How many of the people who authored those statements actually visited the Black Lives Matter website before posting is unknown. What is known, however, is that the stirrings of support state…
Populism is not just a bull-in-a-china-shop way of doing politics. There is a theoretical tradition that seeks to justify strongman rule, an ideological school of demagoguery, one might call…
Listening on transistor radios and Walkmans, many Dubliners who had long been intimidated by the book found that they not only understood it but enjoyed it and recognised themselves in it. "…
The app, founded in 2007, is credited with playing a central role in opening up higher education to the public. Institutions such as Stanford University; the University of California, Berkel…
"Police shootings? I can't imagine what special insight a museum director brings to the subject. But if you're going to talk about them, at least say something smart." " National Review
As the famously passionate fans of the Harry Potter franchise rise up to express raging disappointment at the bigotry espoused by its creator, and the surprisingly passionate fans of Live P.…
How do we sustain the infrastructure to make the kind of highly professional theater that we have come to revere without pushing the actual artists to the fringes of that ecology? How can we…
Southern California museums are navigating complicated health and safety protocols while also seeing to the regular work of preparing new exhibitions, caring for art, managing employees and …
Starting with the 94th Oscars ceremony, the Academy will return to a guaranteed 10 best picture nominees, as was the case for the 82nd and 83rd ceremonies, before it shifted to a system that…
The instructions detail how to deal with a confirmed case of COVID-19 on a set. Anyone in the cast or crew that was within six feet of the infected person for more than 15 minutes may need t…
Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for the Director of Development position at one of nation's leading regional theatres.
It is common to assume that an AI could achieve immortality by creating backup copies of itself and thus transfer its consciousness from one computer to the next. This view is encouraged by …
On one side, new faces have meant less tolerance for the flippant bigotry that has long been a part of stand-up"Shane Gillis, for example, recently lost a spot on Saturday Night Live after p…
"Clearly, we're not bringing anybody back to work anytime soon in person, based on those guidelines," Aurora Managing Director Julie Saltzman Kellner told The Chronicle by phone. "To be hone…
Put simply, dancers who aren't ready to go back shouldn't have to. As desperately as we miss dancing, we have to put our health"and the health of our communities"first. But as artists who of…
Museums have an opportunity to make a contribution to civic discourse that plays to their intrinsic strengths. It is obvious that many of our political and civic institutions have failed in …
On Thursday, management laid off 284 staff members, some of whom had worked there for decades and lived in campus housing. An additional 100 people remain on temporary layoff, leaving 123…
"This is O.K. for me because I am trying to live in a different world, besides the world of the illness. I'm trying to live in a world of the spirit wherein I am concentrating on things such…
The streaming platform's trademark for "Space Force" dates back to January 2019. The US military's space warfare service of the same name was founded in December, eleven months later, withou…
Mellon's commitment comes as part of a broader partnership between major U.S. foundations " Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and John D. & Cath…
The arts offer an evidence-based solution for promoting mental health. While practising the arts is not the panacea for all mental health challenges, there's enough evidence to support prior…
The modern genre of pop cosmology began with the big bang of Stephen Hawking's 1988 megabestseller, A Brief History of Time. Since then, world-class physicists like Michio Kaku, Steven Weinb…
From the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to schools and government ministries, few concepts in popular psychology travelled as far and wide as lateral thinking. Garnering in excess of 20…
Elliot Bostwick Davis came to the Norton from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, after spearheading the addition of its groundbreaking Art of the Americas Wing. She joined the Norton in March …
George Floyd's murder may ultimately be a catalyst for positive change in Minnesota and beyond, but in the short-term, the local dance community has lost vital spaces and resources, includin…