Researchers Use AI To Write New Moliere
More than 350 years after his death, the 17th-century dramatist has been revived after scholars at the Sorbonne University in Paris used artificial intelligence to help...
Inside The Ransomware Attack On Education
Hackers who had previously targeted Google and Ticketmaster had purposely chosen now, when college finals are happening, to threaten Instructure, the company that makes...
AI Is Forcing Architecture Firms To Rethink How They Operate
Artificial intelligence has made its way into almost every corner of professional workflows, prompting the architectural industry to rethink how it works. To adapt...
Two Years After UArts Collapsed, Its Endowment Is Still Tied Up In Court
“Many parties, including colleges that accepted UArts students and a charitable trust that had funded more than half of the endowment, have been vying...
Study: Participating In The Arts Slows Biological Aging
The findings are the first to show that both participating in arts activities and attending events, such as viewing an exhibition, lead to people...
Will AI Make College Unnecessary?
The pressures on higher education seem extraordinary, even to someone like me, who is generally convinced that real change is rare, perhaps especially when...
Report: Humanities Department Chairs Are Pessimistic About The Field’s Future
Humanities chairs—anxious about increasing political interference, declining enrollments and students’ skepticism toward the value of humanities degrees—are largely pessimistic about the future of their...
Critic Rex Reed, 87
“Reed’s reviews, as well as his stylishly written profiles of Hollywood and Broadway stars …, moved beyond the bland and laudatory, offering candid and...
Theatre Cinemacasts And Livestreaming Don’t Discourage In-Person Attendance: Study
“Indigo’s report (for Britain’s National Theatre) states that ‘there is very little evidence that filmed theatre reduces in-person attendance of theatre overall’ and that...
Chicago Sinfonietta’s “Pause” In Activities Blindsided Some Of Its Musicians
“The approximately 60 instrumentalists had a four-year contract with the orchestra that was due to end on Aug. 31, and they do not know...
The City Where The Arts Are Funded By Cigarette Taxes
“Cuyahoga County, home to Cleveland, is thought to be the only place in the country where a tax on cigarettes goes to arts organizations....
What Academics Found When They Examined A Guaranteed-Basic-Income-For-Artists Program
“As researchers who study artists, cultural work and public policy, we evaluated this (New York State) program to see whether it achieved its stated goals....
Visitors Get A Rare Closeup Look At Ceiling Murals By Klimt
The 10 paintings were done by the young Gustav Klimt and his brother at Vienna’s Burgtheater from 1886-1888. They’re currently getting a cleaning, and...
Dudamel Takes The New York Philharmonic Uptown To Play Salsa
As part of the lead-in to his formal assumption of the music director title, the Dude got the Phil together with the Spanish Harlem...
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My introduction of a concert of piano music performed by New England Conservatory students on April 14, 2026 in Jordan Hall, Boston.
This concert is...
Three Wildly Different Accounts On Selling Art
Three recently published books give us some perspective on the selling of art: a long-view history going back to the Middle Ages; a memoir...
My Year Of Obsessive Listening To Keith Jarrett
By mid-October, I finally had something close to a single aphorism about Jarrett, an inversion of a half-remembered Wordsworth definition of the vocation of a...
LA’s Family Businesses That Built The Film Industry Are Dying
From florists to prop rentals to catering and beyond, production services and craft businesses are the hub and spoke of L.A.’s film and TV...
Report: Museums Have Major Building Issues
Roughly 85 percent of museums across the country are dealing with deferred maintenance or major repair needs. Even more concerning, about 77 percent say...
Warner Music And Paramount Make Deal To Make Movies Of Musicians
The partnership will see the companies develop movies drawing on the lives and music of WMG‘s roster of artists and songwriters. - Music Business Worldwide
The New New Thing: Trend Simulation
You’ve fallen prey to “trend simulation”: the marketing tactic of paying people online to post opinions they don’t necessarily hold, endorsing music they don’t...
Denyce Graves’ Opera Afterlife
Graves is a perfect avatar of everything the Trump administration seeks to eradicate, a fact that gave her swan song an even more sentimental...
A24 Has A Hip Theatre, Hot New Restaurant, And A String Of Indie Hits....
Renowned as much for its taste as for its marketing acumen, the 13-year-old studio has developed a cult following not just for its films...
Hollywood Insider: It’s The Worst It’s Ever Been
If you are a lower or mid-level television writer right now, you are not failing. You are navigating a market that has structurally reduced...
Warner Music Earnings Surged To $1.7B In First Quarter
WMG saw its quarterly global company-wide revenues reach USD $1.732 billion (across recorded music, music publishing, and other activities). Total revenue was up 12.1% YoY at constant currency. -...
