This Guy Founded A Male Exotic Dance Troupe In (Of All Places) Singapore
"There were no success stories of male exotic dance troupes in Singapore, where the nightlife industry isn't as vibrant as in the US. But...
AI And The Future Of Opera
It seems clearer that creatives using AI tools as a part of their own processes is considered more acceptable than administrators using AI to...
Dinh Q. Lê, Artist Known For “Photo-Weaving,” Has Died At 56
"Lê’s early work comprised large-scale photomontages that he made by weaving together strips of photographs, deploying the method used by his aunt in creating...
Klaus Mäkelä, The Chicago Symphony, And The Importance Of Lived Experience
Cultural memory—for untold centuries, a precondition for creativity and appreciation of the creative act—risks becoming a stack of flashcards processed as media clips. Will...
Roberta Smith On 38 Years Of Art Criticism For The New York Times
"Critics need to be more flexible than artists. You have to be open to being changed and pushed into new directions. ... My main...
A Transformative Arts Project For Downtown Calgary
“Today, we don’t just reveal a stunning new design—we come together to celebrate the fact that the largest cultural infrastructure project currently underway in...
The Richard Serra Sculpture So Controversial It Was Put Before A Federal Tribunal
Tilted Arc (1981) was commissioned by U.S. General Services Administration for Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. "Serra intended to elicit a connection between those...
Scanning The Brains Of Jazz Guitarists To Find “Flow”
"Their level of experience ranged from novice to veteran, as quantified by the number of public performances they had given. The researchers placed electrode...
Alexei Navalny’s Autobiography Will Be Published Posthumously This Fall
"During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, the Russian opposition leader was writing a memoir about his life and...
How Performing Artists Are Depicting Robots In The Age Of AI
"Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, signaling a mighty leap forward in robots’ and artificial intelligence’s ability to imitate human interaction, we’ve...
Broadway Is Struggling. Nonprofit Off-Broadway Is Struggling. But Commercial Off-Broadway Is Having A Great...
"A small sector of New York’s theatrical economy and one that has for years been somewhere between difficult and dormant, is back in business."...
Performers Complain That Edinburgh Fringe Has Become Far Too Expensive To Take Part In
Even well-established comedians and other artists say that the costs, particularly for housing ("pure greed"), have soared to prohibitive levels, especially for those just...
NPR Editor Claims Network Has Entrenched Liberal Bias And Has “Lost America’s Trust”
"A lack of political diversity among staff and C-suite mandates has created a niche format that appeals mainly to far liberal-leaning listeners and only...
NPR’s Response(s) To Editor Uri Berliner’s Accusation Of Liberal Bias
The official response, from chief news executive Edith Chapin: "We're proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do. …...
Record Labels Are Pulling Music From TikTok. Congress Might Ban The App. So Now...
TikTok began life as Musical.ly, an app to film oneself lip-syncing to songs. Interacting with pop music was a core function of TikTok. Fans...
Scientists Are Trying To Measure Our Emotional Reaction To Art
New scientific investigations into the embodied experience of viewing art point us toward more concrete answers, but also more questions. - Hyperallergic
Claim: YouTube Is The Most Consequential Technology In America
Maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also the most popular way to hear music and one of the country’s largest cable TV providers....
AI Companies Are Running Out Of Data
Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and others require larger oceans of information to learn from. That demand is straining the available...
Meta Considered Buying Simon & Schuster To Train Its AI
According to the recordings, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of generative AI, told executives that the company had used almost every book, poem and...
Motion Picture Association Ramps Up Anti-Piracy Plan
If the MPA’s plan sounds familiar, it’s because it has tried this before. It helped hatch the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012, which...
UMG’s Fight With TikTok Is Hurting Musicians
“TikTok is how you get the word out about a new song — and now you’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok...
Now That Breakdancing Is An Olympic Sport, Could Pole-Dancing Be Next?
"With breaking making its first Olympic appearance at the Paris Games later this year, pole dancers feel it could soon be their turn to...
Spotify Has Demonetized Music Tracks With Fewer Than 1000 Plays
In an attempt to tackle fraudulent activity on the platform, the digital music service now also requires a minimum number of unique listeners for...
Hindu Nationalism And The Taj Mahal
"How does the Taj Mahal’s history — one that has come to visually represent the period of the Mughal Empire, an Islamic empire —...
Fraud Fail: Musicians Are Seeing Their Music Being Taken Down From Streaming Services
Although distributors and streaming services frequently use language that places the blame on the artist for fraudulent activity detected on their accounts, it has become...
