Artists Engage Religion

After exiting the Christian music industry, these artists engage religion on their terms

In the last two decades, several Contemporary Christian Music powerhouses have publicly exited the CCM industry

Entertainment - ABC News - 6 hours ago

Engaged Managers = Engaged Teams

Leadership plays a crucial role motivating employees to care and stay involved at work.

Business - Inc. - October 25

Harris goes to church, highlighting the absence of religion in the 2024 campaign

Religion is making a rare appearance on the campaign trail in a presidential election that has dwelled less on candidates’ personal faiths than any in recent memory.

Trump and Harris campaigns spotlight religion in recent appeals to Christian voters

Former President Trump and Vice President Harris have focused on religion in recent days as they make their final appeals to Christian voters just weeks before the election. Thursday night’s Al ...

Politics - The Hill - October 20

The Artist Chase Hall Wrestles With ‘Hybridity’

The artist, who is frank about the issues raised by his mixed race, has a solo show opening in Los Angeles.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 22

Trudeau Accuses Political Foes of Engaging in Foreign Interference

Facing a revolt in his own party, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacked both the Conservative opposition and India’s government, which he said had made “a horrific mistake” in the killing of a ...

World - The New York Times - October 17

Keir Starmer urged to ‘engage’ on reparations at Commonwealth summit

Call from head of Caribbean reparations body comes as Bahamas foreign minister claims UK PM will change his position. UK politics live – latest updates Britain has a legal and moral case to ...

World - The Guardian - October 24

"Tiger King" Joe Exotic announces prison engagement

Joe Exotic, made famous in the Netflix series "Tiger King" and currently serving time in federal prison, says he is engaged to a fellow inmate in Texas and hopes to get married.

How the west should re-engage with the global south

The erosion of the post-1945 world order requires the UK and its allies to define new forms of multilateralism

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

Trump’s Rehearsed Defiance Engages His Supporters

Former President Donald J. Trump’s rehearsed defiance makes his supporters feel as though there’s nothing he won’t share.

Top stories - The New York Times - 23 hours ago

Sick of the 21st Century? These Artists Revive the 18th.

Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black history.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 18

A Murder at an Elite Hamptons Resort Ends an Artist’s Dream

The owner of a tile company funded Sabina Khorramdel’s life of travel and creation. After she was found slain, his body was discovered at his Pennsylvania home.

Top stories - The New York Times - Yesterday

Noah Lyles and fellow Olympian Junelle Bromfield announce engagement

Olympians Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield are ready to sprint down the aisle.

Canada and India expel diplomats over killing of Sikh activist

Relations between two countries at new low after allegations by Canadian police of ‘clandestine activities’ by envoys

Business - Financial Times - October 14

How Arizona Senate candidates are engaging with Native American voters

Senate Democratic candidate Ruben Gallego has now visited 20 of the 22 federally recognized tribes in Arizona, communities that have historically felt isolated from the government. NBC News' Vaughn ...

5 Bad Leadership Mistakes That Are Killing Employee Engagement (and How to Avoid Them)

Vision, planning, and strategy matter. But so does taking care of your people.

Business - Inc. - October 21

EU considers stepping up engagement with Syria for migrant returns

Also in this newsletter: Why Italy’s anti-migrant government wants to hire Indian nurses

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

An Artist Signed Over His Career to Investors. Now He Wants It Back.

Bjarne Melgaard’s rise in the art world came with strings attached and an unusual contract with investors. Now he’s suing to regain control of his artwork.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 14

York Theater Artistic Director Out After ‘Hurtful’ Diversity Comments

James Morgan, who has been with the small New York theater company for 50 years, blamed the effects of a stroke for his behavior.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 14

Watch: From fresh-faced X Factor contestant to solo artist

The BBC takes a look back at moments from the former One Direction singer's career.

Thousands of actors, artists call AI 'major, unjust threat'

More than 11,000 actors and artists signed a statement labeling the unlicensed use of creative works for artificial intelligence training a "major unjust threat" to creators. “The unlicensed use of ...

Politics - The Hill - October 22

Björn Ulvaeus and Thom Yorke among 11,000 artists warning of AI threats

Letter says unlicensed use of creative works to train models poses a major threat to creators’ livelihoods

Business - Financial Times - October 22

A U.S. Farming Giant Gets a Message 11 Stories Tall

Using natural materials from environmental disasters around the country, a Brazilian activist sends a message to a U.S. farming giant.

World - The New York Times - October 23

WSJ Tech Live: Executives, Investors and Artists Debate AI's Potential

Andreessen Horowitz’s Martin Casado says tech policy is in a ‘dangerous place.’

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - October 23

Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino is suturing the past to the present

Centering Black feminism and anti-racism, Paulino’s work is being celebrated from New York’s High Line to the Tate Modern. In 1865, the French photographer Augusto Stahl made images of a naked ...

World - The Guardian - October 24

7 charged with cyberbullying after Paris Olympics artistic director's opening ceremony backlash

French authorities say they have charged seven individuals in connection with a cyberbullying campaign targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ...

World - ABC News - October 25

From Rupert Murdoch to Thom Yorke: the growing backlash to AI

Media mogul and leading artists join fight to stop tech firms using creative works for free as training data. It is an unlikely alliance: the billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and a panoply of ...

World - The Guardian - October 25

As Georgia Decides Its Future, Artists Are Worried About Theirs

Two new laws, and a looming election, in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have artists reconsidering their livelihoods and even whether they can stay in the country.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 25

Artists call for greater focus on black British music in schools

The government's reviewing the national curriculum and artists hope for a change to music lessons.

Music Review: Tyler, the Creator's 'Chromakopia' looks into the artist's journey to self-discovery

On his seventh studio album, “Chromakopia,” the multi-hyphenate Tyler, the Creator pulls back the curtain

Entertainment - ABC News - 3 days ago

Jean Tinguely — artist who created poetry from motion

Made from salvaged objects, his radical kinetic sculptures are on show in a Milan retrospective

World - Financial Times - 3 days ago

Puerto Rican artist Nicky Jam takes back his Trump endorsement

Reggaeton artist Nicky Jam on Wednesday revoked his endorsement of Donald Trump, after Tony Hinchcliffe's rally joke calling Puerto Rico "garbage."

Politics - CBS News - 2 days ago

Filipino artist connects with his "Lola" through collaborative watercolors

Many of us wish we could go back in time to ask our grandparents questions about their life, their family, and what it was like growing up, but Filipino artist Kenneth Tan didn't need a time machine.

Entertainment - CBS News - 3 days ago

Backstreet Boys, Blake Shelton among artists headlining hurricane relief concert

The Backstreet Boys, Blake Shelton, Brittney Spencer, Cedric the Entertainer and other artists are teaming up for a performance dedicated to raising funds for response efforts for hurricanes Helene ...

Politics - The Hill - Yesterday

A Bolivian artist carves faces of the departed onto Day of the Dead bread

During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November, Latin Americans honor their departed loved ones by setting up altars adorned with food, flowers and ...

World - ABC News - 18 hours ago

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