Trump Widens His Attack On Museums
"The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE," he wrote. The post emphasized his ongoing...
A Festival Of AI Films Leaves Me Cold
As something of a generative-AI skeptic, watching the program raised all kinds of questions. - Wired
For These Stage Actors, Getting Older Is A Career Peak
“As a culture we tend to talk about ageing as a series of losses, a whittling-away of vigour and ability, but talking to actors...
Oh No: People Are Starting To Talk Like ChatGPT
The unnerving thing is that now, with hundreds of millions of people regularly engaging with chatbots, English-speaking humans are starting to talk like the inhuman communicator...
How AI Is Already Transforming Hollywood
Almost every person I spoke with for this story said that AI is already a core part of the “previz” process, where scenes are...
When Museums Are Made To Be Ideological: Remember Germany
Museums were repurposed to emphasize heroic and nationalist themes. Military museums glorified past victories while erasing defeats. Archives were cleansed of inconvenient truths: Jewish...
What Hit American TV Series Look Like After Russian Censors Get Through With Them
“There is no intimacy between men, no talk of abortion, no logos of banned companies or jokes about Putin. By August, censors had cut...
Reading Tiny Buddhist Scrolls Without Damaging Them By Unrolling
The scrolls come from a small Mongolian shrine found by an expedition in 1927. Researchers are virtually unrolling and deciphering them using X-ray tomography,...
A Challenge: Getting Chinese-Language Literature In Front Of English-Speaking Readers
“(There’s) a new effort from Riverhead Books, led by editor Han Zhang, to publish more translated Chinese language literature. … The books that Zhang...
Repairs Underway At Building Which Caught Fire Just Months After Curtis Institute Bought It
It’s known as the Art Alliance building, it’s near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, Curtis bought it in January in the UArts liquidation sale, and fire...
Who Are The Generals In The Trump White House’s Culture War?
Since he returned to the White House, Trump has appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center, revived the Garden of Heroes statuary project, and...
Another Casualty Of Public Radio And TV Defunding: Upgraded Public Safety Warnings
FEMA had been using the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to evaluate proposals and award grants for the Next Generation Warning System Grant Program, which...
Audra McDonald Followed Home From Theater By Autograph-Seeker
She says that on Saturday, following her next-to-last performance in Gypsy on Broadway, an audience member “snuck around and found me the way I...
A24’s New Release Is Already The Fifth-Highest-Grossing Film Of All Time, And You’ve Probably...
“Ne Zha 2, an animated fantasy adventure movie written and directed by the Chinese filmmaker Jiaozi, broke multiple records after it premiered in China earlier...
What If We’re Chasing Happiness The Wrong Way?
What if we only think of happiness as a goal because we have lost sight of other alternatives? What if the heart of the...
They’re Moving An Entire 113-Year-Old Church Three Miles Across Town — In One Piece
The Kiruna Kyrka, weighing 672 tons and made mostly of red-stained timber, has been elevated onto rolling platforms and is lumbering its way across...
Speculation About AI Is Consuming Us
This is the AI era in a nutshell. Squint one way, and you can portray it as the saving grace of the world economy....
Airport Free Libraries Are Finding Fans
There are book carts organized by United Airlines in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Virginia and more; Little Free Libraries in Seattle and Providence, Rhode Island, and “Flybrary” shelves in Punta...
How AI Changes The Whole Notion Of Creating Music
The ability to create lyrics in five seconds, and you can keep refining these things. Oh, I don't like the second version. Can you...
Meet Maceo Harrison, The Savannah Bananas’ Choreographer
“When I choreograph for dancers, I put a lot of thought into it. But for the Bananas, I’m quick. I have to (remember) the...
The End Of Handwriting?
US public schools still require that kids be taught handwriting, so it’s not yet a lost art, but there is some evidence that digital...
Judge Strikes Parts Of Florida’s Book Ban Law
The lawsuit was brought by some of the nation's largest book publishers and some of the authors whose books had been removed from central...
Opera Australia Board Chair Out After Criticism From Ex-CEO
Rod Sims has departed as chair of Opera Australia after three years, a decision both he and the company said was voluntary despite an...
Fired US Copyright Chief Tells Federal Court To “Connect The Dots”
Attorneys for Shira Perlmutter, who is suing the Trump administration for what she argues is her illegal dismissal as U.S. Register of Copyrights, said in a...
What AP Canceling Book Reviews Means For Books Culture
The standard 800-word, single-title review has long been an anemic, disparaged creature surviving off scraps along the edges of the features pages. - Washington...
