The Visual Art Critic: A Survey of Art Critics at General Interest News Publications in America

Examines whether art critics provide sufficient exposure for artists and art institutions, given the recent dynamic growth in the visual arts over the past two decades

Arts for All: Connecting to New Audiences

Summarizes discussions among arts leaders and experts at an April 2008 conference on how to build arts appreciation and participation in a new environment through better marketing, new technology, and audience research

A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era

Examines changes in the visual arts environment, including blockbuster special exhibits, well-paid "superartists," and the arts market transformation. Explores how these changes affect the way visual arts are created, marketed, distributed, and consumed

The Architecture Critic: A Survey of Newspaper Architecture Critics in America

Finds that architecture is the least thoroughly covered arts beat at most American newspapers

Where Brain, Body and World Collide

The production cross section of electrons from semileptonic decays of beauty hadrons was measured at mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.8) in the transverse momentum range 1 < pt < 8 Gev/c with the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC in pp collisions at a center of mass energy sqrt{s} = 7 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 2.2 nb^{-1}. Electrons from beauty hadron decays were selected based on the displacement of the decay vertex from the collision vertex. A perturbative QCD calculation agrees with the measurement within uncertainties. The data were extrapolated to the full phase space to determine the total cross section for the production of beauty quark-antiquark pairs