Are We Doomed To Repeat The Mistakes Of Futurism?
"Technological changes may seem inevitable, but they often come down to one person making an arbitrary choice. If Henry Ford had decided to build electric cars...
Confessional: My Job Was To Keep You Bored And Endlessly Clicking
"I was privy to the click maps provided by newsletter services like Mailchimp; I added up likes and comments and shares and divided them...
What These Two Michael Jackson Impersonators Say About A Divide In Argentine Culture
Mr. Garcia, 33, and Mr. Blanco, 26, have both dedicated their lives to transforming themselves into the same pop star. But for all the...
Many Are Looking To Cash In On Making NFTs Of Traditional Art
Museums, collectors, artist estates and others are "exploring NFTs of traditional art to build support, protect and conserve work, and bring in a new...
We’ve Made Idols Of Tech Innovators. We Were Wrong
Our nation once idolized astronauts and civil-rights leaders who inspired hope and empathy. Now it worships tech innovators who generate billions and move financial...
The New Arts Censorship
‘Art is about allowing people not to have limits on their imaginations. So if audiences are starting to look for something political in the...
That Old Chestnut: The Meaning Of Life
Analytic philosophers avoided the subject of meaning in life till relatively recently. The standard explanation is that they associated it with the meaning of life question...
Choreographer Ralph Lemon Wins The Whitney Biennial’s Top Prize
"An influential choreographer and conceptual artist, (Lemon) won the Whitney Museum's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, which goes to one artist in the Whitney Biennial every...
OpenAI Releases Universal Translator That Translates Any Language To English
With the proper setup, Whisper could easily be used to transcribe interviews, podcasts, and potentially translate podcasts produced in non-English languages to English on...
Melissa Barak, Los Angeles Ballet’s New Artistic Director, Talks About Her Plans
"I want us to do everything from experimental work to some story ballets or reimagined classics. There are certain neoclassical choreographers I would like...
First Look Inside Paul Allen’s Billion-Dollar Art Collection
While the sale was announced in August, now, for the first time, the auction house has begun to divulge what those treasures are. - The New...
Is Unboxed (The “Festival Of Brexit”) A £120 Million Waste Of Taxpayers’ Money? Or...
On the waste-of-money side are several MPs, including one who's asked the National Audit Office to investigate the festival. Unboxed's chief creative officer insists...
Disney Heiress’ New Documentary Exposes Deplorable Theme Park Working Conditions
One out of every 10 full-time workers was homeless at some point in the previous two years, and two-thirds didn’t have enough money to...
“If We Want To Preserve It, We Need An Intervention”: Five Suggestions For Repairing...
Is it too expensive? Too inaccessible for performers without money? Too crowded? Too concentrated? Just too damned big? With so many people saying the...
The Scandalous Origins Of The Family Theme Park
London's Pleasure Gardens transformed the concept of leisure. Offering an environment in which societal norms could be cast aside, if only for a few...
Are There Now So Many Podcasts That The Format Has Simply Turned Into On-Demand...
"It's difficult to cement a medium's sense of identity, culture, and meaning if hardly anybody is talking about the same thing — and that...
TikTok Is Cracking Down On Political Videos
"Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, TikTok announced Wednesday it is banning of campaign fundraising on its platform. It also announced new policies for...
Can Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts Bring New Audiences To Classical Music? Yes.
Price isn't the only barrier for a classical newcomer, but it's a big one, and the few American organizations that have tried pay-what-you-wish —...
Does Getting Banned Really Help A Book Sell Better? Very Rarely, And Here’s Why.
"A staggering 82 to 97 percent of book challenges go unreported on. That means these books, the overwhelming majority, don't even make it beyond...
Minnesota Orchestra’s Musicians Have A New Four-Year Contract
"Effective immediately, the new contract replaces a two-year deal signed during the pandemic in September 2020, which required a 25% pay cut for the...
Author Hilary Mantel Has Died Suddenly At Age 70
The tremendous success of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light) led to a reassessment...
$100K Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Senga Nengudi
"Working across sculpture, installation, performance, dance, film, and photography, Nengudi is best-known for her R.S.V.P. series. ... These pantyhose sculptures are often filled with...
Trying To Understand Cravings
If excessively strong cravings were simply the result of drugs corrupting the reward systems in the brain, they should be produced across individuals who...
The Price Of Child Stardom (And What It Says About Us)
It shouldn’t shock us that many of them had uncomfortable and even traumatic experiences. Memoirs by Sarah Polley and Jennette McCurd force us to confront why we...
New Official Space Force Song Is… Really… (Well, Take A Listen And Decide)
After the Space Force released the song and a “behind the music” video on Tuesday, some public reactions were scathing. - The New York...
