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The Art Newspaper compiles a list of shows by category. In top sport was Modern masterpieces from the Shchukin Collection"by Picasso, Matisse and Gauguin, among others"were seen by 1,205,…
Classical or art music has undergone a sea change over the last two decades or so. Music historians debate over when the Common Practice Period " characterized by tonality " began or ended e…
In 2008/09, the number of visitors to 15 museums funded by the central government was 39.7Â million. This increased every year to a high point of 50.8 million in 2014/15. The numbers have�…
It's a matter of sexual harassment and abuse being a major public health and safety issue in all sectors of our society, and wanting to do something about it, especially when the leade…
Contained within a walkable radius of historic downtown Knoxville " in a range of ornate landmark theaters, refurbished industrial spaces, art galleries, churches, and clubs " it creates its…
The case won by Chris Goldscheider has huge implications for the industry and the health and safety of musicians. It is the first time a judge has scrutinised the music industry's legal obli…
"As a composer, I believe that the best gift I can offer our troubled world is music. Some composers choose to address the political issues of their times directly in their music. But, altho…
One of the prototypes, called Project Scene Stitch, illustrates how an algorithm could be used to replace ugly buildings in the foreground of a photo"a user would enter some key words, and t…
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), an internationally recognized presenter of contemporary performing arts and cinema, is looking for our Associate Director, Development Operations and Analyti…
"It's a big question, when the word 'real' makes sense. An interesting possibility is that the whole distinction between real and unreal is misguided."
Researchers followed 147 Dutch schoolchildren"half of whom took supplemental music-education classes, along with their regular curriculum"for two-plus years, beginning at age six. "Children …
Airing fewer commercials could mean less revenue for the networks " unless they can convince advertisers that it's worth it to pay more to have their spots running in a less cluttered progra…
For these creators, a trade isn't just about paying the bills; it's something that grounds them in reality. In 2017, a day job might perform the same replenishing ministries as sleep or a lo…
What if composers, instead of translating into music what they see in dance and dancers, could build scores directly from their own bodies? Dancers master the art of embodying existing music…
The move is likely to interpreted as a further tightening of regulatory control of the film and TV sectors, and increased involvement of the Communist Party in media matters. That would be i…
Films with women or minorities in lead roles have led the box office 11 out of 12 weekends this year, according to data from Box Office Mojo, a site that tracks box office revenue. In the…
Crowd psychology has been around since the 19th Century. But it's only in the last few decades that there's been a major shift to seeing crowds as more than mindless masses. "The crowd is as…
MatÃas Tarnopolsky, 48, executive and artistic director of Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley since 2009, is set to become the Philadelphia Orchestra's new pres…
The biggest disparity was seen at Hachette UK, where the median gender pay gap was 24.71%, and the mean gender pay gap was 29.69%. Hachette attributed the imbalance to issues including the h…
Since he took power from the Muslim Brotherhood in a coup in 2013, the number of journalists and activists in jail has spiked as dissent against his regime has been roundly crushed; ma…
Taste buds are actually a collection of roughly 50 to 100 cells that come in three varieties, (each responsible for detecting different tastes"salty, sweet, bitter, umami, and sour) and have…
Since it was announced, the OPC has received strong pushback from people who say the Jackson Park location, which borders different neighborhoods, will destroy valuable green space while dri…
That's right, you can commune with the spirit of the Renaissance master in this Italian villa where Michelangelo Buonarroti once ambled through the garden, entertained his weekend gues…
Franklin Webster "proposed one of the most grandiose schemes that has ever been seriously suggested. His intention was to transform Washington, D.C., into a capital of such beauty and cultur…
The world's optimum population is less than two billion people " 5.6 billion fewer than on the planet today, he argues, and there is an increasing toxification of the entire planet by synthe…
