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Groups of students have variously described the composition of Princeton's faculty and its "institutional culture" as "pillars of its oppressive past," declared that their education failed t…
Kjersti Flaa, a Norwegian journalist living in Los Angeles, filed a complaint Monday in California federal court alleging that the HFPA has adopted membership rules that exclude qualified ap…
"I mentioned that I work in real estate. When a listing is advertised with the line, "First time on market after 40 years of family ownership," it almost always includes the phrase, "Bring y…
Beyond just matching up bogus claims with evidence to the contrary, the startup treats the fact-checking process like an assembly line, with an algorithm prioritizing and doling out tasks. A…
The dismissals are only a small part of the changes implemented by the new government. On 1 July, the National Archaeology Museum (MUNARQ), which answered to the ministry of cultures and tou…
Never mind the enormous catalogue of their incompatibilities and the exhausting ups-and-downs of their relationship. "The Muppeteers' obsession with Piggy and Kermit has come at the expense …
David Bell argues that charismatic leaders were a key product of the age of Revolution, which created the ideal political and cultural conditions for a new kind of civic heroism to emerge. I…
The museum says that as a result of Adrienne Arsht's gift, it is now the single biggest art museum in the US to offer 100% paid internships to nearly 120 undergraduate and graduate interns e…
"Every August for the past five years, Beach Sessions Dance Series has been an exciting fixture on the sands of Rockaway Beach in Queens. The festival brings contemporary-dance luminaries to…
"In conjunction with an app, the C-Face Smart mask can transcribe dictation, amplify the wearer's voice, and translate speech … between Japanese and Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian…
Let's face it: we've all had second thoughts about language. Hardly a day goes by when we don't stumble for words, stagger into misunderstandings, or struggle with a double negative. It's a …
Gia Kourlas: "It didn't bode well that the first live dance I was going to see since mid-March was one I had seen many times before. Sunshine, a Larry Keigwin war horse set to the Bill Withe…
It's a familiar story across Africa: 90 to 95 percent of Africa's heritage is held outside the continent, according to a 2018 report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron. Give…
In 1761, at roughly age 7, the girl who would become Phillis Wheatley was taken from Africa to Boston and sold to the wife of a local merchant who educated her. Within a dozen years, she had…
"This time, the victim was a historic plaster model by the Italian artist Antonio Canova (1757"1822). On July 31, a misguided Austrian tourist snapped the toes off the Neoclassical sculpture…
Miraculously, the enormous instrument suffered no structural damage from the April 15, 2019 fire at the medieval Paris cathedral. But the 8,000 pipes, five keyboards, and intricate mechanism…
Among the many important titles he midwifed over a long career at Dial, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Little Brown were James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and The Fire Next Time, Alvi…
"Indoor English venues were scheduled to open on 1 August with social distancing measures in place for audiences and performers " emulating the pilot run performed at The London Palladium la…
"Job losses at theatres across the UK have jumped from 3,000 to 5,000 in less than a month, according to figures from the Bectu trade union. The job losses include redundancies of permanent …
From 2004:
I'm not funny, and wish I were. Witty, yes, sometimes, and I'm pretty good at making an audience laugh when lecturing (a situation in which the prevailing standards are admittedly…
"I have never known an artist of any kind who didn't do better work when he got properly paid for it."
Virgil Thomson, The State of Music
Continue reading Almanac: Virgil Thomson on artis…
Writing for the sake of publication"instead of for the sake of being read"is academia's version of "teaching to the test." The result is papers few actually want to read. First, the writing …
The burning question, at this point, is whether this recommender system can reliably lead users down epistemically problematic rabbit holes. In other words, is it possible to discern a patte…
Standup comedy is not created purely by the performer, but as a collaborative production between the performer, the audience, the venue and the promoter. In the same way a theatre is arrange…
About three-and-a-half years ago, Tim Jennings, the executive director and CEO of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, decided to undertake some risk analysis alongside his CFO. He look…
