Chaucer, The Master Amalgamator (And Inveterate Thief)
Not only did he take characters and stories from all walks of 14th-century English life, he borrowed phrases from Latin, French, and Italian; took...
London’s National Portrait Gallery Appoints Its First Woman Director
In 2012, Victoria Siddall rose to prominence after launching Frieze Masters, going on to become global director of the contemporary art fair, which takes place...
Theatre Folks Are Inveterate Pranksters, Onstage And Backstage
"The Broadway or West End grind, in which a cast can perform the same show eight times a week for months or years on...
Music As Protest: Louisville Kids Make Music Video To Protest School Bus Cuts
“Where My Bus At” highlights the budget cuts made to school bus routes. In April 2024, the county board of education voted to remove...
Why Christopher Marney Revived The Long-Dead London City Ballet
"I spoke to many UK venues that London City Ballet once toured to, and it seemed these days few British ballet companies are passing...
We Use Visualizations To Understand Data. But We Can Use Music Too
“Vision is one of the most obvious and direct ways to process input, but when you think about it, you use your ears a...
How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Unloved Brutalist Behemoths Of D.C.?
A few architects share ideas for cheering up forbidding concrete hulks like the FBI headquarters, Hubert Humphrey Building, and Hirshhorn Museum. Others, however, like...
Showings Of Anti-Putin Film At Venice Film Festival Abruptly Canceled
Georgian anti-Putin drama The Antique, which was due to premiere in Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), has had its screenings suspended following the issuing of an emergency...
How Urban Bush Women Manages The First Leadership Transition In Its 40-Year History
Company founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar has handed the reins to co-artistic directors Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis. "In the spirit of sankofa...
Dennis Quaid And His Perpetual Comeback
After two career collapses (one due to cocaine, one to a nervous breakdown), he has "carved out a space in Hollywood of his own,...
Library-Book-Banning Mania Has Arrived In Australia
Electors in Albany, Western Australia (about 4½ hours south of Perth) voted to remove two sex education titles, one aimed at teens, from public...
Here’s A Surprise: At Burning Man, Women Now Outnumber Men
"An estimated 49% of people who went to Black Rock City ... in 2023 identified as female, marginally higher than the 48% of attendees...
Leonard Riggio, Who Made Barnes & Noble Into A Bookstore Powerhouse, Is Dead At...
He started in 1971 by buying the Barnes & Noble name and flagship Manhattan store, acquired hundreds more outlets (including the B. Dalton chain),...
California Lawmakers Pass Bill Protecting Performers From Unauthorized AI Replicas
"AB 2642 would require explicit permission from performers (or their representatives) to use AI software to create digital replicas. … The bill will now...
Minnesota Orchestra Names A Veteran Executive As Interim CEO
"Brent Assink, former executive director of the San Francisco Symphony and past president of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, … takes over for Michelle...
How We Build Learning Over Time
When we think about what makes our minds special, we tend to focus on intelligence. But if we want to grasp reality in all...
Spotting AI Fakes: Can Art Historians Help?
One issue is that every image is worth scrutinizing as a cultural object that conveys values—but only if we can be certain about its...
How ChatGPT Is Transforming Blind People’s Relationship With Visual Art
Be My AI noted that DALL-E does not “‘see’ in the human sense; it processes data and identifies patterns within that data.” I countered,...
Themes From This Year’s Edinburgh Festivals
From climate anxiety to Gaza and the culture wars, here are some of the most talked-about shows and themes from the festival. - The...
Wrestling With Graffiti As An Artistic Intervention
This devotional, graphomaniac, filibustering dimension of graffiti haunts me. It suggests tagging as a version of call-and-response, within a city whose cacophony of advertising,...
Artists Take To Edinburgh Fringe Stages To Protest Scottish Funding Cuts
Protest messages were read out after performances, including at the Traverse, Lyceum, George Square, Summerhall and Church Hill theatres, to loud applause from audiences,...
King Charles Appoints A New Master Of The King’s Music
Errollyn Wallen succeeds Dame Judith Weir, the first woman to hold the role, who was chosen by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2014. In...
How To Write A Headline Readers Want To Click On? Keep It Simple, Finds...
"Our research … shows that simple headlines significantly increase article engagement and clicks compared with headlines that use complex language. … But importantly, we...
What Happens When Your Essential Creative Collaborator Dies?
The experience of grieving Adam was going to be braided with the thing that could bring me closest to him, which was a gift. -...
Artistic Director Fired At South America’s Leading Opera And Ballet Company, Replaced By Ballet...
The ministry of culture of Buenos Aires dismissed Jorge Tetelman as director of the Teatro Colón, and the following day hired in his place...
