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Cuyahoga Arts and Culture CEO and executive director Karen Gahl-Mills has resigned, effective June 7, according to a press release sent this morning, April 18. In a challenging atmospher…
"If someone hands you a million dollars, they expect you to turn out an amazing product. It's a huge thing to carry on your shoulders."
The secret of an effective pricing strategy is differentiation and airlines do this on a number of levels, harnessing as many of the factors that affect demand for flights as they can.
"Based on my reporting, my own experience, and interviews with more than a dozen writers, the current median price for a freelancer's work is between 25 and 50 cents per word (though, to be …
It's sad but true that many people denigrate and distrust their own reactions to classical music out of fear that they don't "know enough," and that other, more sophisticated folks know more…
In our new era of Enlightenment, we need Romanticism again. In his speech 'Politics and Conscience' (1984), the Czech dissident Václav Havel, discussing factories and smokestacks on the h…
"Few people play instruments, and music at home emerges from digital machines, controlled by buttons that require no musical culture to be pressed. For many people, the young especially, mus…
One philosophy professor, Chen Bo of Peking University, conducted a survey along with Susan Haack of the University of Miami, at the behest of a Chinese publisher seeking important philosoph…
"Civilizations," like "Ways of Seeing," is an attempt to update Clark's series. But it's also an unprecedented undertaking in the annals of television. Unlike "Civilisation," which was focus…
In the run-up to H-Day, each local municipality had to deal with issues ranging from repainting road markings to relocating bus stops and traffic lights, and redesigning intersections, bicyc…
Artificial intelligence is a very powerful technology, and there is an arms race going on. Fast forward 20 years into the future and one of the players could have won the race. China is more…
"Lamar's historic win figures in the grander, affected consecration of blackness within élite spaces"exemplified, I think, by the "thousand flowers of expectation" blooming in Kehinde Wiley…
The music Pulitzer was an obscure bauble coveted only by the people who cared about it, of which there were not many. Forget the big reporting and magazine awards; even the poetry Pulitzer m…
In London, the Elgin Marbles were hidden in Aldwych tube station " although, alarmingly, it was later revealed it wouldn't have withstood a direct hit. In Paris, the Louvre was emptied out i…
Matatu are the privately owned buses that have transported at least 60 percent of Nairobi's population since the early '60s. The word matatu comes from the Kikuyu word for "three," referring…
"In their daily lives, people interact with all kinds of popular storytelling visual forms, most of which are maybe not what we have historically called fine art. Our purpose as a museum is …
"To understand what went wrong " how the Silicon Valley dream of building a networked utopia turned into a globalized strip-mall casino overrun by pop-up ads and cyberbullies and Vladimir Pu…
Since MoviePass slashed its monthly subscription costs last August from $50 to $9.95, its user base has exploded from roughly 20,000 to more than 2 million. In the process, it's become the f…
Strathmore, a Montgomery County nonprofit multidisciplinary arts center, seeks a visionary, expansive, ethical, and collaborative Chief Executive Officer to partner with its board of directo…
"The midcentury ideal " of literature as an aesthetically and philosophically complex activity, and of criticism as its engaged and admiring decoding " is gone. In its place stands the idea …
There will, no doubt, be many who oppose the decision. Chagall's lofty position in the pantheon of Modern art is equalled by few, and bested by maybe only two: Pablo Picasso and Henri Matiss…
The advances of modern imaging technology mean that we no longer have to guess what the brain is up to. Our innermost thoughts and character are on display, and via scans that lay bare who h…
New research suggests the roots of friendship extend even deeper than previously suspected. Scientists have found that the brains of close friends respond in remarkably similar ways as they …
Even as Instagram surges ahead as the art world's social media platform of choice, and artificial intelligence is examined for its potential for luring buyers, the overall picture is downbea…
France's protectionist laws, which require a 36-month window between a film's theatrical opening and its streaming debut, seem like the last gasp of a rapidly dying era. And the manner in wh…
