Why I Won’t Let AI Into My Classroom In Any Form
If there has ever been a time to double down on the value of a humanities education, it’s now. It’s no coincidence that a...
Given The State Of The Industry, Why Would Anyone Want To Buy A Movie...
The theatrical box office market is down. It’s harder than ever to get people out of their homes and into the cinema. The business...
Piano In Unusual Settings
Inspired by the preservationist John Muir, Noack started the project as a way of getting closer to nature, and bringing classical music to rural...
Dan Pelzer Read 3,599 Books In His 92 Years, And Kept A Record. Here...
Mr. Pelzer’s children said he was able to read 3,599 books from 1962, when he first began jotting his reads down on his language...
Remembering Leopold Stokowski
Last Friday’s “Wall Street Journal” carried my review of a new memoir by Nancy Shear: “I Knew the Man Who Knew Brahms.”
An Artist Turns A Spotlight On Sport And The American Mythology
After Pfeiffer moved to New York and attended his first live sports spectacles, he became fascinated by how much of the work of making...
Holographic Elvis Show For £300 In London? Fans Are Mixed
Reviews suggest they have dressed up some footage from Elvis’s 1968 comeback TV special and built a show around it (which includes visits to...
Met Museum Reports Highest Attendance Since 2019
The museum announced that more than 5.7 million attendees visited its two locations — The Met Fifth Ave and The Cloisters. While the visitor rates do...
How Reality TV Changed The Way We Watch TV
"For the first time, viewers started seeing ordinary people on television who weren't celebrities, which is a very different phenomenon." - BBC
Philosophy: Making Shit Up?
How to draw distinction between the good philosophy and the bad philosophy? How much philosophy counts as good, and how much philosophy counts as...
Can Poetry De-escalate Polarization?
Poetry has always been political. The writer and civil-rights activist Audre Lorde argued it produces “a revelatory distillation of experience”. In other words, by distilling aspects...
Want To Understand Someone? Look At Their Spotify Playlists
Don’t waste time perusing photos their mom posted on Facebook nine years ago. If you want to get to know someone—and I mean really know them—there...
Study: People Relate Better To Neurotic Robots
"A majority of participants actually mentioned how human-like they found the neurotic robot," says Alex Wuqi Zhang, a researcher at the University of Chicago. "They...
What Happens Now That Skydance Owns Paramount?
CBS, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures are all bracing for upheaval when Larry Ellison and his son, David, take the keys from Paramount Global...
A Trend? New Horror Movies Depict The Rich As Monsters
In films like Ready or Not (2019) and The Menu (2022), the rich aren’t simply out of touch; they’re portrayed as predators, criminals or even monsters. -...
Hamburg Is Building A New Opera House. Its Funder Is Problematic
His family’s company, Kühne + Nagel, is one of the world’s largest logistics firms, and collaborated with the Nazi regime to transport goods stolen...
The Opera Company That Operates A Bel Canto Boot Camp
Before its opening night, Teatro Nuovo spends the summer immersing its training singers — both hired professionals and annual resident artists — in bel...
What Happened To The Grand Canyon’s Most-Famous Statue After a Recent Fire?
“From reports we received from the field, the Brighty statue did survive the fire at the Grand Canyon Lodge, however, it is heavily damaged...
The Art Of The Book Spredge
Edge-painted books are now so widespread that you can find them at Walmart. The feature has spread from romance and fantasy to horror, thrillers...
Why Chuck Mangione Endured
His hit “Feels So Good,” an instrumental pop-jazz crossover that reached No. 4 on the Billboard charts during the summer of 1978, has unexpectedly...
“Rap Act” Reintroduced In Congress: Would Ban Using Lyrics Inadmissible In Court
The bill would change the rules of evidence for federal courtrooms, making song lyrics inadmissible unless prosecutors can meet strict criteria, such as showing...
The Art World Has Fragmented Into Five Fields
These include the art-market subfield, the exhibition subfield, the academic subfield, a multitude of community-based subfields, and the field of cultural activism. While these...
LA MoCA Loses Its Fifth Director Since 2008
On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Burton, 53, would be exiting the Los Angeles museum at...
AI As Academic Freedom Issue
AI is here, rather suddenly, pretty disruptively, and in a big way. Different institutions are adopting different stances and much of the adaptation is...
Brian Prechtl shares the balance of performing and administrating in the arts
Brian Prechtl, Director of Education and Community Engagement for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, shares the balance of both performing and administrating along with their breadth of impact on community.
