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I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week. The contours of a new online-education landscape are beginning to emerge. For all the justified angst about drops in higher-ed enrollment last fall, one key trend has been overlooked: At many predominantly online institutions, enrollment went up — in some cases by quite a lot. I’ve been digging into some of the numbers and run through them below. This trend is significant for at least two reasons. For one, it’s a marker of the way the pandem...

Jacob van Ruisdael’s ‘The Hekelveld’, in Amsterdam in Winter (around 1665-70), is in Agnews’ London Art Week exhibition, Landscapes and Cityscapes, from the 17th to 20th century Courtesy of Agnews The contemporary art market yo-yos with the stock markets and whims of speculators, the auction results of its young stars shoehorned into indexes that dress them up as investment material. But Old Masters are a more capricious beast. This is not a constructible market with a continuous supply from malleable young artists; instead, there are fallow years, offering only du...