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A Composer Responds To California’s Water Crises
"Reena Esmail acknowledged the irony that we were talking about her new choral work — 'A Requiem for Water,' inspired by California’s water crisis —...
The Meanest Literary Profile Of The Year, And The Writer’s Response
When a journalist doesn't find the story he wants, the thing to do probably isn't to write a long piece that pokes fun at...
This Woman Game Designer Would Appreciate Credit For Her Game In A Popular Novel
The novel? Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin. The irony? The novel is partly about women not getting enough credit for their...
Dance, Revamped At The 92nd Street Y
The newly revamped space "is a boon for a New York dance scene still recovering from the setbacks of the pandemic. But it’s also...
So, How Is ChatGPT At Writing Movies?
The dialogue is abysmal, but experiments point "to a future where programs like ChatGPT don’t actually write movies, but generate plot ideas that could...
A Full List Of The National Book Critics Circle Winners
Ling Ma won for her short story collection and Isaac Butler for his nonfiction work The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act....
Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Composer, Producer And Son Of Andrew, Dies At 43
The oldest son of Andrew Lloyd Webber had "a protracted battle with gastric cancer," representatives said. "We are all totally bereft," said Webber, who...
When The Pandemic Hit, Pico Iyer’s Income Dropped To Zero
His mother was dying, and, like everyone, he couldn't travel. But, he says, "given so much external suffering, as the Dalai Lama pointed out,...
AI Generators Just Figured out Hands
This is a huge issue for verifying images, as hand issues had been one of the ways to tell an AI-generated photo from a...
In Southwest England, The Police Don’t Want Any Stinkin’ Jazz Festivals
Or at least not the We Out Here fest, founded by the BBC's Giles Peterson, expecting about 25,000 people during the event. The Dorset...
Is The Internet Archive A Library, Or Is It A Publishing Scam?
Librarians argue that a lawsuit filed by four major publishers, should it succeed, "would jeopardize the future development of digital libraries nationwide. The Internet...
When Good Stage Design Reinforces A Character’s Internal Journey
"In devising an onstage gateway to Ally’s imagination, 'We were like, what if the portal is actually her notebook?' said Sammy Lopez, co-director. 'And...
Still Life Paintings Are Boring, And Often Bad
Honestly, Cézanne, who cares now, and who ever cared? "Portraitists and landscape artists have almost always been held in much higher esteem. ... Humans,...
Suzan-Lori Parks Is Making A Musical
And it's not just any musical - it's an attempt to adapt the 1972 movie The Harder They Come, the movie that introduced a...
When Acting Is A Lifeline To Freedom
"The Actors’ Gang Prison Project is a rehabilitation program that offers theater programming to 14 California state prisons, a reentry facility and an L.A....
Two Halves Of A Long-Divided Flemish Portrait Are Reunited In Denmark
After some art historical detective work, "the two artworks, which were once one, now hang side-by-side ... only a sliver of wall dividing the...
AI Is Actually Going To Increase The Value Of Human-Made Art
"We have changed our collective tastes in response to technological progress in the past. We’ll now do it again, without even noticing that it’s...
Kate Bush And Big Mama Thornton Still Aren’t In The Rock And Roll Hall...
How is this possible? "Today, just 8.48% of the inductees are women." - The Guardian (UK)
Bollywood Actor Attacked By Hatchet-Wielding Man Outside Southern California Area Gym
Aman Dhaliwal is an actor who has appeared in Punjabi, Hindi, and Telegu films. "The suspect approached the victim in the parking lot ......
The Contentious Fate Of The Rockwells From The FDR White House
Legal filings show that "one side of the family has accused the other of deceit and fraud, of secretly loaning the works to the...
Is It Possible To Learn To Chef Online?
Yes, but "if your laptop isn’t being flecked with olive oil spatter during a decathlon of online cooking classes, you’re probably doing something wrong....
In The Years Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq, Hollywood Has Addressed The War Only...
Basically, "Americans simply did not want to hear about it" early on, and now? "There’s reason to be pessimistic about the risk-averse, IP-addicted studios...
Art In Istanbul After The Earthquakes
Multiple exhibitions in Istanbul seem to nearly predict the pain and agony of the recent earthquakes that have killed at least 55,000 people -...
This Year’s Best Picture Winner Signals A Linguistic Change In Hollywood
It's complex - see the Indigenous villains in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but "Increasing use of non-English languages and subtitles demonstrates both a trend...
The Future Of AI In Hollywood – Fact Or Fiction?
At SXSW, there's a lot of discussion around what AI could do for (or against) the movies. But "for all the hype, some remain...
