Compared To AI, CliffsNotes Look Pretty Good, Says Professor
“CliffsNotes for students who struggle to get through Brontë, Woolf, or Shakespeare seem laughably analog in the time of ChatGPT, but CliffsNotes offer genuine...
Museums Are Under Fire. Remaining Silent Is Not An Option
Museums serving audiences of color are becoming targets of immigration agents. Amid these changes, the voices of some directors and curators seem to have...
Trump Brings The Culture Wars To Museums And Parks
Those supporting Trump’s actions say they will restore national pride, but critics in the arts and parks, as well as a number of Democrats,...
He Bought Sotheby’s. Trouble Followed
For those caught up in the experiment, it has been torrid in the extreme. Since 2019, hundreds of employees have left Sotheby’s—up to a...
Joe Hickerson, A Key Figure In The Preservation Of American Folk Song, Is Dead...
“At the height of folk revival, Hickerson began what became more than a quarter-century tenure at the Library of Congress in 1963, swiftly establishing...
The Poet With An Inadvertently Brilliant Legacy Strategy
Unlike his contemporary and admirer T.S. Eliot, he didn’t see history as ending “with a whimper” but rather with a long, subsiding, pleasurable sigh...
Guess What? You Don’t Really Own That Movie You Just Bought
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s servers –...
Netflix’s Algorithms Have Changed What We’re Watching
Algorithm movies usually exhibit easy-to-follow story beats that leave no viewer behind; under this regime, exposition is no longer a screenwriting faux pas. -...
Author Of John Williams Bio Clarifies That No, Williams Does Not Actually Dislike Film...
Tim Greiving: “As the recipient of those quotes, I want to try and clear it up. … It’s true that he said to me,...
Old Master Portrait Looted By Nazis Spotted In Real Estate Ad, Then Disappears
Portrait of a Lady, by Baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was part of the trove of works belonging to Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker which...
Alessandra Ferri’s Plans For Vienna State Ballet
Interestingly, Ferri has no prior connection to the Vienna State Opera. ... She sees this as a positive, especially in light of the two...
Minneapolis Institute Of Art To Hold Its First-Ever Exhibition Of Crop Art
Crop art — works using corn kernels, sunflower seeds, or other agricultural products as their media — has long been a feature of the...
Alaska’s Public Radio Stations Could Be Hit Hardest By Federal Defunding
There are 27 rural public radio stations in the state, most of them serving small communities with little other media and hundreds of miles...
Theater Audiences Are Slowly Coming Back In Philadelphia (As Long As They Can Get...
About 71% of theaters there have seen audience numbers improve since the COVID shutdowns, though only 41% are back to pre-2020 levels. The major...
The Lion King’s Longest-Running Rafiki Retires After 25 Years
Tshidi Manye has played the mandrill shaman who sings “Circle of Life” in roughly 9,000 performances, a large majority of them on Broadway. -...
Shirley Ririe, Utah’s Pioneer Of Modern Dance, Has Died At 96
With colleague Joan Woodbury, who died in 2023, she founded the state’s first contemporary troupe, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in 1964 and developed it into...
What If The Moral Arc Of The Universe Bends Toward… Chaos And Confusion?
Reality, as we now understand, does not tend towards existential flourishing and eternal becoming. Instead, systems collapse, things break down, and time tends irreversibly...
A “Hamilton”-Style Hip-Hop Musical About Scottish Hero William Wallace (Yes, Braveheart)
“Hip-hop, (songwriter Dave Hook) argues, has never blandly replicated itself, but always adapted to new circumstances. … By giving hip-hop a Scottish voice and,...
What Does It Really Mean The “Reasonable” People Can Disagree?
To say that “reasonable people can disagree” can encourage suspension of judgment in response to important matters of personal and social concern. - 3...
The Last Days Of Arts Criticism?
Arts criticism has been vanishingly difficult to break into for ages, no one’s idea of a growth industry. But publications have managed to make...
Rethinking Where Broadcasting Is Now
Broadcasting no longer conveys a geographic monopoly on the distribution of content. It’s becoming clear that a business model based largely on the broadcast...
Chicago Reader Saved From Closure By Owner Of Seattle Alt-Weekly The Stranger
The 54-year-old paper, one of the US’s oldest alt-weeklies, made major layoffs and narrowly avoided shutting down in January. The Reader has now been...
So What Really Does The Edinburgh Fringe Do For Theatre?
If it works for the few but not more widely – in particular, if it doesn’t work for global-majority artists or those breaking with...
How Are We Defining Art Movements In The 21st Century?
Gone for the most part are the -isms that defined artistic movements in the 20th century: Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism. Manifestos too are increasingly...
Claim: Elimination Of Government Funding To Rural Public Broadcasting Will Push Stations Left
Instead of toppling our radio towers, the funding cut is just likely to make them lean further left. Was that the White House’s and...
