Feature Channels: Arts and Entertainment

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Taylor Swift's career and persona are at their pinnacle from a marketing perspective.

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Research is the first to demonstrate that awe-eliciting art can spark prosociality in children as young as 8 years old, motivating them to set aside their own concerns to focus on others. Awe also has physical benefits for children.

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During his nearly five-decade conducting career, Gerard Schwarz has amassed a large, artistically significant collection of printed music, all bearing his performance notations. Now, he has given that repertoire to the Frost School of Music for the benefit of future generations of music students and scholars.

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UWF sophomore was a contestant on Jeopardy not once, but twice!

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The U.S. economy is on people's minds as the government prepares for a showdown on the deficit and government spending. Find the latest research and expert commentary on money issues here. Below are some of the latest headlines in the Economics channel on Newswise.

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The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at Saint Louis University presents work from artists Vicente Telles and Brandon Maldonado in the “Cuentos Nuevomexicanos” exhibition opening on Sunday, March 19.

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In a new study, archaeologists compared the colors on pieces of ancient Peruvian pottery. They found that potters across the Wari empire all used the same rich black pigment to make ceramics used in rituals: a sign of the empire’s influence.

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The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University has announced its 2022 class of SMFA at Tufts Traveling Fellows. The five artists will journey to places around the world to conduct research and find inspiration for their art.

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Nick Spitzer, a Tulane University professor and folklorist, has produced and hosted the popular public radio program American Routes for the last quarter-century.

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Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart’s Sonata KV448 in epilepsy attracted a lot of public attention. However, the empirical validity of the underlying scientific evidence has remained unclear. Now, University of Vienna psychologists Sandra Oberleiter and Jakob Pietschnig show in a new study published in the prestigious journal Nature Scientific Reports that there is no evidence for a positive effect of Mozart's melody on epilepsy.

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By the end of March, Netflix plans to crack down on password sharing for U.S. subscribers. This announcement has been met by surprise, outrage, and confusion as consumers ponder how their Netflix accounts will be affected. Jadrian Wooten, a professor of economics at Virginia Tech, provides his perspective on the issue.

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Congratulations to our award-winning Art Education Students for receiving the Thailand New Gen Inventors Awards (I-new gen award 2023) and certificate at the “Thailand Inventor’s Day 2023”, held on February 4-6, 2023 at the BITEC Exhibition Center.

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The mural, designed in collaboration with members of organizations in the surrounding urban community, is one part of the The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s broader campaign to increase the participation of minority and underserved populations in clinical trials.

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The second annual New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University announced its full schedule and lineup for its 2023 event, which features over 130 renowned and rising authors participating in 78 panels, book signings, a culinary symposium, family day festivities and a musical performance.

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Immersive on-campus arts experiences at Fresno State and abroad offer rare opportunity for students to live and work with some of the best artists in their disciplines.

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When a devastating disease wiped out New Jersey farmers' basil fields, growers turned to Rutgers scientists for help. Fields of Devotion, a science-in-action film, follows the unique partnership between local farmers and Rutgers scientists.

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With renovations complete, the UC San Diego Mandeville Art Gallery will open its doors to the community under the guidance and direction of a new, dynamic leader: Ceci Moss, who joins the university poised to take arts education and outreach to new heights, building on the gallery’s expansive, 57-year history. As Gallery Director and Chief Curator, Moss brings nearly 20 years of experience organizing solo, group, touring and online exhibitions, as well as public programs, performances and screenings, in museums, galleries and artist-run spaces.

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Microsoft co-founder, business leader and philanthropist Bill Gates leads a prestigious and award-winning group of authors, children’s authors, local chefs and musicians who round out the 2023 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.

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A young man with ALS has continued to pursue his passion for music despite losing his ability to move and speak. He uses a device that track his eye movements to build out songs.

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Jacob Lawrence's painting, Occupational Therapy No. 1 (1949), is more connected to physiatry than initially believed. The painting depicts five women performing various sewing activities. This painting has been discussed by critics, but it has not been appreciated that all the women appear actually to be the same person! Thus, the painting shows the cycle of rehabilitation.

