Indoor Skydiving — Not Only Is It Really A Thing, It’s Turning into A...
In glass-sided vertical wind tunnels, powerful fans shoot air upward at approximately the speed a human body would fall from an airplane. …But over...
Alt-Weeklies Are Not, In Fact, Dead (Despite The Long Casualty List)
The many postmortems after The Village Voice closed in 2017, plus the disappearance of alt-weeklies in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Baltimore, the Bay Area, and...
What AI Art Looks Like When It Hasn’t Trained On Artists’ Work
Depending on your perspective, Broad’s art is either a pioneering display of pure artificial creativity, a look into the very soul of AI, or...
Opera Philadelphia, $11 tickets, and a predictable outcome
Opera Philadelphia's $11 ticket prices produced what we expect: increased attendance and more diverse audience. But audience perceptions about price aren't fixed.
AI Bots Are Scouring Our Museum and Library Collections. Is Our Culture Being Stolen?
"For example, one respondent’s online collection included a semi-private archive that normally received a handful of visitors per day. That archive was discovered by...
How California Became The Home Of Innovation For Music Technology
San Francisco ‘60s utopian counterculture, psychedelic drugs, defying authority, breaking rules, and a general sense of severing from the past for a brighter future...
Some Broadcast TV Series Are Getting Impressive Viewer Numbers On Streaming For Weeks After...
“The 35-day figures for the 2024-25 season show that for series that originate on broadcast or cable networks, five weeks of streaming can grow a show’s...
How Medieval Monks Spread Culture And Learning
The importance of monasteries for the emergence of the Renaissance can hardly be overstated. Their number increased many times over from the sixth to...
What, Exactly, Defines Real Creativity?
What is the difference between great and mediocre art? Why do some songs, poems, and paintings move us profoundly, while others—even if they impress...
Use Of AI In Movies, TV, Becoming Widespread
Even amid widespread vocal pushback against generative artificial intelligence, industry leaders say its use in film and TV is slowly becoming mainstream. More filmmakers...
From Atlanta To Savannah To Valdosta, Orchestras In Georgia Seem To Be Thriving
Indeed, many of them report that they’re having larger audiences and healthier finances than before COVID. The AJC reached out to ten orchestras of...
Our Notions Of Copyright May Be Standing In The Way Of Creativity
Who, exactly, owns the outputs of a generative model? The user who crafted the prompt? The developer who built the model? The artists whose...
How Our Reading Is Changing
Plenty of people still enjoy traditional books and periodicals, and there are even readers for whom the networked age has enabled a kind of...
How AI Can Refocus History
Like most people who work with words for a living, I’ve watched the rise of large-language models with a combination of fascination and horror,...
Bringing The Plants To Life At Philly’s Soon-To-Open Calder Sculpture Garden
Calder Gardens will be a stylized oasis with woodlands, wildflower-filled prairie meadows, and rivers of grasses running through it — all carefully laid out...
Why The French Government Withdrew An AI Video It Released Celebrating The Nazis’ Withdrawal...
“The problem was that authorities did not check the video for historical accuracy. In a scene of Parisians jubilantly celebrating the 1944 end of...
How The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Got Their Pay Quintupled
“They will also be paid more for their appearances outside of cheering for the Dallas Cowboys. It’s a happy ending to a grueling season and...
Here’s The Early Post-Tony Awards Fallout On Broadway
Sunset Boulevard has seen its weekly gross up more than $400,000 to $1.7 million. Purpose and Oh Mary! had grosses rise by well over...
Actor Hits Tyler Perry With $260 Million Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Derek Dixon, who appeared in 85 episodes of Perry’s BET series The Oval, alleges that Perry used his power to assault, harass, and exploit...
Iran Closes Its Museums And Orders Artifacts Transferred To Safe Storage
“As the conflict with Israel continues to escalate, Iran has closed its museums and cultural heritage sites until further notice, according to local news reports....
Pianist Alfred Brendel, 94
“His technique was sufficient but rarely dazzling, and his tone was full and generally attractive but not especially lustrous. ... What attracted listeners was...
Reworking A Nouveau Circus Show On Short Notice After A Key Performer Gets Injured
In this case — the Montreal-based troupe The 7 Fingers, rehearsing in New York for a show opening in two days — the injury...
Report: More Than Half Of Americans Now Get Their News From Social Media
More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube - overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps...
Tourists Sit On, And Break, Crystal-Coated “Van Gogh Chair” In Museum
A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum in the Italian city of Verona was caught on closed-circuit TV sitting on artist Nicola Bolla’s Swarovski-encrusted...
In May, Streaming Viewership Beat Broadcast And Cable Viewership For The First Time Ever
Streaming accounted for 44.8% of viewership via TV screens during the month, the report said, while broadcast (20.1%) and cable (24.1%) together represented 44.2%...
