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The Flood Of AI Slop Online May Make People Turn Back To Established Media...
“Even as the subjects reported trusting online content less after the quiz, they still ranked (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest circulation broadsheet daily) highly and...
Once Again, Trump Orders That All Federal Buildings Be In “Classical And Traditional” Style
The executive order is titled “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again.” - The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
Rodion Shchedrin, Soviet Union’s Last Prominent Composer, Is Dead At 92
He and his wife, the Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, were high culture’s power couple in the late Soviet era; his works were staples of...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Will End Its Print Edition
The Deep South’s largest daily is going digital-only and will print its last hard-copy newspaper in December 31, ending a run which began in...
Vermont’s Public TV/Radio Network Cuts 14% Of Its Staff
“The move follows last month’s congressional rescission of more than $1 billion in federal public media funding. Vermont Public CEO Vijay Singh said the...
Conductor Klaus Mäkelä Will Step Down From Oslo Philharmonic One Year Early
The busy 29-year-old maestro, soon to start music directorships at both the Chicago Symphony and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, will relinquish the...
Bryan Singer Has Secretly Made A Movie About Israel’s Occupation Of Lebanon
The sometime-director of blockbusters hasn’t worked in Hollywood since getting fired from Bohemian Rhapsody in 2017. He moved to Israel several years ago and...
“Enslurrification” — How Culture At Large Is Melting Together Into “One Half-Resolved Substance”
Ben Davis: “In the non-metaphorical world, slurry means an unresolved mix of liquid and solid. …. The word comes to mind with this very...
Compared To AI, CliffsNotes Look Pretty Good, Says Professor
“CliffsNotes for students who struggle to get through Brontë, Woolf, or Shakespeare seem laughably analog in the time of ChatGPT, but CliffsNotes offer genuine...
Joe Hickerson, A Key Figure In The Preservation Of American Folk Song, Is Dead...
“At the height of folk revival, Hickerson began what became more than a quarter-century tenure at the Library of Congress in 1963, swiftly establishing...
Author Of John Williams Bio Clarifies That No, Williams Does Not Actually Dislike Film...
Tim Greiving: “As the recipient of those quotes, I want to try and clear it up. … It’s true that he said to me,...
Old Master Portrait Looted By Nazis Spotted In Real Estate Ad, Then Disappears
Portrait of a Lady, by Baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was part of the trove of works belonging to Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker which...
Alessandra Ferri’s Plans For Vienna State Ballet
Interestingly, Ferri has no prior connection to the Vienna State Opera. ... She sees this as a positive, especially in light of the two...
Minneapolis Institute Of Art To Hold Its First-Ever Exhibition Of Crop Art
Crop art — works using corn kernels, sunflower seeds, or other agricultural products as their media — has long been a feature of the...
Alaska’s Public Radio Stations Could Be Hit Hardest By Federal Defunding
There are 27 rural public radio stations in the state, most of them serving small communities with little other media and hundreds of miles...
Theater Audiences Are Slowly Coming Back In Philadelphia (As Long As They Can Get...
About 71% of theaters there have seen audience numbers improve since the COVID shutdowns, though only 41% are back to pre-2020 levels. The major...
The Lion King’s Longest-Running Rafiki Retires After 25 Years
Tshidi Manye has played the mandrill shaman who sings “Circle of Life” in roughly 9,000 performances, a large majority of them on Broadway. -...
Shirley Ririe, Utah’s Pioneer Of Modern Dance, Has Died At 96
With colleague Joan Woodbury, who died in 2023, she founded the state’s first contemporary troupe, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in 1964 and developed it into...
A “Hamilton”-Style Hip-Hop Musical About Scottish Hero William Wallace (Yes, Braveheart)
“Hip-hop, (songwriter Dave Hook) argues, has never blandly replicated itself, but always adapted to new circumstances. … By giving hip-hop a Scottish voice and,...
Chicago Reader Saved From Closure By Owner Of Seattle Alt-Weekly The Stranger
The 54-year-old paper, one of the US’s oldest alt-weeklies, made major layoffs and narrowly avoided shutting down in January. The Reader has now been...
Starling Lawrence, Editor With A Nose For Bestsellers, Dead At 82
“For more than five decades at W.W. Norton, (he) waded into the so-called slush pile ... to discover unsung authors and to help fashion...
Simon & Schuster CEO Is Stepping Down To Launch New Imprint
Jonathan Karp became CEO in 2020 and steered the publishing house through COVID, an antitrust case and a change in ownership. He’s moving on...
A New Artistic Director At Louisville Ballet
Anthony Krutzkamp, a Kentucky native, is currently both artistic and executive director at Sacramento Ballet, where he achieved record ticket sales, formed a second...
Philadelphia Is About To Suffer Massive Transit Cuts. What Will That Mean For The...
With funding stalled in the state legislature, transit agency SEPTA instituted a 20% service cut in the city last week and will make drastic...
Van Gogh Museum Says It May Have To Close Without More Money From Dutch...
“The museum … needs a refurbishment to preserve its more than 200 paintings and nearly 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh, but two years...
