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We know students are no longer reading entire books
Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students’ reading habits, or rather nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than an unfounded nostalgia for a bygone age.…
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The frictionless feed | ArtsJournal
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With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
The authors’ model, named pathway multinomial logit or “pathway MNL,” does not reveal causal effects, they caution, but the associations they uncover are informative for museum professionals.
Multimedia guide users…
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American Classical Music at 250 — Take Three: The Orchestra Gap: Europe vs. the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhFxik97z08
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra going through the motions of Wagner’s “Liebestod” – “diminished motivation: as if the music fails to impel a commanding physical and emotional response.”…
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Kennicott: Trump’s Smithsonian Complaints Are Laughable
Visitors who pass these signs on the way into the museum may find them concerning; when they pass them on the way out, they will probably find them laughably at odds with what they have just experienced. – Washington Post…
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Three Theses On the Literacy Crisis
I had started my last post by promising to go into further detail on a paper I co-authored that explored a pedagogical framework for teaching English in the post digital age. I plan on continuing that, but before I did, I wanted to pause…
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Charli XCX has entered a new era. Here’s why pop’s biggest transformations are no longer just about…
Pop has always thrived on reinvention, with artists moving through distinct phases that reconfigure both their sound and sense of self.
David Bowie moved through personas such as Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, each…
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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Society
Do you want to have a good time? You know, really enjoy yourself? Click here, and tell us your desires. Maybe it’s a new outfit, or some exotic cuisine delivered anonymously and steaming hot to your door. Maybe it’s porn or gambling.…
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Four new concert halls eyed for Vancouver, including Robson Square and False Creek | Daily Hive
A coalition of 32 performing arts organizations has unveiled an ambitious vision to create four new and/or substantially renovated performance venues in Downtown Vancouver, with four possible location options identified.
This includes…
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Nearly 20 Georgia O’Keeffe works to go on display in UK for first time | Georgia O’Keeffe
As soon as Georgia O’Keeffe was shown Ghost Ranch, she knew it was her place.The remote property in the shadow of the mountains north of Santa Fe in New Mexico would become the artist’s summer residence for decades – a setting that…
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