The Existential Battle Behind The Copyright Office Firing
The timing was extraordinary: the office had released a report just two days earlier (on Friday, May 9), concluding that many current AI training practices likely...
The Full Arc Of A Tragedy In 4½ Minutes: Audra McDonald And Ben Brantley...
“All of this — right down to that climatic, rushing release called catharsis — is provided, near the end of a delectably tuneful show,...
Putz Paints Penis On Ancient Peruvian Ruin
“The man was filmed while spraying the graffiti on one of the original walls of Chan Chan, a pre-Columbian city 500km (300 miles) north...
New York State Boosts Tax Incentives To Attract More Business From Hollywood
“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved a state budget that increases the cap on the state’s film and TV subsidy to $800 million,...
Second City In Chicago Boosts Pay And Avoids Actors’ Strike
“The performers’ major concern was a wage increase. David Kolen, a senior business representative at Actors Equity Association, said the performers have taken a...
Budget Cuts In Los Angeles Threaten Frank Lloyd Wright Landmark
“Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s eclectic Los Angeles masterpiece, is under threat of closure and losing its UNESCO World Heritage Site status amid drastic budget cuts...
La Scala’s Next Music Director Will Be Myung-Whun Chung
The 72-year-old South Korean-born, US-trained conductor has appeared at the Milan opera house more often than any other guest conductor, going back to 1989....
Gérard Depardieu Found Guilty of Sexual Assault
“The actor, 76, has been convicted of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts...
Universities Are Debating AI. But There’s Not Much Consensus
There are many in the humanities, and even more outside the humanities, who would argue that what is important to assess are thoughts, ideas,...
Cannes Film Fest Director On Trump Movie Tariffs: We’re Always Reinventing
“There’s something we noticed the year and months after Covid: There were fewer American films in the world; therefore local production –national production–became more...
The New Literature: Substack?
Their outputs are a mélange of the passion and experimentalism of the amateurs with the polish and ambition of the pros, and they often...
Has The US Government Given Up On Education?
“Right now, there are no education goals for the country,” said Arne Duncan, who served as President Barack Obama’s first secretary of education after...
Literary Criticism In The Changing University
In some ways we’re moving backwards from the model of the lay reader versus professional literary critic. Today there are far fewer lay readers...
Dance Music Is Having (Another) Moment. Here’s What’s Different
Festival lineups are jam-packed with D.J.s, while some of the biggest names in pop music (including Beyoncé, Drake and Charli XCX) have made dance...
Billionaire Collector Fight Pulls Back Curtain On Shadowy Art Market
The Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and the American entertainment executive David Geffen are slinging written accusations at each other in federal court in...
AI Is Killing The Current Web Publishing Model
“Today, 75 percent of the queries… get answered without you leaving Google.” - SearchEngineLand
Has Asia’s Classical Music Boom Busted?
New piano sales fell from a pre-Covid peak of 400,000 in 2019 to 200,000 in 2022. China’s imports of pianos—mainly high-end instruments for conservatory...
A Vibe Check For Summer Stock
”The competition feels stiffer (perhaps oversaturated), though artists searching for opportunities during the audition season—typically winter through spring—are finding community through research and collective...
Endangered British Indie Cinema Gets An Important Listing From Westminster City Council
For London's Prince Charles cinema, threatened with a huge rent increase, “the listing provides the local community with the right to try to raise funds...
The AI Agatha Christie Course Is Actually Not That Great
Perhaps not for the reasons you might suspect, though. “I found myself longing for someone, Aldridge perhaps, to mine Christie’s exquisite autobiography more broadly...
The Extremely Tight Choreography Of The Broadway Show Operation Mincemeat
“It’s a show where you’re always thinking about the other people onstage. … Everyone is both lead and chorus, and you really can’t have...
The Annenberg Study Is Out, And It Once Again Shows The Landscape Is Grim...
“Women make up 11.3.% of the directors in the United States, which is on par with the average. The percentage of women of color...
Will English Eventually Vanish From The Earth?
It feels unlikely right now, but why not? Almost every other language has. - The Guardian (UK)
Trump Administration Fires Head Of Copyright Office, Days After Firing Librarian Of Congress
Shira Perlmutter had been hired by also recently fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The firing came two days after Perlmutter’s office released a...
A Year Spent Photographing The Dying Changed This Artist’s Life
“What stays with him is the courage of the people who allowed him into their lives, sometimes in their last moments.” - The Guardian...
