Tennessee Is First State To Legislate AI Protections For Musicians
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of...
Why Piano Competitions Need To Address Gender Imbalance
"The report contained personal accounts that showed not only that inequality is still pervasive in the world of classical music, but that women are...
Photographs Are No Longer Proof Of Anything
Not only are digital images infinitely malleable, but the tools to manipulate them are as common as dirt. For anyone paying attention, this has...
Misty Copeland On Connecting Dance With The World
You know, housing crisis, gentrification, homelessness, houselessness. And so, to me, it's, it's, it's a ballet. But, you know, we have different, we have...
AI Is Upending The Foundations Of Copyright Law
Copyright is even embedded in the US Constitution as a tool “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” Now generative AI is...
Indiana Law Now Requires University Professors To Promote “Intellectual Diversity”
A new law in Indiana requires professors in public universities to foster a culture of “intellectual diversity” or face disciplinary actions, including termination for...
How Curators Chose Art For This Year’s Whitney Bienniale
This year’s event, called “Even Better Than The Real Things,” features 71 artists, whose works include short films, sculpture and abstract painting. - Gothamist
Physical Activity Is Good For Fitness. It’s Even Better For Creativity
Often, when we hear about the benefits of physical activity, researchers are really referring to the benefits of fitness – the product of regular and repeated...
Martin Scorsese, Perhaps Unsurprisingly, Has Lived A Semi-Secret Life As A VHS Archivist
Truly, this is monumental. “Spanning the 1980s through the 2000s, the Martin Scorsese VHS Tape Collection contains more than 4,400 distinct titles, including features, documentaries, shorts,...
Spotify, Perhaps Inevitably, Has Added Video Classes
The video part seems inevitable, anyway. The classes part? It’s for UK users only, and are “video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and...
Remember All Of Those Books Tossed In The Trash At A Staten Island Elementary...
You know, the ones about or by Black people, LGBTQIA people, and so on? Where a note on a book about Native Americans read,...
Isabelle Huppert Is Ready For Her Marvel Villain Stage
But now, the French actor is playing Mary, Queen of Scots. "Alone on stage for 90 minutes, she performs something between a rite and...
Bach Is Everywhere At Easter
Yes, his various Passions are common right now - but he’s everywhere, all of the time. And “indirectly, we are also indebted to Bach...
The Woman Behind The Movie
Sure, there’s a new Regina King-starring biopic on Netflix, but the real Shirley Chisholm who ran for president "knew the nomination was a longshot,...
When Can Hollywood Get Back To Work?
The post-strike, post-peak-TV slowdown threatens Calfornia, "where TV, film and commercial shoots are a sizable driver of employment supporting not just bigwig directors, producers...
After The Massive Concert Hall Attack In Russia, Some Suspects Plead Guilty
Meanwhile, “events at cultural institutions were canceled, flags were lowered to half-staff and television entertainment and advertising were suspended,” and relatives waited for word...
Large Language Models Actually Haven’t Improved That Much
It’s all in the measurement, and the tricks therein. - Wired
Activists Unfurl A Massive Quilt For Gaza On The Steps Of The Met
"As the quilt was spread out across the museum’s main entrance, activists encircled the display, carrying signs that read ‘We See Genocide,’ ‘Let Gaza...
What’s Going On In Sundance’s Sudden Top-Level Shake-Up?
The reason for the change is unclear. "During her tenure, Vicente brought Robert Redford’s 45-year-old festival in Park City, Utah, back in person...
Let’s Talk About The So-Called ‘Social Cost’ Of Those Green Text Bubbles
Sure, Apple is kind of cult-like. But isn’t that a weird problem on which to hang a major antitrust lawsuit? - Wired
AI Guesses That’s Why They Call It The Blues
Truly, so-called generative AI isn’t there yet on the composing side. “I’ve played the basic chord progression from 'Soul Of The Machine' — and...
Olivia Colman Is Extremely Over The Gender Pay Gap In Hollywood
In one case, the star says, she knows of a 12,000 percent difference in pay. - Variety
The Chicago Art Institute Reconsiders Its Relationship To Women Artists
The Art Institute’s effort to change "can especially be seen in the museum’s arts of the Americas department, where 33 percent of its acquisitions...
Report: What Spotify Paid Musicians Last Year
According to the data, 1,250 artists generated over $1 million each in recording and publishing royalties in 2023; 11,600 generated over $100,000 and 66,000...
Who’s Overdue For An Oscar?
The awards, mostly predicted with one or two slight surprises, have been shelved for 2024, but some wounds are fresh. Diane Warren has 15...
