Opinion
A new web app created by the research and development wing of the New York Times allow users to create graphs tracing the appearance of individual terms or phrases in the paper over the course of its century-and-a-half history.
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New York may lean on its cultural institutions to encourage adoption of a planned municipal identity card for undocumented New Yorkers, the New York Times reported.
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A seven-day schedule inaugurated last year at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art brought a 7% increase in attendance at the former but no change at the latter, Crain's New York reported.
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The Metropolitan Opera is anticipating a significant labor lockout beginning August 1, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Detroit's civilian and police-and-fire retirees overwhelmingly voted to approve cuts to their benefits in connection with the city's bankruptcy "grand bargain," the Detroit Free Press reported.
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The Museo del Prado in Spain is missing 885 artworks, down from 926 in 2008, El País reported.
Opinion
The summer issue of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs mingles various aspects of the political ferment in the Middle East with the world of art and aesthetics.
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Today would have been Marshall McLuhan's 103rd birthday.
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The New York Review of Books has published the writer Hilton Als's excellent commencement speech this year at Columbia University's School of the Arts this year.
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Following reports of Italian art historian Germano Celant getting paid three-quarters of a million Euros (~$1 million) to curate a pavilion for the upcoming Milan Expo, The Art Newspaper conducted an investigation into the pay of independent curators.
News
Sotheby's auction house underwent a round of layoffs today as part of an internal restructuring, CNBC reported. The cuts, which come three days after the company announced a major partnership with eBay, were announced in a companywide meeting at 9am this morning, Hyperallergic has learned.
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As cultural and artistic heritage in Syria continues to face significant losses, two United States institutions have partnered with the Syrian Interim Government's "Heritage Task Force" to share strategies for mitigating the dangers faced by museums and other sites.