Is The Historical Performance/Period Instrument Movement Still Controversial?
“Nearly half a century on, although performances on period instruments (let alone fortepianos) are hardly the norm, historically informed performance has increasingly moved toward...
Study: UK Teachers Report Decline In Student Cognitive Skills Because Of AI
Two-thirds said they had observed the decline among children who they also said no longer felt the need to spell because of voice-to-text technology....
Wallace Shawn On Reviving His Monologue “The Fever” In The Trump Era
“When I did it before, nobody was really explicitly saying the opposite of what I was saying. I was attacking implicit assumptions, unthought-through assumptions...
Why You Should Break Up With Your Kindle
The Kindle ecosystem is perhaps the apotheosis of this shift. One Guardian reporter found Amazon had recorded every title, highlight and page turn on...
Trump’s Plans For His Presidential “Library” Pretty Much Says It All
It’s hard to imagine a more finely tuned machine than the Trump Presidential Library, a glass-walled Miami tower whose video renderings were released by...
NYT Fires Freelancer For Using AI In Review. But What Really Is The Issue...
As a literary critic and scholar, I believe the deeper question isn’t whether or not critics should do more to hide their use of...
Denver’s Arts District Is Thriving. Here’s Who Keeps It Running And How.
“As of January, the RiNo Art District has split from the business and infrastructure groups it once operated alongside. Now, three separate entities share...
Major Years-Long Renovation Of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water Complete
Despite several previous conservation campaigns, a carefully executed programme of works targeting its roofing, glazing systems, and masonry envelope was necessary. - Dezeen
Why Bach’s Music Is Indestructable
Bach never knew the modern piano or its flattened-out tuning, so any pianist who plays the Well-Tempered Clavier on a Steinway is making a...
Tennessee Library Director Fired Over Refusal To Move Gender-Themed Books
She was fired for her refusal to remove more than 100 books that discuss gender identity or contain violence from the children’s shelves. -...
University Partnership Gives This Ballet Company’s Dancers 80% Off Tuition
After being in the company for a full year, any full-time member of Boston Ballet can take courses toward a degree from Northeastern University,...
University Of Syracuse Cuts Almost 100 Programs
In all, 93 of the 460 academic programs at the school will be closed or paused, meaning that no new students will be able to enroll...
Hollywood’s Difficulty In Grappling With What AI Will Do To It
AI isn’t just another flash-in-the-pan techno-bauble, like VR headsets, the “metaverse,” or NFTs. It’s actually revolutionary. The insistence betrays the measure of anxiety one might expect...
Why Being A Writer Is No Longer A Profession
Today, by some estimates, the average freelance journalist is paid around $0.25 to $0.50 per word, and at the highest-paying glossies, rates have hovered...
“The Dawn Of The Three-Minute Heist”: Considering The Fallout From The Latest Museum Robbery
“How and why is this incident different from the Louvre theft, which targeted the royal jewels? How will investigations play out? Perhaps most importantly,...
The “South Park” Guys Have A Successful AI Company. They Named It Deep Voodoo.
“If a studio or production house needs something shape-shifting or face-switching, chances are they’ll call Parker & Stone. And chances are something strange —...
Last Year Rome’s Cinecittà Studios Hemorrhaged Money. Hollywood Has Saved Them.
“Italy’s Cinecittà Studios are back in the black with a small but significant €1.1 million ($1.2 million) operating profit for the fiscal year of 2025,...
Jeremy O. Harris Was Quite Productive During His Three Weeks In A Japanese Prison
In a paywalled essay in Vanity Fair, the playwright/actor/screenwriter/impresario writes that he read 23 books, finished an outline he owed to a film studio,...
Lara St. John Says She Paid No Damages To Settle Jonathan Carney’s Defamation Lawsuit
“No monies were paid to settle the litigation or to secure Mr. Carney’s signature,” the violinist wrote. “There has never been a personal campaign...
Doing the Right Thing With Nonprofit Arts Organizations: “Like Walking in High Heels Through...
...while the attention to charity has evolved, the nonprofit arts behemoth class has not.
America’s First Fully Nonprofit Newspaper Is Dropping Its Online Paywall
“The Salt Lake Tribune is in a unique position among American newspapers, having converted to nonprofit status in 2019. In the years since, it’s achieved financial stability and...
2,500-Year-Old Golden Helmet Stolen Last Year Has Been Found
A gang of robbers used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in the northern Netherlands in January of last year. They smashed display cases and...
Lego Set To Release Its Largest-Ever Set, Of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia In Barcelona
News of the upcoming set, part of the company’s Architecture series, was leaked by a long-time leaker known as Chief Wiggum, whose predictions have proven...
Compelling Video Games About Managing Stores???
Retro Rewind is the latest in a category called “store simulators”—games that basically create bottled versions of hourly-wage drudgery. Set in the ’90s, the game...
50 Years Ago, This Fairuz Song Became Lebanon’s Great Anthem Of Hope. Now The...
Through year after year and decade after decade of turmoil, Fairuz’s “Bahebak Ya Lebnan” (“I Love You, Lebanon”) inspired hope and pride in the...
