This Little Three-Letter Verb May Be The Most Complicated Word In The English Language
The word "run" has 645 definitions just as a verb (plus others as a noun), and it took an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer nine...
The Trump Threat To Academic Research and Publication
Pressures from the Trump administration threaten an already beleaguered research enterprise that historically has thrived on doing basic research with minimal influence from partisan politics and...
An Important New Definition Of Fair Use In The AI World
In 2020, Thomson Reuters sued Ross Intelligence for copyright infringement, alleging that Ross had scraped Thomson Reuters’ own law database, known as Westlaw, to create its database,...
The House In LA Where Music History Burned
Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical...
Pianist Maria Tipo Has Died At Age 94
"(She) married technical mastery with charming unpredictability, receiving international acclaim for her sensitive and expressive interpretations of Scarlatti’s sonatas, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the...
The New Pianos That Play Better Than Anyone
Recent years have seen a surge in options for physical customization of the piano and an enormous leap forward in the merging of acoustic...
A Look At New Visions For The British Museum
The problem is that this was really an ideas competition, with entrants expected to produce not detailed designs but rather a flavour of what...
FCC Commissioner Sics Investigation Of Comcast Over Diversity
The FCC's Brendan Carr this week leaked word to right wing propaganda mill Newsmax that he’s tasked the FCC’s enforcement bureau with launching an investigation into...
How One Regional Theater Company Was Resurrected Ten Years After Its Sudden Demise
Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) in Charlotte was founded in 1992 and won numerous regional awards; in 2014, it abruptly announced its closure shortly...
Ravinia Festival Announces Multi-Year $75 Million Renovation
"This marks the first such all-encompassing renovation since the iconic park, with its Prairie School architecture and sprawling lawn/picnic areas, opened in 1904 as...
New England Public Media Lays Off 13% Of Its Staff
"(The) public radio and television station based in Springfield, Mass. laid off 13% of its employees on Wednesday. It's the station’s second round of...
Inside The Kennedy Center, Employees Are Scared And Events Are Disappearing From The Schedule
"Several Kennedy Center staffers … described a week of chaos, fear and confusion under the new leadership. Trump’s comments 'collapsed all the nuance of...
Thomson Reuters Wins “Fair Use” Copyright Case Against AI Competitor
On Tuesday, (a) US District Court … issued a partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross...
Herzog And De Meuron Will Be Lead Architects For San Antonio Museum of Art...
"A SAMA spokeswoman said it was too early in the master planning process to confirm the overall project cost or describe any plans to...
Miami City Ballet Director Lourdes Lopez Will Step Down This Summer
"Lopez, 66, who joined the company in 2012, was originally scheduled to leave at the end of the 2026-27 season. (Her) departure ... came...
How Poker Helped Start (And Then Nearly Snuffed Out) The New Yorker Magazine 100...
The magazine's primary financial backer at its launch was one of founding editor Harold Ross's poker buddies, who was a yeast magnate. A few...
Florida Lawmakers Debate Restoring Arts Funding DeSantis Cut
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ $32 million line-item vetoes stripped away funding for local theater groups, arts festivals, museums and more, sparking outrage in Florida last year. Now, a...
Want To Accomplish Big Things? Here’s How Scientists Made The Moon A Destination
It can be easy to take our maps, images and story of the Moon for granted. But over the past six decades, our cultural...
Female Surrealists Are Finally Getting The Attention They Deserve
"Last year was the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, … so it’s unsurprising that we saw such interest in the movement. But it...
The Book Blurb Announcements, Explained
One big author and one major publisher announced within weeks of each other that they were through with the practice of blurbs, and the...
Spotify’s Illusion Of Music Discovery And Choice
You may not agree with Mood Machine that Spotify’s mixes are an existential threat to the way people discover music, but you may marvel at how...
How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt The Art Market
“If you’re spending 10 million on a work of art and you’re paying $1 million or $2 million, or even $2.5 million in tariffs because it was imported,...
Ibsen’s “An Enemy Of The People” Is Just The Play For These Times
"That’s not just because President Donald Trump has repeatedly weaponized the phrase of the title against his own critics. ... It’s also because the...
Chappell Roan’s Grammy Speech For Helping Artists Was… Naive
Roan gets respect and true appreciation for her artistry and gumption but is far too green and too uninformed to be the agent of...
The Real Problem With Trump’s Edict About Building Classical Buildings
Like its 2020 predecessor, the new order has little to do with classical architecture in any meaningful way—which itself has been decontextualized from its...
