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Yes, Ferlinghetti has scaled back his involvement with City Lights, where he shares an office with former City Lights Publishers editor Nancy Peters, co-owner of the store. But the celebrate…
All of the brain's place cells together represent the entirety of an animal's environment, and whichever place cell is active indicates its current location. In other words, the hippocampus …
"Facebook is now starting to take responsibility for the impact of their platform. And because of the impact of our platform, we feel a responsibility towards sustaining the galleries that m…
Whether these transgressions rise to the level of an offense against religious law is a debate best left to theologians. However, examining the worst sins of the philanthropic sector and pos…
"I'm a 40-year-old AIDS researcher who understands that Angels in America is not a particularly interesting or honest representation of those early years of the plague. Indeed, there h…
Stranger Things has proven to be the most popular streaming show in the world, leading all online offerings in average demand across nine out of 10 international markets. As Netflix…
"I don't believe that films that are given token qualifications, in a couple of theaters for less than a week, should qualify for Academy Award nominations," he said. "Once you commit to a t…
Well into his 30s in 1975, he formed a small orchestra of a dozen young musicians that would become the seed for El Sistema, or the System. Four decades later, the government-financed pro…
Of course reviews matter. That's easy and predictable enough for someone writing a review to say, but it can be proven. Reviews matter in two ways: as filters, and as shapers of opinion. In …
What is the line between art and commerce? It is an important question, given that art enjoys broader free speech protections than the latter. It's unlikely a Nike TV spot can successfully c…
"The increase in the number of network bodies in the Creative Scotland portfolio signals an acceptance of a model of competitiveness inherited from the Thatcherite government. We quite liked…
"I was by no means always an opera fan, and it was the singing that got me in the end. My grandmother and parents had taken me to see a couple of productions when I was younger in the hope o…
"The result of BA courses in curating will be a bunch of 21 year olds who will be theoretically savvy, but have little idea why particular works of art have a particular resonance at a parti…
"Pat Martino had brain surgery in 1980 to remove a tangle of malformed veins and arteries. At the time he was one of the most celebrated guitarists in jazz. Yet few people knew that Martino …
"The low status of dance in schools is derived in part from the high status of conventional academic work, which associates intelligence mainly with verbal and mathematical reasoning. The st…
"He rightly identifies one of the reasons behind the decline as being economic liberalism, which has led to the opening up of the Italian cultural sphere to private enterprise. He sees that …
The civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune will be the first African American figure to be honored with a monument in the National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol. Fit…
"Such groups are expanding their structures and missions, but for the successful artists who built them decades ago, doing so means making major changes to the way they've always operated. F…
"The final version of the federal budget was rolled out on Wednesday, and not only does it maintain funding levels for federal arts programs, it actually increases them. The NEA and NEH will…
Why are galleries that incubate emerging talent finding it so difficult to survive? Is it simply the pressure of rising rents in expensive cities like London and New York? Or is there a wide…
Calling all fundraisers: What is your favorite emerging digital fundraising tool? AMT Lab is conducting a national survey of arts organizations through April 6. Tell us about your work and i…
"Gone are the days of classical repertoire standing alone and just being enough," James Williams said. "This approach would cater for less than half the new audience that wants to learn more…
A field of advice columns that lob texts at people's troubles has flowered recently, from the Times' "Match Book" to Lit Hub's "Dear Book Therapist" to the Paris Review Daily's "Poetry…
A new report from UBS and Art Basel, The Art Market | 2018, found that the rate of galleries opening has fallen dramatically over the past decade. In 2017, just 0.9 galleries opened for…
What will cities be like when there are more women designing them? We are finally starting to find out. Women are scarce in the profession's upper echelons, but they make up more than 40 …
