The New Whitest-Ever White Paint Could Potentially Replace Air Conditioning
The paint, developed at Purdue University's mechanical engineering department, reflects 98.1 percent of the sun's rays, while the strongest heat-resistant white paints currently on...
Bad Feelings At Second City In Chicago: Old Food Service Staff Is Fired And...
The 90-odd people who worked, some for decades, as waiters, bartenders, dishwashers and the like were told last fall that their furloughs were officially...
Researchers Figure Out Why Some Picassos Have Deteriorated More Quickly Than Others
"The study centred on four paintings inspired by the Ballets Russes, the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev's itinerant dance troupe, which Picasso produced in no...
Classical Music Podcasts Are Coming Into Their Own
"Classical music has been surprisingly slow to embrace podcasting, a medium ideally suited to illuminate its sounds and stories. But something changed in the...
Canada’s Federal Budget Has More Than $800 Million In New Cultural Funding
"The budget earmarks $300-million over two years to Canadian Heritage to create a recovery fund to combat that drop in employment and support the...
Detroit Symphony’s Long-Serving CEO, Anne Parsons, To Retire Next Year
"Parsons faced a financially embattled DSO when she took the reins in 2004, followed by grueling labor strife several years later. She ultimately helped...
Charlotte Plans To Overhaul Arts Funding, With 50% More Money — But Some Artists...
"Last week, City Manager Marcus Jones recommended that the city take over arts funding from the Arts & Science Council, which has managed the...
Daily Mail Newspaper Sues Google For “Manipulating Search Results”
It alleges Google "punishes" publishers in its rankings if they don't sell enough advertising space in its marketplace. Google called the claims "meritless". Associated...
How Public Ideas Evolved In The Cold War Era
What most comes across is the protean creativity of the period, the globe-spanning connections that promoted it, and Menand’s mastery of large slices of...
How To Be A Silicon Valley Intellectual
On your path to becoming an intellectual in Silicon Valley, understanding these two lessons—the Peter Principles, we’ll call them, since that adds nothing to...
Consider The Environmental Cost Of Making Music
Musicians addressing the environment head-on only represents one side of the music industry’s engagement with the climate crisis. The way we listen to music...
Brexit Is Killing UK Musicians’ Gigs
The stress and cost of work visa requirements, new taxes, and prohibitively high touring costs have upended the careers of scores of British musicians,...
Netflix Is Spending $17 Billion On New Content
That’s a notable uptick from the streamer’s 2020 spend of $11.8 billion, as the pandemic prompted production delays across the industry, and a 2019...
Inside James Turrell’s Masterwork-In-Progress In Arizona’s Painted Desert
For 45 years, the light sculptor has been designing and building a complex inside Roden Crater, a volcanic cinder cone about 50 miles northeast...
Infrastructure For Creative Workers?
That view is to see the rise of Substack and podcasting and Bandcamp for musicians who want to escape the tyranny of the record labels and...
At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater, New Leader Means To Really Live Up To Its...
Says Ken-Matt Martin, who was named artistic director last month after having been Robert Falls's number-two at the Goodman, "If I figured out how...
To Understand The Human Brain, We’re Going To Have To Get Inside It. Cue...
As the risks reduce and the research possibilities open up, then it is easy to imagine how we could slip, unnoticing, from thinking the...
A Critic Considers Where Music And Writing About It Meet, And Where They Miss
Thomas Larson, former music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican (1980-82), now a staff writer at the San Diego Reader: "Figuring out that...
Kristy Edmunds On The Moral Imperative/Opportunity Of Continuing
"How do you support artist relief, raise money, how do you help people still feel like they haven’t disappeared? It has been a huge...
Ballet In America Is Having A COVID-Induced Baby Boom
"A career in ballet lasts only as long as a dancer's body does. If they're lucky, dancers can perform into their 30s — or...
Why Is Howard University Closing Its Classics Department?
Amid a move for educational “prioritization,” Howard University is dissolving its classics department. Tenured faculty will be dispersed to other departments, where their courses...
The Tech That Lets Opera Singers Rehearse With Accompanists Remotely
Says San Francisco Opera general director Matthew Shilvock of the platform, called Aloha, "It allows a singer and a pianist to essentially be in...
Harriet Tubman’s Lost Family Home Discovered In Maryland
The site, on land recently added to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, includes ten acres that Tubman's father, Ben Ross,...
Chicago Says It Will Spend $60 Million On Arts Throughout City
The initiative, called Arts 77 (referring to Chicago's 77 neighborhoods), takes in multiple programs spread over several departments of the municipal government. Along with...
Richard Wright, Who’s Been Dead For 60 Years, Has A New Novel Coming Out
"In July 1941, Richard Wright, then America's leading Black author, began writing the novel he felt was his masterpiece. Written 'at white heat,' …...
