The museum is highly dependent on the tourist market. A huge 85% of its visitors are from abroad, many of whom come during the summer season. In the Netherlands, Van Gogh is widely regarded …
Artists looking to establish themselves often get requests to perform or otherwise lend their creative skills to conferences, private parties, businesses and assorted projects for the promis…
The cultural sections of election manifestos always make for interesting reading. Wonderful-sounding aspirations rarely have detail. Proposals are mostly aspirational rather than costed. Thi…
The scientists set out to quantify the creativity of 19 of the most prominent composers of recent centuries, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven…
"American Dirt"won't have much political impact, because Americans who have the capacity to be outraged about children in cages on the border already are; it's arriving too late and isn't co…
Currently, skilled workers from outside the EU need to have a job offer with a salary of at least £30,000 to work in the UK. EU citizens are not bound by such restrictions and do not need…
At a festival that thrives on the spirit of niche filmmaking, the prevalence of stories and programming about ripped-from-the-headlines causes made for an energizing change of pace. Given th…
A consumerist vision of reading . . . presented as a form of anti-elitism" is emanating from the centers of publishing and media power, and that it is embodied by some of these trends. But I…
The history of the Memphis Pyramid, which is now emblazoned with a massive Bass Pro Shops logo on its side, is as bewildering as its appearance, and as reflective of the people who conceived…
"The font you use is a form of non-verbal communication. If you meet in person, tone of voice, clothes and body language carry a huge amount of information. If you write someone a letter you…
Though MIDI has done an exceptional job of digitizing music for the last 37 years, it hasn't been perfect. MIDI quantizes music, meaning it forces music components into a particular value. I…
Starting as a pilot project next month, Vienna's "Culture Token" will track users' movements"and their chosen mode of transit"across the city via an app. For each car-free kilometer the user…
In the wake of a coronavirus outbreak that has infected thousands and claimed more than 100 lives in China, the movie industry is grappling with the unthinkable: Nearly every cinema in the c…
"Never in my career have I felt this organisation is quite under the threat that it currently is. There are many that believe that how we are funded is no longer appropriate when consumers s…
The handover of the building from a contractor to the constructor has been delayed due to incomplete delivery of fire and security doors as well insufficient performance and unsatisfactory o…
Unlike Chapter 11, where companies can be reorganized and survive, this gang is dissolving, shutting its doors and everyone has resigned. Four months after the MoviePass service closed down …
It is rarely acknowledged, by either the life-hack-minded authors or the proponents of minimalist design, that many people have minimalism forced upon them by circumstances that render impos…
The Assistant Dean of Mannes Prep will be a seasoned professional with experience leading and developing high level pre-collegiate and/or collegiate arts education programs.
The warning against treating characters as if they were real stands as a gatekeeper to the academic discipline of literary criticism. Students who can't abide by the rule will get bad grades…
It is no secret that in contemporary America there are many people who hardly read at all, and then another sizable group who, though they keep up with news, sports and the latest fads in se…
There is a direct correlation between museum shows and spikes in interest at auction. "It confirmed in a reasonably analysed way that there is a relationship and, therefore, to support museu…
The emphasis on participation " on culture as something that more people should actually do " is newer. This is the difference between being in a play or a band and buying tickets to watch t…
The Left thinks of fairness as egalitarian "equal outcomes" distribution, and the Right thinks of fairness as meritocracy (i.e., the winner takes the spoils, the qualified take the reward). …
Orange County Museum of Art seeks a highly skilled and effective fundraiser to oversee completion of its $73M capital campaign ($50M secured to date) and build a development team in preparat…
Before joining the VSO, Angela Elster was senior vice-president of research and education at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she played a key role in opening the TELUS Cent…