Winner Of Japanese Literary Prize Says ChatGPT Wrote Part Of Her Book
Rie Kudan "won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize this week for her sci-fi novel Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), which centers around a high-rise prison tower and...
The British Government Doesn’t Recognize What A Library Is, Or Does
And a lot of the public don't really know either, a new study says. Is it time for a libraries minister? - The Guardian...
The Istanbul Biennial Is Delayed After Its British Curator Resigns
"Divisions in the art world over the biennial’s choice of Iwona Blazwick, a British curator, to oversee the event had made it 'impossible' for...
A Brief History Of American Dialects
Myriad factors influence variations among American accents and dialects, including waves of settlement in a region, geographic location and class differences. - Smithsonian
UK Theatres Gasping To Restructure After Devasting Year
The Royal Court says it' seeking to "find new business models to sustain the theatre", while Hampstead has said 2022/23 turned out to be...
Report: Half As Many Scripted TV Shows Are Being Made As Were In 2019
The "report, published Friday and looking at scripted TV seasons being ordered in the U.S., noted that the volume of U.S. series has nearly...
How Math Plays A Role In All The Arts
The connections between mathematics and music have been celebrated since at least as far back as the Pythagoreans. However, though there has been writing...
The Tyranny Of Emoji Reactions
As a matter of official policy, reactions are supposed to relieve you of the burden of writing out a full response. But all of...
Want Your Dancers To Be More Creative? Help Them Also To Be Creative Outside...
Kerry Nicholls has worked as a choreographer, teacher and consultant, as well as associate artistic director to Rojo at English National Ballet. Rather than help...
This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You’re On The Taylor Swift Beat...
Bryan West, who was hired by Gannett as its Taylor Swift reporter, should beware. Sam Kriss spent four months in 2014-15 covering Swift for...
Guthrie Theatre Chooses New Managing Director
Trisha Kirk has been a member of the Guthrie team since 1985 and has held various positions, including season ticket manager, box office manager,...
How Much Do You Know About Frida Kahlo’s Life?
"In a drabber parallel universe, Frida Kahlo might have been a doctor. As a high schooler she was on a pre-med track, studying biology,...
An AI-Created Performance Of George Carlin Demonstrates What’s Wrong With AI
The special, tastefully titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” is one of the most unpleasant things ostensibly produced for entertainment purposes that I have ever...
Why The Dreams Of Some Young Ballet Students Get Destroyed: Dishonesty
Matthew Paluch argues that there's one major factor in the dance instruction industry that few on either the teacher or student side are willing...
Appreciating Joan Acocella
On the page, her fabulous erudition was melded to a frankness that was so unaffected as to seem effortless. Actually—a very Joan word—simplicity is...
This Choreographer And Teacher Developed A Specifically Caribbean Dance Technique
Dr. L’Antoinette Stines: "What I have done is brought together what came off the ships when they did — and sometimes we forget that...
Art Fairs Are Expensive And Less Effective For Galleries Selling. Still, The Galleries Can’t...
Anecdotally, the increasing costs of fair stands and their associated shipping, travel and entertainment budgets were already taking quite a toll pre-pandemic, but inflation...
Cutting A Shakespeare Play Down To 80 Minutes Is Entirely Legitimate, Even At The...
Arifa Akbar: "Some trimmed-down Shakespeares – such as Simon Godwin’s Romeo and Juliet – are as rich as the originals, and not every staging...
Brazil’s Museum Of Democracy Will Include Major Archive Of 2023 Bolsonarista Insurrection
"An initiative to create a comprehensive record of the 2023 insurrection (at) the Brazilian congress" by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, who had lost...
Amid Financial Firestorm, Two-Thirds Of Board At Peoria’s Public TV Station Resign
WTVP has been in crisis mode since at least September, when the finance director resigned, the CEO committed suicide, layoffs were made, and investigators...
Three US Museums, Including The Met, Accused Of Hiding Stolen Medieval Stained-Glass Windows
The complaint, filed by the Paris-based NGO Lumière sur le Patrimoine, alleges that the Metropolitan Museum, the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts, and the Glencairn...
How The Getty Museum Did The “Rigorous,’ Sometimes Hair-Raising” Work To Restore Cranach’s “Adam”...
"After a demanding (2½-year) program that included a gasp-inducing repair of the two cracking, 500-year-old limewood panels, Getty senior conservator Ulrich Birkmaier and his...
Two Who Embezzled From Indianapolis’s Public Radio And TV Stations Are Sentenced
Mindi Madison and Alicia Wilson, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, have been sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to...
Appeals Court Panel Upholds Stay Of Texas’s Book-Banning Law
"A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit — viewed by many as the most conservative court in the nation — ... upheld a lower...
Do You Speak To Yourself? Is It Speech? In Words?
The philosopher Peter Carruthers, who has written a fair amount, and variously, about inner speech, has argued that inner speech may have specifically arisen...
