Yearly Archives: 2023
Pandering: What Good Does Elizabeth Gilbert Delaying Her Book Do?
Some writers invite haters and court controversy; Gilbert writes books that want to be loved. Being accused of complicity with a regime accused of...
The New Piracy: Movies And TV Chopped Into Tiny Pieces On TikTok
Those millions of people are contributing to the billions of views on movies and films chopped up to fit the app's restrictive post limits,...
Linguists Identify A New English Dialect Emerging In South Florida
This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish. - The Conversation
New Renzo Piano-Designed Istanbul Modern Opens
The official opening of the museum this month will come just weeks after the re-election of a president under whose leadership the media has been...
Paul McCartney Says John Lennon Song Finished With Assistance Of AI
The turning point came with Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, where dialogue editor Emile de la Rey trained computers to recognise the Beatles' voices...
Surveys Say People Feel Morality Is In Decline. But Then They’ve Always Said So…
A big collection of archival data, going back all the way to 1949, suggests people believe morality is declining. People are asked questions like,...
UK Government Announces Ambitious Plan For Creative Industries With £77 Million In New Funding
"The Creative Industries Sector Vision, teased by culture secretary Lucy Frazer in May, aims to expand the sector by £50 billion ($63 billion) by...
Rijksmuseum’s Blockbuster Vermeer Show Wrestles With Blockbusters
Tickets to the exhibition sold out in a matter of days, reselling for extortionate amounts on the black market. Exhibitions of this magnetism are...
Standup Comedy At Rock Festivals? Yes, It’s A Thing
In Britain, that is: Glastonbury has a cabaret tent that seats 2,000. "The memories you make doing zany things is why you come to...
Can Art Make Us Good?
‘Can art make me become a good person?’ is a more interesting question, because neither ‘Yes’ nor ‘No’ is an adequate answer; the only...
Jacques Rozier, Last Surviving Filmmaker Of The French New Wave, Is Dead At 96
"Such luminaries (as Godard and Truffaut) acknowledged him as a member in good standing in what amounted to one of cinema history's most exclusive...
30 Years Ago: How Prince Changed The Way Musicians Negotiate Contracts For Their Music
“He kind of very famously said that ‘if you don’t own your masters, then your masters own you." - Marketplace
“We Do Not Read The Bible As It Is Meant To Be Read” —...
Certain books (Psalms, Song of Songs, Lamentations) are generally understood as poetry, but the historical books, Gospels, and letters all include a great deal...
The Death Of El Sistema?
If the doubt over the actual inception of el Sistema, as it was conceptually communicated to the public, isn’t telling enough, the most damning...
Iraqi Christians Work To Save Syriac, Their 2,000-Year-Old Language
A dialect of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, Syriac has been used for centuries for Bibles, church services, and literature as well as...
A New Generation Of US Army “Monuments Men” Are Learning About Ukrainian Artworks
"The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and the Met Museum have teamed up with the Army to help soldiers understand the role that art plays...
Court Throws Out The Lawsuit Against Maurizio Cattelan Over The Banana On The Wall
"A Miami federal judge ruled this week in favor of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who, for a few weeks in 2019, was the...
Fewer People Are Following The News — Because It’s Depressing: Global Study
"A report by Oxford University's Reuters Institute says 48% of people around the world are very or extremely interested in the news — down...
A New Dance Festival Begins In New York This Fall
"Van Cleef & Arpels, the French luxury jeweler, announced on Tuesday that it would sponsor a 16-day event partly aimed at bringing more international...
Recording Academy Adds Three New Grammy Categories
"The Recording Academy has added three new categories for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, it announced today: Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz...
Author Cormac McCarthy, 89
"(His) lyrical and often brutally violent novels propelled him to the first ranks of American fiction, immersing readers in scenes of savagery, despair and...
Rise Of The Counterfeit People (Beware)
"Today, for the first time in history, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible for anybody to make counterfeit people who can pass for...
Regulator Says Canadian Content Laws For Streamers Shouldn’t Apply to Social Media Users
The directive instructs the CRTC to ensure the regulations do not apply to social media users whose business model is their own content, even...
Four Classical Music Stations That Have Found Ways To Boost Engagement
Through LinkedIn, and awards, and video game music... - Greater Public
How The Brain Processes Listening To Voices In A Crowded Room
"The findings suggest that the brain likely uses different mechanisms for encoding and representing these two different volumes of voices when there is a...
