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One of the most urgent questions in economics today is the connection between inequality and growth.

Prepare to meet the new Marc Jacobs. Like the spring and fall shows that drive the fashion industry, the month of May plays host to a bevy of collections presented by renowned fashion-design programs across the U.S. It's there where bright young designers show off their talents to industry professionals and fellow students alike.

Luxury home furnishings company Poltrona Frau and Parsons The New School for Design have announced the winning designs of the "Wasteless" competition, exhibited during New York's International Contemporary Furniture Fair.

This July, Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell , Broadway, concert and recording artist Linda Eder , THE HIT MEN Featuring Members of Frankie Vall i 's The Four Seasons and The Town Hall's Broadway Rising Stars will each offer special performances as a part of Town Hall's Starry Summer Nights Concert Series.

Today, May 19 at 2 p.m., Staten Island Museum Art Curator Robert Bunkin will present "Fresco: A Modern Perspective," at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum.

Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun , was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.

Many US colleges - facing a drop in enrollment this fall despite an expanding higher-education market - are offering tuition discounts to vie for new students, Forbes magazine reports.

DIY Days returned to The New School in April for a free all-day conference devoted to exploring new models of producing independent film and transmedia storytelling projects, with a strong focus on leveraging the platforms for social good.

The state wants to protect lower- and middle-class families, but Republicans are calling it "one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation I've ever seen" When California State Sen.

Parsons The New School of Design in New York City has canceled a four-day workshop by the controversial fashion designer John Galliano.

When California State Sen. Kevin de LA©on talks about his plan to help people save for retirement, he usually starts by describing his Aunt Francisca, a housekeeper.

Fashion designer John Galliano will not teach at a New York fashion school following a student protest.

British designer John Galliano acknowledges the public after the Christian Dior Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture Collection Show on January 24, 2011, in Paris.

Under intense pressure, one of the city's top design schools has done a 180 and decided that a fashion designer once caught on tape in an anti-Semitic rant will not be allowed to hold a workshop after all.

The first thing that all the involved parties quickly emphasized about the collaboration between Parsons The New School for Design and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is that no one had any idea what to expect, where the partnership might take them or what they might do with the information they gathered.

Parsons The New School of Design in New York City has canceled a four-day workshop by the controversial fashion designer John Galliano.

Elaine Patterson, the honors and AP art teacher at Forestview High School says that her "bucket list" has always included having a student win a Scholastics National Award.

Disgraced fashion designer John Galliano is continuing his public image rehabilitation with an upcoming stint teaching a master class at one of New York's leading design schools.

The Whitney Museum of American Art is about to put up a show of the drawings of Edward Hopper that it is billing as 'the first in-depth study of the artist's working process.' Hopper Drawing will pair some of the painter's most iconic canvases, desolate scenes of American life, including "Early Sunday Morning" , "New York Movie" , and "Nighthawks" ... (more)

Click here to read the entire story on Luxury Daily Kering bolsters revived corporate culture through student competition Gucci owner Kering, formerly PPR, is reinforcing its corporate values during the second annual student competition in partnership with Parsons The New School for Design.