More Turmoil And Staff Departures At New York’s 92NY Over Gaza War
Last October, the entire staff of the organization's poetry center quit after an author's live talk was canceled after he signed a petition calling...
San Francisco Symphony Chorus Authorizes Strike Ahead Of Thursday’s Season Opener
"According to AGMA, 100% of the paid choristers voted in favor of the authorization, with 98% of eligible members participating. Additionally, 81% of the...
Even More Cuts At New York Public Radio
Out of 302 staffers, 14 were laid off and 12 left voluntarily; programming cuts are being made on WNYC, classical station WQXR (including the...
San Antonio Philharmonic Plagued By Board And Staff Turnover
"The resignation, on the day before the opening concert of the season, of CFO Sylvia Romo, hired by Executive Director Roberto Treviño in January,...
London City Ballet Resurrected
Christopher Marney talked to regional theaters around Britain to make sure there was demand for ballet. (There is!) And he discovered that no one...
This Year’s Booker Prize Shortlist
Five of the six-strong shortlist are women, with authors from five countries represented, including the Netherlands for the first time. - BBC
Why Playing Is A Key To Creativity
Studies with creative writers and physicists reveal that about a fifth of their most important ideas occur when they’re mind-wandering, not focused on a...
The Two Biggest Threats: Climate Change And AI
I would argue that climate change and advanced AI are the only two risks where parts of their probability curve include singularities where change...
Why “Shogun” Became Such An Emmy-Winning Hit
The 1975 novel of the same name by James Clavell inspired a similarly lauded mini-series in 1980. But the current telling is different in...
Why Do Some Composers Have Long Dry Spells?
Research on the creativity trajectories of eminent composers has revealed a number of factors that affect productivity over a career. These include the ages...
Sales Of Vinyl, CDs Keep Rising
The interesting thing is that the CD comeback seems to be largely the work of younger consumers. 43% of CD buyers are under 35....
The Bigger Role Music Is Playing In This Year’s Elections
As a scholar of music’s role in American politics and patriotism, I’ve never seen music assume as much electoral importance as it has in recent...
Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck In Our Heads?
Scientists don’t fully understand why earworms are so hard to shake. But certain songs are more likely than others to set up shop in our...
The Movie Business Is Feeling – Perhaps Understandably – Apocalyptic These Days
"Apocalypse is not always world-historical. Our lives are full of personal apocalypses; our nations experience them repeatedly, often in times of great distress. We...
Amid Multiple Allegations Of Sexual Abuse, Screen Adaptations Of Neil Gaiman’s Work Paused Or...
The list is grim (not nearly as grim as the list of women who have accused the popular author, of course). Dead Boy Detectives:...
Tito Jackson, Original Member Of The Jackson 5, Has Died At 70
“Jackson played guitar, sang and, of course, danced his way into homes worldwide as the Jackson 5 became an international sensation in the late...
Famous Feminist Harvard Square Mural At Risk
Joyce Kozloff’s homage to New England arts “features hundreds of interlocking hand-painted tiles containing scenes from New England’s landscape and motifs referencing the region’s...
This Rip-Roarer Of A Farce Has Lasted For Ten Years On London’s West End
The Play That Goes Wrong “was first performed at The Old Red Lion, a 60-seat fringe theatre in Islington, London, with the writers not...
The Historian Who Understood Immediately That Putin’s Invasion Was A Threat To Ukraine’s Cultural...
“Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens of museums across Ukraine’s frontline – packing, recording, logging and counting...
The Memes That Could Start – Or Perhaps End – Wars
“Digital disinformation is a growing shadow industry. It thrives because of the weak enforcement of content-moderation policies, the increasing influence of social-media figures as...
Documentary Filmmakers Are Ready To Have The AI Discussion
Hm: “Rather than rejecting the use of generative AI outright, the group encourages consideration based in four overarching principles: the value of primary sources,...
AI Chatbots Aren’t Great For Much, But They Might Know This One Weird Trick
That trick is getting people who believe in conspiracy theories to find some exits out of their internet-driven rabbit holes. Importantly, recent “studies suggest...
Disney And DirecTV End Their Dispute
At least for now, customers of satellite TV won’t be deprived of college football, The Bear on Hulu, or another rewatch of Inside Out...
Was Last Night The Time For The Super Emmy To Make Its Return?
After all, who wouldn’t have enjoyed seeing The Bear face off against Shōgun, or The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki go up against True Detective’s Jodie...
Mia Farrow Tests Positive For COVID, So An Associate Director Goes On Broadway For...
The play - The Roommate - opened on Thursday with Farrow and Patti LuPone, but on Saturday, Farrow tested positive. Actor and associate director...
