Understanding Popularity Through Taylor Swift’s Song Construction
Swift is increasingly taken seriously in the halls of academia. A number of universities offer courses dedicated to Swift, but typically not to her...
Why, After Years Of Progress, Have Women Playwrights Lost The Spotlight?
The low representational numbers for women are difficult to square. By various measures (including the numbers of women graduating from degree programs in the...
Perusing The 5,000-Odd Goodies In The Sondheim Archive At The Library Of Congress
“Among them are hundreds of music and lyric sketches of Sondheim’s well-known works as well as drafts of songs that were cut from shows...
In The Age Of Facial Recognition, What Does Privacy Even Mean?
No one knows exactly how the system obtains its matches. There is an entire field in AI known as “mechanistic interpretability” that is attempting...
American Library Association’s New Plan: Focus On Advocacy And Activism
The plan addresses national policy, library legislation, and local connections. “While libraries serve as a cornerstone of democracy the world over, we operate within...
Use of AI In Literary Translation Unsettles Publishing Industry
“As more companies explore AI literary translation, the rapid progression of the technology and what that could mean for the future has divided the...
The Enduring Allure Of Puzzles
The problem with a competitive approach to puzzles is that you take what is intended as a soothing and distracting pastime and quietly hitch...
The Prolific Writer Phenomenon
Prolific writers are simultaneously envied and dismissed, admired and snarked about. There is the sense that a writer can write too much, that whatever...
Idea: Replace NEA, NEH With A National $5 Campaign?
Through small contributions from Americans who care about their museums, arts organizations, and libraries, a national fund could be built that provides steady, apolitical...
No, Public Broadcasting In The U.S. Is Not Like Government-Run News Media In Dictatorships....
“In state-run media systems, a government agency hires editors, dictates coverage, and provides full funding from the treasury. Public officials determine — or make...
NPR Will Reduce Its Budget By $8 Million To Help At-Risk Local Stations
National Public Radio will cut its budget by about $8 million in order to provide that money to member stations most impacted by last...
Republicans Propose Renaming Kennedy Center’s Opera House After Melania Trump
The proposal was introduced by Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee as part of a spending bill for the Department of the Interior,...
Harvard Publisher Abruptly Cancels Journal Issue Devoted To Palestine
On 9 June, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the journal’s publisher, abruptly canceled the release. In an email to the issue’s contributors, the publisher...
Can Trump Really Eliminate The National Endowment For The Arts? Here’s What Experts Say
Opinions differ over whether Trump or any president could make the NEA (or NEH) cease to exist without an act of Congress, but if...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Is Shutting Down Its Folklórico Program
The company will continue operating its Mexican traditional dance programming and instruction until the end of this year. - Aspen Public Radio
Andres Serrano Wants The Next U.S. Pavilion At The Venice Biennale To Be A...
Yes, the photographer still best known for the 1987 image of a crucifix in a jar of urine that made him one of the...
There’s A Billionaire Funding A New Opera House In Hamburg. The Problem Is Where...
The donor: 88-year-old Klaus-Michael Kühne. His family’s company, Kühne + Nagel, is one of the world’s largest logistics firms, and collaborated with the Nazi...
“South Park” Guys End Their Battle With Paramount With A $1.5 Billion Streaming Deal
“Paramount agreed to buy the global streaming rights (to) South Park (for) the company's digital service, Paramount+, for the first time in the U.S....
France’s Culture Minister To Stand Trial For Alleged Corruption In Previous Post
Prosecutors allege that Rachida Dati, who was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, accepted €900,000 in lawyer’s fees between 2010 and...
Trump Will Pull US Out Of UNESCO For Second Time
“’Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States,’ State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement. (She)...
People Keep Eating Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 Million Banana
The notorious banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall, titled Comedian, debuted in 2019 at Art Basel Miami Beach, where a visitor walked into the gallery and ate the fruit....
Report: Arts Programming Is Difficult To Find On Media Platforms
The report notes that "programmes about the arts, international issues, religion and belief were not readily available, prominent or discoverable, particularly on the platforms...
The Difficult Birth Of The Fokine/Ravel “Daphnis et Chloé” At Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Mikhail Fokine’s idea for a ballet on the Greek myth was summarily rejected at Russia's Imperial Ballet. Sergei Diaghilev, however, was happy to take...
So Far, While The US Government Is Cutting Arts Funding, States Are Maintaining Theirs
“We’re in an uncertain fiscal environment for state governments overall, but it is encouraging to see that 29 states increased their funding for their...
Senate Hears Authors Protesting Wholesale Ingestion Of Their Work By AI Companies
“Today’s hearing is about the largest intellectual property theft in American history,” Sen. Josh Hawley said. - Washington Post
