Monthly Archives: May 2024
Diversity Problem: Few UK Arts Workers Come From The Working Class
While 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make...
Study: Are AI Large Language Models Developing Theory Of Mind?
What defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people’s mental states. Large language models (LLMs)...
What Our Inner Voices Tell Us
For psychologists and other researchers, inner speech presents a puzzle – it’s a huge part of our lives, yet so difficult to study. After...
Turkish President Erdoğan Says The Eurovision Song Contest Is A Danger To The Traditional...
"In a speech following a Cabinet meeting, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described participants at the contest as the 'Trojan horses of social corruption' and said...
How Roulette Became New York’s Music Lab
Pursuing an aesthetic guided as much by John Coltrane as by John Cage, Roulette became a crucial laboratory for the downtown-music scene, providing artists...
Hong Kong’s Major Arts District Warns That It Could Shut Down Without More Funding...
"Henry Tang, chairman of (the) West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, told the government that it must address the district’s funding crisis by August if...
How Copyright Has Killed Music (Except For Taylor Swift)
If giving people money encourages them to create, then surely giving them more money would encourage them to create more music, right? The answer...
Russian Playwright And Director Now On Trial Over Production Which Allegedly “Justifies Terrorism”
Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and director Zhenya Berkovich have been imprisoned for a year for their staging of Finist, the Brave Falcon. Putin's government argues...
Christie’s Auction Sale Has Good Night, Despite Cyber Attack
It was a "reassuringly solid result of $346.5m ($413.3m with fees) from its Modern evening sale—within its pre-sale estimate of $340m-$493.5m (calculated without fees)."...
Fraud Trial Begins For Ozy Media Co-Founder Carlos Watson
The former MSNBC morning news anchor created the digital news media company Ozy in 2013. Prosecutors allege that, as it failed to make money,...
A Year After Its “Year Of Culture” Honors, Leeds’ Arts Scene Is Collapsing
Last year, the city of Leeds held a year-long celebration of culture. This year, however, artists and creatives in the West Yorkshire city are being...
Penguin Random House Lays Off Publishers Of Two Of Its Most Prominent Imprints
"The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a Penguin Random House division, announced Monday the dismissals of Alfred A. Knopf publisher Reagan Arthur and Pantheon/Schocken publisher...
Remember The Choreographer Who Attacked A Critic With Dog Poop? Now There’s A Play...
To be more precise, there is a play about creating a play about the incident, which made headlines worldwide and got the choreographer fired...
Harlem Crypts And Brooklyn Catacombs And Classical Music By Candlelight
Andrew Ousley decided to present his concert series Death of Classical in the crypt of Harlem's Church of the Intercession not only because the...
Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Makers Of Biopic “The Apprentice.” They Aren’t Terribly Worried.
Trump spokesperson: "We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which...
OpenAI Hits “Pause” On A ChatGPT Voice After Scarlett Johansson Points Out How Much...
The actress, who voiced the title character of the Spike Jonze movie about a guy falling in love with a chatbot, says OpenAI approached...
Orlando Museum Of Art, In Financial Trouble, Asks Court To Modify Bequest Dedicated To...
Reeling with a $1 million budget deficit on a $4 million budget due largely to "the Basquiat fiasco," the museum wants to re-allocate the...
Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused Of Sexual Assault By Ghanaian Colleague
"British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko accused star artist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault in an Instagram post published Sunday and said that he is...
How Grantmakers Can Support Artists Of Color
Historical ideas of what constitutes arts and culture and the roots of racial injustice are being re-examined, and these investments mark a step in...
Broadway Is More Expensive Than Ever. But Where Are The Audiences?
It feels a bit like the Roaring '20s - appropriate since the current Broadway season also features a musical adaptation of "The Great Gatsby."...
The British Museum Keeps Finding Its Missing Items All Over The World
Though, well, “due to the lack of cataloguing and records, the museum has had trouble proving which of the recovered items came from its...
Why We’re Still Having Difficulty Adjusting To Hybrid Work
On the one hand, a reduction in the number of work-related commutes is good for the environment. On the other, entire days spent on...
What’s It Mean To Live In A Virtual Community? Look To The Real Cities...
Misinformation graffiti is going to haunt me. But, cities, over time, learned how to deal with those problems to make cities more livable—but the...
The End Of Giant Music Festivals?
2024 will also be known as the true beginning of the end of mega-live music festival culture with the unexciting two weekends of Coachella...
Was The 1960 Venice Biennale Rigged To Choose Rauschenberg?
“Taking Venice” doesn’t take a position on whether dishonest mischief sullied the jury’s process of choosing Rauschenberg, although it does leave the appropriate sense...
