Education Is Flapping Around Trying To Figure Out AI’s Role In Teaching, Learning
Even as a significant proportion of their students are submitting AI-generated work, they proudly reassure each other that their courses are too demanding or...
Michael Andor Brodeur Analyzes The 2026 Classical Grammy Nominees
Most notably, composer Gabriela Ortiz, who won three Grammys last time, could do it again, as she’s a triple nominee this year. Overall, in...
Here Are The Classical Grammy Nominations For 2026 (In Case You Missed Them)
And, unfortunately, they’re easy to miss, since they’re always stuck all the way down at the end of a very long list of categories....
New Emphasis On Dancers’ Mental Health
Dancers began to question their careers and who they were apart from being dancers. Some saw their bodies change. Some decided to have children. And many...
What Does News Independence Mean After BBC Mess?
The resignations come as the BBC enters a decisive period. The renewal of its royal charter in 2027 will define the corporation’s funding model...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Resolves Suit By NPR Following Trump Cuts
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of illegally yielding to Trump's demands that the network be financially punished for its...
Taylor Sheridan’s TV Series Have Earned An Astonishing Amount Of Money For Paramount+
“Since the first of his Paramount+ originals premiered in 2021, Sheridan's titles have generated more than $800 million in global streaming revenue for the...
Two Early Organ Works By Bach Performed For First Time In 300 Years
“Researchers discovered the anonymous, undated works in Belgium's Royal Library in 1992, but it wasn’t until recently that they were able to authenticate Bach...
Bill Ivey, Who Calmed Conservative Fury At The NEA, Has Died At 81
He was a guitar-playing folklorist who had run the Country Music Foundation in Nashville for 26 years, when President Clinton nominated him to chair...
How The Ushers At New York’s Top Performing Arts Venues Shoo The Audience Back...
First, they repeatedly play a little melody on a glockenspiel or dinner chime or marimba as they stroll through the lobbies. Then, says one...
“Parasocial” Is Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word Of The Year
Taylor and Travis, podcast hosts, even chatbots — this has been a year full of intense but one-sided relationships between some ordinary individuals and...
Louvre Closes A Gallery Because Its Floor Might Cave In
The museum has shuttered some office space and the Campana Gallery (which showcases ancient Greek ceramics) due to “particular fragility of certain beams holding...
High Visibility Can Be Great For Representation, And Hell On The First Person Through...
It’s great that wheelchair user Marissa Bode plays wheelchair user Nessarose Thropp, but “after the release of the first Wicked film in November 2024,...
The Oracle Of Hollywood As It Cruises To Disaster
Matthew Belloni has become a narrator of the industry’s troubles during the most transformative period since the birth of television, brought on by the...
Phillips Collection To Controversially Sell Masterpieces To Buy New Art
“Like many of my museum colleagues,” said Eliza Rathbone, chief curator emerita at the Phillips, “I’m deeply saddened and appalled that the Phillips Collection...
A $500M American Dream Museum?
Visitors to Washington have a new, free attraction: the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream. After a $500 million renovation of two former banks...
What Explains Boomers’ Addiction To Ellipses?
There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. ‘OK . . .’ ‘Thanks . . .’ ‘See you next...
Inside The BBC’s Political Crisis
Instead of addressing the criticism, the BBC was silent for seven days. In the vacuum, a wave of headlines became a flood of unchallenged...
Guy Cogeval, Former President Of The Musée d’Orsay, 70
A "free spirit and nonconformist, often impetuous, the passionate lover of the 19th century left his mark on the Parisian museum from 2008 to...
The Corporatization Of Our Music
Three record companies—Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group—control more than 80 percent of all recorded music released through a recognized...
Why Online “Critics” Should Review Broadway Previews
Imagine a painter still layering colors on a canvas while a stranger posts, “This looks messy and unfinished!” That’s what happens when someone reviews...
Increasingly, That Music You Like On Spotify… Was Made By AI
This month, an A.I. country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, and passed three million streams on...
London’s Royal Ballet And Opera Makes Bank, Or Maybe Sustainable Income, On Its New...
Dynamic pricing is common, and as one performing arts critic pointed out, it “can shift in both directions, with prices increasing when tickets start...
How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives
“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our...
How Theatre Artists Survive Dictatorships
“If you press your ear to the plays of the 20th century, they’ll tell you secrets of human acts gone by and strategies to...
