National Gallery’s Decision To Expand Into 20th Century Risks Conflict With Tate
A decision to tear up an agreement between the National Gallery and Tate, which has prevented the National Gallery from collecting works created after 1900, could...
Restoration Of Ancient Babylon Is Drawing Tourists
Largely funded by the US embassy in Baghdad, the restoration of the temple and the north retaining wall are part of the Future of...
Who’s Suing AI Companies (And Who’s Making Deals)
Many more now have signed deals with the AI companies which commonly include the use of their content as reference points for user queries...
The Lion Of Venice Statue In St. Mark’s Square Was Evidently Made In China
“By studying copper isotopes taken from samples of the statue, scientists were able to identify that the metal originated from the Yangtze River in...
Ralph Rugoff To Leave Hayward Gallery
Rugoff is most famous internationally for his 2019 Biennale, which saw the 79 artists included—a relatively low number for the world’s biggest art festival—each...
The “AI-and-I” Essay Has Become A Genre Of Its Own
For example, between April and July, The New Yorker published over a dozen such pieces: essays about generative AI and the dangers it poses to literacy,...
Texas Public Radio Stations Scramble To Stay Funded And Stay Relevant
“Stations were never intended to be completely dependent on federal funding. The more existential crisis is how we continue to be relevant.” - Texas...
The Things That Follow You Around Once You First Notice Them
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion, is a type of cognitive bias where, once you learn about something – such as...
How Juilliard Is Becoming Tuition-Free
The number of tuition-free students will continue to increase on a rolling basis across all of Juilliard. “We’re looking at a multiyear campaign, and...
Supercool Film Studio A24 Has Moved Into Off-Broadway Theater
Two years ago A24 bought the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village for $10 million; following a thorough remodeling, the house has reopened...
AI Is Helping Decipher Ancient Unreadable Manuscripts. Here’s How
The researchers’ model allows for the generation of synthetic data to accurately model key degradation processes and overcome the scarcity of information contained in...
Artist Fights Destruction Of His Fountain In San Francisco
A lawyer representing the artist Armand Vaillancourt has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the City of San Francisco in response to the controversial plan to demolish...
Domination Play: Skydance Paramount To Bid To Buy Warner
By preparing a play for the company before Warner’s planned split, Paramount Skydance is attempting to pre-empt a potential bidding war for the studio...
National Ballet Of Cuba’s Expert Dancers Are Fleeing The Country’s Collapsing Economy
“Many from the Ballet Nacional are quietly choosing to leave behind difficult conditions: Blackouts that make rehearsal spaces and exercise rooms swelteringly hot. Scarce...
Owner Of Miami-Dade’s Public Radio Station Sues Nonprofit That Operates It
The Miami-Dade County School Board, owner of the broadcast license for WLRN, argues that South Florida Public Media Group, which manages the station, violated...
Appeals Court Upholds Order To Pause Trump’s Dismantling Of Institute Of Museum And Library...
“The Court noted throughout their decision that the defendants did not provide sufficient evidence that they weren’t creating harm or overstepping Constitutionality in implementing Trump’s...
Arvo Pärt, Aged 90, Has Ended His Composing Career
The confirmation is tucked into a profile of the wildly popular composer, who has been in poor health and is reportedly developing dementia. -...
How Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Style Works
A music scholar explains how the artistic formula — famously described by the composer’s wife, Nora, as “1+1=1” — gets translated into the notes...
U.S. Copyright Chief Can Keep Her Job For Now, Rules Court Of Appeals
“By the order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Shira Perlmutter remains the register of copyrights and the...
A Genuine Rubens, Long Forgotten, Turns Up In Paris
“A magnificent, dramatized crucifixion scene made in around 1614-15 has been found among the possessions of a late Parisian homeowner and is set to...
A Landmark For Deaf Cinema: The First Sign-Language Thriller
“Retreat is billed as ‘the world’s first deaf thriller.’ It is written and directed by Ted Evans, also deaf, and features an all-deaf cast, set...
Steve Schick: How Music Ought To Work On Us
While the presence of listeners seems axiomatic at every stage of music history, it has become indispensable now. Fostering dialogue, spoken or unspoken, within...
French Museums Close Because Of Labor Strikes
Art museums and cultural monuments in France, including the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Arc de Triomphe, are partially or fully closed to...
Historic Palace In Kathmandu Burned Out During Violent Anti-Government Protests
The nationwide protests against government corruption and a new social media ban turned violent in Nepal’s capital on Monday; on Tuesday, rioters ransacked and...
A New Festival Exploring AI In Opera
Planned for its first edition, set to run from June 4 to 7 next year, is a symposium exploring A.I. and opera-making, followed by...
