Perhaps our distant evolutionary ancestors, millions of years in the past, also had an innate navigational ability that exploited magnetic field lines. This would be extremely useful, offeri…
Unruliness, perversity, pigheadedness"psychologists have long been interested in this bestiary of paradoxical thought and action. Perversity is a puzzle. It's hard to explain, scientifically…
It survived the Soviet Union, changes in taste, the rise of cheap knockoffs and fakes. But the modern world might prove too much. " The New York Times
"It seems there is a divergence in our artistic landscape, where we value trend and zeitgeist as highly as artistic growth and creative development. The Shed serves as a manifestation of thi…
Keeping track of all the scandals around museum patronage in the United States in the last few years is no easy feat. There are scandals over real estate money, prison money, oil money, fund…
Signature Theatre, one of New York's leading off-Broadway theatres, is seeking a FACILITIES MANAGER to join the facilities team and report to the Director of Production and Facilities.
This year's class of honorees, the 42nd annual since 1978, is eclectic as usual. " NPR
The company is developing a device to implant inside the brain that supposedly will allow people to control computers and other devices with their minds. At the announcement, Musk said the c…
There are hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there, and it's amazingly difficult to determine how popular any of them really are (popularity can be purchased). But there are an awful lot …
That makes the state the only one in the US not to have an arts agency. Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican who took office in December, used a line-item budget veto to eliminate the council's …
Cost savings may have been a motivating factor for the purchase. As cathedrals go, the diocese picked it up for a song, just $57.5 million. Some see the deal as an act of architectural prese…
"If the base salary in our field is $0, then it's no wonder that the next step up is not much higher. We know what working for free does to the chances of truly diversifying or addressing eq…
"There is no pride in using Indigenous peoples as props in a settler fantasy; there is no pride in racist caricatures; and there is no pride in cultural appropriation. Because my culture is …
The company on Wednesday reported a loss of 126,000 domestic paid subscribers compared with analysts' expectations for a 352,000 gain. Netflix also missed its own forecast for global subscri…
Christopher Mattaliano, who was hired as general director in 2003, will instead become an artistic consultant for the opera company, starting with the upcoming 2019-20 season. Effective imme…
"The urge to rank and measure might itself seem anti-intellectual"more Top Trumps than top scholarship. But the aim is not to chase a chimera still less to deliver the results of some suppos…
How arts organizations leverage mobile technology to remove physical, cultural and perceptual barriers for audiences.
The show that the producers dreamed up, called "Molly of Denali," ended up becoming a PBS cartoon about a 10-year-old Athabascan girl with a video blog about life in rural Alaska. PBS says i…
Call-out and outrage culture make it harder for comedies to pass muster with the vigilantes of social media. " Philadelphia Inquirer
"There is a competition amongst Chinese cities to create new destinations, each with their iconic cultural landmarks," said Claude Godefroy, design director at Henning Larsen's Hong Kong off…
Ahdaf Soueif: "Public cultural institutions have a responsibility: not only a professional one towards their work, but a moral one in the way they position themselves in relation to ethical …
The move follows a widely publicized protest PAIN Sackler held together with the French group Aides Paris outside the Louvre. On July 1, the activists gathered outside the museum's central p…
Basically " burnout. The need to be on all the time. It's not just performances, it's the living life in public on social media, creating a persona and constantly interacting with a public y…
The majority of respondents (65%) said they are more comfortable expressing their emotions through emojis than a phone call. That number rises to 83% among Gen Z users, who represent the lar…
It looks like HBO's back, piling up a whopping 137 nominations to Netflix's 117, with Game of Thrones, Chernobyl and Barry among the big leaders (but with Veep rather fa…