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Officials told reporters on Saturday at the site that the chambers, which were cut out of rock, belonged to a middle-class family who probably lived during the Ptolemaic, early Roman or Byza…
Everything The Yard does is underpinned by three values, Jay Miller said. The first is that "the stories we tell have to feel like they aren't being told by mainstream culture. The second is…
Students are actively integrated into a system that collects data about their behavior, quantifies it, and packages it for parents and the school itself. In an era of data rooms and standard…
Toronto’s Canadian Stage has been a success in the theatre, less so in its financial fortunes. So with new leadership, maybe it’s time for a business upgrade rather than an artis…
"We can't have it both ways. We can't keep saying we're a wonderfully endowed cultural nation and boast about our artists and our poets and our writers and everything on the one hand, and th…
Doug Shipman " the founding CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights before taking over running Atlanta’s Woodruff Center " seems the right person to carry the momentum forward int…
“Our breakthrough moment was when we took ownership of the fact that we didn't need to write a "social impact statement" (which might be seen as competing with our mission statement). …
Beyond its handful of higher-profile productions, including a feature film coming this spring, Wattpad estimates that nearly 1,000 of its stories have been turned intotraditional books, TV s…
If every age has its version of apocalypse, the soft tragedy of our own is that it can no longer be safely situated in the future. Our end-times, instead, lurk among us, furtive and fierce a…
While Aristotle suggests that gossiping was frequently a trivial, enjoyable pastime, he also makes clear that gossiping could have malicious intent when spoken by someone who has been wronge…
Cornish officials believe theirs is the first arts school to reset its tuition rates alongside a growing list of small, private, liberal arts schools like the Cleveland Institute of Music, M…
So are things getting better or worse? Both, evidently"different things for different people in different places. And which way of answering the question is best: compiling statistics, or co…
First, an idea, while unpleasant, may well be correct or true, in which case we gain insight by being exposed to it. And even if it is only partially true, it can help us reach a more comple…
At a time when half of all book purchases in the U.S. are made on Amazon " and many of those on mobile " the first job of a book cover, after gesturing at the content inside, is to look grea…
"I haven't seen a dumbing down of anything " at least not yet. Looking at new projects, you have to think about who is writing it and who is going to be involved. But I see the rising compet…
The history of ideas, in fact, suggests the opposite… The assumption that the last 50 years or so have marked some unprecedented break with a previous age of truth reflects both an ina…
Lionel Shriver: “For reasons that escape me, artists' misbehavior now contaminates the fruits of their labors, like the sins of the father being visited upon the sons. So it's not enou…
In 2019, Sundance is arguably more mainstream than ever. Many options at the festival this year are the kinds of projects major studios used to make all of the time"crowd-pleasing comedies, …
"A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast was in 1980," says a new paper, published last week in the journal Science. "Useful forecasts now reach nine to 10 d…
What was new here was that formerly fringe filmmakers were now getting big crossover deals and gushy reviews, redefining indie cinema in the public consciousness. This began a snowball effec…
Graham Daseler: “The good news is that cultural appropriation is here to stay, no matter how many angry Twitter mobs come to kill it. Critics of the practice can't even state their gri…
The sheet with the thumbprint is entitled The Cardiovascular System and Principal Organs of a Woman (around 1509-10). Although fingerprints have been found on other Leonardo drawings, the on…
Mr. DeRogatis veers from expletive-laden indignation to choked-back tears when describing the effects of Mr. Kelly's alleged behavior with what he estimates to be at least 48 women. But he h…
How do your own implicit biases shape the abilities you develop and the opportunities you pursue? What effects do they have on your own mental health? How can we be liberated from the constr…
The move may signal a wider expansion by the streaming giant into capturing theatre for the small screen, which experts say could see it capitalise on a demand for more accessible ways to wa…
