Watching Jesse Green Review A Broadway Show
New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper's chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and...
New Owner Eliminates Half Of Bandcamp’s Employees
Half the staff at Bandcamp, the online music platform known for championing independent artists and labels, have been laid off following the recent purchase...
She Was Majoring In Dance When She Had To Have Her Leg Amputated. She...
Kara Skrubis recounts how she was diagnosed with bone cancer while in college. It was a long road to recovery, but when she got...
How We Determine Copyright Law Is An Existential Issue For AI
Legal experts told me that copyright challenges pose a near-existential threat to existing A.I. models if the way they’re being trained isn’t aboveboard. If...
This Fancy New Arts Venue Is Right Across From The Eiffel Tower. It’s Meant...
The Grand Palais Éphémère, at the south end of the Champ de Mars in Paris, opened in 2021 as a short-term replacement for the...
The Internet Is Broken. Here’s How We Should Fix It
The internet is worth fighting for because despite all the misery, there’s still so much good to be found there. And yet, fixing online...
“Barbenheimer” Was So Much Work, It’s Been Driving Movie Theater Workers To Unionize
"'That really pushed us to the edge,' says Maggie Quick, a guest attendant. 'It was just the constant understaffing and the emotional exhaustion.'" Union...
Arundhati Roy Criminally Charged In India For A Speech She Gave 13 Years Ago
The author of The God of Small Things gave a speech about Kashmir and the Indian government's counterinsurgency campaign there at a conference in...
One of Iran’s Leading Filmmakers And His Wife Found Murdered Outside Their Home
Dariush Mehrjui, 83, one of the founders of Iran's "new wave," and his wife/co-screenwriter/costume designer, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were discovered by their daughter with knife...
Oops! We’ve Lost Our Rodin …
A plaster version of The Burghers of Calais, now thought to be worth £3 million, is one of 1,750 works owned by the museums...
“The Problem Child Of International Orchestras”? Serious Issues In Philadelphia As Management And Musicians...
Contract negotiations drag on. Players say they want salaries that can attract top talent. Management says it wants to pay better but the cash...
Bomb Threats At Louvre And Versailles Lead To Tight Security At Paris Art Museums
Both venues were evacuated on Saturday after the threats came in. Heightened security will remain in place at least through the opening of Paris+...
Maryland Lyric Opera Has Shut Down
"In an internal memo, … the group’s founder and artistic director, Brad Clark, has announced he will end the operations of Maryland Lyric Opera,...
Study: Women Are Dramatically Underrepresented In Opera Companies
Men accounted for 95 percent of the conducting credits at the 11 largest American opera companies between 2005 and 2021. But men also dominated...
Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Suddenly All Our Photos Aren’t Real
As smartphones go, this integration of AI signals a new era, one created with tech that is intuitive to the kind of ferocious simulation...
How To Think About The Threats Of AI?
Maybe the nightmare about AI isn’t that it will go rogue and threaten our existence with lethal viruses. Maybe the likely endgame is similar...
Influencers And The Conflict Between Quality And Popularity
It’s the age-old problem of the relationship between the good and the popular. Plato saw the popular as the enemy of the good, but...
The Breakdancing Countertenor Explains the Aesthetic
"When I'm in my practice sessions with my breakdance crew, sometimes I put some classical instrumental music and I invite them to actually explore...
What Happened To San Francisco? Everyone’s Talking…
“We’re the first to see our downtown as impacted as it is, because when we said ‘Work from home,’ everyone just grabbed a laptop,...
Machines And Humans Are Merging. This Actually Isn’t Controversial
Bound together as parasite/host, neither people nor technologies can exist apart from the other because they are constitutive prostheses of each other. Such an...
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Has Been A Financial Phenom. So How Much Money Are...
The biggest windfall is headed straight to Swift, who stands to make as much as $4.1 billion from the Eras Tour, according to estimates...
Google Joins Other Tech Companies To Say It Will Defend Generative AI Users From...
Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms if they are accused of...
No Movie News, Only Rumors
Marvel has been mighty tight-lipped about where things are headed, so possibly dubious casting rumors are all obsessive fans have. - Washington Post
The Evolutionary Advantage Of Cuteness
Our hardwired love for "cute" may cause a few issues as "new robotic or artificial personas use cuteness to solicit our affection." - The...
English National Opera Plans To Cut Orchestra. Music Director Quits. ENO Responds
The statement comes hours after Martyn Brabbins said he could not “in all conscience continue to support the Board and Management’s strategy for the future of...
