How Artists Are Incorporating AI Into Traditional Work (And Ideas)
While A.I. speeds along, upending any number of careers and lives, some in the art world have chosen to embrace it while also, in...
Debates Around The Saudi Comedy Festival And American Comedians Are Frustratingly Vague
More than any other artists, comedians are alert to how language reveals meaning, and what all the explanations have in common is a maddening...
How Did The Nobel Literature Committee Lose Its Sense Of Fun?
So: a victory for high literature, for inevitability, for oppositional culture, for men. But for the obsessives who have been attending to the saga...
The Other Way That David Henry Hwang Is An American Theater Pioneer
It’s not just that he was the first famous Asian-American playwright. With Face Value in 1993 and then Yellow Face in 2007, Hwang took...
With Their Largest Distributor Gone, US Libraries Try To Figure Out Where To Turn
“With the announcement of Baker & Taylor’s imminent closure, … librarians are scrambling to find new wholesaling partners.” - Publishers Weekly
Former Houston Symphony Music Director Has A(nother) Big New Job
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, who was in Houston from 2014 to 2022, will become music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony next fall. He is also...
The New Number-One Factor In Public Radio Stations’ Scheduling Choices
With federal funding now at zero, as one exec puts it, “Station programmers are looking at their schedule and saying, ‘Where can I save...
Harlem Stage Undertakes Its First-Ever Tour
“The bus was hard to miss as it cruised purposefully, South to North, making pit stops at pivotal civil rights landmarks. Its exterior was...
Here’s The First Smithsonian Museums Exhibition To Be Cancelled Due To The Government Shutdown
“The National Portrait Gallery has postponed the opening of an exhibition for its triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition as the Smithsonian Institution prepares to...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Renames Itself As What Most People Call It Anyway
The change to “Philadelphia Art Museum” was simply an acknowledgment of basic reality, says Luis Bravo, PhAM’s design director. And yes, the new acronym...
About Half Of Alaska Public Radio Stations Get Temporary Emergency Funding
Fourteen of the state’s public radio stations, the ones deemed to serve Alaska Native people, will receive a total of $4.5 million from the...
“Mad Max” Director: AI Will Change Art. Technology Always Does
Artificial intelligence, George Miller said, represents “the most dynamically evolving tool in making moving image.” “As a filmmaker, I’ve always been driven by the...
Lord Of The Irish Dance Michael Flatley At 67
He hasn’t danced for nearly a decade. He has damaged bones and tendons and claims to know all his vertebrae by name. But he’s...
In The Current Environment, Is There Room For Truth-Telling Art?
These episodes highlighted the vulnerability of the US’s state-funded cultural sector under an autocratic populist president determined to suppress artistic expression perceived as intolerably...
New Venice Music Biennale Director Spins Another Take On Contemporary Music
The invitation for Caterina Barbieri to lead the Music Biennale gave “a platform to another side of contemporary music that is generally excluded from...
How Contemporary Art Is Taking On Nigeria’s Identity
“Many of these artists deal with the idea that Nigerian culture has to be taken as a multinational and multi-ethnic question, in which artists...
Musicians At Venice’s Opera House Declare Strike To Protest New Conductor
“The strike will be held on Friday 17 October, the date of the opera house’s first performance of a run of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck,...
Dozens Of Bob Ross Pictures To Be Auctioned To Help Support PBS
Ross, with his distinctive afro, soothing voice and sunny outlook, empowered millions of viewers to make and appreciate art through his show The Joy of...
Report: Depiction Of Black Characters In Children’s Books Is Significantly Down
A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by...
The World’s Digital Infrastructure Runs On American Technology. Europe Wants To Reclaim Its Sovereignty
In the 21st century, those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself. Europe faces a choice: build sovereign technological...
Wyoming Librarian Fired In Book-Banning Dispute Wins $700,000 In Lawsuit
“Terri Lesley was fired as the library system director in northeastern Wyoming’s Campbell County in 2023, two years into the dispute … over books...
This CEO Has Been Peddling An AI Companion. People Revile Him
The backlash has grabbed far more attention than the product itself, so I wondered: How does Avi Schiffmann, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of...
Sloppy Slop: Why You’re Seeing More Fake Images And Video In Your Feeds
High-engagement, AI-generated posts on Reddit are an example of what is known as “AI slop” – cheap, low-quality AI-generated content, created and shared by...
Chicago Indie Music Venues Protest Big Live Nation Project
A group of independent music venues in Chicago have come together to protest the building of Lincoln Yards, a $5 billion new development on...
Government To Dissolve Antwerp’s Museum Of Contemporary Art
In a move to “thoroughly reform the landscape” and achieve a “more logical distribution” of visual art there, the regional government of Flanders in...
