The report said "cultural diplomacy" " the exchange of ideas, art and culture across borders outside of official political channels " should take a central role in Canada's relation…
The siloed age of television has arrived, a time when people will be paying six or seven different monthly fees, if not more, to keep abreast of pop culture"and the cost will end up approxim…
"We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains. The results raise the possibility that these sounds, which are embed…
The group announced on its social media platforms today that the archive"consisting mostly of unfinished music and clips from the mid-90s"had been stolen last week. The hacker, or hackers, d…
Amada Cruz comes to Seattle after leading the Phoenix Art Museum. " Seattle Times
"Some members felt that the proposals were signalling a profound shift from 'Great Art and Culture for Everyone' to 'Everyone has the right to access some art and culture'." They "felt very …
UMG's accounting of its losses, detailed in a March 2009 document marked "CONFIDENTIAL," put the number of "assets destroyed" at 118,230. Randy Aronson considers that estimate low: The real …
Founded in 1971, the worldwide chain enjoyed decades of dominance in the book retail market " until the internet blew up. " New York Magazine
By depriving ourselves of face-to-face contact with others, we widen the sea of angst that no amount of "likes" can ever hope to bridge. This phenomenon is borne out by research into college…
"Emotions are more complex and socially determined than the simple positive-negative, strong-weak arousal model suggests. Even distinguishing fear, anxiety and disgust on physiological groun…
Cynthia Rider, who was executive director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 2013 to 2018, will begin her new job at Hartford Stage July 1, the theater announced Wednesday. " Hartford C…
Social media amplifies and speeds up interactions between audiences, media and stars, but YouTube and Twitter did not invent modern celebrity culture. That happened more than 150 years ago, …
"Today's linear economy is a straight line, no matter how efficient you make it. If you make a car with less material, if you make a car using less energy, you're still using stuff. You're s…
What was once a glittery subculture on the edge of gay culture has become one of our global pop preoccupations with its own hierarchy of stars and story lines for the fans to get behind, mar…
So if #MuellerLive was a cold read of a legal document without any attempt at acting value, was it theatre? It certainly was a performance: the airing of a document with the use of theatrica…
Toss a file and you'll hear the sound of crumpled paper hitting a wastebasket rim. Lock your iPhone and you'll hear a padlock snap. As Apple sound designer Hugo Verweij explained at a recent…
Barnes & Noble will probably never be the cultural and commercial force it once was, even if it doesn't end up quite those dire straits. It has missed too many opportunities by now. But …
Roberta Smith: "MoMA's imminent closing and reopening casts everything now on view in an unusual light. You can see the future bearing down on the museum's fabulous if blinkered past, which …
There's a disconnect between the insistence on the theater world's wokeness and the blandness and inoffensiveness of the show. Or perhaps there isn't. " The New York Times
For 15 years, MAKE: guided adults and children through step-by-step do-it-yourself crafting and science projects, and it was central to the maker movement. Since 2006, Maker Faire's …
The research shows that when we decide to use our phones to check work email, to check up on the kids or any other activities that have nothing to do with the festival, our satisfaction with…
Teaching autonomous cars to spot which objects are important and which aren't, and then know what to do about it, is a difficult thing. " Aeon
Music played an outsize role in the evolution of the internet. As Larry Lessig put in Free Culture: "Filesharing music was the crack cocaine of the internet's growth. It drove demand f…
Belonging to the London cluster made writers substantially more productive. The study found that "the average writer in London saw their productivity go up by 12 percent. By comparison, writ…
It's hard not to see the increased popularity of all these events, alongside the rise in physical book sales and the modest resurgence of vinyl, as part of a new preference for the tangible …