French Researchers Have Used AI To Write A Molière Play
Mind you, this script wasn’t just spit out by a bot after one prompt. The French AI collective Obvious spent two years developing the...
AI-Created Novel Loses Publication Prize After Being Voted Winner In Reader’s Choice
Contest-winning AI novel loses physical publication and manga adaptation after guidelines were updated to ban AI-generated works. - Automation
Are We Living In An Age Of Bad Painting?
Walking through Frieze London’s carpeted aisles in October, a long-developed hunch was confirmed emphatically: we are amid a deluge of bad painting. - The...
So How Are Libraries Going To Get Their Books Now?
The company faced several challenges in recent years, including a data breach in 2022 – after the company was acquired by a private investment...
Broadway Production Will Rework “The Fantasticks” As Gay Love Story
“In the re-envisioned Fantasticks, the central romantic pair – traditionally Matt and Luisa – are now Matt and Lewis, reinterpreting the story’s ‘allegory of love,...
Béla Fleck Talks About Why He Canceled His Kennedy Center Concerts
“As this thing became more and more charged, it wasn’t any longer something where I’m under the radar playing this gig. I am actually...
Bruce Crawford, Ad Exec Who Led Metropolitan Opera And Lincoln Center, Has Died At...
In his primary career, he ran agencies BBDO Worldwide and Omnicon. As the Met’s general manager, he erased the company’s big deficits and stabilized...
Did Someone Just Figure Out How To Decode The Voynich Manuscript?
Not exactly, no, but science journalist Michael Greshko may have taken a big step toward that goal. No one had yet figured out a...
What’s The Ultimate Goal Behind The Trump Administration’s Attacks On The Smithsonian? To Finally...
Charlotte Higgins: “’The goal,’ as one senior employee of the Smithsonian told me, ‘is to reframe the entire culture of the United States from...
Smithsonian Faces New Ultimatum From Trump Administration
“After a monthslong lull in tensions, the Smithsonian is facing an ultimatum from the White House to comply next week with a demand” to...
Another Former Student At Richmond Ballet Sues For Abuse
“A former Richmond Ballet student is suing the performance organization for $11.5 million, alleging sexual, emotional and psychological abuse at the hands of staff...
How Hard Is The Training To Become A Peking Opera Star? This Hard.
Zhang Wanting spent an entire semester practicing standing on one foot on a three-inch chair handle while lifting her other leg backward and leaning...
Insider Art Market Predictions For 2026
If nothing else, the new year will likely reveal whether the art world’s pivot to the Gulf, and auction houses’ deepening emphasis on luxury...
New Vision For Your Car: An AI Companion
Across the show floor, the car emerged less as a machine and more as a companion as automakers and tech companies showcased vehicles that...
America’s Only Weather Museum May Have To Close Down
“The National Weather Museum and Science Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the only US museum dedicated to weather artifacts, said late last month that it is at risk of closing....
Remembering Literary Critic John Carey
Pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of academia’s more pretentious mores, Professor Carey was a paradoxical figure in the British literary establishment for more than half...
How Great Musicians Steal
“I suppose a composer imagines a certain piece of music for certain instruments; he has a sound picture and wants the things that instrument...
Hollywood Is Being Destroyed By Oligopolies
Effectively, in only three years, the Warner Bros. Discovery merger has validated nearly all the concerns that critics of “market first” policymaking have warned about...
When Oscar Wilde’s Buddy Concocted A Massive Lesbian Literary Hoax
How, in 1894, just when literary interest in Sappho was reviving, Belgian-French author Pierre Louÿs (yes, he was a friend of Oscar’s) invented an...
The Man Who Has Four Shows Currently On Broadway
“If I step back and think about what unites the shows, it’s probably they’re all trying to be joy-forward experiences and shows where the...
Report: Increasing Share Of Artist Visas Into The US Are Going To Influencers And...
A growing share of O‑1B visas are now being granted to social media influencers and OnlyFans models, according to an immigration attorney. - Newsweek
Universal Music Buys Big Stake In Bollywood Movie Studio
Universal Music India, a division of Universal Music Group, will acquire a 30% equity interest in the Mumbai-based movie studio. In the deal, announced...
We Need To Cultivate The Skill Of Critical Ignoring
In an age in which information on the internet is so abundant and so low-quality that it’s essentially noise, job number one is to...
Tyler Perry Faces Two Sexual Misconduct Lawsuits. Are More Coming? Or Is This All...
“The first lawsuit accusing Perry of leveraging his power to sexually assault aspiring male actors in his orbit was filed in June. Another lawsuit was filed Dec. 26,...
How Museums Can Help Rebuild Community Trust
As social divisions grow, they are becoming important forms of social infrastructure where people can encounter different perspectives. In many cases, their roles are...
