All In? (Or Not): The Existential Bet On AI
Artificial intelligence will bring us heaven on earth or kill us all. It is the most important invention in human history or a scam....
Do-Gooders And The Pointlessness Of Jobs
The few jobs today that are tangibly useful—say, social workers and science teachers—pay far less than the mass of uninspiring administrative and middle-management roles...
How To Sustain A Small Nonprofit Theatre When A Leader Dies, COVID Hits, And...
Send in the clowns. - Oregon ArtsWatch
How Streaming Platforms Reignited The YA Boom
“‘It has to resonate and feel authentic to the time,’ says one expert. ‘This generation really sees stereotypes pretty quickly … they’ll see inappropriate...
Madrid Doesn’t Want To Let Picasso’s Guernica Go To Basque Country
But “the Basque government, headed by Imanol Pradales of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), has made the transfer of Picasso’s painting a matter of...
Is Canada’s ‘Netflix Tax’ Worth It?
“Is the Online Streaming Act worth all the hassle it's getting from the United States? CBC's The House spoke to experts about why this bill has...
In A Music Rut? Try This Wild Idea
“Each time I tune in—which is every day now—it feels as if someone cooler than me is handing me a mixtape made with care,...
Some People Think Straight Male Authors Aren’t Writing Enough Sex Scenes
“It is good that we know what to avoid, but we don’t really know what to do either. We’re uncomfortable, and so what we...
The Greatest Heist In The History Of Art
Tech bros “are a class that shuns human interaction, with its serendipities, annoyances and joys. It represents friction. Learning to make art is also...
If You Want To Win An Olivier Award In Britain, You Really Need To...
“The many awards for Paddington were perhaps unsurprising given that the show earned rave reviews when it opened and has played to sellout crowds...
How ‘SNL’ Caught The Spirit Of The Artemis Better Maybe Than The Earnest Astronauts...
“The vastness of space is humbling to behold. But it can undoubtedly make even the most sober-minded astronauts go a little stir crazy.” -...
The Writer Who Couldn’t Accept A Huge Prize Because It Came With So Many...
Helen DeWitt’s life was simply too busy, and intense, for her to do what the $175,000 Windham-Campbell Writing Prize required, she says. - The...
Popular Dramas Missed The Reality Of Cowboys, But Museums Are Picking Up The Slack
“Museums are educating visitors to a more accurate telling of Western history by showcasing the role Black people played in everyday life across territories...
Are Netflix And Apple Having A Little Bit Of A Tiff?
“For power users, this sort of thing can’t help but read as needling, even petty platform quirks. For Apple and Netflix, it’s business as usual.”...
Will Jean Smart And Zendaya Be The First To Historical Emmy Wins?
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss “won six of seven seasons of the political satire Veep, losing only in its final season. This near sweep remains one of...
Building A New Era Of Art At The Cleveland Museum
“It is a new direction for scanner photography, a method more often associated with punk Xerox aesthetics and second-wave feminist art than with the human...
Musicians’ Names Are Being Plastered Over AI-Generated Songs On Spotify
"Moran is among a growing number of musicians who have been targeted on music streaming platforms by what appear to be AI bots masquerading...
Stop Putting AI-Generated Art On Articles About AI
“What does it say for The New Yorker, one of America’s most prestigious magazines, to adopt generative AI? At its worst, the technology eliminates any...
Language And The Battle For Democracy
If ‘language is one of the keys to individual autonomy’, the central challenge in a linguistic landscape being flattened and standardized by AI is...
Hilde Limondjian, Longtime Met Museum Music Curator, 89
Hilde Limondjian, who spent more than four decades bringing music to the auditorium — and the galleries — of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Obama Library Announces Artist Commissions For The Presidential Library
The latest set of commissions will be realized by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Hugo McCloud, Martin Puryear, Lorna...
If They Aren’t Reading, Why Are We Making Fun Of Them?
Literary ridicule used to sting politicians into shame. Now they don't read books, don't care about cultural criticism, and certainly don't lose sleep over...
Can Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre Rise Again Under New Leadership?
Under their new leadership, Victory Gardens has hosted a writers’ workshop, a showcase of new works in collaboration with New Musical Chicago, and a...
LA Museums Polish Up for Their Olympic Moment
The Getty and Page Museum are getting Olympic-ready makeovers, because nothing says 'world-class cultural destination' like frantically renovating before the global spotlight hits. Strategic...
When Your Novel Rides Off Into Someone Else’s Sunset
A Texas novelist discovers the hard way that authorial intent is no match for America's hunger for mythology. Sometimes the culture writes the ending,...
