Is Broadway Really Changing?
The number of people of color who were in this past season was just staggering to me. But that’s not the question. The question...
Books As Weapons
Books carry knowledge, and knowledge is power, which makes books a threat to authorities – governments and self-appointed leaders alike – who want to...
How London’s Southbank Is Trying To Change The Classical Music Experience
The changes he goes on to detail might seem like small tweaks to a potential concert-goer but are a bigger deal in a juggernaut...
What Ballet Hispánico Looks For In Its Dancers
Artistic director Eduardo Vilaro: "I need their personalities to reach the highest heights of a theater. I don’t like deadpan dancers. And musicality —...
What Your Texting Etiquette Says About You
It’s ironic. Texting was meant to make communication easier, but it can be much harder to discern someone’s tone over text, especially with inflections...
A New Hemingway Archive At Penn State Has Just Been Opened To Researchers
"The material includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts, hundreds of photographs, bundles of correspondence and boxes of personal effects that experts say...
How Social Media Has Rewired Our Interactions
Wading through digital sewage is the upfront cost of using these sites. Less obviously, we pay with our attention and creativity, freely providing the...
Marlene Dietrich And The Art Of Creating A Persona
"Dietrich learnt from von Sternberg exactly how lighting could accentuate every hollow and curve in her face.... She would sometimes refer to herself in...
Picture Giant Getty Images Bans AI-Generated Images
"There are real concerns with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and unaddressed rights issues with respect to the imagery, the...
Machine Translation Still Isn’t Perfect, And Expecting Too Much Of It Could Be Dangerous...
"Ordering a coffee in a foreign country or translating lyrics can only do so much harm, but think about emergency situations involving firefighters, police,...
AI-Created Art Is Already Changing Art
“It's really easy to look at something from far away and say it's scary. When people actually use it, the attitudes are very different....
Sussing Out The Earliest History Of The Printing Press In Europe And Asia
For instance, was there any connection between Gutenberg's first printing of the Bible in 1455 and the first known document ever printed, 77 years...
George Lucas’s Museum Of Narrative Art Keeps Postponing Its Opening, But It’s Buying Plenty...
"This week, (the MNA) in Los Angeles announced that its opening has again been delayed, this time to 2025. ... But with the announcement...
The New International African American Museum Will Be About Slavery, But It Won’t Be...
"We have a real emphasis on cultural-competency training and cultural-empathy training with our staff," says the director, Dr. Tonya Matthews. "But ... there is...
The Atlantic Is Making A Big Move Into TV And Film
"The company, which expects to lose roughly $10 million again this year, needs to build another revenue stream to continue on its path to...
The Golden Globes Are Coming Back To TV Next Year — And On NBC,...
"The ceremony will return to the Beverly Hilton in time for its 80th anniversary on Tuesday, Jan. 10." (Does this mean the hosts and...
The Prado Begins A Restitution Process For Works Stolen By The Fascists During The...
"On Tuesday, the Madrid museum released a list of 25 works that it identified as potentially having been (confiscated from their owners during the...
At The San Francisco Symphony, Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss
"Matthew Spivey, 41, joined the Symphony staff in 2015 as chief programming officer. ... When his predecessor, Mark C. Hanson, stepped down as CEO...
Jean-Luc Godard’s Singular Place In The Movies
Godard understood film history as a text to be referenced, criticized, and revised. Entering into the field with a fully developed sense of the...
Why Do Some Art Heists Capture Our Imagination?
Art either captivates the public or it doesn’t, and the same, it would seem, is true of art heists. Some enthrall us with their...
Reinventing Long Wharf Theatre: Brave New World?
The theatre’s leadership insists that they’re not setting out to create a new theatre from scratch, but rather to build on Long Wharf’s legacy....
The Future Of American Regional Theatre: Out Of Buildings?
Earlier this year, we came to a decision that was years in the making: to leave our current home of 57 years and venture...
AI Can Impersonate Voices And The Deepfakes Are Hard To Spot
Deepfakes have brought with them a new level of uncertainty around digital media. To detect deepfakes, many researchers have turned to analyzing visual artifacts –...
Why Business As Usual May Kill Your Non-Profit
Did it become “comfortable” when leaders believed that the path of least resistance in business settings — kowtow to those to whom you report...
Uncle Jack Charles, Actor, Activist, And Hero Of Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, Is Dead At...
A member of the Stolen Generation, he struggled repeatedly with crime and addition earlier in his adult life; he also founded Australia's first Aboriginal...
