted in the ancien régime"a pretense, constructed to…
"Making art takes lots of time, and when time in a city becomes nothing but making that rent, you will not make art or the kind of art that requires (for its greatness) not just productivity…
Millennials aren't looking for lifehacks to win friends and influence people; they are looking for workable systems that will sanction and codify their behaviors. Luckily for them, philosoph…
"I think things have changed. We're getting a lot more story in 30 minutes or 30 seconds in today's society. (Theater is) competing with a variety of mediums that deliver lot of entertainmen…
"In 32 years of annual "most endangered" designations from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Thompson Center is the youngest building ever to make the list. It's also a promi…
Is it so far-fetched to wonder what could happen if " like museums, which only raised about 13% of their budgets through admissions fees and memberships in 2015 " they shifted even further a…
"The disruption in the art world is not going to come from the Internet, it's not going to come from business-people. It's coming from the artists. The artists are going to change the model …
Mr. Slatkin tweeted about the mistake on Monday morning, writing, "Andre deserved better." " The New York Times
"In a town where everyone is always filleting everyone else, Mr. Iger floats above it all, cosseted in what some call a "a cult of nice." He may own most of the box office, but he is shielde…
For Aristotle, the virtues of character are not enough by themselves to work the magic of illumination that comes with exiting Plato's cave. We also need the intellectual virtues: practical …
