The Successor To The Corporation For Public Broadcasting
The wind-down of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has given birth to a new independent, nonprofit organization that looks to fill some of the...
For The First Time, A Male Dancer Plays The Evil Fairy In New York...
In 2023, principal Taylor Stanley asked management if they’d permit a male-identifying dancer to play Carabosse; they said no. This year, they said no...
Australia’s First New City In 100 Years
The masterplan forms one of Australia's largest urban development projects and, once complete, will be the country's first major city built in over a...
America’s Richest Humanities Funder (And Its Implications)
Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them? - The Atlantic
A Dawning Recognition About AI And Music
Many worry that a kind of “canned” creativity will take over much of what originates from real people today, pushing a broad swath of...
How Minneapolis’s Theater Community Has Been Dealing With The ICE Occupation
It hasn’t been easy: some artists are scared to come to the theater, as are many audience members, and some shows have had to...
Where The Power Lies: Institutions Versus Networks
Institutions foster cooperation by rewarding good behaviour and punishing rule-breakers. Yet they themselves depend on cooperative members to function. We haven’t solved the cooperation...
Scientists Look Inside The Brain Of A Musician While He’s Playing
What happens in a performer’s brain while playing? Traditional brain-imaging tools like functional m.r.i. (f m.r.i.) require subjects to lie motionless in a scanner....
AI Companies Are Eating Higher Education
A.I. companies are increasingly exerting outsize influence over higher education and using these settings as training grounds to further their goal of creating artificial...
Is An Organized Ring Running Online Smear Campaigns In Hollywood?
“This clandestine smear machine seemingly connects some of the most talked-about scandals of recent years. … (Figures are) targeted by mysteriously operated websites that...
Playwright Mark Ravenhill (“Shopping And F***Ing”) Is Directing Strauss’s “Salome”. Too Obvious A Choice?
“You know, when I said I was going to do Salome a couple of people told me that this was the perfect opera for me because...
Cees Noteboom, One Of Europe’s Most Important Postwar Writers, Is Dead At 92
“A Dutch novelist, travel writer and journalist, (he) was lauded for his insights into European history and culture and often tipped as a possible...
More Kennedy Center Woes: Fundraising Is Reportedly A Mess
According to several staffers (speaking anonymously), senior vice president of development Lisa Dale — best friend of Kari Lake and a former TV host...
London’s National Gallery, Facing $11.1 Million Deficit, Announces Staff-Wide Buyout Scheme And Cuts
“In the face of an £8.2 million deficit in the coming year, … initially there will be a ‘voluntary exit scheme’ available to all...
Alleged Massive Ticket Fraud Scheme At Louvre; Police Arrest Nine Suspects
“The Paris prosecutor's office on Thursday said that nine people were being detained as part of an investigation into a suspected decade-long, 10 million...
BBC To Cut Hundreds Of Millions From Budget
“Staff at the BBC were told about plans to cut about a tenth of its costs over the next three years in a conference...
The “Heated Rivalry” Language Coach Explains How She Taught Connor Storrie Such Good Russian
Storrie, who plays hockey star Ilya Rozanov in the hit miniseries, comes from West Texas and studied Russian only briefly in high school, yet...
What Happens When We Fill Every Waking Moment With Information
From the jarring morning alarm to the podcast we listen to on the way to work; from the constant murmur of the office to...
A Theater Company Of Ukrainian Veterans Wounded In The Russian War
Some have lost an arm, others their legs, yet others their eyesight or voice. They’ve spent a year rehearsing a parody of Virgil’s Aeneid....
Study: Reading To Children Improves Their Social Skills
I’m a neuroscientist with four children, and I wondered whether children might be losing more than just the pleasure of listening to books read aloud. In...
Musical Protest In The Era Of Gaza
Gaza showed how power brokers from the White House on down seem eager for pretexts to punish dissent in ways that create a chilling...
Turns Out, AI Prefers Human Content To Its Own
This is the AI search paradox: The more AI-generated content exists, the more valuable human thinking becomes. - Fast Company
Australia’s Great Theatrical Trilogy Is Being Staged Complete For The First Time In 40...
Playwright Ray Lawler’s most famous work, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1955), was a turning point in Australian theatre history. In the 1970s, Lawler...
Requiem For One Of The All-Time Great Book Sections
The book section you really wanted to get your hands on was the Washington Post Book World. To put it bluntly, you read the Times Book...
The People Who’ve Gotten Obsessed By Audiobooks
Since my own fandom has grown, I’ve noticed, at least anecdotally, many more friends and acquaintances talking about their love for audiobooks, not just...
