How The National Antiquities Act Has Saved Natural Wonders
They cover more than a quarter of the nation and large parts of the West. Some are crisscrossed by hiking trails and used by hunters and...
The Origin Story Of “Maybe Happy Ending”
“This intimate spectacle (was) already a hit title in Asia for years. ... The Times spoke separately with members of the musical's cast and...
The Problematic Notion Of Recovered Memories
This case launched a huge debate between memory researchers like me who argue there is no credible scientific evidence that repressed memories exist and practicing clinicians who claim that...
Two Big Seattle Theatres Join Forces
This pairing is the latest in a series of major deals between local arts and cultural organizations, including the merger of ACT Contemporary Theatre and...
Drawing Bought For $12 Might Be Renoir
There was a faint signature, the frame was high quality and the type of paper used was also a clue that it might potentially...
Check Out A Few Samplings From Joan Didion’s Archive
“The 336 boxes constituting the Didion-Dunne archive are available to researchers starting today, by appointment, and even the most cursory look through them is...
A (Sort Of) Chastened Scott Rudin Says He’s Returning To Producing Plays And Films
“He called his previous behavior, particularly toward subordinates, ‘bone-headed’ and ‘narcissistic.’ He acknowledged that he had long yelled at his assistants (‘Yes, of course’)...
Trump Executive Order Aims To Stamp Out “Improper Ideology” At Smithsonian
“President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at reshaping the Smithsonian Institution and removing what he deems ‘improper ideology’ from its museums, education and research centers and the National...
How Is The Smithsonian Set Up And Funded? Can Trump Really Force Changes There?
“The president has instructed the vice president ‘to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology’ from the institution’s entities. … But who runs and funds...
Federal Judge Appears Open To Blocking Trump’s “Gender Ideology” Restrictions On NEA Grants
“Senior U.S. District Judge William Smith, during a hearing in Providence, Rhode Island, questioned how such a policy could be reconciled with federal law,...
Sundance Is Moving To Boulder, Leaving Utah Behind
“The Sundance Film Festival will relocate to Boulder, Colorado in 2027, ending its decades-long run in Park City, Utah. The festival reached a 10-year deal with...
What Happened At Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Let’s-Beat-Up-NPR-And-PBS Congressional Hearing
“’NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical leftwing echo chambers’ said the Georgia Republican representative during her opening remarks, accusing NPR of having a...
The Original Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Say They’ll Stop Vandalizing Art
The British group Just Stop Oil said, “(Our) initial demand to end new oil and gas is now Government policy, making us one of...
Why Christopher Wheeldon Helped Bring The Story Ballet Back To Life
“I don’t want to take away from the power of the abstract because that's where we find our own imaginative ways to connect with...
Social Media Overwhelmed Us. We Got Concerned Far Too Late
Call me a Luddite, but I do not think it wise to wait until these kindly bots are in place before deciding how effective...
A New Wave Of Films That Aren’t Just On The Texas-Mexico Border, They’re From...
“In stark contrast to thrillers like Sicario, where a shootout breaks out on the El Paso bridge in broad daylight, boredom is often the worst-case...
Movie Theatres Are Still Struggling To Recover Business
North America has 5,691 fewer screens compared with pre-COVID times, according to research by media consultancy Omdia. Box office grosses haven’t rebounded either. Ticket...
Sebastian Smee: Colorado Trump Portrait Is Bad Art, But Distorted?
Distorted? He’s a bit jowly, perhaps, but I — “even I?” — think it’s a decent resemblance. Still, I agree with the president that...
Trump Demands Congress Defund Public Radio And Television
“Republicans, don’t miss this opportunity to rid our Country of this giant SCAM, both being arms of the Radical Left Democrat Party,” he wrote...
The Future Of Streaming TV? Probably A Lot Like The Past Of Cable
“Deloitte predicts that the industry will shift away from standalone subscription services towards aggregation, similar to traditional pay TV packages. SVOD platforms need aggregators as they...
Are We Headed For A New “Dark Ages”?
If Russia, China, and the United States all sport various shades of totalitarianism, and Europe fractures over it, the world may very well enter...
Viral Trend: AI Image Update Floods Internet With Studio Ghibli-ized Images
On social media, users have shared multiple examples of Ghibli-style images produced by OpenAI’s new image generator. - Variety
Court Rules That Music Created By AI Can’t Be Copyrighted. But This Doesn’t Settle...
“Based on the fundamental principles of copyright, the current state of fast-evolving technology, and the information received… the Copyright Office concludes that existing legal...
Living Legends Of Avant-Garde Theatre: The Wooster Group At 50
“Classic writers — Chekhov, Racine, Eugene O’Neill, Gertrude Stein — have been resurrected in conversation with a tumultuous, shape-shifting present for an astonishing 50...
Last Week’s AI Image Leap Reignites Copyright Fears
OpenAI’s and Google’s latest tools make it easier than ever to re-create the styles of copyrighted works — simply by typing a text prompt....
