Artist Pays For Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Painting. Now The Painting Is Worth $272,000
The sandwich, priced at $1.95, was made with fresh bread from a local Italian bakery, aged cheddar cheese and a substantial smear of butter...
Orchestra League Launches New Commissioning Program
The initiative announced on Thursday will build on those efforts, pairing each of the six composers with five ensembles. The program, which will cost...
Stiff Sentence For Artworld Fraudster Rattles Art World
In other words, the sentence was meant to scare off or inhibit potential fraudsters with the threat of substantial incarceration time. With it, Judge...
Meet Pitchbot – Media Criticism Through Parody
With his account, NYT Pitchbot imagines the Times formula for stories as a kind of wheezing algorithm, a bot churning out contrarian headlines and half-baked hot...
Imagination Is Critical For Learning. So Why Don’t We Teach It?
Studying the imagination is the most exciting and accurate way to heal the terminal divide between the sciences and the humanities. But, more importantly,...
Today In Chutzpah: This Couple Tried To Shoplift A Basquiat
An as-yet-unidentified man and woman walked into Taglialatella Galleries in Manhattan, headed to a Basquiat screen print, searched it on their phone, took it...
The Latest AI Superpower? Describe An Image And The Computer Will Create It
In each case, the text at the bottom of the image was the prompt fed into the program, and the picture above, the output....
Yes, Happily-Ever-After Is Okay In Serious Literature
"I argue that there's something in our human DNA that seeks the Happily Ever After (HEA). ... According to researchers, these fairytale endings can...
How Pacific Northwest Ballet Is Progressing With Diversity
“The company is more racially diverse today than it was in 2020, when about 30% of the company was BIPOC. Racial identity should only...
This Young Man is A Natural Male Soprano, And He’d Like To Try Singing...
Samuel Mariño, a 29-year-old Venezuelan whose voice never dropped, specializes in Baroque castrato roles, but he sees no reason not to sing female parts....
Canada Tries To Make A Case For Internet Regulation Because Of… The Arts?
The emphasis: that material cultural and live performance follow the virtual. It’s an odd hierarchy to be asserting to an arts gathering emerging from...
Can Newcomers To Dance Follow What Happens In A Story Ballet? Christopher Wheeldon Isn’t...
"I don't think we should be afraid of tackling complex stories and not feeling like the audience has to understand every second; one of...
Today’s Students — The Problem With “Excellent Sheep”
Excellent sheephood is inherently competitive. Its purpose is to vault you into the ranks of society’s winners, to make sure that you end up...
It Takes Some Real Heroics To Keep Alaska Public Radio’s Far-Flung Stations On The...
Beyond Alaska's few cities, APR's stations are sometimes the only local ones available, "mixing Morning Edition with all flavors of music, emergency announcements, swap-and-shop...
Town Councilman In Wales Is Driven To Resign Because He Can’t Stop The Weird...
"Pembroke Dock town councilor William Gannon, age 58, was just elected earlier this month, but he couldn't quell rumors about his supposed illicit artistic...
Why Is Russia Looting Ukraine’s Museums? It’s Not Just Greed
"These latest thefts are in keeping with Putin's attempts to erase Ukraine's independent history and promote his own expansionist model of a new Russian...
Only At Disney World Could Live-Action Role-Playing Become This Elaborate
"For more than a decade, Imagineers — Disney designers and researchers — have been looking into LARPs and interactive theatre, and running 'playtests' in...
Kevin Spacey Charged With Four Counts Of Sexual Assault In The UK
"British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men, an announcement...
Former Director Of The Louvre Is Officially Indicted For Complicity In Fraud And Money...
The charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down last year, concern five antiquities allegedly taken illegally from Egypt and sold to the Louvre Abu...
For The First Time, An Indian Novel Wins The International Booker Prize
The £50,000 prize for Tomb of Sand will be split equally between author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell. - BBC
Actor Ray Liotta Dead At 67
Best known for Something Wild, Field of Dreams, and Goodfellas, "in a decades-long, genre-spanning career, Liotta played criminals, cops, a baseball star, a preacher...
Denmark Imposes Tax On Streamers To Support Local Programming
Lawmakers in Denmark have agreed global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and Disney, must pay a levy of 6% of their revenue...
Meet Glimmerglass’s New Director
Robert Ainsley succeeds Francesca Zambello, who led Glimmerglass, a summer festival of opera and theater, for more than a decade. In an interview, Ainsley...
New Technology Makes Lost Cities Of The Amazon Visible From The Air
Perched in a helicopter some 650 feet up, scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient...
Do The Words We Use Really Change The Way We Think?
John McWhorter: For example, the pathway from “crippled” to “handicapped” to “disabled” to “differently abled.” New words ultimately don’t leave freighted ideas behind; they...
