Erica Galvin

As we first mentioned last year , Google has launched a series of Career Certificate programs that allow students to gain expertise in a field, ideally enough to start working without a 4-year college degree. This initiative now includes a Certificate in Project Management , which consists of six courses. Foundations of Project Management Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project Project Planning: Putting It All Together Project Execution: Running the Project Agile Project Management Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World Above, a Program Manager talks about “her path from dropping out of high school and earning a GED, joining the military, and working as a coder, to learning about program management and switching into that career track.” An introduction to the Project Management certificate  appears below. The Project Management program  takes about six months to complete, and should cost about $250 in total. Students get charged $39 per...

Anthony and JJ Curis are turning a church, its rectory and a city block into a cultural center and a legacy park for the artist Charles McGee. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3nur0IT via IFTTT

What is fascism? Fascism is an ideology developed and elaborated in early 20th-century Western Europe and enabled by technology, mass media, and weapons of war. Most of us learned the basics of that development from grade school history textbooks. We generally came to appreciate to some degree — though we may have forgotten the lesson — that the phrase “creeping fascism” is redundant. Fascism stomped around in jackboots, smashed windows and burned Reichstags before it fully seized power, but its most important action was the creeping: into language, media, education, and religious institutions . None of these movements arose, after all, without the support (or at least acquiescence) of those in power. There are differences between Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and their various nationalist descendents. Mussolini secured power chiefly through intimidation. But once he was appointed prime minister by the King in 1922 he began consolidating his dictatorship, a process that took seve...

If you happened to be walking around Mile End, East London in 1993, you might have met with the extraordinary sight of a lone terraced house cast in concrete. Resembling a gravestone, this sombre grey monolith commemorated the past life of Grove Road. The row of homes which once lined the street had only recently been demolished for redevelopment as a community green space. Most of the houses gone, one resident, Sidney Gale, held out for a year before he was evicted and re-housed by the council. With his and the local authority’s permission, artist Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) filled the building with concrete before dismantling it, brick-by-brick. Whiteread’s installation, titled House, remained in situ for 80 days before it too was razed to the ground. It was always intended to be temporary. But in less than three months, the work had ignited a fierce, at times polarising, debate around the role of contemporary art and the state of housing policy. Later that year it won the Turner Pri...

Gillian Wearing (b. 1963), whose new retrospective opens next month at the Guggenheim, New York, has been exploring the relationship between self-presentation and illusion for three decades. Born in Birmingham, England, Wearing studied at London’s Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths before breaking through with her 1992-1993 project Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say. This set of photographs encapsulated the spirit of the Young British Artists era – with an irreverent take on the tradition of street photography. Wearing positioned herself in a busy area of South London and asked passers-by to write down what was on their mind, before seeking their permission to photograph them holding their sheet of paper. Following in the footsteps of the American Pictures Generation, this deceptively simple idea cut through the social and ideological baggage of documentary photography and its tendency tap into pre-existing beliefs and ...

“Believe it or not, this was the very first piece of music I started on the cello when I was four years old,” said Yo Yo Ma before playing the “Prelude” from J.S. Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 for  NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series in 2018 . That same year, the world-famous cello prodigy released his third recording of all six suites in an album titled  Six Evolutions — Bach: Cello Suites . The “two-and-a-half hours of sounds that map humanity in all its triumphs, joys and sorrows,” write NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly and Tom Huizenga, “has become a lodestar for the celebrated cellist.” Ma made his first recording of the Unaccompanied Cello Suites in 1983, and won a Grammy the following year. “He released another set in 1997,” a recording that shows the musician’s own evolution in collaboration with “architects, ice skaters and Kabuki artists.” But his performance of the suites has always been evolutionary, as a New York Times reviewer noted of a live performance in 1991 ...

FYI: Earlier this year, Bill Gates published the New York Times bestseller,  How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need . In the book, Gates explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, and how we can achieve this goal.  Given that this responsibility will eventually fall to a younger generation of leaders, Gates has decided to make a digital copy of his book available to every college and university student in the world . The book can be downloaded an .epub file which can be opened in a compatible e-reader application on many devices. An email address, along with a name of college/university, is required. Find the book here. Related Content  Bill Gates Describes His Biggest Fear: “I Rate the Chance of a Widespread Epidemic Far Worse Than Ebola at Well Over 50 Percent” (2015) Take Big History: A Free Short Course on 13.8 Billion Years of History, Funded by Bill Gates Bill Gates Recommends ...