Esperanza Spalding Quits Harvard Faculty Over Curriculum Proposal
Spalding wrote she communicated with Harvard about a “decolonial education” curriculum she would like to implement as a course or initiative, but said what...
Playing Music To Treat Schizophrenia
“Having a mental health diagnosis is not a reason to not have a creative life." Schizophrenia can be disabling, but therapy, medication and even...
Finally: A Meaningful Treatment For Alzheimer’s?
The therapy slowed cognitive decline, the statement said, raising hopes that a drug might finally apply the brakes to Alzheimer’s and provide “a clinically...
Detroit Opera Names Its First Music Director Since The Company’s Founder Stepped Down
Conductor Roberto Kalb, who starts effective immediately, will work alongside artistic director Yuval Sharon and associate artistic director (and soprano) Christine Goerke. Kalb will...
China’s Grandparents Are Becoming Social Media Stars
In this corner of the Chinese internet, octogenarians croon, septuagenarians tango and gray-haired fashionistas strut down catwalks and offer makeup tips to millions of...
Pittsburgh Public Media Gets Quite A Donation: Another Radio Frequency
Martz Communications was operating WAMO (660 AM and 107.3 FM) as a hip-hop station until the company sold to the radio conglomerate Audacy, which...
Banksy Claims Clothing Brand Stole His Images, Urges Fans To Steal Clothing
On Friday, November 18, the anonymous graffiti artist took to Instagram to accuse the clothing retailer of using his work without his permission before...
How A Poor, Bullied Black Girl In Pasadena Grew Up To Be Octavia E....
"(Writing stories was) her own temporary escape hatch from a life of 'boredom, calluses, humiliation, and not enough money. ... I needed my fantasies...
Theatre Critic Michael Feingold, 77
Michael Feingold has twice received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. - Broadway...
After Painful Pandemic-Related Cuts, Philadelphia Prepares To Spend Millions Of Extra Dollars On The...
Thanks to a very unexpected municipal budget surplus, "about 15 city arts and cultural institutions would receive amounts ranging from $100,000 to $3 million...
The “Festival Of Brexit” Hoped For 66 Million Attendees. It Got Less Than 3...
Unboxed (as the bundle of events is actually called) attracted a total audience of 18 million, but the vast majority of those watched online;...
For The First Time, The Trisha Brown Dance Company Has Engaged An Outside Choreographer
Judith Sánchez RuĂz, who danced with the company from 2006 to 2009, will choreograph a work titled Let's Talk About Bleeding next year. Says...
Why, And How, Disney Fired CEO Bob Chapek And Brought Back Bob Iger
"Sources with ties to the company say discontent among some board members had been building (and) there was discussion about replacing Chapek as far...
There Are Now More Women Than Men In The New York Philharmonic
"The orchestra’s new female majority could prove fleeting — it currently has 16 player vacancies to fill, in part because auditions were put on...
Why Art Vandalism Is A Perversion Of The Fight Against Climate Change
"The art-attack tactic ... shows how social movements are warped and distorted by the logic of spectacle, undermining their longer-term viability by forcing them...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Move On To Vandalizing Sculpture
"On Friday in Paris, Milan, and Oslo, climate activists from local organizations under the umbrella group A22 Network doused sculptures with orange paint or...
Simon & Schuster Abandons The Merger With Penguin Random House
In the wake of a judge's decision to block the union of the two giants on anti-trust grounds, Paramount Global, the conglomerate which owns...
NYC Ballet Star Accuses Company Of “Body Shaming”
The renowned troupe “strongly encouraged” star dancer Ashley Bouder, 38, not to perform in its star-studded fall gala because of her “appearance,” Bouder posted this week on Instagram....
Authorities Bust Russians Running The World’s Largest Pirated Books Library
“The defendants are alleged to have operated a website for over a decade whose central purpose was providing stolen intellectual property, in violation of...
The World Now Has So Much Data, Scientists Had To Invent New Measures For...
Yotta (24 zeroes) was the largest prefix in the metric system before the new additions. Now, the Earth's mass can be said to be...
How AI Will Take The Jobs Of Millions Of Creative Workers
As each new purpose-built AI system comes online, the work for less productive humans will evaporate practically overnight. - Shelly Palmer
Why Nonprofit Boards Need Codes Of Conduct
Conversations about ethics and ethical judgment are usually missing from good governance discussions. A code of conduct, which is typical of other professions, would...
How An Original Copy Of The US Constitution Ended Up In A Drawer In...
Stored in a drawer in the vault is the original, ink-blotched, handwritten state constitution signed on July 2, 1776, declaring New Jersey’s independence from...
Amazon Makes Deep Cuts In Unprofitable Kindle, Alexa Workforces
All of these products are unprofitable and have lost $5 billion annually in the past few years. Most of these devices are loss leaders...
National Gallery Of Canada Lays Off Chief And Curators Of Indigenous Art
Hill, the inaugural Audain senior curator of Indigenous art, had worked at the gallery for 22 years. He is a specialist in Iroquoian languages...
