Liza Lou talks about the shift from working as a solitary artist to being part of a community of artisans, the Apartogether platform that encourages people to create art and share and talk about their work, and how Apartogether has provided encouragement for her own work.

Liza Lou reflects on her three decades of creating stunning art pieces from tiny glass beads, ranging from a folder full of rejection letters to her new exhibition, "Desire Lines," featuring new works created at her Joshua Tree studio.

Chromosapien interviews Liza Lou about her ways of working, collaborating with beadwork artisans in South Africa, and the beginning of Endless Mile.

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Health care systems are on the front lines of the climate crisis — anchoring disaster response while coping with growing health impacts from heatwaves, wildfires and other weather-related threats. Hardest hit are essential hospitals, which care for the nation’s most climate-vulnerable patients.

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The U.S. healthcare system emits the same amount of greenhouse gases every year as 100 coal-fired power plants.

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Strategies like increasing energy efficiency should be a no-brainer for hospitals, says President of Health Care Without Harm Gary Cohen. “It saves money, reduces the use of fossil fuels, and is more efficient,” he says. Energy efficient systems, like combined heat and power, also help hospitals stay up and running during natural disasters. “They allow resilience.”

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Susie Mesure reviews Essays Two by translator and writer Lydia Davis:

Even when she writes at length, as she does in this hefty volume spanning 19 essays, her thoughts on literature and language drill down to the minutiae of writing in ways that invite analysis of her every last comma — punctuation itself being a topic that earns its own entry in a 102-page piece on ‘Proust Translation Observations’, delivered in a handy A to Z (from Aurore to Zut).

On Dec. 25, 2021, the eminent historian Jonathan D. Spence died at the age of 85.

Li Weihua, an associate professor at Yunnan University’s School of Ethnology and Sociology, studied with Professor Spence in 2013.

Interlochen Public Radio interviewed Sharon, the Artistic Director of the Michigan Opera Theater, about the perception that his productions are more gimmick than art.

Sharon and Davóne Tines recently visited Interlochen Center for the Arts to work with students.

Northwestern Now highlights faculty member Mary Zimmerman, directing Eurydice at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

The article covers Zimmerman's history with the Met (this is her fifth production as director) and her collaboration with costume designer Ana Kuzmanic.