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Machine Translation Still Isn’t Perfect, And Expecting Too Much Of It Could Be Dangerous...

"Ordering a coffee in a foreign country or translating lyrics can only do so much harm, but think about emergency situations involving firefighters, police,...

Sussing Out The Earliest History Of The Printing Press In Europe And Asia

For instance, was there any connection between Gutenberg's first printing of the Bible in 1455 and the first known document ever printed, 77 years...

George Lucas’s Museum Of Narrative Art Keeps Postponing Its Opening, But It’s Buying Plenty...

"This week, (the MNA) in Los Angeles announced that its opening has again been delayed, this time to 2025. ... But with the announcement...

The New International African American Museum Will Be About Slavery, But It Won’t Be...

"We have a real emphasis on cultural-competency training and cultural-empathy training with our staff," says the director, Dr. Tonya Matthews. "But ... there is...

The Atlantic Is Making A Big Move Into TV And Film

"The company, which expects to lose roughly $10 million again this year, needs to build another revenue stream to continue on its path to...

The Golden Globes Are Coming Back To TV Next Year — And On NBC,...

"The ceremony will return to the Beverly Hilton in time for its 80th anniversary on Tuesday, Jan. 10."  (Does this mean the hosts and...

The Prado Begins A Restitution Process For Works Stolen By The Fascists During The...

"On Tuesday, the Madrid museum released a list of 25 works that it identified as potentially having been (confiscated from their owners during the...

At The San Francisco Symphony, Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

"Matthew Spivey, 41, joined the Symphony staff in 2015 as chief programming officer. ... When his predecessor, Mark C. Hanson, stepped down as CEO...

Uncle Jack Charles, Actor, Activist, And Hero Of Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, Is Dead At...

A member of the Stolen Generation, he struggled repeatedly with crime and addition earlier in his adult life; he also founded Australia's first Aboriginal...

How To Teach Controversial Literature Without Causing Students Harm

Remember, it's not only the right that sometimes wants to eliminate certain books from the curriculum.  (Think of Huckleberry Finn, frequently condemned for its...

Sydney Now Has An Answer To Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall In London — An...

The Sydney Modern Project, the new contemporary art wing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, has two big old oil storage tanks...

Psychiatrists In Brussels Are Legally Prescribing Museum Visits

"From this month, psychiatrists in one of the city's largest hospitals have been able to offer patients 'museum prescriptions', a free visit with a...

What Do We Do With All The Broken-Down, Unrepairable Musical Instruments If We Don’t...

"What should we be doing with those pummelled remnants of a drum kit? The electric guitar with a broken neck? The leaky Chinese saxophone...

Some Arts Organizations Are Turning To Real Estate Development, Building Mixed-Use Complexes

The Newark Museum of Art, National Black Theater in Harlem, Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx, EastSide Arts Alliance in Oakland, and Arte...

The Dance Data Project On Its Upcoming Gender Equity Index

This introduction to the project and invitation for dance companies to participate explains the questions to be asked on the survey, how the rankings...

The Streaming Companies Are Turning Documentaries Into Big Business

"While the streamers' appetite for documentary content has created a new golden age for nonfiction filmmaking, it's come with transformations that many find worrying:...

The Most Interesting Opera In America Right Now, Says The New York Times, Is...

Joshua Barone pays a visit to, and is thrilled by, Barrie Kosky's production of Fiddler on the Roof at Lyric Opera of Chicago and...

The Royal Shakespeare Company Names Two Artistic Co-Directors

Daniel Evans, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, and Tamara Harvey, artistic director of Theatr Clwyd in North Wales, submitted a joint application...

Dance Magazine Awards For 2022: Here Are The Winners

This year's honorees are choreographers Lucinda Childs, Kyle Abraham, and Dianne McIntyre; dancer Herman Cornejo, a principal at ABT; and historian of African-American dance...

Painting Stage Scenery The 17th-Century Way

Historical stagecraft expert Wendy Waszut-Barrett paints backdrops and wing pieces with the same material that European craftsmen used four centuries ago: distemper paint, made...

Filmmaker Alain Tanner, A Leader Of Switzerland’s New Wave, Is Dead At 91

"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known...

Spotify Makes A 300,000-Title Bet On Audiobooks

"After spending the past few years teasing its literary ambitions and acquiring the audiobook platform Findaway for $119 million, Spotify has formally launched its...

Hollywood’s Masters Of Prosthetics Talk About Their Craft

Kazu Hiro, who turned Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill and Bradley Cooper into Leonard Bernstein: "I hate to see 'This actor is unrecognisable.' It's...

Constipated Scorpions, Moose Crash-Test Dummies, And The Best Way To Turn A Doorknob: The...

Other winners included a study of why ducklings swim in a straight line formation (the physics prize), research on ritual enemas in Mayan pottery...

Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Is Returning Its Benin Bronzes. Is It Irredeemable Nevertheless?

The German capital's ethnological museum has started displaying videos or modern copies of the works it has returned to the countries from which they...
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