Together: Inside The Sonia Friedman-Hugh Jackman-Ian Rickson Low-Cost Theatre Project
While the actors are high-profile, the production costs are kept down: small casts, minimal sets, simple tech, smaller Off-Broadway venue. A quarter of the...
Cambodia Bans Thai Films And TV
“Cambodia escalated its cold war with Thailand on Friday when it announced a ban on Thai movies and TV shows and a boycott of...
Is Art Basel Being Overshadowed By Its Own Spinoffs?
For decades it was the contemporary art world’s do-not-miss fair, but the Swiss mother-ship now faces competition from Art Basel events in Qatar, Hong...
Audience Members Explain Why They Went To L.A. Opera Despite Protests, Troops, And Curfew
Steven Lass: “L.A. is not scary. You could be in a bad place at the wrong time, but that can happen anywhere.” Jason Roblee: “They...
With Its Own Building Closed For Renovations, Pompidou Center Moves Into Newly-Restored Grand Palais
The Beaux-Arts landmark on the Champs-Elysées, built for the Paris Universal Exhibition (World’s Fair) in 1900, has been renovated for the first time in...
One Of Philadelphia’s Biggest Arts Funders, Left Homeless By UArts Collapse, Has New Home
“The Barnes Foundation will be the new home for The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a major funder of local arts programming, after...
Indoor Skydiving — Not Only Is It Really A Thing, It’s Turning into A...
In glass-sided vertical wind tunnels, powerful fans shoot air upward at approximately the speed a human body would fall from an airplane. …But over...
Alt-Weeklies Are Not, In Fact, Dead (Despite The Long Casualty List)
The many postmortems after The Village Voice closed in 2017, plus the disappearance of alt-weeklies in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Baltimore, the Bay Area, and...
What AI Art Looks Like When It Hasn’t Trained On Artists’ Work
Depending on your perspective, Broad’s art is either a pioneering display of pure artificial creativity, a look into the very soul of AI, or...
AI Bots Are Scouring Our Museum and Library Collections. Is Our Culture Being Stolen?
"For example, one respondent’s online collection included a semi-private archive that normally received a handful of visitors per day. That archive was discovered by...
How California Became The Home Of Innovation For Music Technology
San Francisco ‘60s utopian counterculture, psychedelic drugs, defying authority, breaking rules, and a general sense of severing from the past for a brighter future...
Some Broadcast TV Series Are Getting Impressive Viewer Numbers On Streaming For Weeks After...
“The 35-day figures for the 2024-25 season show that for series that originate on broadcast or cable networks, five weeks of streaming can grow a show’s...
How Medieval Monks Spread Culture And Learning
The importance of monasteries for the emergence of the Renaissance can hardly be overstated. Their number increased many times over from the sixth to...
What, Exactly, Defines Real Creativity?
What is the difference between great and mediocre art? Why do some songs, poems, and paintings move us profoundly, while others—even if they impress...
Use Of AI In Movies, TV, Becoming Widespread
Even amid widespread vocal pushback against generative artificial intelligence, industry leaders say its use in film and TV is slowly becoming mainstream. More filmmakers...
From Atlanta To Savannah To Valdosta, Orchestras In Georgia Seem To Be Thriving
Indeed, many of them report that they’re having larger audiences and healthier finances than before COVID. The AJC reached out to ten orchestras of...
Our Notions Of Copyright May Be Standing In The Way Of Creativity
Who, exactly, owns the outputs of a generative model? The user who crafted the prompt? The developer who built the model? The artists whose...
How Our Reading Is Changing
Plenty of people still enjoy traditional books and periodicals, and there are even readers for whom the networked age has enabled a kind of...
How AI Can Refocus History
Like most people who work with words for a living, I’ve watched the rise of large-language models with a combination of fascination and horror,...
Bringing The Plants To Life At Philly’s Soon-To-Open Calder Sculpture Garden
Calder Gardens will be a stylized oasis with woodlands, wildflower-filled prairie meadows, and rivers of grasses running through it — all carefully laid out...
Why The French Government Withdrew An AI Video It Released Celebrating The Nazis’ Withdrawal...
“The problem was that authorities did not check the video for historical accuracy. In a scene of Parisians jubilantly celebrating the 1944 end of...
How The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Got Their Pay Quintupled
“They will also be paid more for their appearances outside of cheering for the Dallas Cowboys. It’s a happy ending to a grueling season and...
Here’s The Early Post-Tony Awards Fallout On Broadway
Sunset Boulevard has seen its weekly gross up more than $400,000 to $1.7 million. Purpose and Oh Mary! had grosses rise by well over...
Actor Hits Tyler Perry With $260 Million Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Derek Dixon, who appeared in 85 episodes of Perry’s BET series The Oval, alleges that Perry used his power to assault, harass, and exploit...
Iran Closes Its Museums And Orders Artifacts Transferred To Safe Storage
“As the conflict with Israel continues to escalate, Iran has closed its museums and cultural heritage sites until further notice, according to local news reports....
