How Do You Make An Audiobook Out Of A Graphic Novel?
Often the adaptation is in the style of a radio play, with sound design providing context for the original's dialogue. Sometimes the original visuals...
Can We Bio-Engineer Higher IQs?
Historically, eugenics and racism have operated in tandem, but neither is reducible to the other. Eugenics attributes socioeconomic inequality—both within and between racially defined...
Ray Kurzweil: We’re Very Close Now To Merging With Machines
“We will extend our minds many millions-fold by 2045,” writes Kurzweil. “We are finally getting to the steep part of a fifty-year-old exponential trend…....
Can Gen Z Save Wikipedia From AI And Chatbots?
As Wikipedia’s visibility diminishes, reduced to mere training data for AI applications, it also loses prominence in the minds of readers and potential contributors. - The...
Jesse Green On What Makes Classic Plays Classic
"There’s a reason, aside from name recognition, that they keep coming back. Though products of vastly different times and cultures, they dig so deep...
Milwaukee’s Arts Organizations Are Dangerously Dependent On Philanthropy, Finds Study
For most groups, the proportion of their budgets coming from earned income (mostly ticket sales) has fallen by a third to a half from...
Indianapolis’s Arts Agency Asks City Council To More Than Double Its Funding
For a decade until 2019, local lawmakers kept Indy Arts Council's budget stagnant at $1 million, and there were only small increases and some...
The Industry Told Gabriela Ortíz Her Music Was Too Exotic. Now It Seems To...
For most of the past 40 years, teachers told the 59-year-old Mexican composer her works were too exotic. Critics found it too big and...
Microsoft Announces Big Layoffs At Xbox
"Microsoft Gaming will lay off approximately 650 employees, or 3% of the Xbox owner’s global workforce, in a new round of eliminations following last...
For The First Time In Centuries, You Can Walk The Walls And Ramparts Of...
"Visitors to Carcassonne in south-western France will be able to walk a full 1.3 km circuit of its upper ramparts — the first time...
After 30-Year Hiatus, London City Ballet Makes Successful Return
One of director Chris Marney's plans is to spend considerable effort and time touring regional Britain, where ballet companies rarely appear. "What we're finding...
Juilliard Gets Big Gift To Span Arts Disciplines
Juilliard announced on Wednesday that it had received a $15 million gift to help expand creative work across music, dance and drama. An additional...
Self Therapy Is Killing The Memoir
In certain bodies, to write about yourself at all is already to be pathologized. But there’s a difference between creative work conferring self-knowledge on...
How The Instagram Photo Dump Is Changing Its Culture
Today’s Instagrammer no longer chooses one representative photo at a time, creating a grid of images just so; instead, users, especially those belonging to...
Why Won’t Directors Guild Of America Include Directors Of Animated Films?
"The DGA has long kept animation directors out of the guild. And the chasm between the benefits afforded to live-action directors and animation directors...
How Jimmy Carter Supported The Arts
Carter’s appreciation for the arts began at an early age and has expanded over time. In his autobiography, Why Not The Best?, he wrote that his...
200-Year-Old Brooklyn Museum Rebrands
Does introducing a new logo in vibrant colors across various forms of signage, digital campaigns and merchandise equate to a brand reset? Perhaps not...
Why Climate Protesters Chose Art Vandalism As Their Medium (And Why It Isn’t Working)
The group Just Stop Oil, which started the practice of vandalizing artworks in the name of stopping climate change when two students threw tomato...
Turns Out The Humanities Are Hard To Kill
The humanities, as it turns out, are pretty hard to kill—though the twentieth century made a good fist of it. Educational modernizers in England...
Noguchi Museum Fires Three Workers For Wearing Keffiyehs
On Sunday, September 8, at least 60 people including former workers and supporters protested outside the Queens institution and handed out flyers to inform...
Angela Gheorghiu Interrupts Another Singer Mid-Aria, Is Booed Off The Stage
During a performance of Tosca in Seoul last weekend, tenor Alfred Kim was singing an encore when Gheorghiu (who objects to encores) marched onstage,...
We May Soon Recover Lost Texts Lost For Millenia. They Could Change How We...
The problem is more complex than the fact that many texts were lost to the annals of history. Most people just see the most...
Is It Time To Change How Boards Work In Arts Organizations?
When the Orchestra needed to take decisive action amid a crisis, the CEO-Board relationship broke down very quickly and led to devastating outcomes for...
Arts Workers In Slovakia Threaten National Strike
"The ultimatum follows the culture ministry’s firing the heads of the Slovak National Theater and Slovak National Gallery in August. … The movement, known...
Study Of Philosophy Helped Democratize 19th Century America. Now Philosophy Studies Are Dying
The circumstances for studying philosophy in a college or university setting, democratised by the post-Second World War expansion of higher education, are in the...
