Henry Markram's goal wasn't to create a simplified version of the brain, but a gloriously complex facsimile, down to the constituent neurons, the electrical activity coursing along them, and…
Jerry Saltz: This saga is much bigger than Kanders or the Whitney. All museums are 100 percent awash in toxic philanthropy " that is the nature of the plutocracy in which we live. Kand…
Thirty-five years ago, Owens and co-founder Raphael Parry established what may have been North Texas' first, literally underground theater. They christened it the Undermain because its home …
"Working in a museum can sometimes seem like a service industry for the wealthy. Middle people in museums used to think they were part of the top bracket. Now they're part of the bottom brac…
"We don't need digital detox. Or more accurately, we do need a detox, but we have misidentified the toxin. Interacting online is not inherently poisonous, and online interactions are no less…
On paper they are the most educated, diverse and materially privileged generation in history but, in the western world at least, millennials are also the first to face dimmer prospects than …
The proposed expansion includes 46 art museums, adding to the country's current total of 451 art institutions. Altogether, the increase will mean one museum for every 39,000 people, an impro…
"We've become very well-grounded in traditional education theory, techniques and subject matters. But being culturally responsive means teaching music where kids are, and with what interests…
In the past few years, as the climate crisis has become a political emergency, artists have discovered a crucial role for themselves, making an issue that sometimes seems abstract instead fe…
The museum was able fight back, enlisting the city's IT security experts to regain control of its computer network. But the incident raises concerns about the vulnerability of cultural insti…
Anthony Kronman: "Our most elite universities are today running away from their elitism, denying it, doing their best to conceal or suppress it. In running away from it, they not only disown…
"The Algonquin Hotel became a city landmark in 1987, in large part because of the vicious circle's outsize fame. This is a fine way of acknowledging a tourist destination, but it shouldn't b…
"Architectural preservation is often an issue of grandeur, both in a sense of size and richness, and decay. When we think of buildings that already been lost, they are almost always imposing…
In the popular mind, an epicure fine-tunes pleasure, consuming beautifully, while a stoic lives a life of virtue, pleasure sublimated for good. But this doesn't do justice to Epicurus, who c…
What do all of these films have in common, besides an undying commitment to computer generated aliens? They're no longer truly competitors now that they're all owned by Disney, which is slat…
The disconcerting thing about such radicalism, at this moment, is that it is the activists"rather than the state or law enforcement"who have the facts on their side. One of Extinction Rebell…
There is no full way to capture the presence of dance except through dance itself. This tension"between dance and the representation of dance"is always at the heart of dance; dancers feel it…
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir invites applications and referrals for the position of Executive Director.
Anne Midgette: "I often talk about the way the classical-music world tends to conflate institutions with the art form. When an orchestra closes, it's seen as an assault on Beethoven and Brah…
"As much as I'd like to dissolve the beach read label entirely, I must also admit I have a type: I want a meaty, absorbing book that takes me further into a vacation by connecting with the c…
It's not the tower's unpopularity that's a surprise. The flashy but essentially functionless concept has largely been greeted with publicridicule since being unveiled last year. It's that th…
A 30-minute slide presentation provided a brief snapshot of what will be in the museum " a collection, curators said, that will include the poetic paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the br…
Today, thanks to the development of autocorrect, we could all easily write "correctly," and yet, as Gretchen McCulloch notes, we don't. We override automatic capitalization when our phones p…
The patients in the trial were either given the drug midazolam or played the song Weightless by UK band Marconi Union for three minutes, while having an anaesthetic to numb a region of the b…
Ambient is often as haunting and uncanny as it is gorgeous. But the idea of music that eschews gestural rhetoric"there are no statements, no returns, no developments"is still highly experime…