Listening To Music On Headphones Has Disrupted Our Culture
The power of music has long been its ability to soundtrack a generation—to evoke emotion, as well as summon a specific time and place. Headphone...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images
Their whole lives, they had heard people talk about picturing, and imagining, and counting sheep, and visualizing beaches, and seeing in the mind’s eye,...
Ronald K. Brown On 40 Years Of His Dance Company And How To “Make...
“Dance is already abstract, and so the role of us as artists is to be as specific as possible with what we want to...
A Club Where Jazz Fans Gather To Play Old 78 Shellac Records
“At the Hot Club of New York, ... jazz from the 1910s through the ’50s crackles to life, spun on 78 RPM discs made...
England’s Arts Funding Agency Suffered A Major Computer Failure In July. The Mess Still...
Arts Council England’s online portal, Grantium, was used by artists to submit and manage funding applications. It crashed in July, leaving thousands of applications...
Dallas Theater Center Cancels Shows At Last Minute Two Weekends In A Row
The company was producing Michael Frayn’s backstage farce Noises Off, which is, as DTC’s executive director wrote to subscribers, “an intensely physical comedy that...
Dubai To Get Its First Real Art Museum
While the extremely affluent emirate has had commercial galleries and art fairs for years, the Dubai Museum of Art will be its first museum....
Post-Merger Layoffs At Paramount Begin: Over 1,000 Jobs Cut
“Paramount on Wednesday began … the first wave of a deep staff reduction planned since David Ellison took the helm of the entertainment company...
Five Additional Suspects Arrested In Louvre Jewel Robbery Case
“One of the men detained ‘was a target of the investigators – we have traces of DNA linking him to the robbery’, (prosecutor Laure)...
Two Suspects In Louvre Jewel Robbery Confess Involvement, Says Prosecutor
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau also said that the pair are believed to be the men who forced their way into the museum on Oct. 19....
Oldest Surviving Piece Of Western Music Notation Turns Up Near Philadelphia
A private collector brought a page from a mid-9th-century liturgical book to document dealer Nathan Raab, who, after research, identified some previously overlooked markings...
Art In The Time Of AI: Just What Does “Owning” Art Mean?
Archetypes belong to everyone: that’s why art galleries and libraries and arts councils receive public funding; that’s why Top 40 radio plays a Friday-morning...
An Interview With “The Interview Assassin,” The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner
Q: Why do you think people still talk to you? IC: Most people don’t read bylines, and the vast majority of people I interview have...
Cult Film Case Study: Rocky Horror Picture Show
A cult film is born through ritualistic traditions of audience attendance that must occur in a public, social screening setting like a movie theatre....
TS Eliot And The Impression Of Having Read Everything
Eliot was not only a prolific, but also a powerful prose writer. Impressively, he emerges even in the earliest of this work as if...
Judge Rules Authors’ Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Can Proceed
In issuing his ruling, Judge Stein compared George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones to summaries of the book created by ChatGPT. The judge wrote that a...
Museums Aren’t Quite As Miserable To Work In As They Used To Be, Says...
“More than 3,000 museum employees from over 90 arts organizations, and representing different roles, participated in it; it is the second edition of a...
What Hollywood Gets Consistently Wrong When It Depicts Broadway Genius
Artistry is what the ’40s biopics get most wrong. Not just the facts, though the depictions of composition, collaboration and show-making are boldly inaccurate....
A Piece Of Broadway History Disappears: The Cast Change Inserts In Programs
“I think the understudies, the swings, the standbys and the alternates do so much work, with so little recognition, so much of the time...
Big Foundations Band Together To Pump $50 Million Into Literary Arts
Seven deep-pocketed philanthropic foundations are coming together to help fill in the gaps. The coalition announced on Tuesday the creation of the Literary Arts...
Producers Of Documentary On Search For King Richard III’s Body Settle Libel Lawsuit
“The producers of The Lost King on Monday agreed to pay damages to an academic who sued for libel over his on-screen depiction. Richard Taylor said...
Trump Administration Makes Emergency Appeal To Supreme Court To Fire Head Of The US...
The administration’s newest emergency appeal to the high court was filed a month and a half after a federal appeals court in Washington held that...
Does AI Threaten Our Ability To Perceive The World?
Many people invoke a distinction between illicit uses of A.I. (such as the composition of entire drafts) and innocent auxiliary functions — outlining, for...
Trump Fires Entire Design Commission Tasked With Reviewing Capital Region Projects
The commission, which was established by Congress more than a century ago and traditionally includes a mix of architects and urban planners, is charged...
Writer Hanif Kureishi, Paralyzed After An Accident, Creates A Dance
“Kureishi, 70, who wrote the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the film My Beautiful Laundrette, has devised a filmed piece about the devastating aftermath of...
