I Reviewed The Most Popular Artist On Social Media. His Followers Came After Me....
Devon Rodriguez, known for his live drawings of subway riders, has millions of fans on Instagram and TikTok. Ben Davis reviewed Rodriguez's first solo...
Cleveland Museum Of Art Sues Feds To Block Seizure Of Ancient Sculpture
The lawsuit comes two months after a New York judge issued a search warrant citing “reasonable cause” to believe the statue, which was legally...
The Wealthy San Francisco Matron Who Transformed Modern Study Of The Aztecs
"(Zelia Nuttall) was the first to decode the Aztec calendar and identify the purposes of ancient adornments and weapons. She untangled the organization of...
New Tool Lets Artists “Poison” Their Images At The Pixel Level To Thwart AI
Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering...
Washington Ballet Names A New Artistic Director
"Edwaard Liang comes to Washington after spending the past decade as artistic director of BalletMet, an esteemed midsize company in Columbus, Ohio. He is...
The Twisty-Turny Saga Of The British Museum Thefts
So began an antiques whodunit—whose cast of characters includes an Oxford-based priest-cum-archaeologist, a handful of rare-gem dealers and some of the British Museum’s most...
Why Investing In A Broadway Production Is Like Investing In A Tech Startup
The Indicator podcast from NPR's Planet Money features a tech exec-turned-Broadway producer who says that "the industry fully functions like venture capital. If you...
Steven Lutvak, Composer Of “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder,” Is Dead At...
"Over the years, Mr. Lutvak wrote several musicals that were staged in regional theaters and Off-Off-Broadway. But none were nearly as successful as A...
Israeli Government Tries To Ban Al Jazeera From The Country
Communications minister Shlomo Karhi pushed for the authority to unilaterally shut down the Qatar-based network's Israeli reporting operations (and, presumably, those, of other foreign...
North American Opera Companies Offer Reciprocal Discounts Through A New “Opera Passport”
The initiative by Opera America, described as a discount exchange for traveling audience members, has 85 participating companies across the US and Canada offering...
An Entire Touring Production Is Stolen From A San Francisco Parking Lot
"The stolen U-Haul truck contained 500 shadow puppets, props, costumes, projectors and other items used to stage puppet master Hamid Rahmanian’s Persian epic Song...
Ancient Scythian Gold Stolen From Ukraine Found In Spain
"Police said the 11 ancient gold pieces were smuggled out of Ukraine in 2016 to be resold in Spain. The bracelets, necklaces and earrings,...
92NY Puts Its Entire Literary Events Series On Hold
"92NY, one of the city’s leading cultural organizations, announced Monday that it was putting its prestigious literary reading series on pause, following an outcry...
Ex-Prime Minister Berlusconi Bought 25,000 Junky Paintings On TV. His Heirs Are Having Difficulty...
The former Italian prime minister, who died in June, bought many of the paintings and sculptures from late-night telesales programmes. Managing the extensive collection...
Why Public Monuments Are Problematic
The problem with monuments and statues goes far beyond the issue of the legacies of slavery, important as that issue is. We need to...
Everyone Talks About The Humanities Being Endangered. But What Are “The Humanities”?
For now, let’s consider his plaintive question: “what the hell are the humanities?” - New Criterion
Scores Of Events With Palestinian Culture Have Been Canceled In The US
Some organizers said they were calling off the Palestinian-themed events because of security concerns. Others cited sensitivity, calling the cancellations and postponements understandable, if...
JoAnn Falletta On Why She’s Spent 25 Years At The Buffalo Philharmonic
Falletta has produced 54 recordings for Naxos – a rate of two per year. Two of those BPO recordings, and a third that Falletta...
We Need A Tech Revolution To Save The Culture
"These platforms effectively position themselves between business customers and end users. They extract rent from the business customers who then raise prices on the...
Mexico Embarks On Ambitious Efforts To Recover Ancient Heritage
In recent years Mexico has mounted an ambitious series of investigations and restitution efforts to reclaim the nation’s stolen cultural heritage, joining with other...
Universal Music Sues Anthropic AI Over Songs
When Claude is asked for lyrics to the song “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, for example, it responds with “a nearly word-for-word copy...
Repertory Theatre Of St. Louis Declares Emergency, Cancels Two Shows
The company is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall, managing director Danny Williams said. It will need to raise the money through ticket sales...
President Erica Muhl Left Berklee College Of Music Suddenly In July
Why? She had only been on the job for two years. Now, "virtually no member of the staff, faculty, or administration, including those who...
Our Idea Of Attention Spans Came From 19th Century Factory Managers
So, stop worrying about whether your attention span is too short, and start understanding distractedness as "a radical alternative to an internalised puritan work...
Consciousness Is So Mysterious, There Are 20 Scientific Explanations For It
A five-year full-on "test" to figure out which theory is right didn't figure it out - but that doesn't mean we didn't learn anything...
