Can An Artificial Intelligence Truly Make Great Art?
Talking with a man who won a photography contest with an AI-produced image, "you definitely get this feeling of almost resentment toward human artists,...
It’s Time To Re-Evaluate Ralph Vaughan Williams
"Writing with clarity of vision is tricky given how embedded Vaughan Williams is in British musical culture. He wore many hats in his time:...
Tina Ramirez Founded Ballet Hispanico On A Shoestring
The dancer and choreographer, who built the ballet from that tiny beginning to "the country’s leading Hispanic dance performance and education troupe," has died...
The Pacific Northwest Ballet At 50
PNB "is basking in the aftermath of successful summer tours" to NY and LA. "With almost 40 dancers on full-time contract, its own critically...
Who Will Win, And Who Should Win, The Emmys This Year?
Will Abbott Elementary and Succession live up to their nomination numbers? Will the voters give everything - again - to Ted Lasso? - Los...
An Increase In Art About A Taboo Topic
Abortion: Yes, artists make art about it. But they'd kept it somewhat quiet for years. Now? Everything's on the table - and in some...
Writers Need To Put Some Thought Into Building Trust With Readers
And that doesn't just mean adding werewolves to chapter one. - LitHub
Some Scientists Have Fallen A Little Too Hard For The Multiverse
The author of a new book argues that while math can give some pretty cool possibilities, the real-world evidence isn't there. She argues that...
James Stewart Polshek, Architect Who Steadfastly Designed For Humans, Has Died At 92
Polshek was the opposite of a starchitect. He "went the other way, embracing a modest approach to architecture that prioritized a design’s social value...
The Future Of A James Joyce Museum Is No Longer In Doubt
Volunteers held the line for a decade, but now local government has stepped in to save and shore up the tower in Dublin where...
The Danish Musician Who Powers His Concerts With Wind And Batteries
The average outdoor concert, powered by diesel generators, "releases 500 metric tons of carbon dioxide—that’s roughly the same as driving 100 gas-powered cars in...
Images Of Queen Elizabeth II Dominated British Life For Decades
Even protest art understood what she meant to Britain. "If you don’t care about something, you don’t need to deface it. In 1977, only...
A Documentary About Photographer Nan Goldin Wins The Golden Lion At Venice
Filmmaker Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed takes home the top prize, rare for a documentary. "The film examines Goldin’s art, life...
A Kidnapped Goddess Returns To Italy
"More than 70 stolen antiquities, some more than 2,000 years old, were seized from collections in the U.S. and returned to their native countries...
San Francisco Opera At 100
From modest beginnings in 1922, the company has grown and blossomed to become one of the preeminent organizations in American opera. - San Francisco...
The Internet Should Be Public Space. It’s Not. Time To De-Privatize?
There’s a lot of discussion today, including in Congress, about why parts of the web are so toxic and what to do about it—better content...
The Tangled Strings Around Freedom Of Speech
Free speech requires a robust exchange of views without the coercion of threats and violence, and self-censorship in response to social pressure is a...
Why We Need To Think About Science Literacy In A Different Way
Several lines of contemporary scholarship emphasize what might be gained by moving from a focus on science education to a focus on reciprocal power-sharing,...
Messy City, Clean City: The Tension That Makes London London
This distinction between the messy and the neat, the organic and the planned, helps us understand why London so often dislikes modern buildings. Modern...
Reconsidering Gauguin (In Fiction)
Daisy Lafarge’s debut novel, Paul, takes a unique approach to an ongoing question: How, in the age of the #MeToo movement, should we interact with...
Could Climate Change Wipe Out Australia’s Summer Outdoor Theatre Scene?
"As the climate becomes more unpredictable, and extreme heat, violent storms and bushfire smoke more common, Australian producers are being forced to grapple with...
A Life Well-Lived: Remembering Lars Vogt
Vogt brought people together in many places and on many levels: at his Spannungen festival in Heimbach, Germany, which became a musical home for...
How Do You Revive Bob Fosse’s “Dancin'” Without Bob Fosse?
Choreographer Christine Colby Jacques and director Wayne Cilento, who both were in the original 1978 production, are re-creating (a word Colby Jacques doesn't like)...
How Today’s Billionaires Distort And Impede Things We Care About
The great fortunes of today's robber-barons have a vast, distorting influence on our society, bending our most urgent projects away from evidence-based policy and...
This One Cool Trick Gets Completely Intact Language Past China’s Censoring Software
That software, like the rest of the government of the People's Republic, uses Mandarin Chinese. It doesn't read Cantonese. - Quartz
