How Late Night TV Became So Political
To understand how network late-night hosts became such critics of Trump, you have to take the long view, because their increasingly political commentary preceded...
Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Arts Center Settles Into A New Home
“The first floor, equipped with lighting and a sound and video projection system, will be home to poetry readings, film screenings, open mics, and...
Research: AI Answers Change Depending On Culture
“Our findings suggest that the cultural tendencies embedded within AI models shape and filter the responses that AI provides. As generative AI becomes part...
Is Milan’s Art World Ready For A Breakthrough?
“We are now the gateway to the European Union,” local art advisor Mattia Pozzoni told me over spritzes at local culinary institution Sant Ambroeus....
After 26 Years, Lisa Philips To Retire As Director Of The New Museum
On Thursday, she announced plans to depart the New Museum in April, after the institution opens its 62,000-square-foot expansion that cost $82 million and...
The Intricacies Of Casting Audiobook Actors
“Now, with more than 10,000 regularly working narrators, audiobooks are at the height of diversity casting, but the product can no longer be for...
E-Book Contracts To Libraries Are Expensive. Is This A Way To Fix The Problem?
The goal is to drive down demand for short-term e-book contracts and force publishers to offer e-books to libraries on better terms. - Harvard...
What Does It Mean To Put Your Community At The Heart Of Arts Institution...
New Art Exchange is one of just two cultural institutions in Britain – the other being Birmingham Museums Trust – that have put randomly...
New Test Of AI Ability Shows AI Beats Humans In A Variety Of Tasks
For GPT-5-high, a souped-up version of GPT-5 with extra computational power, the company says the AI model was ranked as better than or on...
New York Public Radio Offers Free Programming To Other Public Radio Stations Deemed “At...
The Station-to-Station Programming Project will waive distribution fees for programs produced or syndicated by NYPR — among them Radiolab, The New Yorker Radio Hour,...
Venice’s Opera House Appoints New Music Director; Musicians And Staff Revolt
This week the management of Teatro La Fenice, evidently at short notice, named as music director the 35-year-old conductor Beatrice Venezi, reportedly an associate...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Makes Its Final Grants To Local Stations Before Shutting Down
The $7.1 million being distributed is left over from the previous year’s pool of grant money; it had been allocated for grants which, in...
Crowd Of Log Cabin Republicans Show Up To Heckle Guitarist At Kennedy Center
Yasmin Williams, whose email to new Kennedy Center president Ric Grenell got a notoriously vicious response, performed there last week. Shortly before curtain, she...
Newly-Discovered John Singer Sargent Portrait On View At Paris’s Musée d’Orsay
The striking 1882 portrait Madame O’Connor reveals how Sargent was already experimenting with some of the same styling ideas that would go on to define...
For The First Time In 53 Years, Manhattan Theater Club Has A New Artistic...
On December 1, Nicki Hunter, who’s currently the company’s associate artistic director, will take the helm from Lynne Meadow, who grew MTC from a...
Jacob’s Pillow To Present Its First-Ever Fall Performances
Just months after most of the flagship summer festival was cancelled following the workplace death of a crew member, the dance mecca is hosting...
Lear deBessonet’s Number-One Goal For Lincoln Center Theater
“The work we make here I want it to be something that anyone of any background — whether they are visiting New York City...
Poll: More Americans Prefer To See New Movies By Streaming Than In Theatres
About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past...
Indie Filmmaker Henry Jaglom Dead At 87
As one biographical blurb put it, “Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and the only true maverick of American cinema,...
What’s Ari Shapiro Doing Next After Leaving NPR? He Honestly Does Not Know
“There’s no big reveal. Maybe the reason people just assume that there’s some big next thing is that they can’t imagine that you would...
How To Test Whether An Argument Is Valid
An argument is essentially a collection of sentences. One of the sentences is the ‘conclusion’, and all the rest are the ‘premises’. The conclusion...
What Propelled The Rise Of Civilization? War
Ultrasociality was the secret of survival in this perpetual arms race, making it the ultimate military technology — or war the ultimate social technology....
The Movie Hospital — Where Damaged Movies Go To Be Reborn
Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in...
Making The Case For Fra Angelico
“Fra Angelico,” which opens Friday and runs through Jan. 25, is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year. Bringing together more than 140 works...
Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Decline
"Although cities develop new activities and abandon old ones, they do so in a way that keeps their coherence constant. This suggests that such...
