After Five Years Closed, Johannesburg’s Flagship Public Library Finally Reopens
“The Johannesburg City Library ... had been closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The city government claimed the building was...
There Are Dozens Of Nonprofits Concerned With Frank Lloyd Wright. Only One Helps Out...
“Owning a Wright original — the architecture buff’s equivalent of owning a Picasso — comes with headaches as manifold as they are esoteric. …...
Composer Lalo Schifrin, Who Wrote Iconic “Mission: Impossible” Theme, Has Died At 93
The Argentine-born musician, who had long performing experience in both classical and jazz, wrote memorable music for an impressive list of feature films and...
KQED, San Francisco Public Radio/TV, Faces Big Deficit, Buyouts, Possible Layoffs
The station’s current budget is predicted to end up $12 million in deficit. This latest round of cuts comes after workforce reductions in 2024, when...
After 53 Years, Manhattan Theater Club Director Lynne Meadow Is Retiring
“Meadow, 78, has served as artistic director of Manhattan Theater Club since 1972, and by her own count has produced or presented more than 600 shows”...
Bill Moyers, Dean Of American Public TV Journalism, Dead At 91
His career ranged from Baptist minister to LBJ’s press secretary to publisher of Long Island’s Newsday to a decade at CBS News, but it...
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What Was Van Gogh’s Thing For Sunflowers About? And He Was Hardly The Only...
“Unlike many other symbols in art history, the sunflower is relatively new. … (Yet it has) set aflame the imagination of countless artists and...
Apple Makes A Big Bet On Brad Pitt Movie
“F1” is one of Apple’s biggest entertainment bets since it leapt into Hollywood in 2019 and embodies its unusually lavish and meticulous approach to...
Jamie Lloyd, The Unorthodox Director Storming The West End And Broadway
He’s the guiding hand behind Tom Hiddleston’s offbeat Rome, Nicole Scherzinger’s revelatory, Tony-winning Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, and Rachel Zegler singing “Don’t Cry...
A First: BBC Will Start Charging US Users To Access Content
In the first scheme asking users outside the UK to pay a direct subscription for its news content, US users will be offered the...
Is Podcast Fiction The New Fringe Theatre?
More than a pandemic-era stopgap, fiction podcasts are now emerging as a legitimate artistic medium. With Australian audiences increasingly turning to audio content for...
Strike Two: Judge Rules That Meta’s AI Didn’t Infringe On Writers’ Copyright
This is the second major ruling in the AI copyright world this week; on Monday, US District Court judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s use of...
Léon Krier, New Urbanist Architect Who Designed King Charles’s Model Town, Has Died At...
“Poundbury is Krier’s most substantial built legacy, a project that was widely ridiculed when it began in the 1980s, but which time has vindicated....
The End Of The Internet’s Business Model For Publishing
Suddenly, fewer people are traveling outside the generative-AI sites—a development that poses an existential threat to the media, and to the livelihood of journalists...
Are These The Best Movies Of The 21st Century So Far?
To find out, we embarked on an ambitious new project, polling more than 500 filmmakers, stars and influential film fans to vote for the...
Why So We Find Silences In Conversations So… Awkward?
Confronted with a prolonged silence during conversation, most of us find ourselves ‘desperately thinking of something to say’. Silence makes us desperate. But why? -...
Philharmonia Baroque, US’s Only Full-Time Period-Instrument Orchestra, Names Its Next Music Director
Peter Whelan, a keyboard player, bassoonist, singer and conductor who currently directs the much-acclaimed Irish Baroque Orchestra, begins his initial term at Philharmonia Baroque...
A Test: Measuring Student Writing Against Those Who Use ChatGPT — It Doesn’t End...
The paper found that the process was better on the brain without tech tools: “internal attention and semantic processing during creative ideation” was highest...
Politicizing The Library Of Congress Is Defacing A National Treasure
What happens if, or when, the Emancipation Proclamation is “lost” because it promotes diversity, equity and inclusion? The Codex Azcatitlan disappears because it describes...
About 100 Years Ago The World Was Being Remade By Technolgy. There Was Fear....
The years between 1900-1914 have appropriately been called by historian Philipp Blom as the “vertigo years.” To find your footing in this dizzying period so...
Another Goodreads Problem: Authors Hit With Negative Reviews Before Anyone Gets Review Copies
“Authors are reportedly being hit by negative reviews on the book review site Goodreads before proof copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing...
“South Park” Creators Accuse Paramount Global’s Buyer Of Illegally Meddling In $2.5 Billion Extension...
While purchaser Skydance has the right to approve any major contracts Paramount enters into before the acquisition is complete, “gun-jumping” — actively taking part...
Even C-SPAN Is Getting Hammered By Viewers’ Switch From Cable To Streaming
“The not-for-profit network … which reached around 100 million homes in 2015, is now down to 51 million households. The contraction has led to...
Chicago’s Contemporary Dance Hub, Links Hall, Throws Itself A Marathon Goodbye Party
“Artists were reaching out to us asking us if they would have one last chance to perform,” said executive director SK Kerastas. “We wanted...
