Ushers Vote To Authorize Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center
"The attendants working in the Academy of Music, Kimmel Center (Marian Anderson Hall, Perelman Theater, and other venues in the complex), and the Miller...
A Star NYCB Dancer Gets Her Hearing Back
Sara Mearns, who dances with startling presence and in-the-moment authority, has been open about her struggles with mental health, but her public posts about...
Is This The Year AI Enters The Physical World?
Expanding AI beyond its digital boundary demands reworking how machines think, fusing the digital intelligence of AI with the mechanical prowess of robotics. This...
Can BAM Reinvent Itself Through AI?
On the face of it, “The Golden Key” is a digital toy you can interact with to generate wild yarns. But on a deeper...
Grace Glueck On Discovering Yourself Through Writing
The things I wrote down so urgently were not fixed thoughts projected from my brain onto the page. What I considered thought was a...
The Man Who Knew Too Much? An 18th Century Genius Who Anticipated The Digital...
Over the years, Gottfried Leibniz’s reputation continued to grow as more unpublished work came to light, some of which would make him the godfather...
Is It Really True That Men Aren’t Reading Books?
According to studies by the Pew Research Center spanning 2011 to 2021, Americans read an average of 14 books per year — likely pulled up...
Takeaways From This Year’s Golden Globes
In the past, Globe voters have been eager to put new television shows on the awards map. But not this time. And Globes voters...
Speed-Novelist: Just How Was Barry Malzberg Able To Be So Prolific?
In his peak decade, from 1967 to 1976, Malzberg wrote at least 68 novels and seven story collections along with scores of still uncollected...
Dick Wolf Built A “Law And Order” TV Franchise Powerhouse. Now He’s Taking On...
Though Mr. Wolf is finally entering streaming, the debut of “On Call” is really a moment that underscores how the streaming world — and...
The Vinyl Music Revolution Comes At Great Environmental Cost
The ongoing vinyl revival, which was perhaps truly minted in 2017, when Sony Music announced it would begin producing vinyl records for the first...
Richard Foreman, Theatre Impresario And Mysterious Playwright, Has Died At 87
“Foreman’s plays tended to be ‘peerless mini-extravaganzas’ offering ‘dizzying theatrical joys,’ Ben Brantley wrote in one 2004 Times review.” Then there was the genius grant,...
Inside The San Diego Symphony’s 104-Year-Old Organ
“The original organ mechanisms from the 1920s were made of hair sheep leather imported from England. They have been replaced with new hair sheep...
Spotify Is Simply Awful For Music
Just … wow: “The neo-payola promotional schemes; the minuscule royalties paid to artists, not to mention the royalty-free 'ghost artists'; the designation of huge...
How Do You Write, And Draw, To Keep A Baby’s Attention?
Board books: They’re really hard. Imagine a baby. “The baby has a note taped to them. The note says, 'I can’t read. I can’t...
Did A Blockchain Billionaire Squash An Article About Him Eating Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana?
According to Fortune, Justin Sun “pressured the crypto trade publication CoinDesk to retract a December 2 article by Callan Quinn that was critical of Sun’s press...
How TikTok, And Other Tech, Are Reshaping Classical Music
Big caveat, of course: “Technology enhances the concert experience, but we must ensure it doesn’t overshadow the music itself.” - Daily Cal
What The Arts Mean In The Long Run Isn’t What We Think They Do...
“Many musicians and other creative spirits feel as if they have little significance or impact in our society. The prevailing metrics of success—money, power,...
Why Are Airports Such Great Settings For Thrillers?
They’re intense places, and as we all know to our chagrin, they’re often "where your long-held plans can go awry.” - NPR
London Relaxed Its Rules About Turning Office Blocks Into Apartments, But It’s Still Slow...
“There has been a surge in applications for office-to-residential conversions since the lifting of an office space limit last March. However, architects say they...
TikTok Creators Are In Limbo, Wondering What’s Going To Happen Next
Will it be banned? “That’s the pressing question keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision that could...
The Process – And The Anti-Pigeon Devices – That Went Into Mike Leigh’s New...
Turns out the improvisational process he goes through with his actors is similar for the set designers. "I discover the story as the characters...
Animation Seems Ripe For AI, But That’s Not To Say It’s Going To Be...
Studios plan to use artists to create characters or looks - and then “fine-tune” them, owning them forever, using AI. As you might imagine,...
The Architects Were Fascists, So Should Italy Tear Their Buildings Down?
"There is no room for revisionism concerning the regime’s cruelty, but the Casa del Fascio and other buildings by Terragni and his circle show...
Is The Idea Of A Free Press Doomed In The United States?
"Journalism is not a business that responds well to the usual American capitalist imperative to treat your customers as victims to be tricked and...
