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We’ve Become Much Nicer At Waging War
We have, in fact, become nicer and less violent as individuals. We may have domesticated ourselves by our choice of mates and by breeding...
What Does It Actually Mean To Live In The Now?
The singularity of the now might appear to be a deep and profound insight. It’s the springboard for various more practical strategies for achieving...
Connecting Learning Music With Medical Workers
In a six-week pilot collaboration between New England Conservatory and Massachusetts General Hospital this fall, the Boston Hope Music Teaching Project connected teaching fellows...
Record Streaming Music In 2020
The year 2020 ended up setting a streaming record in America, increasing 17% for the year to end with an unprecedented 872.6 billion streams....
The Dance Of Everyday Life
“The way we move has changed in the past year, indoor spaces seeming claustrophobic and our outdoor spaces not vast enough, backyards and gardens...
Record Number Of Women Directors For Big Hollywood Movies In 2020
The yearly Celluloid Ceiling report by San Diego State University found that women accounted for 16 per cent of directors working on the 100...
Claim: Our Music Theory Education Is Racist
"When we restrict ourselves to Western art music, we forgo the opportunity to speak about basic yet essential musical elements such as groove, timbre,...
What If We Put Everyone Into A Giant Multi-Billion City?
The entire population of the earth could live in a giant sustainable city occupying a fraction of the earth's surface, freeing the rest of...
Is America Turning Out Too Many PhD’s?
The overproduction of Ph.D.s has been an issue for years in the U.S., which has a higher rate of doctorate holders than almost any...
What Editors Do
Lish’s job on Carver is perhaps too extreme to serve as an example of the role of the editor, but what any kind of...
How To Use Boredom To Your Benefit
Technology might have moved on, but the role of boredom in motivating change is no different for us in the 21st century. Yet not...
How Equitable Pay Leads To Better Theatre
"Since pay equity leads to higher quality work, any company interested in having the best product to share with their community will center pay...
How The UK Art World Will Change Post-Brexit
The symbolic implications of the UK leaving the European Union has hit the art world hard. But the deal will also have a concrete...
The Organization Working To Reimagine Public Monuments
The goal is to assess the country’s landscape of public memory in a time when our shared identity as Americans feels strained, if not...
Ex-Employees Of The California Arts Council Speak Out
"When it comes to the arts program specialists, I and several of my former colleagues found it to be a space that causes fear...
After 40 Years Leading San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tomasson To Step Down
Since being named to the position in 1985, Tomasson, 78, has been hailed for his success at combining excellence in the classical ballet repertoire...
The Fifteen-Minute City? Sweden Considers The “One-Minute City”
A plan piloted by Swedish national innovation body Vinnova and design think tank ArkDes focuses attention on what Dan Hill, Vinnova’s director of strategic design, calls...
Australian Artists: Why Did The National Government Forget Us?
"For some, state governments stepped up and provided support. But the message to artists from the federal government was: you are not important to...
Arts Organizations Turn To Stars For Fundraising
The pandemic has forced arts institutions on both sides of the Atlantic to swiftly up their online game. The New York City Ballet and...
What The Reality Of Cows Has To Inform Humans
A cow sporting VR goggles is comedic as much as it is tragic. There’s horror, too, in that it may foretell our own alienated...
The Art World’s 12 Biggest 2020 Controversies
Museums and galleries faced financial challenges that threatened their very existence, as Black Lives Matter uprisings forced a reckoning with the art world’s structural...
Michael Bobbitt Is Tired Of Boards. What To Do?
Ugh. In our current structure, boards of directors for nonprofits don’t work. I’m sure there are outliers with highly functioning boards, but this is...
LA Movie And TV Production Shuts Down
Production shutdowns are expensive, and a delay of a few weeks would disrupt series’ delivery dates and air pattern. This is especially crucial for...
An Enormous Expansion Of Melbourne Contemporary Museum
The proposed new building, the NGV Contemporary in Melbourne, will be Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, says Tony Ellwood, the director...
Ray Bradbury’s Outsized Influence On American Culture
There were other fine sci-fi writers, but Ray was the one who first engaged the mainstream audience. He had a huge impact on both...