How To Protect Artists In The AI World?
The need for responsible AI approaches is becoming increasingly urgent as artists deal with serious concerns regarding copyright infringement and job security. In the...
Considering The Trump Administration’s War On Drag: Philip Kennicott
“The essence of drag is its exaggeration of gender stereotypes in a theatrical style that gives the performer permission to say outrageous, often offensive...
First Amendment Confrontation: Police In Texas Seize Five Sally Mann Photographs From Museum Exhibition
Armed with a warrant, Fort Worth police reportedly seized five photos from the exhibit and put them under lock and key—all because a few Republican officials...
OpenAI Says It Now Has An AI That Is “Really Good” At Creative Writing
That it’s experimenting with writing could suggest OpenAI feels its latest generation of models vastly improve on the wordsmithing front. Historically, AI hasn’t proven to...
50 Years Of Bob Fosse’s Extraordinarily Influential Choreography For “Chicago”
“Over the decades, Chicago’s lasting footprint on Broadway has helped make Fosse’s style of dance instantly recognizable. With its sly head tilts, specific hand gestures,...
Larry Appelbaum, Perhaps America’s Greatest Jazz Librarian, Has Died At 67
“At the Library of Congress, his employer for 44 years, he ... created a jazz film series, solicited and catalogued collections of recordings and...
Why The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Principal Trumpet Stayed Only Six Months
Esteban Batallán was lured away from the Chicago Symphony’s famous brass section, and he decided to go back. He describes the reason for his...
Hilma Af Klint’s Heir Wants To Sequester Her Work Away In A Temple
Erik af Klint, the artist’s great-grandnephew and the current chairman of her foundation, wants to see her work removed from museum exhibitions and installed...
Where U.S. Audiences Have, And Haven’t, Rebounded To Pre-COVID Numbers
Five years after the lethal coronavirus arrived, “the recovery has been uneven, but there are signs that audiences are finally coming back. Here’s a...
Guthrie Theater Will Reopen Its Third Stage For First Time Since Pandemic
“For the first time in five years, Minnesota’s largest theater will produce a work in its Dowling Studio, activating its ninth-floor third stage that...
Member Of Greece’s Parliament Vandalizes Artworks In National Gallery
“Police detained Nikolaos Papadopoulos — of the small right-wing, ultra-religious Niki party — for several hours before releasing him. … Papadopoulos and one other...
The Fight To Rescue Ukraine’s Artworks, Three Years Into The War
Some of the nation’s art heroes have been moving pieces from the embattled east of Ukraine to the western half or even abroad; others...
What If We Just Got Rid Of Art?
If the world was wretched, shouldn’t we be transforming it, not distracting ourselves from it?... What would happen if we didn’t soothe ourselves...
FCC Investigating Public Radio Sponsorships
The request is a next step in FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s investigation into whether public TV and radio stations are airing advertisements in violation of federal...
The Weird And Wonderful Noises That Choreographers Make
“Dance artists often spout rhythmic medleys of noises and counts during classes and rehearsals. In a wordless art that lacks a widely used form...
The Power Of Nothing (It’s A Mental Construct)
Our mental worlds are lively with such experiences of absence, yet it’s a mystery how the mind performs the trick of seeing nothing. How...
Who’s Choreographing What Where (A Leadership Thing)
Women choreographed 17.8% of the 891 total programs identified in the study, and 35.9% of these programs included choreographers of mixed genders. A breakdown...
How Satellite Radio Predicted The Streaming Subscription Model
Well before subscriptions became the norm for streaming media, satellite radio companies Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Radio convinced radio listeners to become radio...
We’ve Been Missing The Point Of “The Great Gatsby” For A Century
“Gatsby is a more complicated book than its pop-culture footprint suggests. It’s big enough to survive all those turgid high school essays about color symbolism...
The Enduring Allure Of Greece In Literature
For hundreds of years, we—broadly speaking, these books’ Anglophone-ish audience—have been reading too much into Greece. There were the philhellenes, like Nietzsche, who believed the ancients...
Bill Bryson: There Are Too Many Books (Blame Self-Publishing)
It is thought that about 90 per cent of self-published books sell fewer than 100 copies, although some self-publishing writers have become successful, notably Colleen Hoover....
What Does An Editor Of Contemporary Classical Music Do? Quite A Lot
“Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of...
Stage Crews Reach Union Agreement With Atlantic Theatre
The agreement will be closely scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters because the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, has...
Why So Many Musicians Don’t Have Health Insurance
Unlike in the film and television industry, where workers who jump from set to set on major projects tend to flock to health plans...
Remembering Playwright Athol Fugard
Citizenship had supplied Fugard with his mission as a writer. But he understood the difference between art and politics and resisted anyone dictating his...
