The proportions of movies' height and width have changed several times over the course of cinema history, but, for practical reasons (projectionists don't like changing equipment all the tim…
"He built the world's first film studio, yet had little interest in movies as entertainment. He was a showboating maestro of public relations, but he often turned down invitations and celebr…
"This week, 226 years since her execution on Oct. 16, 1793, a new exhibition in Paris aims to show how the queen's image has been transformed in recent years. From reviled royal to pop icon,…
With age (and lawyers), we develop more sophisticated ways of resolving property disputes, but the emotional connection to our property as an extension of our identity remains with us. " Aeon
"Everyone agrees that competition is the enemy of art. And yet, on the whole, there is also an agreement to conspire in the notion that it isn't. This paradox, this doublethink, usually work…
The removal of visible likes is by no means a threat to the influencer marketing world, but rather an opportunity to shift how we see success in the digital age. " Fast Company
"After a few false starts and a little offscreen drama, AppleTV+ finally makes its big debut with a slate of shows, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and a billion potential customers …
On Sunday afternoon, a man walked into the Dennis Rae Fine Art Gallery, walked up to DalÃ's 1966 hand-colored etching Burning Giraffe, picked it right off the easel, and walked out the op…
"Tucker's primary love was music, a devotion that she first cultivated in the Lutheran church of her childhood. But over the course of her [three decades] at The Chronicle, which began in 19…
"According to Bowker's annual survey of the self-publishing market … the total number of print and e-books that were self-published in 2018 was 1.68 million, up from 1.19 million in 2017. …
"Bankers" are something that ENO's previous two artistic directors didn't manage to provide many of, and it's now up to Annilese Miskimmon, their new successor, to get some. Fortunately, exp…
"A French court on Monday sentenced five members of an all-female jihadist cell to between five and 30 years in prison over a failed bid to detonate a car bomb outside Notre-Dame cathedral i…
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
W.B. Yeats reads "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." This reading was originally recorded by the BBC on October 28, 1936: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that a…
There's not a woman turns her face Upon a broken tree, And yet the beauties that I loved Are in my memory; I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me. William Butler Yeats, "The L…
Throughout the coming month, I'll write about one of these albums every weekday in the order in which I first heard them, starting in 1968 with the first record I ever bought with my own mon…
A colleague recently shared that when they advocate for community engagement in their organization they get pushback about "mission creep." Mission creep??!! If connecting the arts with comm…
Founded in 1928, Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen) is located in beautiful Northwest Lower Michigan.
The question of fixing Silicon Valley is inseparable from the question of fixing the system of postwar American capitalism, of which it is perhaps the purest expression. Some believe that th…
The idea of a "best seat" is subjective and depends on how important a good sightline is to you and what sort of instrumental blend you enjoy. While describing sound in terms of "warmth" …
Dylan Howard, who remains a top executive at the Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc., has hired several high-powered law firms on three continents, including the Sydney-based McLa…
"It's about finding the most specific, authentic, local stories and bringing those to a global platform in a way that hasn't ever been done before. Those ideas can come from books, blogs, po…
"With a barbed wire fence and border patrol dividing two groups of drop-in singers, one located on the beach at Border Field State Park in San Diego, Calif., and the other just metres away i…
In literature, some of the most celebrated writers were once considered too strange, too limited or just too boring. Several publishers turned down Toni Morrison's first novel, "The Bluest E…
"Andrew Davies' TV adaptation of Sanditon, which aired on Sunday, ended with Charlotte and Sidney bidding each other a tearful farewell " in love, but not together. … The ending has enrage…