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The Heritage Foundation is still promoting its 1997 report authored by "distinguished fellow" Laurence Jarvik, titled "Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for th…
It's beautiful, but then there's the obvious question … who in their right mind would open a record store now? There is no money in it. Even on this gentrified street there are empty shops…
While the coronavirus has taken a big toll on the arts world in terms of closed venues and canceled events, it has also spurred plenty of show-must-go-on creativity in some of the hardest-hi…
In the 19th century, politicians increasingly turned out memoirs as campaign books. The writing shifted from ideas and policies to character and personality. The writings of Andrew Jackson, …
"I had not noticed anything strange, but then I walked through the historic center, and it hit me: in the past few weeks, as the virus spread, the city emptied out. The crowds lining up to e…
The event drew 98,000 attendees last year and, as COVID-19 spreads in Washington state, many are worried that a large public setting such as ECCC may be a breeding ground for infection. Nota…
This was going to be one of the busiest summers ever for festivals and stadium shows, so any disruption is going to have an impact," said Dave Brooks, senior director of live and touring for…
"It's used because it sounds fashionable. It sounds like it's for … the aesthetically conscious." As zeitgeisty as other oddly specific and much hashtagged words like "wanderlust" or "jour…
It is unclear how much ViacomCBS, which has owned the publisher for more than 25 years, might fetch from the sale. Book publishing is no longer a growth business but its revenue has been rel…
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, America's premier contemporary dance company, seeks a dynamic, strategic, and results-oriented leader for the role of Director of Marketing and Communications.
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 2. Full scholarships available, no f…
The event was already set to be a ghost town when it opened its doors, after publishers and rights agencies began withdrawing en masse over the last week. Some of the world's biggest, includ…
The more we learn about genetics and the brain, the more impossibly complicated both reveal themselves to be. We have picked no low-hanging fruit after three decades and $50 billion because …
The amazing feats achieved by computers demonstrate our progress in coming up with algorithms that make the computer do valuable things for us. The computer itself, though, does nothing more…
The effect on the UK's artistic landscape is more worrying. For a European artist, it changes whether they decide to base themselves in the UK rather than just sometimes performing here. And…
The academy announced Ms. Dugan's removal in a letter from its executive committee, sent to the organization's members. "We placed our trust in her and believed she would effectively lead th…
Fair organisers say they will instead hold a programme of exhibitions, events and talks tailored to Dubai-based galleries, museums and artists from 25 to 28 March, when the fair was due to t…
Oversharing just doesn't look like it did before. Like most things on the internet, it too has become commodified. Where we once divulged, without much thought or artifice, the hardships in …
Nietzsche offers an interpretive key: his references to dance (Tanz). Taken together, these references light a path that begins in Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), and we…
While commentators have often dismissed the interventions of artists on the issue of oil sponsorship as "virtue signaling," BP's CEO effectively conceded in his speech that opposition to the…
Scientists do have some hypotheses for what brings déjà vu to the surface of consciousness " from the idea that it might be a built-in processing glitch in the brain, or an indication of…
Long speculated about, but never before seen in public, the manuscript was apparently written after Hitler had had only a few months of piano lessons. And it clearly demonstrated the future …
The show featured an A-list roster of Hollywood and Broadway royalty, including Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Robin Williams, Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg. In exchange for their appearanc…
The stars of Magic Happens are the dancers, significantly elevated from their traditional role revving up the crowd with upbeat moves between set pieces. The 90-or-so performers are graced w…
"Look up one thing out of curiosity and YouTube is ever willing to offer far, far more, often getting far more extreme and pushing further out to the extremes, because that is how YouTube wo…
