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Alan Alda Prompted ChatGPT To Write A New Scene For “M*A*S*H”
"Alda, who hosts a podcast called Clear+Vivid, had decided to ask the tool to write a scene for M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye accuses B.J.,...
The BBC Will Close Down Its Professional Choir And Shrink Three Of Its Orchestras...
The BBC Singers, the UK's only full-time professional vocal ensemble, will cease operations this summer, and the Corporation is offering voluntary buyouts to reduce...
David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize For Architecture
"Organizers called Chipperfield's work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic and academic buildings to urban planning to residences,...
Has Morris Dancing Actually Become … Cool?
"From all-female sides to youth teams and an appearance at the Brit awards, photographer Rachel Adams has been chronicling England's oldest surviving rural tradition,...
The Badass Women Who Rescued Hildegard Of Bingen’s Collected Works From The Red Army
Late in her life, virtually everything Hildegard had written was copied into a 33-pound illuminated manuscript — too heavy for Soviet soldiers to loot...
Scott Adams – How The Creator Of “Dilbert” Fell So Far So Fast
"For close observers, the story of Adams, 65, has taken a stunning turn — though in a manner that had been foreshadowed in recent...
Tom Sizemore Was A Drug-Addicted Basket Case — And One Of Hollywood’s Most Compelling...
"He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into...
Can The Famously Reverberant Acoustics Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Be Restored? Should They Be?
Brian Katz, co-chief of the acoustics team for the medieval cathedral's reconstruction, has created a computer model — of which we can hear samples...
Notre-Dame In Paris Sets A Reopening Date
"The reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors at the end of 2024, less than six years...
Peak TV? These Days, We’re Headed For Trough TV.
"The boom isn't just ending. It's imploding, with some (shows) being snuffed out or vaporized altogether, and the old winner-take-all logic reasserting itself. Even...
Indie Film Studio A24 Buys An Off-Broadway Theater
"The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and...
In California, The Creative Economy Is Bouncing Back From COVID Unusually Well
"The latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, an annual study from the Los Angeles arts school, found that the...
Daniel Harding Named Music Director Of Rome’s Leading Orchestra
"The 47-year-old British conductor has a ... new post at the The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra, starting in the fall of 2024....
Swamped By Demand For Vermeer Tickets, The Rijksmuseum’s Servers Just Give Up
"'Due to huge demand for extra tickets for the Vermeer exhibition, the website is experiencing problems,' the Rijksmuseum announced on Monday. 'Ticket sales have...
New England Symphony Orchestra Has A New Name And A New Home
The ensemble had been playing since 1974 in the north-central Massachusetts towns of Lancaster and Fitchburg under the name Thayer Symphony Orchestra; it re-christened...
The Critic-Hating, Dog-Poop-Smearing Choreographer Loses His Other Gig, Too
"The Nederlands Dans Theater has decided to suspend its collaboration with disgraced choreographer Marco Goecke. Earlier this month, (he) smeared dog feces in the...
This Circus, Having Stopped Using Elephants, Is Using Holographs Of Them Instead
"Circus-Theater Roncalli, which was founded (in Germany) in 1976, introduced the holograms in 2019 when they partnered with a German firm specializing in augmented...
Chile’s Most Famous Circus Has Been Battling Anti-Gay Discrimination For 54 Years
"All Chileans know Circo Timoteo," said manager Stéfano Rubio. More a cabaret in a tent than a conventional circus, Timoteo began in 1968 when...
Why Aren’t People Flocking To Movie Theaters? Maybe Because The Projection Is Getting So...
Neglected equipment, screens sagging or dusty with popcorn flecks, images that are too dark and sometimes bleed off the screen. "If a movie theater...
The Crusade For Equity Language Is High-Handed, Counterproductive, And Arguably Immoral: George Packer
"These changes ... are handed down in communiqués written by obscure 'experts' who purport to speak for vaguely-defined 'communities,' remaining unanswerable to a public...
Only 37 Vermeer Paintings Are Known. The Big Rijksmuseum Show Has 28. Nine Are...
"Vermeer's production was certainly larger, so the hunt continues. ... Art historians have found it particularly difficult to track down Vermeer's work for a...
Visiting A Hindu Temple That Sculptures Were Looted From
The Tanesar sculptures were stolen from India circa 1961, ultimately ending up at such prominent locations as LACMA, the British Museum, and the Met....
I Went To The Royal Opera On A £1 Ticket
Journalist Hugh Morris managed to score the ultimate prize of a cheap-tickets-for-young-audiences scheme: £1 admission to the most expensive classical arts venue in London. ...
England’s “Levelling Up” Agenda For Arts Funding Will Probably Fail The Regions It’s Supposed...
"Without a wider strategy, the worry for many is that the changes in Arts Council England grants won't come in conjunction with other kinds...
Leonard Cohen’s Heirs Sue His Ex-Manager For Forgery
"Leonard Cohen's children and heirs, Lorca and Adam Cohen, have filed a motion accusing the legendary singer-songwriter's former manager, Robert Kory, and his legal...
