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Since 2014, the year Russia took Crimea from Ukraine and annexed it, Russia's prominent cultural figures, writers, artists, gallery owners, musicians, film-makers, and journalists have been …
After obtaining permission to study art in the 1980s – largely through books and postcard reproductions of the great works obtained from galleries – Sister Wendy decided to write…
The ability to interpret data and analyze and communicate ideas about that data through design"has never been more important. 2018 brought a wealth of remarkable visualization work to the fo…
We live less in an "age of wonder" than we do in an age of anger, anxiety and fear; the age of the weaponized tweet and horrific push notification. I don't believe that one can die from lack…
Wit, whether visual or verbal, can make the commonplace uncommon again by breaking the habits that render perception routine. We tend to define the quality of wit as merely being deft with a…
The opera house, which has been strongly criticised over the treatment of women in at least one recent production, has pledged to lead the way in making the art form fit for the future…
Movie-ticket revenue in the United States has risen 8 percent in 2018. That puts the industry on track for the largest year-to-year increase of the domestic box office in nearly a decade " a…
It got more expensive to go to the movies, and ticket prices hit a new high, averaging $9.38 over the summer. But it's not just the rising cost of admission accounting for the surge. Atte…
How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority…
You may be surprised to learn that those big, prominent nonprofits soliciting your holiday donations, and maybe a place in your will, are very profitable for the administrators (and in some …
“I've noticed a common thread. It's the theme of terra firma not being so firma"of finding cracks in a foundation you thought was rock solid, whether the U.S. Constitution, a time-test…
“We came to Greensboro to attend a group exhibition presented by a cohort of artist residents whose blend of style and performance provoked laughter one minute and tears the next. Thei…
This year, rock and roll seems bored with itself. The most successful acts of the past few years have been bands bristling at the boundaries of the guitar, bass, and drums setup. The genre's…
Sometimes the meaning of a gesture is obvious, but mostly we have to know the culture before we can interpret it. Many are so unconscious that there's a pleasure of recognition when we encou…
Manipulation of our media environment by foreign as well as domestic actors is now the new normal. "If anything has changed since 2016,"Â writes one experienced reporter, "it's that social…
Despite the occasional marketing hurdle, clearly these books are selling just fine. That's the surprising thing about all of these supposedly irreverent titles. The premise of their humor is…
The technique, known as "awake craniotomy," allows doctors to operate on delicate areas of the brain " like the right frontal lobe, the site of Mr. Manzini's tumor " without causing damage. …
By using music’s unique ability to imprint on the human brain, Twedt’s result is a sonic map that can help us understand how climate change is upending our world, just by listeni…
The decline in subscribers is upending the already fragile economics of opera, changing how companies operate and what they program. Lyric now gives a quarter fewer main stage opera performa…
When Bach's heavy reliance on parody technique came to light in the nineteenth century, scholars found it embarrassing. It ran counter to the Beethovenian principle that composers must write…
A writer I admire once told me, "few people have an imagination when it comes to their lives." I loved this. It flipped the notion that everyone was doing life right except for me "�
The tradition has its roots in religion, of course, but also in immigration patterns. At the beginning of the 20th century, Jewish people were one of the largest non-Christian immigrant grou…
The most common method for evaluating a candidate's potential is the unstructured job interview, which is a weak predictor of future job performance. The interview is especially used to a…
The authority shared the call for submissions on Twitter earlier this month, asking: "Do you have a passion for design and creative branding development? Can you create a simple but visually…
Can computers actually think? Well, they are designed to perform functions that humans perform through thinking. They expertly process information, present it at appropriate points in a conv…
