Today, of course, the contents of Lot 664 are worth far more than that: The picture has since sold once for $127.5 million and again, in a record-setting auction at Christie's, for clo…
This is the story of the tumultuous and chaotic past year "based on interviews with 65 current and former employees. It's ultimately a story about the biggest shifts ever to take place insid…
The upside of winning is pleasure and glory, but the cost of always winning is never getting to know how much more was in you. The only way to find the limit is to cross it. But you can't lo…
"The place where Shakespeare lived in London gives us a more profound understanding of the inspirations for his work and life. Within a few years of migrating to London from Stratford, he wa…
Short answer: The Writers Guild of America asked them to. Longer answer: The Guild says agency practices have evolved to the detriment of writers and that writers are earning less as agents …
Sorey's work eludes the pinging radar of genre and style. Is it jazz? New classical music? Composition? Improvisation? Tonal? Atonal? Minimal? Maximal? Each term captures a part of what Sore…
So many things seem bleak. Politics, the environment, the growing wealth gap, climate change. It's enough to make anyone despair. But if you despair you become paralyzed. So how, exactly sho…
To be looking for bigger or better words is thought to be pretentious. But why? Isn't it better to be able to communicate with more precision? " The Outline
The world's biggest e-retailer would market the free music service through its voice-activated Echo speakers, sources say, and would offer a limited catalog. It could become available as ear…
With Bay Area-based tech companies scheduled to hold initial public offerings this year, the city of instant millionaires is about to have thousands of even newer millionaires. And many resi…
Twenty-first-century scholars at MITÂ ranked him the sixth most influential person who ever lived. Like Rembrandt and Michelangelo, he is so renowned that he is known by only his first nam…
The 300-plus volumes in the Richard Brautigan Library are private creations made publicly accessible, thanks to an impractical fictional concept that became an impractical reality, and resis…
We get that little jolt of pleasure when we share something online and the likes and comments pile up. It's addictive (and meant to be). But there's a case to be made that empty low-cost lik…
The reason these writers choose old-school tools is that when it comes to writing, computers are too efficient and make changing things too easy, and this ease can slow things down. Writing …
"I believe that good design can provide a critical inquiry into social responsibility and civic consciousness. Spaces should provide access to a collective consciousness, reflecting the time…
"While the legislation does not explicitly state so, it is widely assumed that to conform with the law, online platforms will have to install filters to prevent users from uploading copyrigh…
"As you all know, as you did and do and will do, in culture, we build bridges, not walls," he said. After his performance, he gestured to the bridge to his right. "I've lived my life at the …
As a busy soloist, a founding member of the influential Empire Brass quintet and a partner to the acoustic guitarist Frank Vignola in the jazz group Travelin' Light, Mr. Pilafian expan…
Farrell's return to the company's studios could be further evidence that its new leaders " Director Jonathan Stafford and Associate Director Wendy Whelan " are continuing to make changes for…
"Poetry has an inherent ability to not be linear, not be logical, be at times more about sound or suggestion than about direct meaning. This sounds a little bit like how the logic of dreams …
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Opportunities for the City of Ottawa O-Train Stage 2 Public Art Program
Disney has thought about itself primarily as a maker of content. Netflix? That was the railway carrying the content to market. But Netflix has moved into content-making in a big way. So Disn…
The findings follow years of mounting frustration from grant applicants with the "nightmare" system: the 'Grantium' hashtag on Twitter reveals virtually no positive tweets. One user…
Indeed, they do. The worst environmental disasters " the ones that killed the most people " were often deliberately worsened by predatory governments, companies and individuals. Societies th…