Detroit often conjures up grim thoughts now, but it’s wise to remember it is still a great American city, and great American cities mean art. A taste of it came this way over the weekend when the ...

What makes us clap more for some performances than others? You'd think it's obvious: The better the show, the more applause. Think again. Guest host Linda Wertheimer explores how and why applause ...

There is a class at Yale where we begin by taking off our shoes and walking back and forth with our eyes closed. Soft music wafts in and out, and our teacher, Lacina Coulibaly, snaps his fingers to ...

Students at the University of Oxford will now use jazz hands instead of applause as a way to be more inclusive of students who have sensory or anxiety disorders that may become uneasy by the noise ...

In a pivotal scene from the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, a mutant claps his hands and blasts a shockwave across a battlefield. In a theater somewhere, Sunny Jung watched—and wondered. “It made me ...

When it comes to the former Beatles and their solo output, we are living in an age of abundance. For the past several years, the archival releases have been arriving hot and heavy. And while there has ...

Students at the University of Oxford will now use jazz hands instead of applause as a way to be more inclusive of students who have sensory or anxiety disorders that may become uneasy by the noise ...