How Artists Are Mobilizing A Resistance
Among them is The People vs Project 2025, a new nationwide movement to mobilise artists and cultural workers through co-ordinated live and streaming performances. -...
Just How Do We Measure The Complexity Of AI?
How do we assess whether AI is “reasoning” like humans do? Is it “truly intelligent”—but what does that mean? Even if we don’t understand...
The First Orchestral Venue Built According To Modern Acoustical Science: Boston’s Symphony Hall At...
Businessman Henry Lee Higginson, who founded the Boston Symphony and was lead funder for its then-new venue, made what was then an unprecedented decision:...
The Rise Of France’s Private Art Foundations
‘Luxury needs this link to the world of culture, because that is what gives it its nobility, its legitimacy, its roots,’ says Jean-Michel Tobelem,...
Data: Humanities Graduates Do Very Well In The Job Markets
Humanities majors in Minnesota are as likely to be employed as are engineering or business majors, according to the American Academy of Arts and...
British Library Returns Oscar Wilde’s Library Card — 125 Years After His Death
On June 15, 1895, the Irish poet and playwright was excluded from the British Museum’s Reading Room, the precursor to the British Library. The...
One Of Britain’s Major Foundations Restricts Its Arts Fund Despite Its Endowment Growing Past...
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation — whose endowment has grown steadily since 2020 and now stands at £916 million ($1.28 billion) — has closed its...
Trump Refiles $15 Billion Lawsuit Against Penguin Random House And New York Times
The case — which charges that, with the book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, the...
Senior Housing Designed To Fight Loneliness Wins Britain’s Top Architecture Award
The Stirling Prize for the country’s best new building of the year, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects, has gone to the...
Art Historian Says He’s Figured Out Who Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring Was
It’s been suggested that she was the artist’s daughter, a servant girl, or even a sibyl from Greek mythology. Scholar Andrew Graham-Dixon writes that...
Wardrobe Stylist Sues “Hamilton” Producers For Firing Her After Medical Leave For Cancer Treatment
Kimberly Mark, a veteran Broadway dresser, joined the Hamilton crew a decade ago. Her suit alleges that, after four operations and weeks of chemotherapy and...
Philadelphia’s Mann Center Has A New Sponsorship Deal And New Name
The open-air concert venue in Fairmount Park has been given a “substantial” grant from the Pennsylvania insurance company Highmark to support a renovation project...
NPR “Founding Mother” Susan Stamberg, 87
In 1972, as host of All Things Considered, she became the first female anchor of a nightly national newscast. She co-hosted the show for...
London’s Royal Ballet School Is Making Some Big Changes In Teaching
For a start, they’ve raised the starting age from 11 to 13. And they’ve done away with many of the rigid and arbitrary body...
Why Is CBS Making So Many Scripted Shows When Other Networks Are Retreating?
Given that the Tiffany Network has been home to the most-watched new series for the past nine TV seasons in a row, they've earned...
Another Nobel-Winning Author Turns Out To Have Been A God-Awful Person
Most observers knew that Saul Bellow was no saint, especially after reading his greatest novel, the quasi-autobiographical Herzog. Bellow’s portrait of his protagonist’s wife,...
How Social Media has Turned Everything Into Television
Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached...
How OpenAI Has Played Hollywood
Among the discrepancies: the treatment of likenesses versus intellectual property. Tellingly, some execs were told an opt-in would be required for both. Others were...
Our Long History Of Artificial Intelligizing
If philosophy formalized reasoning, literature explored its consequences. Stories about artificial beings reveal the hopes and terrors of living with intelligent doubles. Western traditions...
Abundance Of Choice Is Our Modern Religion. It Has Some Serious Downsides
Philosophers and political theorists say it promotes selfish individualism and discourages collective action around issues that affect us all. And sociologists add that societies...
Orchestra Commissions Mason Bates To Create Its “Sonic Logo”
When Charlotte Symphony music director Kwamé Ryan saw the orchestra’s newly-redesigned logo, he thought the CSO should have a musical equivalent — like NBC’s...
Royal Ballet Teams Up With Blind Artist To Experience Movement Differently
The Royal Ballet has long offered headphones with audio descriptions so that visually impaired members of the audience can follow the action on stage. Now the...
Europe’s New Soccer Stadiums Are The Cathedrals Of Our Time
The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said: “A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.” For much of their history, football...
The Archaeology Of Unearthing The World’s Oldest Stories
Nowadays, we can unearth bones, extract DNA, even map ancient migrations, but only in myths can we glimpse the inner lives of our forebears—their...
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane Takes The Helm At The Theatre He Grew Up In
Beane was in his hometown — Reading, Pennsylvania — scouting locations for his first feature film when he learned that the Genesius Theatre, where...
