Meta Blocks Sharing Of News Stories On Facebook In Canada
"In order to provide clarity to the millions of Canadians and businesses who use our platforms, we are announcing today that we have begun...
Portland Pulls Out Of Regional Arts Funding Agency
“The city has gotten a major bargain from the work that Regional Arts and Culture Council has done on its behalf. The team at...
The Incredibly Complicated Cultural Calculations Of Broadway’s “Here Lies Love”
Yes, the show is certainly a flag for innovative theatre in its use of space and immersivity. But there have been persistent critiques in both the...
Freezing Out The Critics, Ushering In The Influencers
If all discussion of a film’s merits before release is left to influencers, whose driving ambition is to receive free merchandise by speaking well...
Training AI Tools For The Languages (Even Major Ones) That Don’t Dominate The Internet
English alone counts for almost half the internet; add other European languages plus Chinese and Japanese and it's 95%. For other languages — even...
A Rising Movement In Norway Against “Ugly” Architecture
A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends — and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board. -...
Pianist And Teacher Ruth Greenfield, Who Bridged The Racial Divide In 1950s Miami, Is...
"In 1951, eight years before … the first school in Miami-Dade to desegregate, Greenfield founded the Fine Arts Conservatory, one of the first racially...
Eighty Years Of Composer-Of-The-Week
When the programme started in 1943, under its original title of This Week’s Composer, the style was simple. Just a handful of records, only...
AI Has Arrived In The Publishing Industry, Too
"Some authors are using A.I. as a writing and editing assistant that can help them brainstorm, organize material, develop characters or create an outline....
Arts Council England Has Lost The Confidence Of The Arts World After Bizarre Edicts...
ACE’s initial, uncosted announcement that ENO should abandon its acoustically rich, 2,359-seat home with the widest stage in London housing internationally renowned opera wasn’t just...
As Writers And Actors Strike, Hollywood Is Looking To Hire A Bunch Of AI...
"Some recent job listings are for fairly traditional tech-world roles, such as software engineers (who write code) and product managers (who guide projects to...
Hollywood Producers Ask Writers To Talk About Resuming Negotiations
An individual with knowledge of the matter told TheWrap the AMPTP has not reached out to SAG-AFTRA with a similar request. This suggests that...
Historical Novelist Philippa Gregory Is Writing Her First Play, A Rehabilitation Of Richard III
"Gregory's play opens, aptly enough, with Richard bursting up from his grave in a Leicester car park to challenge the way his reputation has...
“I Was Now The Boss. That Was Very Uncomfortable For Me”: David Hallberg Talks...
"One of the biggest adjustments for me was how everyone looks to you for decision making about even very minor things. I always want...
The Company Behind The Immersive Van Gogh, Monet, And Kahlo Shows Declares Bankruptcy
The Toronto-based corporation Lighthouse Immersive Inc. is going through insolvency proceedings in Ontario, and it has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in Delaware in...
Oregon Symphony’s New CEO Comes From New York Philharmonic
Isaac Thompson will be leaving his position as the NY Phil's managing director (overseeing operations, artistic matters, business, and DEI work) to begin his...
Lizzo Is Sued By Three Ex-Backup Dancers For Sexual Harassment, Fat-Shaming (!), And A...
"The suit … accuses Lizzo and employees of (her touring company) of interrogating dancers about their weight and pressuring them to engage in sexually...
UNESCO Calls For Venice To Be Put On The World Heritage In Danger List
The draft resolution, to be put before UNESCO's World Heritage Committee next month, states that there has been no "significant level of progress in...
In London, Relief As the Tourism Economy Comes “Roaring Back”
"After two years wiped out by Covid restrictions and a third that only saw a tentative recovery, … two million more international visitors are...
In Wagner’s Bayreuth, The Reinvention Never Ends
In Bayreuth’s modern era, perpetual workshopping prevails. New productions usually play for five summers before cycling out, and the expectation is that directors will...
Editor Of People Dishes On The Rules Of Celebrity
An early editor at People came up with rules for who to put on the cover. "Young stars sell better than old. Rich is...
OMG – Surely The Ugliest Building In Paris
One can hardly deny feeling something un-Parisian, even anti-Parisian, exuded by the dark, Kubrickian slab rising out of its nineteenth-century surroundings. But nor, on...
Hollywood Ponders What AI and How Much AI
Netflix is looking to hire an AI product manager who will “define the strategic vision for” the streamer’s machine-learning platform, according to a job posting. -...
Show Your Work: Why Scientific Papers Should Tell Better Stories
I understand the need to present scientific findings in a clean, concise way, but the papers also omit all the false starts, blind alleys,...
Underneath The Hype Around AI
Too much focus on this worry risks downplaying somewhat less apocalyptic but more likely scenarios of social disruption, like dramatic upheavals in jobs. Finally,...
