A collection of 100 works of art by Henri Matisse and his contemporaries is now on display at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. It's the only North American venue for the exhibition.

“There’s a year-round Bavarian Christmas village (a village within the Village) that’s showered with fake snow every four minutes and has a toy shop with a resident Santa who refuses to break character. Yankee Candle Village is the epitome of sensory overload.”

“There was nothing to misunderstand – those are the words they wrote; they wrote that a male was better.”

In a University of Washington lab test tube, researchers stored an HD video of the song “This Too Shall Pass” by OK Go. They also stored the text of 100 books, and the Declaration of Human Rights in multiple languages.

Their data lists not only the size of past cities, but how, when, and where they emerged. That’s a big deal—and not just for historians.

While developers do not feel an absolute competitive imperative to have A-list art, many believe that great art can help make an already distinctive building an enduring one (and, one assumes, a profitable one).

“DanceOn tapped 50 influencers in its network to create dance-based music videos for Silentó’s song, “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” In just three months, those videos gained 250 million views. It eventually propelled the official music video, which was also created with the help of DanceOn, to become the most viewed YouTube video of 2015.”

“Personally, I wouldn’t want to write something thinking about form, it would scare me. I want to tell something in the best way I possibly can. I would feel hamstrung if I was sat there thinking I have got to completely reinvent the form. The best things work because sometimes you do exactly what the […]

“Increasingly, artists and arts organisations are being asked to reflect upon who funds their work and examine whether that funder shares their values. The motivations of a corporate sponsor are not something that should be taken for granted. But in order to do that, we first need to understand our own ethical values.”

“L.A. Opera sold 118,565 tickets for the 2015-16 season, compared with 98,861 for 2014-15, the company said. Ticket revenue was about $14.2 million for the 2015-16 period, compared with about $11.1 million during the previous period.”