New Release Adds PoemsWhat AI Has to Say About Shadow Words
According to AI: "Jan Herman was inspired to create these deformed sonnets by a desire to challenge conventional notions of poetry and to express himself under what he saw as 'duress and necessity.' Their uniqueness lies in the evocative and sometimes elusive content where the poems become reflections on selfhood, transience, and perception, This approach allows him to use the sonnet label while subverting expectations, making his work feel both familiar and radically new."
UK’s Broadcasting Regulator Says Public Service TV Is Becoming An “Endangered Species”
“A report by Ofcom warns that UK-focused programming made by the British public service broadcasters (PSBs) – the BBC, ITV and Channels 4 and...
We’re Living Longer. But Our Living Hasn’t Caught Up
Our lifespans have expanded, but our health spans—the number of years we live with mental sharpness, physical independence, and emotional well-being—has not kept pace....
The Enduring Notion Of Libraries
What made libraries so exciting? They were hardly novelties. Roman writers like Cicero and the two Plinies assembled rich collections of books in their...
Why Is Everything Around Us So Ugly?
Despite more advanced manufacturing and design technologies than have existed in human history, our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and...
Los Angeles Times Owner Plans To Put The Newspaper On The Stock Market
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the pharma billionaire who bought the L.A. Times in 2018 (and was seen as a savior at the time but no longer),...
98-Year-Old Conductor Herbert Blomstedt Gets The “CBS Sunday Morning” Treatment
“Herbert Blomstedt is still conducting major symphony orchestras around the world at the age of 98. And as correspondent Martha Teichner reports, he plans...
Nonprofit Files International Criminal Court Case Against Russia For Plundering Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage
“For Ukraine, For Their Freedom and Ours!, a French nonprofit, has filed a case with the International Criminal Court (in the Hague), accusing Russia of the ‘systematic,...
Lyricist Alan Bergman, Who Co-Wrote Hit Songs, TV Themes, And Film Scores, Has Died...
“Blending Tin Pan Alley sentiment and contemporary pop, the Bergmans” — Alan and his wife, Marilyn (who passed in 2022) — “crafted lyrics known...
San Francisco’s Flagship Art Museums Lay Off 5% Of Staff
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, umbrella organization for the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, is eliminating 12 positions. A statement explained...
Donald Trump Sues The Wall Street Journal And Rupert Murdoch for $10 Billion
“Donald Trump sued Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters on Friday over an explosive report that the president wrote...
Minnesota Orchestra’s New CEO: Isaac Thompson Of Oregon Symphony
“Isaac Thompson has been named president and chief executive officer of the Minnesota Orchestra, returning to his home area after two years of holding...
The Visa Process For Artists To Enter The US Is Capricious And Unpredictable
This summer, five artists — Yumzhana Sui from Buryatia, Michel Lafleur from Haiti, Boluwatife Victoria Lawal and Samuel Olayombo from Nigeria, and Patrick Ruganintwali...
Our Obsession With “Wellness” Has Gotten Seriously Distorted
There’s the softer version of wellness, one characterized by some combination of smoothie consumption and aspirational TikTok videos. Then there are the more hard-line...
Valery Gergiev Concert In Rome Called Off After Outcry Of Protests
The cancellation came after more than 16,000 people, including Nobel laureates, Italian and international politicians and activists, signed a letter addressed to De Luca...
The Grand Ole Opry At 100: An Extraordinary Institution That Powers An Industry
Any given night, the lineup may include mainstream country stars of the present and the distant past, bluegrass bands, gospel vocal groups, singer-songwriters, hotshot...
Millions Of Scientific Research Papers Are Being Published, Overwhelming The System
Unhelpful incentives around academic publishing are blamed for record levels of retractions, the rise in predatory journals, which publish anything for a fee, and the emergence of...
A Robot That Analyzes Paintings And Paints
"If you look at one of our works randomly on the street, you wouldn't be able to say that's made by a robot, but...
Did Christian Marclay Have Only One Good Idea?
The Clock, a 24-hour, MoMA-headlining video-clock, has enjoyed a rare Barbenheimer blockbuster status in the art world. It’s a real-time video, edited from thousands of...
Where Defunding Public Broadcasting Will Really Matter
Resistance from Murkowski and other lawmakers from rural states exposed an uncomfortable truth about federal funding for public media stations: Rural stations — often...
Donors Withdraw Support From Museum After DeSantis Assigns It To A College
Donors are reportedly planning to pull support from, or have already severed ties with, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art following its...
Have We Amused Ourselves To Death Yet?
Neil Postman, who died in 2003, predicted that America wasn’t trending toward existence under the boot of totalitarianism, as in George Orwell’s “1984,” but...
Is There Cultural Resonance In Silenced Languages?
Does silence have its own language, I wonder? And if it does, what is it? Is it that of benumbed Russians, lost to resurrected,...
A Movie About Modigliani! And Johnny Depp! So What Could Go Wrong?
Johnny Depp’s new film Modi: Three Days on the Wings of Madness explores the artist’s struggle to sell his work, and the tension that existed between...
What Price Culture? Governments Reassess
From the role of large-scale cultural events like the European Capital of Culture to the so-called “Bilbao effect” (where a new cultural site is thought to spark revitalisation and economic...
