Today, recommendation engines are perhaps the biggest threat to societal cohesion on the internet"and, as a result, one of the biggest threats to societal cohesion in the offline world, too.…
Much of the media focus has been on the size of the salary gaps. But what really tells the story about ingrained gender inequality is the disparity in bonus pay (men receive 67% more than wo…
The fundraising goal is gutsy for an organization of the Holocaust Museum's size and relative youth. Its operating expenses were $116 million in 2016, according to tax filings that reported …
One of the biggest stories in the art world in the past two or three years has been the rapidly growing number of female artists who are getting solo shows, career surveys and retrospectives…
"Some say the gap"between nerve cells and life, the brain and the mind, objective reality and the subjective"will never be understood, because such understanding is beyond our human capacity…
Julia F. Christensen, a neuroscientist at the The Warburg Institute at the University of London who studies people's responses to dance choreography, argued that many of us have been turned …
The census of American libraries spans a wonderful diversity of institutions, from modest municipal book rooms and mobile libraries to the grand collections of such hallowed places as the Mo…
There is an expectation of what the Irish novel should look like, the themes explored and the style in which it's delivered. And it's not that our present day authors are moving away from tr…
The Harry Potter play, based on a new story by author J.K. Rowling in collaboration with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, announced Monday that it had set a Broadway record for the strongest pr…
"There are two very different phenomena at play here, each of which subvert the flow of information in very distinct ways. Let's call them echo chambers and epistemic bubbles. Both are socia…
The reference to modern physics reminds us of a commonly cited fact " that philosophy came first and gave birth to science " that could in its own way seem to delegitimise or quickly answer …
Over the past months I spoke with 20 gatekeepers in the fiction world"agents, editors and publishers"to see whether they anticipate a change in the types of stories that shape the American n…
The 33 creditors listed range widely, including Artforum magazine, New York "global cultural communications company" Sutton PR, and the biennale's own accounting firm, Dagenais, Lapierre, Si…
Art creates pathways for subversion, for political understanding and solidarity among coalition builders. Art teaches us that lives other than our own have value. Like the proverbial court j…
The interim artistic director at the Alley Theatre is weighing the best response to the query of, "What will be Gregory Boyd's legacy?" Boyd, who left in January, helped grow the company's r…
Just because an academic field is timeless doesn't mean it should never change. If the humanities are ever to enjoy a true resurgence, it will come as a result of a reinvention that embraces…
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra seeks a Vice President, Marketing.
The historic Town Hall Theater in Middlebury invites applications and referrals for the position of Executive Director.Â
Most of the tickets to the blockbuster musical about Alexander Hamilton have been sold, but the Kennedy Center's handling of sales has been marked by confusion and complaints, with many patr…
Three members of the secretive committee that selects the winner of the Nobel prize for literature have resigned from the jury in protest at how it has handled the sexual harassment allegati…
Manipulated video will ultimately destroy faith in our strongest remaining tether to the idea of common reality. As Ian Goodfellow, a scientist at Google, told MIT Technology Review, "It'…
While disruptive innovation is inextricably linked to variations of business models and low-end market encroachment, radical innovation is reliant on organizational capabilities and individu…
I have discovered that most people, including any number of scientists, remain cloudy on the issues involved in struggles over consciousness. Another analytical philosopher, John Searle, has…
If script is dying, it cannot complain that its day has been short. Its solitary reign may have been ended by the printing press, but it lived on as a citizen in the new republic of letters:…
Mr. Buck, who died March 30 at 79 after a battle with cancer, was an instrumental figure in Buffalo's visual arts scene, both at the gallery and in the community. His decade-long stint as di…