So AI Is Coming For Your Job. We Have To Think About Jobs Differently
AI’s automating powers are indiscriminate. They are affecting blue-collar manufacturing jobs and white-collar office jobs. Many who spent years, and thousands of dollars, developing...
Susan Orlean On The Glory Days Of The New Yorker
Orlean allows that if there’s anything anyone should be jealous of, it’s that she had been encouraged to pursue ideas most magazine editors would...
Universal Music Makes Big Licensing Deal With Spotify
“The agreement includes all aspects of YouTube’s various music services and platforms, embodies our artist-centric principles and drives greater monetization for artists and songwriters.”...
We Make Things That Make Life Easier. But There’s A Big Downside…
The more these systems anticipate and deliver what we want, the less we notice what’s missing—or remember that we ever had a choice in...
Harvard Is Cutting Back On PhD’s. That’s A Problem For Academia
Some might be wondering why anyone should care if, for example, the number of Harvard history Ph.D.s drops from 13 to five. Although these...
American Ballet Theatre @85
Ballet Theatre was renamed American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 1957; journalists don’t often use “essay” as a verb anymore (though maybe we should); and...
The Resurrection Of Books-A-Million
The retailer is in the process of opening 15 new outlets this year, which will keep the total number of outlets at over 220...
The Humanities Aren’t A “Vibe!” The Slippery Slope Of AI
The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the...
Trump Is The Most Consequential Art President In Our Lifetime. We Need A Counter...
Merely nine months in, the Trump administration is poised to become the most consequential, effective arts presidency in American history—peerless in impact since at...
The Costumers Behind Your Favorite Ballet Are Sewing As Fast As They Can
The Boston Ballet’s Howard Merlin: “During the dress rehearsal, something looks really, really bad. … It’s my job to make sure it looks really,...
Theatre Might Just Want To Be Everybody’s Church
“There’s an inherent theatricality to church, and a furtive spirituality to theater. In form, they’re similar: Everybody crowds into a room, usually sits facing...
Mavis Staples Says That Her Long Singing Career Keeps A Light Shining
“There are some things going on in the US that are not pleasing to me, but I keep my head up. I turn on...
Is It At All Worth Going To The Cinema Anymore?
Bob Mondello says yes: "I love seeing movies in a theater, and if I can possibly avoid watching them at home, I do. ......
Will This Silent-Film Era Instrument Disappear?
"A cousin to self-playing player pianos, photoplayers automatically play music read out of perforated piano rolls. During their slim heyday — from their invention...
Dear Writers, If You Use AI To ‘Fix’ Your Writing, You Are An Ass
“Writing can terrify us, confuse us, devastate us. Good writing means that you’re engaging with practices that will force you to lean into things...
Workers At The Studio That Makes Grand Theft Auto Allege Union Busting
Rockstar Games fired a bunch of folks last week. “According to the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), all of the employees fired...
In Possibly The Most German Moment Ever, ‘Grumpy Guide’ Museum Tours Sell Out
If you want to be yelled at for your art historical ignorance by an “aggressive” guide, get your kink on in Düsseldorf. "Asked to...
Some Of The Creepiest Locations In Britain
Not even counting the numerous Doctor Who locations (to be fair, many are in Wales), “England's historic buildings and landscapes ‘provide an essential ingredient...
Pour One Out For The Zune, Which Somehow Never Threatened The IPod
Microsoft really tried. “It had a bunch of interface design ideas that are still very present in our lives today. The universe in which the...
British Teens, And Adults, Are In Love With Literary Angst
For instance: “Turkish author Sabahattin Ali’s 1943 novel Madonna in a Fur Coat, first published by Penguin in 2016, has rocketed this year, selling almost 30,000 copies in...
The Box Office Had A Record-Smashing (Bad) October
"Overall revenues for the month were tragic, with $425 million across all titles, the worst collective haul since October 1997.” - Variety
Honestly, The Architecture Of The White House Was Simply An Honor System
Yes, you can blame the man who destroyed that honor system, but it could have been set up quite a bit differently. - The...
How Did This Tiny Theatre Become Such A Powerhouse Los Angeles Destination?
“In a city where the so-called Theater Row has more ‘For Lease’ signs than marquees, New Theater Hollywood feels improbable. Yet since opening in...
What’s Up With Our Fixation On Disability As A Marker For Horror?
“While physical beauty is often conflated with a character’s moral goodness, villains have historically been associated with disability or disfigurement: facial scarring, wheelchair use, limb difference.” - The Guardian...
The Making Of A New Hedda
“Joking that she had probably watched Robert Altman’s Gosford Park too many times, DaCosta said that she set the action in 1950s England because of...
