Producers Of “The Jerry Springer Show” Look Back On What They Wrought
Says one, "Please tell me the difference between the fight I saw on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills last night and The Jerry Springer...
Staying Involved: Leonard Lauder’s Art Philanthropy Philosophy
“What museums are known for is not their architecture or their shows but ultimately their collections." But building great collections takes time, patience and...
How A Long-Ago TV Host Explained Art And The Avant Garde
Its host, Lorser Feitelson, would become the interlocutor between the avant-garde and the country’s first generation of television viewers. He was personable, pedigreed and...
The New Music Counterculture – It’s Anti-Algo, Anti-Perfection
These creators are opting not to play in the traditional music business lane (largely because they would struggle to get the rights cleared). So,...
France’s Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds Has Serious Problems, Says Government’s Top Auditor
"The Cour des Comptes has found several faults with France’s Culture Pass, which gives 18-year-olds €300 to spend on just about any cultural activity...
Kent Nagano Named Next Artistic Director Of Spain’s National Orchestra And Choir
The 73-year-old California native, currently finishing his term as general music director of the Hamburg State Opera, will succeed David Afkham as chief conductor...
This Year, Distributors And Streamers Won’t Go Near Documentaries On Sensitive Subjects
Even when they're getting excellent reviews and prizes, docs like No Other Land (about the West Bank), Union (about labor organizing at an Amazon...
Ensemble At One Of Chicago’s Leading Black Theatres Walks Out, Demands Board Chair’s Removal
"The ensemble of the 25-year-old Congo Square Theatre Company … has told the Tribune it has 'unanimously decided to not participate in any production,...
How Could MIT Buy And Build Land Art By Maya Lin And Not Tell...
The series of 11 grass-covered mounds, titled The Sound We Travel At, is a physical representation of Doppler waves. It's right in busy Kendall...
Sam Goody Is Closing Its Last Two Brick-And-Mortar Music Stores
"Since 2022, the chain’s last two stores were located in the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and the Rogue Valley Mall in...
Notre-Dame Cathedral Reveals Design For New Stained-Glass Windows
"Designs for six new stained glass windows in fire-damaged Notre-Dame cathedral were unveiled for the first time on Wednesday, with contemporary French painter Claire...
Disney’s Excellent Year At The Box Office ($2 Billion)
Disney had three of the top five films in Inside Out 2 ($652.9M), the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time Deadpool & Wolverine ($636.7M) and Moana 2 ($342M). - Deadline
Far-Right Propagandists Are Using AI-Generated Songs To Spread Hate
While the practice currently seems to be most common in Europe, it's been documented from the US to India to Australia as well. Groups...
We Live In Extreme Data — How To Make Sense Of It?
Where you are, what you’re looking at, and what you like is being tracked more or less constantly—either you’re doing it to yourself voluntarily,...
Everything We Do These Days Is Measured And Informed By Data. Does This Really...
We talk a lot these days about Big Data, those heaping stores of digitized information that, fueling search and recommendation engines, social media feeds,...
Mondrian: The Ultimate Influencer?
His entire life was built around knowing what to leave out, from both his art and his modest billets (he only ever owned a...
The Great Documentarian Of Indonesia’s Massacres Makes A Tilda Swinton Musical (Wait, What?)
Joshua Oppenheimer, who convinced participants of the 1965-66 mass executions to re-enact them for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The...
What Did The 20th Century Novel Accomplish? Anything?
The genre’s masterworks urge us to set a slower pace, savoring what each novelist puts on the table and realizing, as we push back...
Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar Diva And Grande Dame Of Spanish Cinema, Has Died At 78
While she appeared in 75 movies by directors ranging from Francisco Trueba to Guillermo del Toro, she's best known outside the Spanish-speaking world for...
Artists Ponder UK’s Proposed ‘Right to Personality’ Plan For Copyright
Decades-old copyright legislation varies by region but is generally too outdated to be reliably applied to the new challenges presented by generative A.I. This...
What Baryshnikov Has Done With His Fame
It is not absurd to imagine another world in which he might have followed that fame toward full-time Hollywood stardom, or guest appearances on...
UK Proposes Letting AI Companies Train On Copyrighted Work
Under the proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt...
Somehow, Dostoevsky Has Become A Hit On BookTok
"Since about December of last year, (the Penguin Classics little black book edition of) White Nights has been all over BookTok and its Instagram...
That Emptiness In Which You Can’t Feel Anything
If you feel empty in this way, you might find that bad news doesn’t make you feel upset, that good news doesn’t make you...
Spain Returns Art Seized By The Old Franco Regime After The Spanish Civil War
The works of art had been gathered and stored by Spain’s former government after Franco, an army general, participated in a 1936 military coup...
