Arts organizations continually seek to deepen the connection between art and audience. The deeper the connection, the more likely we are to have a positive arts experience...and keep coming …
The war for your attention is a zero-sum game. If Netflix retains four hours of your day, that's four hours HBO can't get. The way for companies to remain competitive is to ensure a never-en…
Douglas Rushkoff: "In some ways, we're all hostage to our technologies, or we're simply at the mercy of this system. We're being steamrolled by our devices, and the result is a kind of emoti…
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…
Joseph Giovannini: "What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of an institution whose history has been chaotic, whose architecture has been less than perfect, but that was at the …
Recent turnover in some of America's most important theatres has helped diversify leadership. And there's work to diversify boards and staff. But there's a long way to go to expand the audie…
Brexit's greatest impact on music looks likely to be on the live sector, both on British musicians going abroad, and on foreign artists and fans travelling to the UK. " The Guardian
This is how universities could break the tuition cost curve"by making the price of online degrees proportional to what colleges actually spend to operate the courses. So far, colleges have b…
The works for sale aren't unimportant. They're by Montreal native and Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson. They will be included in Heffel Fine Art Auction House's upcoming auctions, beginnin…
St. Olaf College in Minnesota has one. You can buy violin strings, rosin and reeds. One enthusiastic Reddit user said: "I was there a few weeks ago for a horn audition and actually bought…
There's Slow Food. There's Slow (Longform) Journalism. Now there's Slow Art. To get people in the mood for slow art, Christie's, the V&A and the Natural History Museum have been offering…
A non-profit had been doing so, in part because the state's library is under-resourced. But the state says it doesn't have the ability to check all the books that come in. Now Books to Priso…
Blue was once little-known in the Western palette. Homer's sea was "wine dark"; blue would not be used as water's color until the seventeenth century. It has evolved from its original associ…
Work on artificial intelligence suggests that our brains engage in constant battles between what we think we know versus what we actually experience. It's a kind of constant skepticism that …
Take creative expertise to the next level with classes in Finance, Marketing + Leadership. The MSLCE program at Northwestern University develops innovative and entrepreneurial business leade…
Chip Colwell: "As a museum curator and scholar of the repatriation movement, I am stunned by the pace of these unfolding events, which seemed unlikely not long ago. I now understand that the…
It's a $44 billion business. But recently there have been layoffs. Workers have no protection. And some parts of the workforce barely make $10 an hour. Not the picture you thought, right? " …
Christopher Knight: "What was once a project designed to add nearly 50,000 square feet of critically needed gallery space committed to showcasing the museum's impressive and still-growing pe…
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group, the Shed is meant to be the cultural giveback that compensates for the vulgar mess of the larger Yards project. Looking a bit like a …
"We kind of stepped off a cliff and proposed a multi-use, multi-genre space that wasn't devoted either to visual or performing arts, but could embrace that whole spectrum and anything we cou…
Pianist and teacher Thelma Wilson has performed for the Queen, taught thousands of students, and is the mother and wife in a family of illustrious musicians, including one of the founders of…
When Aubrey Bergauer arrived in 2014, the California Symphony was on the brink of financial collapse. Now, ticket sales have increased by 70 percent, concerts are frequently added to keep up…
Peter Marks: "In the absence of a White House that welcomes the nation's preeminent composers, painters, scholars and singers to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue " and let's face it, many of them wo…
It's "live coding" and it's already happening. "The code on display is used to control software algorithms. The musician synthesizes individual noises (snare hits, bass blobs) on their compu…
"In the event that the Academy " an association that includes multiple competitors in its membership " establishes certain eligibility requirements for the Oscars that eliminate competition …