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A Well-Known Tech Site Used AI Bots To Write Lots Of Features. Now It’s...
"It turns out the bots are no better at journalism — and perhaps worse — than their would-be human masters. On Tuesday, CNET began...
Jonathan Raban, Who Rejected The Label Of Travel Writer, Is Dead At 80
"He agreed with his fellow writer Bruce Chatwin, who famously turned down the Thomas Cook Award, that the term was too limiting. … When...
The Only New Broadway Shows That Seem To Be Selling Well Are The Ones...
Six productions — including A Strange Loop, Topdog/Underdog, and Death of a Salesman — closed last weekend, having struggled at the box office despite...
What Do You Get When You Cross An Opera With A TV Series?
While most US opera companies have returned to performing live and pulled back from the streaming video they offered at the height of COVID,...
Existing Podcasts May Be Doing Okay, But Development And Release Of New Ones Is...
"The number of new shows created dropped by nearly 80 percent between 2020 and 2022. Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic...
Meta’s Advisory Board Says Facebook And Instagram Should Stop Banning Breasts
"More than a decade after breastfeeding mothers first held a 'nurse-in' at Facebook's headquarters to protest against its ban on breasts, Meta's oversight board...
Dalia Stasevka Combines A Growing Career As Conductor With Ukraine Activism
In addition to speaking out regularly in the media, the 38-year-old native of Kyiv devotes time to raising money for relief efforts and gathering...
Three Defendants Confess To Dresden Jewel Heist
Rabieh Remmo, one of six men — all from a notorious crime family — on trial for the multimillion-dollar theft from Dresden's "Green Vault"...
Professor Fired For Showing Medieval Image Of Muhammad Sues Hamline University
"In her lawsuit, Erika López Prater alleges that Hamline University — a small, private school in St. Paul — subjected her to religious discrimination...
Hamline University Tries To Walk Back Its Criticism Of Professor Who Showed Image Of...
"Ellen Watters, the board chair, and the school’s president, Fayneese S. Miller, said Hamline’s initial stance on the incident was a 'misstep.' The usage...
Meet Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s New Artistic Director
"Adam McKinney, a Milwaukee native who has danced with numerous companies around the country, succeeds Susan Jaffee, who departed in December to become artistic...
A Most Unusual AM Talk Radio Station
"A talk outlet owned by a billionaire businessman for whom radio is a hobby. ... A station that airs an improbable patch-quilt of block...
An Old Military Air Base Becomes A New, And Affordable, Hub For Creative Arts...
"Old Jet sits inside a former fighter-jet operations building. Like most rural hubs, it houses a unique mixture of people who live locally and...
Dutch Old Master Judith Leyster, And Why She Matters
She was a rarity, a professional female painter, in the Dutch Golden Age; her work has been admired ever since — although, for centuries,...
Queer Theater 2.0 Has Well And Truly Arrived, Writes Jesse Green
"The first phases of the gay play, crucial in their moment (the second half of the 20th century), are over. The spotlight has passed...
Gianfranco Baruchello, Prolific Artist In Multiple Media, Is Dead At 98
"Through complex, self-reflexive work that often flouted the traditional mechanisms of the art world and borrowed from mass communication, … the Italian polymath …...
Now You Can See The Leonid Massine Ballet With Sets And Costumes By Matisse
Rouge et Noir was created for the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo in 1939. Dance critic Ann Barzel filmed parts of the work in Chicago...
2,000-Year-Old Scythian Tomb Discovered In Siberia
"Within the tomb, archaeologists discovered the remains of some 50 bodies, buried alongside an assemblage of artifacts and weapons. It included bronze daggers, knives,...
English National Opera Gets A One-Year, £11.46 Million Funding Reprieve
"Arts Council England said it would invest national lottery funding in the company until March 2024 to 'sustain a programme of work at the...
Archaeologists Say They’ve Uncovered The World’s Oldest Runestone
"The flat, square block of brownish sandstone has carved scribbles, which … are up to 2,000 years old. … Older runes have been found...
Hawaii Symphony Appoints Its First Music Director In A Decade
Dane Lam, a Chinese-Australian who currently holds positions with Opera Queensland and the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra in China, is the first music director at...
Louisiana Philharmonic Names Matthew Kraemer Music Director
Starting in July, Kraemer, currently music director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, will succeed Carlos Miguel Prieto, who is leaving New Orleans after 17...
St. Louis Symphony Prepares For Major Expansion Of Powell Hall
"The $100 million renovation kicks off this spring, with a groundbreaking on the expansion beginning in March. The 65,000-square-foot expansion will include a new...
The Dance Data Project Moves Beyond Collecting Data On Women Leaders In Dance
"Intended to help address the gender and racial barriers that prevent women from securing leadership positions, the free online program "Raising the Barre: Curriculum...
How Filmmaker Alica Diop Turned A Sensational Trial Into The Oscar-Nominated “Saint-Omer”
"When the French director Alice Diop attended the trial of Fabienne Kabou, a woman who left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to drown,...
