Linda Yablonsky: "Considerate" and "pleasant" are not words I ever expected to apply to a show that carries outrage and upset in its historical baggage. With works by 75 participants, this b…
Vescovo, the Dallas-based co-founder of Insight Equity Holdings, a private equity fund, found the manmade material on the ocean floor and is trying to confirm that it is plastic. " The Guard…
Bill Murray and zombies, Afghanistan, football. It's an eclectic (to say the least) lineup this year. " The Guardian
"Science tends to advance sometimes in major jumps. Something is discovered, some mystery is solved, some system is for the first time understood and can be duplicated. When that happens, sc…
"A recent study finds that such people are particularly good at imagining events that are far removed from their current reality. That imagination is, in a sense, their superpower, and it al…
Reporting to and working closely with the board of directors, the Executive Director (ED), in partnership with the Artistic Director, will be responsible for the overall success and creative…
Sean Daniels passes on a Joe Haj list constituting a recipe for being a successful artistic director of a theatre. Some are common sense (don't be an asshole). Others reflect a bit more psyc…
Tech has sold us on the idea of making things easier, of reducing the friction in our lives. But friction is how we sharpen up, get better, figure things out. It turns out that making things…
Todd Purdam: "Doris Day, who died Monday at 97, was always underrated"the girl next door whose peaches-and-cream good looks, 1,000-watt smile, and sinuous, molten singing voice were so often…
"Instead of holding up a few isolated women as exceptions to the rule of male genius, we owe it to that audience to raise up a crowd: sharing, teaching, citing, and celebrating them despite …
The broadcaster is developing a "public service algorithm" that's "built to surprise you," said the BBC's director of radio and education James Purnell.His hope is that audiences will stumbl…
President Emmanuel Macron said last month he was not opposed to a "a contemporary architectural gesture" that could make Notre-Dame "even more beautiful". But many in France have calle…
"Conway's breakout role was on the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, as a bumbling ensign in World War II. On The Carol Burnett Show he played Mr. Tudball, a heavily-accented boss perpetu…
"It has been said, indeed, that the eighteenth century was less the Age of Reason than the Age of Feelings"because so many Enlightenment thinkers took pride in recognizing the importance of …
'The Reformation and Counter-Reformation participated in parallel projects of religious discipline: while Catholics disciplined populations to believe, Protestants disciplined populations of…
By linking brain activity to an image or sound in real time, we can use simple game-like techniques to get people to train themselves to forge new neural connections and voluntarily adopt (o…
More than a century later, Chaminade and her music have been largely expunged from history, and the societies named for her have disappeared " all except one: the Chaminade Music Club of Yon…
The Local Television Satellite Solution that provided free service to Canadians who lost signals when TV transitioned from analog to digital in 2011 could end this year.
The Welsh government is proposing a new curriculum in which schools would be required to provide a "broad and balanced curriculum" in which the arts would become one of six core "areas…
In the years following Ader's disappearance, rumors began to swirl that it was a deliberate act that was part of the artwork. But, Anderson Ader denies this. She said her husband was making …
"There are a lot of ways our music can come into contact with others, but there isn't a lot of consistency in our field at large for how we evaluate works and provide opportunities for compo…
"Certainly we need to continue to push for diversity in all our organizations. Â But I do believe we need to recognize the structural limitations of our field as those limitations impact o…
Once upon a time, it was not just that philosophy was a part of science; rather, science was a branch of philosophy. We need to remember that modern science began as natural philosophy " a d…
"One of the oddities of this whole business is the unmistakable note of relief in so many discussions about it. In the odd cult of people who spend many nights sitting in front of symphony o…
"Academe, as anyone knows who's tried to leave it, is like a partner who is wrenchingly hard to quit. When it was good, it was amazing. God, the highs! The horizon of your happiness seemed u…