Why Are Some Of Britain’s Best Actors Appearing In This Tiny Theatre?
“I want it to be a theatre where theatre people can come and see a show and that generates a kind of warmth,” he...
Writing About Your Family In Your Novel? See You In Court!
In contemporary European literature, a book these days is often the beginning of a familial feud. With thinly disguised autobiographical accounts of family strife...
News Publishers Are Seeing AI-Summaries Replace Traffic From Search. Response? Make News More Like...
Search traffic to news sites has already plunged by a third in a single year globally, with the rise of AI overviews and chatbots,...
Composer John Luther Adams Writes About Why He Has Emigrated To Australia
“The real reason I’ve left (the U.S.) is deeper than politics: it’s the culture. The culture creates the politics. … The relentless commercialisation, rising...
The Guardian’s Chief Classical Music Critic, Andrew Clements, Has Died At 75
“Clements joined the Guardian arts team in August 1993, succeeding Edward Greenfield as the paper’s chief music critic. His appointment was clinched by a personal recommendation...
Erich von Däniken, Whose Books Spread The Idea That Aliens Established Earth’s Early Civilizations,...
“(He) rose to prominence in 1968 with the publication of … Chariots of the Gods, … (which) was followed by more than two dozen...
Savannah’s Telfair Museums Lay Off 15% Of Staff
“While the museums offered severance, the layoffs were announced without warning on a (Friday) afternoon Zoom call, according to former employees. Museum representatives (said) that the...
PBS Cancels Its Saturday And Sunday Newscasts
“PBS News Weekend signed off Sunday, ‘at least for the foreseeable future,’ anchor John Yang said. ... Starting Saturday, PBS will air the weekly...
Adelaide Festival’s Writers’ Week Cancelled After Writers Withdraw And Board Resigns
In response to the festival board’s earlier intervention to disinvite Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah, more than 180 writers and speakers cancelled their appearances at...
Again, Louvre Completely Closes Due To Strikes
Last week the museum was partially closed due to the ongoing walkouts over inadequate pay, staffing and building maintenance, but public access to the...
Pressure Mounts On San Francisco Ballet To Pull Out Of Kennedy Center Performance
Supporters argue that performing at the center now risks aligning the Ballet with an institution they say has been politicized under Trump’s leadership. -...
We’re Increasingly Interacting With Non-Humans. This Is Changing Our Human Interactions
We ask for help from artificial customer service representatives. Some of us accept friend requests from bots and are, thereafter, influenced by the content...
Trump Withdrew The US From 66 International Institutions. This Is Damaging To Culture
“Disengagement” from institutions that uphold freedom of expression and artistic freedom “weakens the global protective frameworks on which artists and cultural workers depend.” -...
AI Could Mean The Death Of Canadian Culture
If Canada wants its cultural policy to survive the age of slop, it will have to insist that what claims to be human—and Canadian—be...
Students Are Arriving In College Unable To Read. Colleges Are Struggling To Adapt Their...
As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par with previous expectations. It’s leaving colleges...
I’m A Musician. I created An Album Using AI To See If It Worked
We have gone from clapping to drumming, and from using drum machines in recording studios to generating “new” sounds with AI. Yet now that...
The 3000 Imagineers That Make Disney Ideas Real
The theme parks and cruise ships Vaughn’s team designs cost billions of dollars, dwarfing the budgets of movies that cost several hundred million dollars at most....
Oops: Turns Out AI Models “Memorize Books They Ingest. This Could Cost Them Billions
This phenomenon has been called “memorization,” and AI companies have long denied that it happens on a large scale. - The Atlantic
Ticketmaster Tries To Get FTC Suit On Ticket Gouging Dismissed
Ticketmaster is urging a federal judge in Los Angeles to throw out the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's case accusing it of working with resellers...
The Scam Artist And The Masterpiece
Thomas Doyle already had 11 convictions to his name for various swindles. His latest alleged fraud involves a London gallery owner and Bruce Springsteen’s...
SAG-Aftra Negotiator: Let’s Make Using AI Really Expensive
Here’s the thinking: A lack of cost savings could dissuade employers from using AI-generated performers instead of real actors like Emma Stone or Viola Davis....
Hamnet Is No Shakespeare In Love
It’s far worse: It does wrong by Shakespeare. "Hamnet changes many details and events in Shakespeare’s life to tell its story, but it is in...
Why It’s Good For The Washington National Opera To Part Ways With The Kennedy...
Financially, it’s likely to be good for the Opera. “The news of the split could inspire a groundswell of support from longtime patrons who...
New York’s New Mayor Says Theatre Should Be For Everyone, Handing Out Free Tickets
“'The shared laughter in a crowded theater, the eager debrief after a musical, the heavy silence that hangs over all of us in a...
South African’s Right-Wing Culture Minister Axes The Country’s Venice Biennale Proposal
The proposal by artist Gabrielle Goliath was a performance to mourn Gaza’s dead after Israel’s actions against the area. A spokesperson said that it...
