DeepSeek AI Omits Answers About Ai Weiwei And Other Dissident Artists
Responding to a series of questions asked by Hyperallergic about dissident artists, cultural institutions in Taiwan and Tibet, and the destruction of mosques in the Xinjiang...
Simon & Schuster Will Stop Requiring Book Blurbs For Its Books
How often does a blurb from a filmmaker appear on another filmmaker’s movie poster? A blurb from a musician on another musician’s album cover?...
Two Cultural Funding Agencies Ask Oregon Legislature To Merge Them
"And the two shall become one. That’s the plan that the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust, two state agencies that overlap...
Opera Australia Chief Abruptly Resigns
Her departure comes less than six months after the abrupt exit of artistic director Jo Davies, the first female artistic director in the history...
US Copyright Office Expands Copyright Law To Include AI-Assisted Creation
The Copyright Office said it makes decisions on a case-by-case basis but clarified that it will approach such questions by examining the degree of...
Brands Are Appropriating Our Peak Cultural Moments
There’s something sinister about the way brands keep finding bigger, flashier ways to repurpose great moments in art to sell products. I guess this...
English Heritage Sites To See Layoffs And Winter-Season Closures
"Staff at English Heritage have been shocked to discover that the cash-strapped organisation is planning up to 200 redundancies and the winter closure of...
Another Evildoers-With-AI Problem: Fake Author Profiles On Social Media
Writers and agents have been finding profile pages on Facebook and Instagram which appear to be those of authors but which those authors themselves...
Musical Theatre Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” Cancelled Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations
"The musical was to have been staged at Leeds Playhouse from 11 April to 11 May before touring to Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester. …...
Frick Collection In New York Sets Official Reopening Date For This Spring
"After an over-five-year closure, New York’s Frick Collection will once again welcome the public to its Upper East Side Gilded Age mansion — now...
Major Layoffs At BBC World Service
"BBC World Service is set to axe 130 jobs as it seeks to save around £6 million for the next financial year. Planned cost-saving...
Minnesota Orchestra Posts $3.8 Million Deficit But Record Earned Revenue
That budget gap (the orchestra's fifth in six years) is due to the end of COVID-related financial assistance from the Federal government. Yet earned...
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Former Music Director Of Vancouver And Syracuse Symphonies, Is Dead At 84
He spent 40 years (1964-2004) as music director of the Tokyo Symphony, assisted the young Seiji Ozawa at the Toronto Symphony in 1968-69, and...
A Chinese Lion Dance Troupe Resists The Patriarchy
Top-level lion dancing in China incorporates acrobatics and martial arts — and has traditionally excluded women from performing. But an 80-member lion-dancing troupe called...
Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Starts Charging Admission For The First Time
What else can MCA do if its core costs have shot up 20% from 2022 to 2023, and its revenue has not increased at...
Reviving The First Known Opera By A Black American Composer
Edmond Dédé was born in 1827 to a free Black family of musicians in New Orleans. He settled and made his career in France....
The Super-Communication Technologies That Separate Us
The cost-benefit calculation is complicated and nuanced, requiring us to find a course between apocalyptic visions of civilizational decline and the naive utopianism of...
The Former Chicago 7-Eleven That Will Now Dispense Classical Music
The venue, designed by Chicago-based JDJ Architects, will be called the Checkout, a nod to the building’s former life as a 7-Eleven, and doubles...
Spotify Paid A Record $10 Billion To Music Rights Owners In 2024
Spotify’s $10 billion payout figure means that it paid music rightsholders an average of $833 million every month in 2024. - Music Business Worldwide
Superstar Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin Has Co-Authored A Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper
The paper, just published in the American Journal of Physics, derives a formula to describe the dynamics of a fictional virus that is the...
Paul McCartney And Elton John Protest Proposed Changes To UK Copyright
McCartney told the BBC that the proposed changes could disincentivise writers and artists and result in a “loss of creativity”. - The Guardian
The Small Publishers Shaking Up Africa’s Books Culture
Othuke Ominiabohs started Masobe – which means “let us read” in the Isoko language – in 2018 with a $7,000 (£5,600) loan from his...
Sotheby’s Reports Declined Sales
Sotheby’s auction sales were down 28 percent, to $4.6 billion, from $6.4 billion, but private sales were up 17 percent, climbing from $1.2 billion...
Sundance Film Festival Is Leaving Park City, Utah. What Will That Mean For The...
"The organizers have said, essentially, that the event has gotten too big for Park City. When Sundance arrives every January, it balloons the ski...
Louvre’s Decision To Move “Mona Lisa”: Misguided?
The decision, dramatically announced by Emmanuel Macron, to move the Mona Lisa to a special hygienically isolated gallery where les idiots who flock to take selfies in...
