"Initiatives to promote arts engagement in children may provide a practical and efficient way to improve children's self-esteem," report Hei Wan Makand Daisy Fancourt of University …
Recently Red Bull announced it would stop funding its music academy that promoted World Music. "These days, experimental art often views corporate largesse as necessary. The closing was a re…
Water levels in the River Elbe dropped so far that "hunger stones" were revealed " carved boulders used since the 1400sto commemorate droughts and warn of their consequences. One of the ston…
Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey of 2,791 adult American Twitter users, and the team's findings paint a stark contrast between those who are extremely online and those who …
Terry Teachout writes that the ideas " groundbreaking and shocking in their times, are now so familiar that they're boring. "To be sure, we live with their culture-changing consequences"we k…
He has been a consistent and articulate proponent of the arts at a time in which the field is under siege. His free-wheeling and improvisational approach belies a coherent underlying strateg…
David Shariatmadari does a good job taking his readers through the issues. " The Guardian
It occurred to historian Jamie Kreiner that the monks she studied spent a lot of their time trying to figure out how to stay focused. And maybe their advice might be useful to the present-da…
This story takes up the cases of several high-profile fires that have damaged cultural icons and asks: 1. why do we not seem to be more careful in taking care of them, and 2. when contemplat…
Apply to join the dynamic staff at OPERA America, the national service organization for opera. You could be the thought leader curating the way into the future of contemporary opera across t…
The writers' union's memo also claimed, "Most of the writers who haven't yet signed termination letters are retirees or no longer actively working." " New York Magazine
Alastair Macaulay: "What makes Ms. Farrell so important? Her place in Balanchine history is central: She inspired him to make some of his most radically modernist works; opened up fresh torr…
It's an amazingly fast shift in how people are watching. The amount they watch hasn't gone done, just how they access it. And, perhaps a shift in what they watch too. " CBC
"There is a common assumption that people stifle feelings of empathy because they could be depressing or costly. But we found that people primarily just don't want to make the mental effort …
It's easy to dive into a classic book and after awhile get the feeling you're reading something dull. Something… well, dumb. That may, of course be more about you and where you're coming f…
"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 …
Trow argued that the rise of television decimated the elite American intellectual community to which he had belonged as the far descendant of printing magnates, a Harvard graduate, and a mag…
Influence was worrisome long before it was digital. The word "influence" appears in a quarter of William Shakespeare's plays, in which the condition of being influenced is rarely happy or di…
"When people say that power corrupts… I don't happen to believe that. Power reveals. When you're on your way up, you have to conceal what you intend to do. Once you get power, then you …
In On Liberty (1859), John Stuart Mill offers the most compelling defence of freedom of speech, conscience and autonomy ever written. Mill argues that the only reason to restrict speec…
Coltrane is the archetypal creative obsessive intent on finding unheard approaches to the building blocks of music, from the arc of his melodies to the rhythmic drive of his solos to the har…
There are many ways to lead an orchestra, but whatever method you assume " that of a mystical shaman, a sports coach, a traffic cop or some combination of them all " Mark Wigglesworth insist…
Paula Kerger: Some in urban centers like New York and Washington, DC, might be able to get by with the money they get from other sources, including corporate underwriters and individual dona…
Actually, two statues are being replaced. Governor Asa Hutchinson says they are not being removed because of their controversial past, but rather because of a decision by the state "to updat…
"It takes a substantial walking tour to get a sense of the holdings, which amount to 9,000 cubic feet of files, images and who knows what else, according to Eileen Andrews, vice president fo…