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Blog: Global Voices
Since the war began, the street art capital of Russia status of Yekaterinburg has come into question: some artists have left Russia, while others have been imprisoned for their anti-war works
Blog: Reason.com
What counts as an "artistic work" for purposes of special protection under the Texas anti-SLAPP statute?
Blog: AIER | American Institute for Economic Research
"The market process allows low-skill people to specialize in what they do best while freeing up high-skill people who can concentrate their efforts on things they do best. Everybody wins, and in some small way, you have a part in every achievement by every bleary-eyed customer for whom you dutifully pour coffee on their morning commute." ~ Art Carden
Blog: AIER
"If you agree that local politics should be about protecting others' liberty to become the people they want to become rather than giving you the tools to turn them into the people you want them to become, what should your city do?" ~ Art Carden
Blog: AIER | American Institute for Economic Research
"What I think is most striking about Walmart – and what I would hope Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, Socrates, and others would notice – is that the floor-to-ceiling cornucopia is not restricted to the elites." ~ Art Carden
Blog: Climate Matters
by Felix Schaumann How do we think about climate futures ahead of us? Different actors tend to use different tools for that. The stream of weather catastrophes in the news media suggests a rather gloomy future. Some recent novels try to paint a more optimistic picture of the decades ahead (see our post on this). […]
Blog: The Lowe Down
In a Georgetown study, researchers collected the 10-year net present value (NPV) of a degree from each of 210 liberal arts colleges. While the median 10-year NPV of a liberal arts degree ($54,400) is significantly lower than that of an engineering degree ($72,200), there are many liberal arts colleges with high NPV, such as Claremont […]
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Blog: Global Voices
Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art also used by performers of different arts, including theater. Global Voices interviewed two experts at the crossroad of those two artistic traditions.
Blog: Reason.com
The unauthorized "Art of Banksy" exhibit includes ads from the street artist's real-life Palestine hotel.
Blog: Reason.com
Futuristically thrilling but aesthetically limited
Blog: Impact of Social Sciences
In Art, Science and the Politics of Knowledge, Hannah Star Rogers challenges the traditional dichotomy between art and science, arguing that they share common approaches to knowledge-making. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and using compelling examples, Star Rogers illuminates the overlapping characteristics – such as emphases on visualisation, enquiry and experimentation – of the two knowledge domains, writes Andrew Karvonen. This blogpost … Continued
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Xiyin Tang (UCLA School of Law; Yale Law School) has posted Art After Warhol (UCLA Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Copyright laws, which generally prohibit copying, and contemporary art, which has increasingly come to rely on...
Blog: Social Europe
Europeans are living through an extraordinary historical moment. Great contemporary works of art help them grasp it.
Blog: UCL Europe Blog
Ned Hercock makes the case for a European prize for art.
Blog: Global Voices
Russian anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova and her colleagues have been collecting examples of anti-war street-art — stickers, graffiti, leaflets, and complex installations — for 1.5 years, from 48 Russian cities.