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Friday Was World Theatre Day
To celebrate, theatre makers give video messages. Willem Dafoe (a founding member of the Wooster Group) in his message: “Our challenge as theatre-makers is...
The World Is Hostile To Socially Progressive Art, But Also Wants To Copy It...
"Developers discovered the cultural value of place-making. Corporations embraced art as branding. Cultural nonprofits and academic institutions increasingly adopted the vocabulary of community engagement...
Black Music Isn’t ‘Influential’ In Britain
It’s foundational: "Over the past three decades, music originating from Black genres has generated £24.5bn of the UK music industry’s £30bn recorded music market.”...
The Paul Klee That Can’t Leave The Middle East Because Of The War
“Angelus Novus is renowned not just in its own right, but for what its most famous owner made of it. … It was purchased...
The Almost Unimaginable Influence Of Frederick Wiseman
“To imagine a hospital administrator agreeing to this sort of project in a post-Titicut world speaks to the devastating impact of Wiseman’s work; anyone who...
Why Did OpenAI Kill Sora?
Maybe it was this: “The platform’s operational costs proved unsustainable, with each 10-second video costing OpenAI approximately $130 in compute expenses. With millions of...
Yes, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reshaped Television, But Now What?
“It's the kind of television writing that you can see in the blueprints of everyone’s favorite shows nowadays. There’s a reason why Whedon was...
Britain, Like Many Other Places, Has Serious Gender Disparity Among Songwriters And Composers
Nominations for the Ivor Novello songwriting awards: “reveal the gender disparity in British and Irish music: there are more than twice as many male...
City Ballet Won’t Perform At The Kennedy Center
Add it to the long, long list of cancellations. - The New York Times
What Are The Differences Between Humans Using ‘Artificial Language’ And AI Using It?
“Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability. By contrast, AI uses what I call exam English – a rather...
Inside The New New Museum
“The seven story addition introduces three levels of gallery space that plug directly into existing floors. Not only does this create much needed airflow,...
Change Your Life: Start A Music Group
Yes, even if you’re not great at it (yet). "Make it up as you go along. If nobody else wants to sing, you sing....
When A Sports Venue Demands Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Governments, We Need...
“The Moda Center has always been a candidate for upgraded design. Which is to say nothing of the 30-acre Rose Quarter property the arena...
The Guys Who Got Fired From The Han Solo Movie Took Some Lessons Into...
For one thing, they met some of the Hail Mary crew on Solo. "We met Neal Scanlan and the creature shop team that we...
Trump Has Columbus Status Installed On The White House Grounds
It’s “is a replica of one that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the city’s Inner Harbor in the summer of 2020....
What Can A Movie Teach Us About Resisting AI With Performance?
“Plato decried the falsity of imitation of real life—called ‘mimesis’—specifically in the arts. ... What makes you ‘you’ or the world the ‘world’ if...
Israel May Be Considering Banning Artist Rama Duwaji, First Lady Of New York
“The ministry reportedly took issue with Duwaji’s animation Eyes on Jenin (2025), a work that linked police brutality against pro-Palestinian protesters to Israel’s genocide...
A New Way To Consume What’s Euphemistically Known As ‘Kissing’ Books
"Quinn finds the guys (mostly guys) in television shows whose characters people fantasize about. It pays those guys to read original scripts that have...
The Artist Who Dropped Out Of Art School Three Credits Shy In Order To...
“Music wasn't something that was going to be a long-term thing. ‘I remember distinctly begging my mom for X amount of dollars to buy...
A Tennessee Library Director Refuses To Move LGBTQ Books, Citing The First Amendment
"The Rutherford County Library Board voted ... to relocate more than 190 books, many involving LGBTQ+ themes, from children’s and teen sections to adult...
If You’ve Based Your Career On Confessional Books, Don’t You Expect Audience Reaction To...
In which Slate unpacks the internet’s reaction to Lindy West’s new book, and Lindy's - and her partners’ - reactions to the reactions. “I’m...
A Jury Says Elon Musk Drove Down Twitter’s Price And Defrauded Investors With Misleading...
One of those statements was Musk “tweeting a poop emoji when then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal commented there was no way for external parties to...
California’s Film And TV Tax Credit Is Working, But The State Says The Business...
Will this argument play? "Whether it is computer chips, the energy sector or pharmaceuticals, this is something that is standard in the United States....
The HarperCollins Union Has Finally Ratified Its New Contract
Not like it’s making any worker rich (check the numbers), but at least they didn’t have to strike this time. “HarperCollins employees have had...
Game Developers Use AI For A Lot Of Things, But Not Creating Games
This feels like good news for creators: “‘I feel like the human mind is so beautiful,’ The Melty Way developer Gabriel Paquette told me. ‘Why not...
