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Celebrating Orchestra Musicians' Inspiring Community Work - The League of American Orchestras is now accepting applications for the 2019 Ford Musician Awards!
Webster University seeks a talented and creative leader in the arts to serve as the dean of the Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts.
The art market is tied to the system of uniqueness. It is still hard to sell digital files on sticks. But uniqueness contradicts with the nature of digital work, as digital files are identic…
“A simple thought experiment illustrates the point. If asked to define black literature, you would likely"and promptly"invoke Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison …
Previously these communities were imposed on us, along with their mental weather. Now we chose them " or believed we did. A person might join a site to look at pictures of her nephew and fiv…
Sociologists Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport have studied the ways that protest tactics and schemes have spread out of political culture and into other spaces, especially entertainment. Th…
The documentary focuses on a 1939 pro-Nazi rally in New York and warns that fascism could happen here. The movie – A Night At The Garden – is competing in the documentary categor…
For us, time is a sequence of events, a measure of gradually changing content. That explains why we remember recent events better than ones from long ago, and why when a certain memory comes…
Adams has seven Grammys and 16 albums, and was seen as a champion of women artists’ careers. But some now say that Adams's rock-star patronage masked a darker reality. In interviews, s…
“What I don't understand is why everyone in this business thinks there is one template that is gonna be the unified field theory of "windowing" [or how long a movie screens in theaters…
So what happened? Instagram has now tweeted that the follower loss was not the result of a fake user account culling, but instead due to a glitch they are still looking in to. – Fa…
Every great city has a vibrant arts and craft culture, and schools and colleges are a critical. In Portland, our art and craft worlds have suffered an ongoing erosion. Go to a public school …
Russell Crowe, not nominated for anything this year, chimed. "The Academy is removing cinematography, editing and make up from the televised show? This is just such a fundamentally stupid de…
Ostensibly the goal of the legislation is to protect the Russian internet from the US, which has an offensive cybersecurity strategy and lists Russia as one of the major sources of hacking a…
A human has finally notched up a win against our future robot overlords. Champion debater Harish Natarajan triumphed in a live showdown against IBM’s Miss Debater AI at the company&…
Michael Philips: “If ABC and the Oscars keep this up, by 2028 we may be watching a 90-minute infomercial with no host, no technical or design awards, no sense of craft or history, and …
The founders are quick to point out that the word alphabet is used as a shorthand for many different writing systems. Abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, and pictographic systems are also i…
Roden Crater is located in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona, and has been under construction for 45 years. In the early 1970s, Turrell spent the night in the bowl of the e…
“It found students who took an elective arts class in sixth, seventh, or eighth grade had significantly higher grade point averages (GPAs), and better scores on standardized reading an…
The takeaway? Raising money in an arts philanthropy climate focused on issues like equity and access is not a zero-sum game. You can build a modern and expensive new building and roll out pr…
Although the red carpet has been a part of Hollywood premières since the silent era and a part of the Academy Awards since the early sixties, it became a beast unto itself in large part bec…
Neuroscience, it turns out, can help change how companies think about new opportunities, and specifically, within the emerging field of applied neuroscience. Applied neuroscience is be…
The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. among the world's best presentation for venues for dance, seeks Programming Manager.
“Look at any piece of city marketing material, from promo videos to airline magazine ad inserts. It's amazing how so many of them rely on the same basic ingredients: hipster coffee sho…
Something that sets us apart from these ancestors and primate relatives, and should be of special interest to anthropology, is our unique propensity to laugh. Laughter is a paradox. We all k…
