All of my work is based on true story, real people, the things of life. For those I have filmed, whose lived experiences become the heartbeat of a work, I have often explained that art is...
“While Black”: shorthand for racial profiling so prevalent in the United States that African Americans have almost universally experienced it. The verbs that accompany the phrase represen...
Talking to your children about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic might feel fraught with risk.
The global music industry is worth over $50 billion, with two major income streams. The first, live music, makes up over 50% of total revenues and is derived mainly from sales of tickets ...
I had naively thought that 2020, at least from my musician’s perspective, would be a momentous year marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Our opening concert at this year’s ...
In millions of homes across the globe this very minute, parents are juggling like never before as they struggle to teach their children while earning a living during the coronavirus lockd...
If you want to listen to a couple of minutes of calming, reflective cello music - here is Forum trustee and Cultural Leader Yo-Yo Ma playing “Goin’ Home” - a theme adapted from Antonín Dv...
From a VR installation that makes you feel what it would be like to be a tree, to a performance mixing beat-boxing with AI: there's a world-class arts festival hidden in plain sight at th...
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will take place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland from 21-24 January 2020, under the theme, “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.”
I became blind at the age of five, which more or less disqualified me from for school in rural Ethiopia. I would most likely have been married off instead if my courageous mother had not ...
Soon after I was appointed Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts in 2007, I attended Davos. Having spent most of my adult life in the art world and in academia, I was not prepare...
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will take place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland from 22-25 January under the theme, “Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of ...
Once upon a time we all knew what censorship was, who the good and bad guys were, and what could be done to make the world a better place. Look up the noun “censor” in the Oxford English ...
We've all done it: blanked out the world around us to stare at the beguiling screen of our mobile phone.
Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism. WOW is now a global phenomenon, b...
