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Meet NPR’s New Top Arts Editor
"Ciera Crawford has been promoted to Chief Arts and Culture Hub Editor at NPR. (She) has been working with the culture desk since 2021...
“Hallucinate” Is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word Of The Year — But Not For The Definition...
"It now has an additional meaning, relating to when artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, which generates text that mimics human writing, 'hallucinates' and...
For The First Time, The Guggenheim Will Have A Woman As CEO And Director
"The Guggenheim Museum announced that Mariët Westermann, currently vice chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi, will be the next director and CEO of the Solomon...
“De-PiSisation”: Poland’s Incoming Government Looks To Undo The Politicizing Of Cultural Institutions By The...
"PiS" is the Polish acronym for the Law and Justice Party, which ruled the country for eight years before losing last month's elections. So...
The Coming Realignment Of Hollywood Post-Strike
Radio Atlantic's Hanna Rosin talks with correspondents David Sims and Shirley Li about where the industry is headed. "The term 'river of junk' comes...
At DC’s Arena Stage, The New Director Bravely Faces A Leaner, More Challenging Time
Hana S. Sharif: "The institutions that will survive and thrive in the next 10-to-15 years are the ones that are able to be adaptive,...
Americans Are Consuming More News On TikTok, Less On Other Social Media
"In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in...
Author A.S. Byatt Is Dead At 87
"Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, who wrote under the name AS Byatt, authored complex and critically acclaimed novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Possession and her...
Cambodia Is Doing Mass Evictions Of Families Living At Angkor Wat
"Amnesty International … (has) charged that the evictions of an estimated 10,000 families by Cambodian authorities violated international and national law. It said the...
Valery Gergiev Named General Director Of Bolshoi Theater As Well As Mariinsky
"Izvestiya reported that Gergiev will become the intendant of the Bolshoi Theatre (in Moscow) and will remain in the same position at (St. Petersburg's)...
Art Institute Of Chicago’s Ex-Payroll Manager Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling $2.3 Million
Michael Maurello will serve three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He had pled guilty to falsifying the Institute's financial...
Alvin Ailey Company Artistic Director Robert Battle Resigns
"'I am going to spend more time with my family, and I am going to focus on my health,' he wrote, but he did...
Toronto Symphony Lands A Record-Label Deal
The orchestra, with music director Gustavo Gimeno, has signed a long-term partnership agreement with Harmonia Mundi; this is the label's first signing of a...
Gawker Has Been Bought Again, This Time by A Singaporean Rock Mogul
The new owner, Meng Ru Kuok, runs the Caldecott Music Group, which includes BandLab Technologies, NME Networks, and major guitar-maker Vista; he says his...
Magicians Are Less Prone To Mental Illness Than Any Other Artists: Research
The study "measured psychopathological traits of almost 200 magicians and … concluded that magicians scored significantly lower than other types of creatives and 'normal'...
An Inside Look At How Fox News Started Peddling The “Trump Didn’t Lose” Big...
In an excerpt from his new book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter lays out how, despite Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch being clearly in favor...
The High-Tech Scans That Will Help Restore Historic Ukrainian Buildings Ravaged By Russian Bombing
Architects, engineers and other volunteers are taking careful high-definition photographs and laser scans of historic buildings around Ukraine — those that have been bombed...
The Opera Aria Painted On The Wall Of A Venetian Orphanage
Yes, this was one of the orphanages where girls were taught music to a high level by the likes of Vivaldi. The music room...
Do Hot Guys Make Sense As Stand-Up Comedians? Conventional Wisdom Says No, But …
"Comedy has been the rare field where square jaws and chiseled features can count against you," writes Jason Zinoman. "The assumption in stand-up has...
Cleveland Ballet Suspends CEO And Artistic Director Amid Investigation Into Alleged Firing Over Body...
Artistic director Gladisa Guadalupe and president/CEO Michael Krasnyansky, who are married, are alleged to have fired a teacher at the company school's outreach program...
Aaron Dworkin Of The Sphinx Organization Becomes Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s “Poetjournalist-In-Residence”
A writer and spoken-word artist as well as musical entrepreneur, "Dworkin will work with Complexions founders and co–artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson...
Meet The First Woman To Become A Permanent Member Of The New York Philharmonic,...
Orin O'Brien, now 88, played double bass in the Phil for 55 years, retiring in 2021. She chose the instrument because she likes being...
Orlando Museum Of Art May Just Settle Its Lawsuit Against Its Former Director Over...
Mentioned almost in passing in the museum's most recent court filing was this sentence: “The parties are currently engaged in settlement negotiations, the outcome...
American Comedy’s Highest Honor, The Mark Twain Prize, Goes To Kevin Hart
"Hart got his start telling jokes during amateur night at a local comedy club in his native Philadelphia. Today, his standup fills stadiums, cracking...
Justin Torres, Ned Blackhawk, Craig Santos Perez, Dan Santat Win 2023 National Book Awards
"Blackouts" by Justin Torres took the fiction prize; nonfiction honors went to Ned Blackhawk's "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of...
