Fintech Entrepreneur Shane Akeroyd on Being Moved by Moving Images and Playing Street Hockey With Peter Doig
The Hong Kong-based British collector Shane Akeroyd is not your usual art patron. His passion for art has led to…
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Background Actors At Great Risk With The Future Of AI
When Screen Actors Guild president Fran Drescher announced that the union’s more than 160,000 film and TV actors would be…
How The Conversation is attracting younger readers
Credit: Mircea on Pixabay Academic news website The Conversation is using article series and text message strategies to appeal to…
Haley Lu Richardson’s First Time on the Front Row
This was fitting on multiple levels. Ms. Richardson once gave the cast and crew on one of her films customized…
Pre-Islamic Musnad Inscription, Bronze Bull Head Found in Saudi Arabia – ARTnews.com
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered one of the longest known plaques baring Musnad, or the pre-Islamic southern Arabian script,…
Jawbone found in Ethiopia sheds light on the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo
A piece of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to…
Theater: Forecast is for a gripping show
KEVIN BERNE/THEATREWORKS Siblings Vijay and Priya confront the bookie for their late father as they sort through his affairs in…
Wolfgang Tillmans Wins 2015 Hasselblad Photography Award
Wolfgang TillmansPhoto: Aesthetica Magazine German photographer and artist Wolfgang Tillmans has been awarded the 2015 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in…
Bjoerk: Earth intruder?
Ahead of a huge retrospective at MoMA in New York, the exhibition’s curator looks back at the work of a…
Every Friday, These Senior Citizens Turn Burger King Into A Hawaiian Music Fest
Thanks to a handful of musical retirees, we've found the world's happiest fast food joint. Every Friday morning, a group…
Women Composers: Genius Is Gender-Blind – And So Should We Be
Sara Mohr-Pietsch of BBC Radio 3: “Someone asked me the other day if the reason there are fewer women composers…
David Robert Mitchell Narrates a Scene From ‘It Follows’
The director discusses the opening scene from "It Follows."
Björk, a One-of-a-Kind Artist, Proves Elusive at MoMA
The music videos of this Icelandic musician are the heart of the MoMA retrospective, compared to which everything else seems…
All That Glisters: The Armory Show Is a House of Mirrors
Do the fairs get shinier every year? As more and more people crowd the aisles of the Armory Show, they…
Artist Nelson Shanks, 67, works on a portrait of former
President Clinton's portrait hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., includes a subtle reference to the Monica Lewinsky…
Sotheby’s Hong Kong to offer an outstanding Guan Vase from the Southern Song Dynasty
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Chinese Works of Art Spring Sales 2015 will take place on 7 April at Hall 5, Hong…
What’s Really Going on at Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island?
The Jean Nouvel-deisgned Louvre Abu Dhabi from the airImage: Courtesy Ateliers Jean Nouvel Abu Dhabi's flashy, $27-billion Saadiyat Island cultural…
The secrets of the catacombs
The frescoes of an underground Roman cemetery call our knowledge of the past into question and challenge the teachings of…