This Dancer Is Ending A 53-Year Stage Career With San Francisco Ballet — But...
“Since 1980, Val Caniparoli” — for decades SFB’s principal character dancer — “has dedicated most of his energies to a much-lauded choreography career, and...
Former Museum Wunderkind David Ross’ Reckoning
Ross had become a master at catering to ego, facilitating deals and making a class of people feel important. Now he’d begun to wonder...
The Gap Between Big AI And The Rest Of Us Is Growing Wider
The AI industry is splitting away from the lives of everyday people. Exclusive polling conducted for the Guardian last year found that twice as...
What Was The Boston Symphony Thinking When It Fired Andris Nelsons? Who Knows?
What’s the vision might not be the right question, then. It might be: Does the vision even exist? - Boston Globe
Staff At Australia’s National Broadcaster On 24-Hour Strike As Network Airs BBC Programming
“At 11am, the ABC News channel switched to broadcasting the BBC News channel as staff walked out in protest. The ABC News channel filled the schedule...
Patreon CEO Blasts AI Companies And Fair Use
“The AI companies are claiming fair use, but this argument is bogus,. It’s bogus because while they claim it’s fair to use the work...
When Is It Okay For Musicians Not To Give It Their All?
It is difficult to appreciate the toll of being on the road for days, weeks, and sometimes months on end, playing program after program...
Producers Throw Playwright Out Of Rehearsals Weeks Before Broadway Opening
The show’s producing team told the playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis, that he was no longer welcome at rehearsals after tempers flared on Friday between...
Robert White, America’s Favorite Irish Tenor, Has Died At 89
“He built a serious and wide-ranging classical career, collaborating with major artists like Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein and Yo-Yo Ma, without stinting the traditional...
Tacoma’s Leading Arts Organization Shutters, Prepares To Sell Its Home
“Tacoma Arts Live has filed for receivership, a court process similar to bankruptcy. ... TAL announced earlier this year that it would close for good this summer...
How Iran War Is Disturbing Publishing Industry’s Global Supply Chain
Shipping costs are rising; freighters are being re-routed, interfering with schedules; one shipment was on a vessel struck by a missile. Perhaps worst: insurance...
Here’s The Winner Of The First-Ever Hilary Mantel Prize
“The newly established award, launched to honour the legacy of the late Booker Prize-winning novelist, aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers across the...
OpenAI Shuts Off Its Video-Generating App — And Disney Now Has A Problem
“OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation app it launched last year, without providing a reason for the decision. … The announcement comes...
Zurich Transfers Ownership Of All Its Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
Two of the 11 pieces have been sent back to Nigeria; the other nine will remain at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg on loan. - ARTnews
Brooklyn Museum Plans New $13 Million Galleries For African Art
“The institution’s new Arts of Africa galleries, … a 6,400-square-foot home for its 4,500-piece African art collection, … will open in Fall 2027, presenting 300 African...
“A Fiasco And A Miracle”: An Oral History Of The COVID Oscars In 2021
“It’s the story of an awards season unlike any other — one that stretched over 14 months and came to an end in, of all places,...
Using Tango As Therapy For Parkinson’s Patients In (Where Else?) Buenos Aires
“Once a week, about a dozen patients come to Ramos Mejía Hospital to dance — a session that uses the movements of tango to...
Report: Most Galleries Are Now Using AI
According to the AI in Galleries report by the art industry network First Thursday, 84 percent of galleries surveyed say they are using AI tools in their...
Is Time Just Something We Made Up?
An emerging scientific picture is that such “clock time” isn’t a standalone, physical phenomenon at all. It’s a mathematical tool or book-keeping device –...
Dance Competitions Are Thriving. It’s Brutal
Dance competitions offer significant business opportunities. Yet visible profitability can invariably lead to exploitation. Is there a danger that competitions are at risk of...
Chile’s New Conservative President Cuts Culture Budget, Avoids Cultural Policy
Reversing the pro-culture stances of his predecessor, left-leaning former president Gabriel Boric, new president José Antonio Kast has ordered a 3% reduction of the...
Why AI Can’t Write Well
What I learned is that modern LLMs are built in a way that is antagonistic to great writing; they are engineered to be rule-following...
How Should Schools Teach In A Post-Literate Society?
If they are to survive America’s post-literate era and serve society in the future, colleges need to invest in programs that answer the question, “Why read?” They must also...
Is Dance’s Obsession With Feet Discriminatory?
The industry still has an obsession with “perfect” feet. High arches have traditionally been praised in ballet, and some dancers today use farches (fake...
The “Turandot” Problem — Can A New Ending By Asian-Americans Solve It?
Puccini died without finishing the opera, and the standard completion by Franco Alfano is widely considered unsatisfactory. Not to mention, of course, that the...