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Liesl Olson is a respected scholar, cultural leader and social justice advocate.

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On Tuesday, as the Academy released its picks for Oscars contenders, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” clearly lead the pack with 11 awards nominations.

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Detrás de la sonrisa contagiosa de la enfermera ortopédica Paulina Andujo se encuentra no solo una cuidadora compasiva sino también un talento único.

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A University at Albany professor has discovered the earliest known full-length elegy by famed poet Phillis Wheatley (Peters), widely regarded as the first Black person, enslaved person and one of the first women in America to publish a book of poetry.

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Artificial intelligence gives people the opportunity to turn “words” into “pictures” and create their art easily and quickly. But will this form of AI reduce and replace human craftsmanship, imagination, and careers? A Chula Engineering professor and an architecture professor share their views.

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New Cornell University research shows how the rise of consumers’ influence changed the tune of contemporary country music and led to the creation of more songs that span multiple genres.

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A jerk is a physical quantity that represents a sudden change of acceleration. It is widely used as a parameter in engineering, manufacturing, sports science, and other industries.

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The ghostly sounds of pre-electric recordings can be heard on a new album issued by the University of Huddersfield Press.

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Lawrence Steger was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1961 and died in Chicago in 1999.

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The classroom is constantly evolving, from chalkboards to powerpoint slides to interactive polling using clickers. But what if science were a story and we could follow along as an ant messes things up for a colony (hint: Pixar’s A Bug’s Life) or a fish is separated from their home (hint: Pixar’s Finding Nemo)? While these stories may not be 100% scientific, their ability to engage is demonstrable in the success of these movies.

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Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Winter Holidays channel on Newswise.

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Xavier Cortada, a University of Miami professor of practice and three-time alumnus, discusses socially engaged art in a TED Talk, which premieres globally on Dec. 15., and members of the University of Miami community got an exclusive preview of the talk during a screening on Nov. 28 at the Bill Cosford Cinema.

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The addition of Paquito D’Rivera’s material—which includes photographs, music scores, awards, and audiovisual materials—to the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection will be a treasure trove for lovers of jazz, Latin, and classical music.

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The cultural and economic behemoth that is the Walt Disney Company has steamrolled its way into the collective consciousness and shows no signs of slowing down.

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For nearly two decades, Dr. Peter and Judy Jackson have been generous supporters of Salisbury University's music programs. Following a recent gift that increased their endowment to the University to $1.3 million, SU repaid their kindness by naming its Music Program in their honor.

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Queen’s University Belfast has launched the Brian Friel digital archive, a first of its kind resource, providing access to drafts of the acclaimed Irish playwright’s works, including handwritten notes from some of his most iconic plays.

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Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Behavioral Science channel on Newswise, a free source for journalists.

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A singer’s primary genre can impact the likelihood of developing vocal fold injury and may even influence the specific type of injury that occurs, a recent study by UT Southwestern researchers suggests.

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The 2023 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University announced its much-anticipated lineup for the second-annual literary festival, naming over 100 bestselling and critically acclaimed authors slated to appear on Tulane’s Uptown campus, March 9-11, 2023. The three-day celebration of national, regional and local authors is free and open to the public, thanks to the generosity of many individual and corporate sponsors.

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Since he was very young, Daniel Farr, DMA, has had a love for music. He found the University of Northern Colorado the best place to share that love while combining two of his passions; conducting bands and teaching.

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For the pieces, Jason Lee, associate professor of sculpture in the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts, stacks logos. Most prints incorporate between 10 and 25 band logos each, some stack more than 30.

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As part of the St. Louis Literary Award series of programs honoring 2023 award recipient Neil Gaiman, the Saint Louis University Campus Read Book Talk Series offers opportunities to explore the themes of Gaiman’s work.

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B. Smyth, 28, died on Nov. 17, 2022, after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis, according to an Instagram post featuring his brother Denzil. Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive, debilitating disease that causes scarring in the lungs and does not presently have a cure.