As online learning extends its reach, though, it is starting to run into a major obstacle: There are undeniable advantages, as traditional colleges have long known, to learning in a shared p…
Here's how a dispenser works: It is shaped like a cylinder with three buttons on top indicating a "one minute," "three minute" or "five minute" story. (That's how long it takes to read.) Whe…
The new team chose two of the six premieres City Ballet will present in the 2018-19 season, reaching beyond the traditional ballet world to commission works by Kyle Abraham and Emma Portner.…
Artisan's Asylum, a Somerville makerspace, seeks organized and resilient Executive Director to supervise all aspects of the organization's operations, programs, fundraising, public visibilit…
Although differences emerge within the sector, the overall picture is of a homogenous workforce whose social networks are largely limited to other culture professionals and whose values a…
The percentage of people working in publishing with working-class origins was given as 12.6%. In film, TV and radio it was 12.4%, and in music, performing and visual arts, 18.2%. "Aside from…
"We have been friends for years, our families have stayed with each other and I believed we were close," James White wrote to Marlowe Goring after his visit. "That is why I have tried to bel…
"As the world becomes more hostile to us all as artists, you must find that thing in making art that brings you as much peace as reifying my deeper self does for me. Not the thing about thea…
By putting its movies online immediately, the streaming service represents an existential threat to the French theater industry's business; the Cannes rule change is just the latter's mode o…
The Pulitzer for music, which was first awarded in 1943, generally goes to contemporary classical music; a quick scan through the list of previous winners reveals a lot of operas and s…
Various studies point to the conclusion that subjecting the mind to formal discipline " as when studying geometry or Latin " does not, in general, engender a broad transfer of learning. Ther…
The disorienting and thoroughly unsatisfying Cambridge Analytica saga is a preview of what trailing indicators of the collapse of the data boom might look like: revealing signs, evident year…
As much as I share the Bay Area's love for these two great museums, I see endemic weaknesses that threaten their otherwise promising future. The Fine Arts Museums' board cannot control the a…
Few creators have left as profound a mark on popular culture. According to The-Numbers, a box office data site, films featuring Mr. Lee's superheroes have grossed more than $24 billion wo…
The company is competing against a range of traditional entertainment companies around the globe, and of course, against the need to work, sleep and do other things. Speaking at TED in Vanco…
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," a two-part drama now in previews and opening April 22, cost about $68.5 million to bring to Broadway, including not only $35.5 million to capitalize the …
"I'm leery of any musician who doesn't admit to going through a period of trying to emulate their musical idols, or their favorite performance of a piece, or even just trying to match what y…
Rebeat Innovation is creating "HD vinyl" that the company claims will have "30 percent more playing time, 30 percent more amplitude, and overall more faithful sound reproduction."
In a world where Banksy street-pieces " essentially, illegally created public art " cut from buildings can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars, proprietary domain is a hot-button issue…
At first glance, the case looked like a fairly straightforward dispute"a small, non-profit education publishing company alleged that FedEx violated its copyright by printing copies of its ma…
Talk to orchestra leaders around the country, and you find a new consensus about what community work means: a new approach to an orchestra's role, even a new approach to training musicians. …
Univision has billions in debt left from its leveraged buyout a decade ago, and is struggling with the same headwinds facing all linear operators. The company also made an aggressive play fo…
Two past winners were among the six authors whose books were placed on the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize on Thursday.
Economic impact was calculated using the amount spent by the arts institutions and by visitors, both "directly," at the arts venues and "indirectly," at other businesses such as restaurants,…
The line between subjective truth and propaganda is as old as war, politics and religion, but what's disquieting today is the velocity at which it moves, and how impossible it is to shove th…