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New Orleans Ranked Best City for Creative Workers
According to a new study from the personal finance website SmartAsset, New Orleans has the best affordability-to-culture ratio out of the 187 largest cities in the United States.
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Report Finds New York City's Creative Sector Is Thriving, for Now
In a trend piece two months ago that caused much snickering on the internet, the New York Times wrote that creative New Yorkers are peacing out and heading west to Los Angeles, which the article heralded as a "bohemian paradise."
Art
Can an Algorithm Determine Art History's Most Creative Paintings?
At the end of the month Ahmed Elgammal and Babak Saleh, an associate professor and PhD candidate, respectively, in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, will present their paper "Quantifying Creativity in Art Networks" at the International Conference on Computational Creativity.
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Icelandic Scientists Find Link Between Creativity and Mental Disorders
There's something strangely attractive about the stereotype of the crazy artist.
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Does Adding Filters Make Your Photos More or Less Popular?
Filters, those in-camera photo editing presets that turn your so-so iPhone snapshots into Cartier-Bresson-esque encapsulations of the human spirit, have a direct impact on the popularity of the images shared on social media.
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Picking Up Art Later in Life Could Help the Brain
You’re never too old to follow your dreams, or so the saying goes.
In Brief
Ponder Your Multiple Personalities, Get More Creative
A recent study suggests that reflecting on the fluidity of identity can enhance creativity.
Opinion
Looking at Art May Keep You Fit, Study Suggests
Contemplating paintings might not just offer psychological benefits, but also physical ones.
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Study Finds Color Impacts Online Image Sharing
A new study revealed that red, purple, and pink promote image sharing online, while green, blue, black, and yellow suppress it
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US Arts Attendance on a Downward Trend, NEA Studies Find
New studies released today by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and based on surveys carried out in 2012 claim that arts attendance in the US has continued to drop over the past two decades, but both struggle to incorporate digital activities into their findings.
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Strange Realities: US Culture Industry Has Fewer Jobs but More Money
Arts and culture matter much more to the economy than previously known, according to a new report issued by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
Opinion
Can a Vacation Really Make You More Creative?
Last week, we all got a little jealous when we heard that the creative agency ThinkPARALLAX gave its employees $1,500 each and an extra day off to travel the world in search of inspiration. “As owners of a creative agency, we’re always thinking about how to inspire creativity,” a blog post by the fi