Judge In Meta AI Case: “I Just Don’t Understand How That Can Be Fair...
Authors may need to sharpen their case, which Chhabria warned could be "taken away by fair use" if none of the authors suing, including...
NEA Cancels Already-Awarded Grants As Trump Administrations Moves To Shut NEA
“It’s strange that the Trump administration is trumpeting their priorities to serve diverse America while canceling grants for our August Wilson play." - The...
Christopher Wheeldon On Pushing Story Ballets Beyond The Old Tropes
“Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want...
Trump Budget Proposals To Eliminate NEH, NEA, Etc. Etc.
The skinny budget also eliminates funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, AmeriCorps, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump...
How Tate Modern Changed London 25 Years Ago
This repurposed power station was set to become the UK’s cultural powerhouse. Hulking on a once unloved stretch of the South Bank, its 99-metre...
Getting Classical Chinese Literature Before The English-Speaking Public At Last
“The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature… was established (to provide) translations of literary works written in Chinese from the Zhou dynasty (circa 1046–256 BCE)...
Glastonbury Festival Sells Out In 20 Minutes
The general admission tickets for the world-famous event in Somerset were released at 09:00 BST on Sunday, and the festival announced on X they...
Jon Voight Is Working On A Plan To Save Hollywood. What Is It?
The exact plan that Coming Home Oscar winner Voight, whose daughter is Angelina Jolie, has prepared for Trump is unclear, but sources with knowledge of his...
Berlin Culture Official Who Presided Over Major Arts Funding Cuts Resigns
“Joe Chialo, from the conservative CDU party, had initially sought to defend the cost-saving measures but became a lightning rod for anger over the...
Why Pope Francis Pushed Along Sainthood For Architect Antoni Gaudi
If this happens, Gaudí would be the first secular architect in history to be declared a saint. - The Conversation
How Physics Is Improving Deep Learning
Research has drawn on principles of fluid dynamics to improve traffic predictions, sped up simulations of turbulence to enhance our understanding of hurricanes and...
Fantasy Versus SciFi: Where The Politics Align
Since the founding of the tiny corner of academia known as science fiction studies in the 1970s, there has been a sense that science...
Comedienne Ruth Buzzi, Mainstay Of “Laugh-In,” Is Dead At 88
“A comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, (she) scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the...
Queer Art Visible
We wanted to make clear that in many respects, trans and queer have always been with us. You can’t talk about same-sex desire without...
Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra Musicians Blame Bad Management For Shutdown
They’re blaming the orchestra’s management for what they call “over a decade of weak and shortsighted leadership.” - Fort Myers News-Press
This Year’s Tony Nominations Rewarded Risk
The most memorable offerings didn’t care a whit about product-testing strategies. What marketing genius, for instance, could have predicted that “Maybe Happy Ending,” a jazz-infused rom-com...
Sotheby’s Prepares To Auction Off Jewels Revered As Relics Of The Buddha
“The auction of the Piprahwa gems will take place in Hong Kong next week. Sotheby’s listing describes them as being ‘of unparalleled religious, archaeological and...
When Immersive Wall Street Play “Life And Trust” Closed Without Notice, Cast And Crew...
The show was staffed with early-career, non-unionized theatermakers, and they received no severance pay or other compensation when producers abruptly ended the run. When...
The City Of Austin Finally Has An Arts Department
“As of Feb. 14, the city has a real, big city-style department, the Office of Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment. After years of performers,...
Ari Emanuel Buys Frieze Art Fairs From His Own Company
“Beverly Hills sports and entertainment company Endeavor is selling contemporary art organization Frieze to a new events and experiences company launched by superagent and...
Trump Issues Executive Order Blocking All Funding For NPR And PBS
“The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies ‘to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS’ and further requires that...
“Immature”: San Francisco Symphony Management Publicly Slams Musicians Over Contract Negotiations
Just days after musicians leafleted the audience at Michael Tilson Thomas’s last-ever concerts, management released an open letter pointing out that the orchestra is...
UK Culture Secretary Rules Out Taxing Streaming Services To Fund British TV Dramas
“British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has firmly rejected proposals for a levy on streaming platforms operating in the U.K., despite recent recommendations from a parliamentary committee suggesting such...
A Brief History Of May Day In America
The roots of May Day, or International Workers Day, stretch back over a century to a turbulent and pivotal time in U.S. labor history...
How AI Is Transforming Book Publishing
Due to the advent of online self-publishing platforms, what once required a team of professionals—editors, graphic designers, and formatting specialists—can now be done with just...
