YouTube Is Now Beating Netflix In The Streaming Wars
YouTube made up nearly 10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the U.S. in May, according to Nielsen. Netflix ranked second,...
Kehinde Wiley’s Accusers Address Censorship Concerns
Kehinde Wiley’s accusers have responded to concerns raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) regarding museums’ decisions to rescind exhibitions of the artist’s...
Is Alessandra Ferri Now Dancing Her Final Role?
"It’s not merely that she’s now 61 — albeit dancing exquisitely — and sharing a stage with dancers one-third her age. It’s also that...
Before And After AI (Beyond Mythologies)
Should we trust the most optimistic voices coming from Silicon Valley, AI could be the vehicle we use to create boundless wealth, cure all...
Daniil Simkin Begins A Pivot From Dancing Ballet To Filming It
"On June 25, his production company, Studio Simkin, unveiled one, a seven-minute dance film produced by (and starring) Simkin and choreographed by David Dawson....
Three San Francisco Music Institutions Face Big Change, Bigger Challenges
All venues were full. All audiences I joined were infectiously rapt. Yet everywhere I went there was an inescapable feeling of doom, of disquieting...
Yet More Evidence That Beethoven Had Severe Lead Poisoning
"(Testing revealed that) the levels of arsenic and mercury in Beethoven’s hair were slightly elevated. The lead levels, on the other hand, were a...
The Debate Over Repatriating Looted Art Goes All The Way Back To 1815
That September, officials from present-day Belgium and the Netherlands arrived at the Louvre to reclaim artworks plundered during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars....
What The Voices Of AI Tell Us
Artificial intelligence stands accused of devastating the creative industries, guzzling energy and even threatening human life. Understandably, OpenAI wants a voice that makes people feel...
Young People Are Quitting Dating Apps And Figuring Out How To Meet At Real...
“Because of social media and dating apps, our generation has been spoon-fed in a lot of ways when it comes to meeting people. We’re...
The 30 Most Arts-Vibrant Rural Counties in The U.S.
These counties are all in the top 5% of SMU Data Arts' Arts Vibrancy Index, and all are classified as rural by the US...
Philadelphia’s Leading Local Foundation Is Changing How and What It Funds
"The William Penn Foundation is instituting a broad set of changes — from the kinds of projects and organizations it is interested in funding,...
Strapped For Cash, San Francisco Public Radio/TV Outlet KQED Is Closing Its San Jose...
While the satellite office isn't officially a bureau, some KQED staffers have used the space — in a city with a larger population than...
The Great Leadership Turnover At Broadway’s Nonprofit Theaters Begins With Second Stage
Artistic director Carole Rothman is leaving Second Stage after 45 years; her successor is Evan Cabnet, currently leader of LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's emerging-artists...
South Texas School District Agrees To Remove 676 Books, Including Anne Frank’s Diary And...
At the request of right-wing Christianist activists who describe the books as “very sexually explicit” and “filthy and evil,” the superintendent of schools in...
Kinky Friedman, Texas Satirist, Songster, Novelist, And Folk Hero, Is Dead At 79
"'The Kinkster,' as he sometimes called himself, brought an outlaw spirit and vaudeville showmanship to politics, books and music, pushing the bounds of good...
Co-Founder Of Vox.com Is New CEO Of WBEZ And Chicago Sun-Times
"(Melissa) Bell in 2014 co-founded Vox.com, where she pioneered their distinctive explainer journalism style. As publisher of Vox Media, she oversaw its editorial publications,...
Montreal Has A Unique Culture. Gentrification Is A Threat
Montreal’s role as a multilingual cultural hub—attracting talent from across the country and around the world in music, theatre, literature, dance, and even the...
How Gypsy Traditions Shaped UK Music
The lack of recognition of Gypsy and Traveller contributions to Scottish, Irish or English music styles effectively excludes these ethnic minorities from narratives of Britishness....
We Sell Art As Fame, Fame As Art. It’s Really About Market Share
Of course, Gen Xers always knew this would happen: the gradual folding of everything that could possibly be called “culture” into one image-spectacle-and-sensorium corporate...
Despairing Of The Election? Look To The Iliad
Maybe you can relate to my mood: I want this election season over with. I have no more outrage left to give, yet there...
Calgary’s Arts Commons Gets The Largest Philanthropic Gift In Canadian Performing Arts History
The downtown Calgary cultural hub has been raising funds for a $660-million transformation, which will see its existing facility upgraded, a new building added and the...
Why Some People Bloom Later In Life
Why do some people hit their peak later than others? In his book Late Bloomers, the journalist Rich Karlgaard points out that this is really...
The Traditional Chinese Art Of Acting And Singing With Boar Tusks In Your Mouth
"It could be the most terrifying folk art in China. It is called shua ya, which literally means 'teeth playing'. … Performers need to...
LLM Models Show Biases Broadly Embedded Across Languages
"The data show that implicitly-measured attitudes are revealed in and perhaps reinforced by language, which is a key vehicle of transmitting culture. If we...
