How AI Is Undermining Enlightenment Values
What a close comparison in fact illuminates is not just how pernicious A.I. can be to intellectual life, but also how it can undermine...
A Classical Record Label Like No Other: ECM New Series At 40
Many listeners know it as the label which introduced the Western world to Arvo Pärt, though its catalog ranges from Keith Jarrett playing Bach...
Your Brain Processes Words Differently When You Read (As Opposed To Listening)
You'll still find books today, even in a world filled with podcasts. Why is that? If we can listen to almost anything, why does...
What Neuroscience Tells Us About How To Get Smarter
While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it from “mere” thoughts. (You didn’t just think it. You...
Disney’s Struggles With Using AI Show The Complexities Of Issues
Disney and Metaphysic spent 18 months negotiating on and off over the terms of the contract and work on the digital double. But none...
The World Capital Of Knockoff Van Goghs And Rembrandts Has To Find A New...
Dafen, a village near Shenzhen, was for 30 years the source of up to 70% of the global supply of painted replicas of famous...
London’s Royal Opera And Ballet Cancels Performances In Israel Over Gaza
The internal announcement by the RBO chief executive, Alex Beard, was made after almost 200 Royal Opera and Ballet members signed an open letter criticising the...
Voice Of America Chief Fired After Refusing Demotion
Michael Abramowitz, the director of Voice of America, has been fired after refusing to accept what he called an “illegal” reassignment to run a...
New AI Company Composes Music For You
Users enter a prompt in plain English, such as “create a smooth jazz song with a ‘60s vibe and powerful lyrics, but relaxing for...
London’s Royal Ballet School Will End Boarding School And Full-Time Instruction For Preteens
In a statement, the school said: “(Research) has led us to conclude that, in our specific context, young dancers may benefit from more time to...
Intoxicated Raccoons And Malaria Ponds: Actors’ Tales of Shakespeare in Central Park
“Covered in blood, soaked by rain, adorned with crowns and capes: … ‘There’s nothing more magical,’ Oscar Isaac said. We spoke to actors, directors...
Yet More Untruths Uncovered In Travel Memoir “The Salt Path”
“The bestselling memoir, recently adapted into a film, was presented as a true story by its author, Raynor Winn. But a recent investigation by The...
New York Post To Launch A California Counterpart
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. plans to run the California Post as a conservative tabloid with an irreverent streak, a robust online presence and a...
Studio Museum Of Harlem Sets Firm Opening Date
“After the Museum closed its doors for renovations in 2018, it would take seven years and a $300 million capital campaign that nearly doubled its...
Chicago Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya Announces That She’s Leaving The U.S.
Said the former music director of Chicago Opera Theater, “I want to be sure that my children grow up feeling like they can always express...
Britain’s Royal Ballet And Opera Cancels Production Rental To Israeli Company
Following an open letter signed by nearly 200 staffers — a letter which explicitly referenced the house’s recent rental of its staging of Turandot...
What The Marshmallow Test Misunderstood About Children’s Development
“It wasn’t so much that we’d failed to replicate (the study’s) famous longitudinal results. It was more that our study confirmed a nagging message that...
One Of America’s Busiest Audiobook Narrators Fights For Better Pay For Her Colleagues
Julia Whelan: “The only reason I was doing 70 books a year was because that’s how many books you have to do when you’re...
Remembering Peter Sellers At 100: The World’s Greatest Comic Actor?
Christopher Guest: “I can do a voice, but Sellers was embedded in those characters, and that commitment made it very different.” Michael McKean: “I...
We’re Seeing More Male-Male Love Depicted In Ballet. Why Not More Female-Female Couples?
Lily Hyde: “They have appeared in contemporary ballets, such as Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games and Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, but are by no means at the heart of...
Ancient Gold Artifacts Stolen From Dutch Museum May Still Be Recoverable
“While the whereabouts of these gold treasures — three Dracian bracelets dating from 50 B.C.E. and the 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet — remain unknown, Dutch...
A Wave Of Closures And Cutbacks At China’s Private Art Museums
“The current crisis in China is a result of corporate backers tightening their budgets, consumers curtailing their discretionary spending, and rising costs, people working at...
The Art That Homeland Security Is Posting To Instagram? It’s Intended To Piss People...
Ben Davis: “It’s smug provocation. And there’s no particular love for classic art here; the aesthetic sensibility is totally internet-brained. These specific paintings are...
What The New Chief of New York City Opera Has Planned For Reviving The...
Constantine Orbelian, now both Music Director and Executive Director: “The main thing for me at this point is getting a home. ... I believe...
How One Arts Group Managed To Get Its Cancelled NEA Grant Restored
“Through a complicated process, Three Bone Theatre received the remaining $13,000 from its three-year, $20,000 grant to help put on a trilogy of plays that retell...
