Eric Schmidt: How Artificial Intelligence Will Interact With Us
We need to think now of what happens when artificial intelligence is co-resident with us in the world. It lives with us; it watches...
Even At Age 78, Mike Leigh Is As Exacting About Interviews As He Is...
"You just couldn't work the way he does – his scripts are improvised, not written, resting on collaboration, trust, instinct, bravery – without weighing...
Why Does Classical Music Humor Keep Getting More And More Lame?
Time was, Dudley Moore could dash off a witty parody of a Beethoven sonata or Britten folk song arrangement. These days, NPR Classical and...
16th-Century Documents Stolen From Mexico’s National Archives Have Been Recovered
The rescue of these manuscripts "comes amid a strong effort by the Mexican government to stop the international trafficking of national heritage objects, with...
This Year’s Tony Awards Show Was In A Difficult And Delicate Position
Helen Shaw: "Looking back while looking forward was the impossible job of this year's (ceremony). Instead of razzle-dazzling us, the host Audra McDonald (and,...
The Late-Period Pietà Michelangelo Intended For His Own Tomb Has Been Restored
What's more, conservators and scholars involved say that the restoration has put to rest the big myth surrounding the sculpture: that Michelangelo went at...
London’s Barbican Centre Is Hemorrhaging Staff: Report
Current and former employees are using terms like "mass exodus", "freefall", and "climate of fear" to describe the situation at the central London venue....
Pittsburgh Symphony Keeps Manfred Honeck For Six More Years
The 63-year-old Austrian conductor has extended his contract as the orchestra's music director through the 2027-28 season, which will be his 20th at the...
How A Hit Song Behaves Like A Viral Infection
"When a disease breaks into a population you tend to see a sharp increase in infection cases and eventually it will peak at some...
What, Exactly Is “Distinctly British” TV?
Former media minister John Whittingdale had some ideas when he recently announced government plans to require UK public service broadcasters to produce “distinctly British”...
What Happened To Books? Well…
"They became tedious redoubts for the pious certainties of a besieged, over-educated and underemployed intellectual class dissatisfied with – and powerless to change – the mindless,...
Science as A Value-Free Enterprise
It is central to science, and its claims to objectivity, that values do not override facts. An important feature of this view of science...
Behind Yale’s Failed Singapore Venture
Singapore has followed its dismissal of Yale's liberal education by introducing a Foreign Interference Act that, "under the guise of defending national sovereignty, will enable...
Yusef Cat Stevens Is Back. What Do We Think About That?
For devotees of Stevens’s classic material, it can feel as though he’s making amends for having walked away from his music all those years...
Blockbuster Hollywood Talent Deal: CAA To Buy ICM
Creative Artists Agency is acquiring its rival ICM Partners in a blockbuster deal that will consolidate the ranks of major Hollywood agencies as the representation industry...
Ban Critical Arguments About America’s History? It’s A Familiar Tactic
We found the same arguments used by anti-radical activists as they sought for years to ban from public schools and universities Howard Zinn’s best-selling...
Now Stabilized, Could Notre Dame Reopen In 2024?
“We’re officially saying that the cathedral is now saved, that it’s solid on its pillars, that its walls are solid, everything is holding together....
How Digitization Is Changing The Essence Of Collecting Culture
The collector is the only one who decides how to arrange her possessions, ordering books by author, title, theme, or even (unfortunately) color of...
A Tonys Ceremony Full Of Apprehension
What you had all night was a temporal mash-up: Broadway’s past jockeying for space with Broadway’s future — a future that at the moment...
A Subway TikTok Artist Realizes His Dream
That might sound like a word salad, but portrait artist Devon Rodriguez's 20 million followers on TikTok really did bring him fame, money, and...
Slave Play Was Shut Out Of The Tonys
Playwright Jeremy Harris tweeted that the play had a massive impact anyway. He added, "I told my mom this was gonna happen this morning bc...
Recreating Real Life – Including Homelessness – In Video Games
Games like The Sims can get boring, so content creators add virtual challenges to keep themselves, and others, engaged. - Wired
Two Of The Nepalese Works At New York’s Rubin Museum Identified As Looted
"Though Nepal banned the export of ancient statues of deities through the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act in 1956, these and other objects of cultural...
Jagged Little Pill’s Producers Apologize For Problems With Trans And Nonbinary Actors
The producers apologized and said they had "hired a new dramaturgical team (which includes nonbinary, transgender and BIPOC representation), to revisit and deepen the script"...
What Is This Magical Streaming Gift?
It's a £5 video of Olivia Colman performing a translated lecture by Elena Ferrante, of course. - LitHub
