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"We put over 100 people who were madly in love into a brain scanner using fMRI. We noticed those who had fallen in love in the first eight months had a lot of activity in brain regions linke…
His name is Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. "Presumably intended as a compliment, this erasure of Boulogne's name not only subjugates him to an arbitrary white standard, but als…
What is needed is "not just a bailout" but a "long-term plan" that would enable the sector to "come out the other side. What we've seen is a lack of joined-up thinking across government," he…
Sarah Kaufman: "The throughline of WOD is: Show us something we've never seen before. As a dance critic, I want to see that, too, whenever I'm in the theater. What new revelation jumps out i…
"In the 15 years between the inception of a fully-integrated bi-directional digital medium"the internet"and the onset of the coronavirus pandemic bringing with it imposed social distancing, …
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
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I reported on her last stand with fellow vocalese icon Jon Hendricks, at the Blue Note in Manhattan for the newspaper City Arts. " Howard Mandel
True to her outspoken nature, Nathalie Bondil, the summarily sacked 13-year director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is not going quietly. Having gotten a taste of her feistiness and gr…
If cancellation is removal from a position of prominence on the basis of an ideological crime, it might appear that there is a case to be made for canceling Aristotle. He has much prominence…
Given social-distancing protocols that prohibit physical gatherings, theatre makers have responded creatively to the COVID-19 pandemic by turning to online, digital and lo-fi or "non-embodie…
The abrupt restructuring of daily working life for tens of millions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has also dramatised just how different 'flexible' work is in different contexts: liberating f…
Over the last few months, over 270,000 choirs nationwide have been trying to figure out how to move forward. While making a high quality musical product is the common call for any music ense…
One force we must confront is the attention economy, an incentive structure designed to reward the most uncompromising, polarized, clickable minority. (Ironically, this minority is very ofte…
Garry Garrels is perhaps the most prominent figure to tumble so far as art museums around the country, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian's N…
Reasons for synchronising release dates globally, such as minimising piracy and coordinating marketing, hardly seem like priorities given present circumstances. The US is still the largest s…
A 44-year-old "animal rights activist" named Maksim Krivosh, who recently finished a prison term for fraud and weapons charges, ended a 12-hour standoff and released 13 hostages in the city …
"Carriageworks has a clear path towards recovery after creditors voted unopposed on Tuesday for a proposal to rescue the arts company with the support of philanthropists and the New South Wa…
Excerpts from a recent Zoom conversation among three artistic directors " Kwame Kwei-Armah of London's Young Vic, Julia Wissert of Schauspiel Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley, and Eva Doumbia of …
Created jointly by the National Book Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses with $3.5 million from the Mellon Foundation, the Literary…
A new study, titled "Unpacking the Streaming Experience" and released by Hulu to launch its "Generation Stream" audience research platform, found that consumers watch in four different ways,…
"The decline of cable isn't a new story, but what has started to take hold is a change in narrative inside the industry. Rather than try to prop up what they all know to be a decaying linear…
The plan just announced by artistic director Christine Cox is for "a new series launching Sept. 10 celebrating the company's 15th anniversary with world premieres by 15 choreographers. She s…
Shirley Graham Du Bois notched up plenty of achievements in her own right beyond the activism she shared with her husband: she was a novelist, playwright, biographer (of Paul Robeson, Booker…
This debilitating, isolating historical moment should make us rethink our attitudes, priorities and national policies with regard to our criminal justice system, health and education infrast…
He began training his training at age 4 and went on to win the World Championship of Hoop Dance three times in each of three age divisions and tour with Cirque du Soleil for three years. " T…
