"In a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Alabama, the estate argued that Mr. Sorkin's adaptation deviates too much from the novel, and violates a contract, between Ms. Lee and the p…
One answer is that academe's devastation since the late 1990s has rendered it too grim and vulnerable a target for satirists. The gutting of public universities by right-wing politicians, th…
People think that to appreciate jazz you have to take ten years of music theory. Really, jazz or any kind of improvisational music, when done right, is simply a conversation without words. I…
Properly conceived, leisure could be the ultimate social safety net for an era of technologically driven uncertainty. It is potentially a space for bootstrapping new "careers," which may or …
Helmed by the Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones, NCI is a two-week boot camp for early and mid-career arts writers to strengthen their skills. Apply by April 23. Scholarships available, no fee t…
Built into the standard conception of rationality are two fundamental assumptions. The first is that there is a best way for any life to be. The second is a more technical assumption "…
Using the Vulcan printer, ICON can print an entire home for $10,000 and plans to bring costs down to $4,000 per house. "It's much cheaper than the typical American home." It's capable of pri…
Seven months after the death of Joan, his wife of almost 70 years, beset with pneumonia, the apparent victim of gross financial malfeasance and surrounded by a panoply of Hollywood charlatan…
That number isn't a shock " Netflix has been clear about the importance of TVs for a long time, and it's why the company has spent a lot of energy working out integration deals with pay T…
"In the past decade, film criticism has become better than ever, by which I don't mean that every critic writing is better than those of the past but that criticism is better over all"more c…
Nonprofits generally don't create their own elaborate art to rally more community support. Most have limited budgets, which necessitates putting time, money, and effort into programming firs…
For all categories of information " politics, entertainment, business and so on " we found that false stories spread significantly farther, faster and more broadly than did true ones. Falseh…
Shaped like an enormous, flattened pyramid, it will challenge the Eiffel Tower for dominance of the skyline. Neighborhood residents violently oppose it. The project's Swiss architects, Jacqu…
Among other provisions, the bill would eliminate the position of state secretary for Education and the Arts, which is currently held by Gayle Manchin, wife of Sen. Joe Manchin (D…
Not long ago, the scientists and software developers who pioneered the World Wide Web thought it would democratize publishing and usher in a more open, educated and thoughtful chapter of his…
Director of Facility Operations for Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre (YSD/YRT). Serves as strategic partner to YSD/YRT senior leadership; develops and implements strategies, prior…
Zachary Woolfe: "The centrality afforded to conductors makes them appear indispensable. It inclines institutions to look past obvious problems and try their best to make their relationships …
Two of the women have described incidents over the past 10 years in which they were sent to Mr. Meier's New York apartment, where he exposed himself, according to interviews with one of the …
They need to allow their audience to narrow to those folks who actually care about movies, and stop trying to appease the viewers who only tune in when massive hits they've already bought an…
"Many a scholar will have a hard time admitting this point, but, beyond the academy, there's not a single skill set that would be enhanced by reading Virgil. A mechanic or surgeon who reads …
"I don't believe polyphony is dead, but I do think the future of choral music will embrace techniques that preserve the horizontal approach to writing, while maintaining accessibility and no…
How can video games be confused for reality when its players view them as escapism and freedom from reality? In their book Rules of Play, scholars Katie Salen TekinbaÅŸ and Eric Zimmerm…
"Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue," Tom Nichols would write in the preface to The Death of Expertise: T…
HBO Programming President Casey Bloys warned of the growing cost of high-end drama. "As a show goes on they get more expensive and as shows get more ambitious they will get more expensive. M…
The prestigious and internationally acclaimed Miami City Ballet seeks an Executive Director to partner with the Artistic Director and the Board in setting the overall vision and strategy for…