New York Theatre Settles Case Of “Ticket Discrimination”
Theaters have experimented with “Black Out” nights intended to attract patrons of color. At issue in the lawsuit was whether a discount offered as part of...
The Movie Industry Has Been Leaving California. So What Are State Leaders Doing About...
Los Angeles County lost more than 42,000 entertainment jobs from 2022 to 2024; and Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery made just 15 theatrical...
A Major Chinese Tech Hub Now Wants To Be A Major Culture Hub
Though it has long been one of the country’s most successful technology hubs, Shenzhen has always been on the margins of the global cultural...
A Court Ordered Voice Of America To Be Revived. Will That Actually Happen?
It certainly won’t happen fast. “Restoring the physical infrastructure is going to take a lot of money and some time but it can be...
Czech Culture Minister Fires Director Of National Gallery
“Within the Czech Republic, the dismissal has been viewed by some as a politically motivated gesture. (Alicja) Knast took up the position in 2021,...
Steppenwolf Theater Can Finally Restart Its New Play Program
“(A) grant (from the Stephen Sondheim Foundation) will go toward rebuilding Steppenwolf’s Scout program, which supports new works by emerging writers and was shuttered...
After 99 Years, CBS News Is Shutting Down Its Radio Network
“Today, CBS News Radio provides material to an estimated 700 stations across the country and is known best for its top-of-the-hour news roundups. The...
Merriam-Webster And Encyclopedia Britannica Sue OpenAI
“The lawsuit (by the American dictionary publisher and British encyclopedia) incorporates both the ‘mass-scale copying’ of their copyrighted content for training AI models and...
Jury Finds Bill Cosby Liable In Another Sexual Assault Case, Awards $59 Million
“After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found Cosby, 88, liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger. They awarded...
Actress Valerie Perrine Dead At 82
“(Her) memorable film roles included a porn actress abducted by aliens in Slaughterhouse-Five, Lex Luthor’s secretary in two Superman films and an Oscar-nominated performance as the wife...
Alex Ross: Saying Goodbye To The Kennedy Center
Tempting as it is to blame Trump for the Kennedy Center’s fate, he does not bear sole responsibility. The idea of a national arts...
Journalists Sue Kari Lake Over VOA Propaganda
"The Voice of America has been breaching the Constitutional and statutory rules that require that outlet not to push propaganda or censorship," one of...
Preservation Groups File Lawsuit Against Closing Of The Kennedy Center
The lawsuit seeks to have the White House and the Kennedy Center board comply with existing historic preservation laws and secure Congress' approval before...
Liberal Arts
(Kudos to the art director who chose that American flag done with handprints – it’s perfect). I enjoyed reading Becca Rothfield’s “Listless Liberalism” in The Point, in which she reviews Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance, and Cass Sunstein’s Liberalism, and also asks the question of why the aesthetics of a liberal society, barely addressed
Should We Care Whether A Book Is Soft- Or Hard-Cover?
Recently Barnes & Noble has tried to convince more publishers to publish paperback originals, particularly for YA and middle grade books. But choosing a format...
Is Using AI Really Just Plagiarism?
A chatbot is not (or not yet) an individual, and therefore bears no moral responsibility, but to lay hold of what it delivers, and...
New Book: Inside Stephen Sondheim
Along with his happy student-teacher alliance with Hammerstein, the defining association of Sondheim’s life was his tortured relationship with the mother he described as...
Kennicott: Trump is Wreaking Havoc On DC Architecture
These proposals, the rush to realize them, the stacking of key oversight groups with Trump loyalists and flunkies and the collaboration of firms like...
This Year’s Whitney Biennial: No Challenges
I got the sense that the Whitney Biennial is hiding from the world today instead of reflecting on it. - Hyperallergic
A Bastardized Classical Architecture For America’s 250th
One of the White House’s most compelling features has always been its domestic scale and ornamentation. In a city where architectural bombast has often...
How Paris Has Been Reborn (For The Better)
Visitors will discover that it’s a dramatically different place than a decade ago: lines of bikes and throngs of pedestrians where lanes were once...
What Are The Differences Between Humans Using ‘Artificial Language’ And AI Using It?
“Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability. By contrast, AI uses what I call exam English – a rather...
Inside The New New Museum
“The seven story addition introduces three levels of gallery space that plug directly into existing floors. Not only does this create much needed airflow,...
Change Your Life: Start A Music Group
Yes, even if you’re not great at it (yet). "Make it up as you go along. If nobody else wants to sing, you sing....
When A Sports Venue Demands Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Governments, We Need...
“The Moda Center has always been a candidate for upgraded design. Which is to say nothing of the 30-acre Rose Quarter property the arena...
