"Normality" took a battering in the second half of the 20th century. Lots of people were angry about it and did their level best either to tear it down or render it definitively gauche. Who …
The median individual income of Canada's artists is $23,100, or 45 per cent less than all Canadian workers ($41,900). A typical artist has employment income of just $15,000, a figure that is…
Under Antoni Cimolino's tenure as artistic director, the Ontario institution has seen six consecutive surpluses and attendance surpass the 500,000 mark. " Toronto Star
Questions that historians and literary critics used to debate are increasingly scooped up by quantitative disciplines. In 2011, for instance, a team led by evolutionary biologists cooperated…
The books are startlingly intimate, exploring things he felt he couldn't convey in film. "In order to go back to the beginning, to explore with such startling intimacy the archetype of all t…
Richard North Patterson: "The aim of the novelist is to enlist others in his fantasies, immersing them in an alternative reality so emotionally compelling that they willingly suspend disbeli…
Unlike a painting or the written score of a symphony, a dance is uniquely fragile because there is no foolproof way to preserve it and steps are easily forgotten. Even a complete work can be…
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Landon has been labeled "the female Byron" and "the Sappho of a polished age." But the public figure she probably most closely resembles is Britney Spears. The two had the same gimmick: Enti…
James Parker has been reading it since it first came out, and finds that it still resonates. Find your own personal canon, he writes, and you discover and rediscover new things over the year…
No, they didn't mean to. They weren't angry or anything. But it was paper, after all. In the courtyard of the Louvre. Outside. And there were soooo many people. " The Guardian
It's a fancy configurable space in the middle of the mega-billion-dollar New York luxury development that says it wants to be an art space that "doesn't compete with anything else." Early on…
Golden ages are frequently proclaimed, but a glance at the selection of television options suggests something new is happening. Even for those of us who spend most of our recreational hours …
"Trigger warnings are, at best, trivially helpful," writes a research team led by psychologist Mevagh Sanson of the University of Waikato. The paper finds they "have no effect, or might even…
An important reason for the survival of the Western is that it has proved to be unusually adaptable to changing times and sensibilities. Younger filmmakers continue to find fresh ways to mak…
We've moved far beyond the DYI days of tech-integrated engagement with audiences. As the technology becomes higher level and more complex, it moves further way from the art. " The Art Newspa…
If the goal is for them to understand us people in order to perform tasks for us they must be programmed to have their own emotional life and the insight that the ability to abstract is a hu…
While many people over a certain age may see social media influencers as the demon spawn of P.T. Barnum and David Ogilvy, it has emerged as a significant advertising tool. According to a…
Like all architecture, abandoned and ruined spaces are animated by what people want from them. They can be massive economic boons or cynical attempts to cloak a neighborhood's rapid socioeco…
One of the aims of the ensemble is to show young disabled people that they can pursue a career in music. As percussion player Philip Howells said: "Don't lost sight of who you want to be to …
Apple News+ threatens to open a massive hole in news site paywalls, allowing their best premium articles to escape. Publishers hope they'll get exposure to new audiences. But any potential n…
A person who thinks of Daniel Barenboim solely as an artist might be tempted to explain or excuse his behavior: as a result of the "Latin-American blood in my body" (his, rather offensive, w…
In a previous world, perhaps one could imagine that a million bloggers would spring up to fill the void left by all the actual reporting jobs disappearing, but that clearly did not and is no…
The Autry will put out a call for proposals for the "revitalization and creative reuse" of L.A.'s oldest museum, a 12-acre campus near the Mount Washington-Highland Park border, plus the mus…
The British soprano Anna Patalong donned the yellow-and-blue outfit, along with a necklace of gold stars redolent of the EU flag, for a Classical Spectacular performance on Saturday after ta…