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The prison library program will give each of the 1,000 prisons the same 500-book collection selected by the project's leaders. The collections, which Dr. Alexander called "freedom libraries,…
India has banned video-sharing social network TikTok and messaging platform WeChat along with 57 other Chinese developed apps over national security and privacy concerns, as tensions between…
"The only thing that really matters in life is your progeny, the people who come after you, the people you send out to the world. They're either toxic or nontoxic." " Los Angeles Times
Laurence Tomei and Douglas Nelson say that, as mentioned, online undergraduate classes should have no more than 12 students. In person, on campus classes should be no larger than 18 students…
Amazingly, not only has the group continued the girls' education online, it has used the constraints to its advantage by bringing in guest artists for master classes and increasing one-on-on…
Something is palpably different among playwrights of the millennial generation, who are envisioning, demanding and conjuring into existence a new and more diverse spectatorship. Their relati…
Independent presses around the country said that sales are starting to rebound after two months of declines, due to direct sales, digital initiatives, and a resurgence in demand for topical …
What is increasingly clear is the necessity for new hybrid models in arts funding, based on broadening the donor base, more imaginative financial planning, and development strategies for the…
Shifts in consumer behavior have been gnawing away at the classic enclosed suburban mall format for many years; then the pandemic completely upended in-person shopping. Converting commercial…
Between 2009 and 2016, the newspapers and poetry magazines published review articles by non-white critics 190 times " 4% of the total for those years. Between 2017 and 2019, non-white critic…
Glaser scrawled the first draft of the logo in the back of a cab, in 1976, red ink on a scrap of envelope; the sketch is now, fittingly, in the possession of the Museum of Modern Art. He mad…
For most people most of the time, our perception certainly feels real. But the notion that our senses capture an objective external reality can be dispelled by considering something as funda…
Driverless cars are catnip for the Silicon Valley monopolists. The average commute is dead space because their target is too busy driving to take in advertising or interact with any informat…
Scandinavia is taking the most innovative approach to the notion of the drive-in festival. Between August 21 and 26, in the Swedish town of Karlskrona, the Carl International Film Festival w…
Mr. Reiner gained a national following in the 1950s as a brilliant straight man opposite Sid Caesar on influential TV comedy programs, directed movies that launched Steve Martin's film caree…
"Without it, production " especially independent production " cannot resume on a significant level. We urge Congress to develop a program of federal insurance (or guarantee to fill this gap)…
"We need to recognize that the business of the arts is not like an automotive assembly line that regularly turns out new homologated "products" for eager consumers. The play is not the thing…
Behind the scenes, the media faced a genuine crisis over and above its ordinary instability. Publications folded, mass layoffs ensued, and with months of pre-written content suddenly obsolet…
Generally speaking, an innovation is more than an idea and more than an invention. Yet beyond that, things get confusing. We live in a moment when we're barraged by new stuff every day " new…
On Monday, Tabitha Jackson, the festival's director, unveiled her preliminary plans for the 2021 edition, a gathering expected to take place under social distancing restrictions and with a C…
Though Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time. His projects and endeavors during the p…
Amy Helm: "It's interesting as a musician to go to so many different places and play for so many different people and have such a direct connection with them. That's not something you get in…
The event organizer has been badly affected by lockdowns and bans on public gatherings in recent months as governments have tried to restrict the spread of the coronavirus. The MCH group dec…
For performing arts venues where a high level of public funding is invested, this may be the time to let go of the myth that somehow, a member of the audience of venue A is exclusive to that…
A three-day "herd immunity" music festival scheduled to take place in Ringle, Wisconsin, in mid-July is taking this energy to the, uh, extreme. With the exception of drive-in concerts and pe…
