Yearly Archives: 2021
Looking For Culture To Lead The Reopening Of New York
The arts are "a major industry that employed some 93,500 people before the pandemic and paid them $7.4 billion in wages" - and are...
The Ethics of Using AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice In A Documentary
Another documentary filmmaker wonders, "Why borrow trouble, as my parents used to say, by re-creating Anthony Bourdain’s voice that way?" - Chicago Tribune
Why We All Need To Pay Attention To How Artificial Intelligence Works
Each link is a small expression of intelligence, and the algorithm, even without users being aware, extracts and accumulates that intelligence in the form...
Painting Restoration Takes The Smile Off
The restoration work not only reveals the rogue addition of an upturned smile, but also a jarring strip of dirty sky added to make...
Hong Kong Book Fair Slims Down With Self-Censorship
This year, far fewer politically sensitive books are on display. Vendors are curating their books carefully to avoid violating the national security law, which...
New Study Confirms 1972 MIT Study That Collapse Of Civilization Is Imminent
It concludes that the current business-as-usual trajectory of global civilization is heading toward the terminal decline of economic growth within the coming decade—and at...
“Digital Twinning” Is Revolutionizing How We Solve Problems
The technology, which involves creating a digital clone of a real-world object or system, is revolutionising the fields of healthcare, manufacturing and logistics. It...
One Of History’s Greatest Opera Divas Was Also A Fine Composer
Pauline Viardot played duets with Chopin; thrilled Europe with her Rossini and Mozart; had George Sand as a friend and Turgenev as a lover....
For A Culture Of Innovation You Need Arts Spaces
My research findings demonstrate how honing imagination and wonder is essential to creating cultures dedicated to innovative and responsible corporate practices demanded by a...
At Home With The World’s Most Powerful Crossword Editor
"Will Shortz's stature in the crossword world is difficult to overstate. Observers, like the Kremlinologists of yore, speak of the 'Shortzian' and 'pre-Shortzian' eras."...
Brexit Has Made It A Nightmare For UK Bands To Tour Europe
“This is about whether one of the U.K.’s most successful industries, worth £111 billion a year, is allowed to prosper and contribute hugely to...
An Arts Center In Bethlehem, Right Next To The Israeli Security Wall
At an old stone mansion built in the 1880s by the town registrar, his descendants operate the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir Center for Art...
Seriously? Producers Used AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice on Documentary
The synthetic voice was created by feeding more than 10 hours of Mr Bourdain's voice into a machine-learning system. - BBC
Translating The Vocabulary Of The Online World From English
Speakers of other languages often have to use English for internet-specific terms; digital rights advocates find that there are no words in many other...
Facebook Wants To Pay Video-Makers. It Could Be A Tough Sell
Many creators — who make and profit off meme-y online content — have already flocked to rival platforms like YouTube and TikTok, which invested...
High-Tech Analysis Of *Exactly* How Museumgoers Look At Art
At a museum in Bologna, cameras and sensors of the ShareArt system record how many people view particular works, for how long, from how...
This Former Public Restroom Has Become An Arts Organization
The little building on Chicago's Logan Square was constructed in 1927 as a comfort station (as the euphemism of the time had it); for...
Yay! We Can Go To The Movies Again! But What Does That Even Mean...
As people start returning to cinemas rather than watching feature films at home as their only option, A.O. Scott considers whether the distinctions between...
Netflix Is Getting Into Video Games
"The idea is to offer video games on Netflix's streaming platform within the next year, according to a person familiar with the situation. The...
San Francisco Symphony CEO To Leave After Four Years
Mark C. Hanson gave no reason for his decision beyond a statement that "with the San Francisco Symphony now back up and performing …,...
Archaeologists Uncover Unknown 4,000-Year-Old City In Iraq
"The discovery was made in the area of Tell al-Duhaila, which is home to more than 1,200 archaeological sites, including the Great Ziggurat of...
Oleg Briansky, Who Founded One Of America’s Top Ballet Schools, Dead At 91
After an impressive but short dancing career (he never fully recovered from an early knee injury), he and his wife founded the Briansky Saratoga...
Turning Point: COVID Lockdown Has Freed Dance From Its Confines
We have embodied elements of resistance—resisting what a “dancer” looks like, what a dance “should” look like. And perhaps most importantly, we have resisted...
The Romance Of Going To Space Has Been Corrupted By Profit
The notion that private corporations ought to achieve something that states have been able to do since the 1960s—fly to space—is a peculiarly U.S....
There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory – It’s One Side Arguing With...
The Republican operatives, who dismiss the expositions of critical race theorists and anti-racists in order to define critical race theory and anti-racism, and then...
