How AI Is Ripping Apart My School Experience
"AI has softened the consequences of procrastination and led many students to avoid doing any work at all. As a result, these programs have...
How John Williams’s Score Made “Home Alone” What It Is
Director Chris Columbus: “(It) not only propels the story forward but from a narrative standpoint, he’s taking the audience’s hand and inviting them inside...
Why AI Won’t Be Able To Tell Human Stories
The corporate urge to replace art-making humans with machines is profoundly anti-human. It’s an old story: we have always tried to mechanize creativity and...
Lear deBessonet, Lincoln Center Theater’s New Director, On Reaching Out To All Of New...
“We’re doing an outdoor public campaign that involves subways and taxi tops and things like that in the outer boroughs, which are very purposefully...
Data: National Arts Trends In 2025
Contributed revenue fell by 30%, with every source declining from 2023 to 2024. Foundation revenue dropped 25% after modest growth in 2023, and earned revenue declined 18%. The decrease in contributed revenue reflects the...
How a Small Experiment Turned Into A Dance Competition Juggernaut
From the get-go, Common People Dance Eisteddfod has predominantly attracted middle-aged women. (One year, a team did an interpretive dance on the theme of...
How Nielsen Is Revamping Its Ratings System To Account For Streaming Video
“Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel … The new measurement tool combines Nielsen’s existing panel with data from cable, satellite set-top boxes and smart TVs...
When Minimalism Took On The Mainstream Classical Music Orthodoxy
There is a yawning gap between Columbia’s marketing—“Let magician Terry Riley float you on his tangerine carousel into a sunshine universe you might have...
One-Strike Poems Malcolm Ritchie’s Mountain on Top of a Mountain
Here is a magnificent book of short poems so rich in images, so clear and yet mysterious, so generous in feeling that, to steal a thought from a Donald Hall essay about Dylan Thomas, "form and shape and honey-in-the-mouth make small monuments of English literature."
How The New Yorker’s Fact Checking Process Works
I’ve never encountered a complete description of what the magazine wants its checkers to check. A managing editor took a stab in 1936: “Points...
Smithsonian Secretary Says Institution Will Do Its Own Review
In the staff memo, Lonnie Bunch shared details of his formal response to the White House, indicating that the Smithsonian intends to undertake its...
Sweden Has Completed And Released Its Cultural Canon. (Abba Isn’t In It!)
“What are the 100 things that unequivocally define Swedish culture? Flat-packed furniture from IKEA? Of course. Pippi Longstocking? Indeed. The touchstone films of Ingmar...
In Summer, The Center Of The Classical Music World…
It is a mammoth undertaking that involves about 3,500 artists; 1,000 staff members; 16 stages; and a budget of 75 million euros (about $88...
Why We Struggle To Define Excellence
Excellence is not a neutral concept. Its not a fixed standard hovering above culture, waiting to be discovered. It's a construct. When we pretend...
The Ethics Of Building Better Humans
Our rage for hormone therapies, supplements, beauty procedures, and longevity interventions suggest we’re all competing in the Enhanced Games now. - Daniel Kunitz
The New Owners Of “The Onion” Brought Back Its Print Version. That Gamble Is...
“The Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month. The publication has a new deal to sell its papers at...
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky Was Apolitical. The Invasion Of Ukraine “Changed Everything”
When he directed the Bolshoi Ballet (2004-08) and after, he had a grand plan to stage the entire canon of great Russian ballets and...
Exec Who Led Disney To Become A Broadway Powerhouse Is Stepping Down
“Thomas Schumacher, who led Disney Theatrical Group for decades and helped it produce enduring musical theater hits like The Lion King and Aladdin, changing Times Square and Broadway...
Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist With Amazingly Varied Career, Is Dead At 98
Her 1960s paintings about Hollywood actors, movie violence, and gender are now thought to be key to the Pop art movement, though she was...
Nazi-Looted Old-Master Painting Recovered In Argentina After Being Spotted In Real Estate Listing
The painting, Portrait of a Lady by 18th-century artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was spotted in a photo from a house in Mar del Plata owned...
Canadian Province Suspends Its Book-Banning In Schools
“It’ll be paused for a couple of hours while the ministerial order is rewritten,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters on Tuesday. “The direction...
Ousted National Portrait Gallery Director To Lead Milwaukee Museum Of Art
“Kim Sajet, who left her role as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery after a high-profile clash with President Donald Trump in June, has landed...
At 93, Dan Rather Is Still Covering The News
Seven days a week, he has a video call with two fellow editors for his online outlet, called Steady — and then he gets...
Salonen’s New Creative Role At The LA Philharmonic
The creative director post is the first major initiative by Kim Noltemy, who became L.A. Phil president and chief executive last summer, and with it...
How High Plains Public Radio Is Expanding Rural News Coverage Despite Funding Cuts
Over three years, the broadcaster will build the High Plains Civic Media Network, a system of part-time contributors (some of them volunteers), coordinated by...
