Why Did Oxford University Shutter Its Future Of Humanity Institute?
Nick Bostrom – who popularized the theory that humanity may be living in a simulation, one that Musk often repeats – spoke about the...
Renzo Piano Reveals His Design For Boca Raton’s Planned Arts Center
"The building's programming will take place across three stories, with one section of the building dedicated to a large multi-purpose event and performance space...
Murder Of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema: Lawyers For Defendant Up And Quit
"Attorneys Greg Andrade and Edna de Castro were representing Alejandro Triana Prevez, the Cuban man who has testified that he stabbed Sikkema to death...
Joshua Kosman’s Farewell Essay As San Francisco Chronicle Classical Music Critic
"It’s a basic instinct, ... the urge to figure out what you thought of it and why. It’s an impulse I believe I share...
As Florida And Texas Ban Books From Schools And Libraries, Minnesota And Maryland Are...
"Minnesota is one of several Democratic-leaning states where lawmakers are now pursuing bans on book bans. The Washington and Maryland legislatures have passed them...
Denver Art Museum Is Refusing To Return Alaskan Native Artifacts To Alaskan Natives
"Delegates from the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska sought the return of five items, including a 170-year-old clan...
US Senate Passes House’s TikTok Sell-Or-Get-Banned Law
"The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to approve a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its stake in the...
KQED, Bay Area Public TV And Radio Station, Offers Buyouts And Warns Of Layoffs
“We’ve operated with a board-approved budget deficit for two years and we’re now projecting a higher-than-expected budget deficit (for) this fiscal year,” the station's...
Venice Biennale Gets Its Groove Back
Somehow, this grand festival of creativity has vitality, often substance, and a sense of context wider than the usual web of art-world connections and...
Houston’s Rothko Chapel Starts Big Expansion Project
Over the next two years, the site will see construction of an administration and archives building, a new program center, a guest bungalow for...
First Prize In This Year’s Venice Biennale
The exhibition’s top prizes both went to Indigenous artists, with the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition going to the Mataaho Collective, which consists...
Why Many Of Us Are Going Back To Pre-Digital Analog Tools
From vinyl records to film cameras, all manner of apparently written-off technologies have been making a comeback, including modular synthesizers – one of the earliest types...
On The Influence Of Small Magazines And Big Ideas
Another meaning of the word “magazine” is a store of munitions. My own addition to the arsenal of the free press, Standpoint, was founded in...
The Women Who’ve Founded Dance Companies In The US Since 1929
“Keeping track of these female-founded ballet companies is vital in understanding the pivotal and often unknown role of women in shaping the American ballet...
What’s The Logical Endpoint Of Pop Culture’s Insane-And-Dangerous-Ballerina Trope? A Ballerina Vampire, Of Course!
"Unlike Black Swan, the darkly funny Abigail — which follows a band of kidnappers as they discover that their prisoner, supposedly an adolescent ballet...
Fatal Error: Universities Have Stopped Teaching HOW To Think
Modern education concentrates on teaching subjects, leaving the method of thinking, arguing, and expressing one’s conclusions to be picked up by the scholar as...
Florentines Begged Me To Run For Mayor, Says Former Uffizi Gallery Director
"(Eike Schmidt) said he felt compelled to throw his hat into the ring ... after being encouraged to run for mayor by Florentines, who...
The Last Small Town Movie Critic (Great Read)
"He fulfilled his dreams, save for being Spider-Man. He wanted to write and direct plays and movies. He wanted to do stand-up comedy. He...
Another Way AI May Completely Change (Or Even Ruin) The Web As We Know...
"The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences. To understand...
Publishers Have Found An Interesting Way To Fight Children’s Book Bans
Publishers, writers, and progressive organizations across the children’s book industry aren’t letting the book bans hold them back. Instead, they’re turning the bans into...
St. Louis Public Radio Claims Immunity From Lawsuits For Defamation. You May Not Believe...
Sovereign immunity. St. Louis Public Radio claims immunity from lawsuits as an arm of the state of Missouri. - Riverfront Times (St. Louis)
Actors Unions Make Deal For “Ethical Use” Of AI Voices
The deal also sets a minimum rate for AI replication of session singers’ voices, in the amount of three “sides” per project. (A “side”...
All The Ways A New Play Changes In Previews
"'The key learning moments for a playwright,' says writer David Eldridge, 'are when you first hear actors read the script, and when the play...
Italy’s Government Blacklists Minneapolis Institute Of Art For Loans
"The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has become musea non grata to the Italian government after a yearslong dispute over a Pentelic marble copy...
A New Leader For The Musée D’Orsay In Paris
Variously titled president or chairman in different news reports, the new head of the Orsay and its sister institution, the Musée de l'Orangerie, is...
