Ian McEwan Speaks Out Against Sensitivity Readers
He described sensitivity reading as “a weird thing that happens in some universities, which we got from the United States”. - The Guardian
Margaret Atwood Reviews A Story By AI Margaret Atwood
Prompt: Can you write a dark and dystopian short story in the voice of Margaret Atwood that takes place in Canada? - The Walrus
AI Musicians And Personalities – Competition For The Real Humans
Musicologist Dr Shara Rambarran says virtual influencers-turned-popstars entering the arena may unsettle IRL (in real life) musicians "who want to put their music out...
Researchers Want To Declare Leading Theory Of Consciousness “Pseudoscience”
Earlier this month, the consciousness science community erupted into chaos. An open letter, signed by 124 researchers—some specializing in consciousness and others not—made the provocative...
Study: Classical Music Audiences’ Heartbeats, Breathing Synchronizes During Concerts
Various measurements became more synchronised during the concerts, such as the participants’ heart rates, breathing speeds and their skin conductance, which measures how much someone is...
New York City Ballet Has Paid Peter Martins Over $2.8 Million Since He Was...
"Martins, who resigned as the organization’s ballet master in chief in January 2018 in the wake of sexual harassment and physical and verbal abuse...
Powerful Disney Theatrical Division Head To Be Chief Creative Officer
Thomas Schumacher, who is 65 and currently holds the titles of president and producer of Disney Theatrical Group, told his staff on Thursday morning...
The Writers’ Strike Is Over, But Writers For This Show Are Refusing To Return...
"Following controversy surrounding (The Drew Barrymore Show's) return to production amid the writers’ strike — a choice that Barrymore said she 'owned' — Chelsea...
Met Museum Wants To Be A Global Licensing Powerhouse
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, apparently no longer content with just being America’s largest and most famous art institution, has a rapidly growing licensing strategy to help...
Now London Has To Deal With Climate-Protesting Musical-Theatre Vandals
Activists with the British group Just Stop Oil, which started the climate-protesting art-vandalism trend, disrupted a West End performance of Les Misérables during (of...
Theatre Where Shakespeare Performed Is Found
A theatre in Norfolk believes it has discovered the only surviving stage on which William Shakespeare performed. - BBC
The Met Opera Brings “Dead Man Walking” To Sing-Sing
"But the opera, with music by Jake Heggie and a libretto by Terrence McNally, had never been performed in a prison until last week...
Major New National Initiative To Boost Latinx Theatre
On Monday, the Latino Theater Company announced $9 million in grants to 52 Latino theaters in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,...
Facing Staff Turnover, Arts Nonprofits Are Starting To Increase The Pay Of Administrative Workers
"The arts and culture sector has long been able to hire administrative staff at below market rates on account of their employees’ passion for...
“Worth The Suffering” — Peter Zumthor On His Experience Designing LACMA’s New Building
The Pritzker-winning architect at one point said that the troubled project led him to decide never to work in the US again. In fact,...
How Putin’s War Has Upended Ukrainian Literature
For more than two decades after Ukraine's independence, Russian-language titles accounted for more than four-fifths of the country's book market. That began to change...
Julia Ormond Sues Harvey Weinstein For Sexual Assault And CAA, Miramax, and Disney For...
The assault took place in 1995 after a business dinner between the producer and the actress. She is suing CAA, then her agency, for...
A Death On The Premises Closes London’s Courtauld Gallery
"'Yesterday afternoon, a tragic event occurred at The Courtauld Gallery premises that led to a fatality,' the museum said in a statement on Tuesday....
Gramophone Awards 2023: Fabio Luisi’s Nielsen Symphonies Named Record Of The Year
The DG recording of Nielsen's 4th and 5th with the Danish National Symphony also took the Orchestral award; among other winners are the London...
Playwright/Author Jon Fosse Wins 2023 Nobel Prize For Literature
The committee awarded the 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) prize for the 64-year-old Norwegian writer's "innovative plays and prose, which give voice to...
Why Is The Country Music Industry So Resistant To Diversity?
Black country singers and journalists are being called racial slurs by fans and openly LGBTQ+ performers are having to back out of performances. - The Guardian
Meet This Year’s MacArthur Fellows
The fellowship is “intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual and professional inclinations,” and comes with a $800,000...
Why More And More Writers Are Dropping Quotation Marks
The reasons vary, but more writers are dropping speech marks to explore distances between readers and narrators and even to eliminate hierarchies. - The...
The Right People Aren’t In The Room Talking About AI
AI absolutely is powerful, and it absolutely is dangerous. But as these perspectives reverberate throughout committee hearings, government advisory boards, press releases, and lobbying...
U Penn Shunned Her And Her Work. Now That She’s Won The Nobel Prize,...
Penn demoted Katalin Karikó, shunting her to a lab on the outskirts of campus while cutting her pay. Karikó’s colleagues denigrated her mRNA research and...
