Disney Bails On $1B Investment In OpenAI After AI Company Pulls Plug On Sora
Disney and OpenAI announced the blockbuster three-year licensing deal in December, saying that over 200 Disney-owned characters would be available for use in Sora-generated videos. At...
This Chicago Symphony Musician Took Her Baby On An Orchestra Tour
Second flutist Emma Gerstein didn’t want to miss Klaus Mäkelä’s first tour with the CSO, which was to the East Coast last month. Neither...
Lion King Composer Sues Comedian For Misrepresenting “Circle Of Life”
A Grammy-award winning South African composer who wrote and performed the iconic opening chant in “Circle of Life” for Disney’s “The Lion King” movies is suing...
“I Miss The Amateur Spirit” — Willem Dafoe On His Theatre Programming At The...
“His goal (is) to platform voices that many audiences won’t be familiar with — and to push back against a theater landscape he feels...
Stunning Museum In Downtown San Francisco For Sale
In another market, the building might fetch $100 million. Today, in a downtown cultural district still recovering from the pandemic - with depressed real...
Manchester’s Strange Quarter Bristles With Creative Activity, Redefining The City
In a city still somewhat in thrall to its heritage, from the Haçienda to Oasis, many in the Strange Quarter say the area has...
How To Grow A Dance Company In Southern California
"If I’m just talking about the work, I would say we have a very clear movement approach that has developed over time, a shared...
This Dancer Is Ending A 53-Year Stage Career With San Francisco Ballet — But...
“Since 1980, Val Caniparoli” — for decades SFB’s principal character dancer — “has dedicated most of his energies to a much-lauded choreography career, and...
Former Museum Wunderkind David Ross’ Reckoning
Ross had become a master at catering to ego, facilitating deals and making a class of people feel important. Now he’d begun to wonder...
The Gap Between Big AI And The Rest Of Us Is Growing Wider
The AI industry is splitting away from the lives of everyday people. Exclusive polling conducted for the Guardian last year found that twice as...
What Was The Boston Symphony Thinking When It Fired Andris Nelsons? Who Knows?
What’s the vision might not be the right question, then. It might be: Does the vision even exist? - Boston Globe
Staff At Australia’s National Broadcaster On 24-Hour Strike As Network Airs BBC Programming
“At 11am, the ABC News channel switched to broadcasting the BBC News channel as staff walked out in protest. The ABC News channel filled the schedule...
Patreon CEO Blasts AI Companies And Fair Use
“The AI companies are claiming fair use, but this argument is bogus,. It’s bogus because while they claim it’s fair to use the work...
When Is It Okay For Musicians Not To Give It Their All?
It is difficult to appreciate the toll of being on the road for days, weeks, and sometimes months on end, playing program after program...
Producers Throw Playwright Out Of Rehearsals Weeks Before Broadway Opening
The show’s producing team told the playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis, that he was no longer welcome at rehearsals after tempers flared on Friday between...
Robert White, America’s Favorite Irish Tenor, Has Died At 89
“He built a serious and wide-ranging classical career, collaborating with major artists like Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein and Yo-Yo Ma, without stinting the traditional...
Tacoma’s Leading Arts Organization Shutters, Prepares To Sell Its Home
“Tacoma Arts Live has filed for receivership, a court process similar to bankruptcy. ... TAL announced earlier this year that it would close for good this summer...
How Iran War Is Disturbing Publishing Industry’s Global Supply Chain
Shipping costs are rising; freighters are being re-routed, interfering with schedules; one shipment was on a vessel struck by a missile. Perhaps worst: insurance...
Here’s The Winner Of The First-Ever Hilary Mantel Prize
“The newly established award, launched to honour the legacy of the late Booker Prize-winning novelist, aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers across the...
OpenAI Shuts Off Its Video-Generating App — And Disney Now Has A Problem
“OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation app it launched last year, without providing a reason for the decision. … The announcement comes...
Zurich Transfers Ownership Of All Its Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
Two of the 11 pieces have been sent back to Nigeria; the other nine will remain at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg on loan. - ARTnews
Brooklyn Museum Plans New $13 Million Galleries For African Art
“The institution’s new Arts of Africa galleries, … a 6,400-square-foot home for its 4,500-piece African art collection, … will open in Fall 2027, presenting 300 African...
Gibney is Searching for a Chief Operating Officer
Gibney Dance is seeking a strategic Chief Operating Officer to join our leadership team.
“A Fiasco And A Miracle”: An Oral History Of The COVID Oscars In 2021
“It’s the story of an awards season unlike any other — one that stretched over 14 months and came to an end in, of all places,...
Using Tango As Therapy For Parkinson’s Patients In (Where Else?) Buenos Aires
“Once a week, about a dozen patients come to Ramos Mejía Hospital to dance — a session that uses the movements of tango to...
