Mythology Of The “Dark Ages” Belies Actual History
Today, all serious historians and archaeologists acknowledge that the cross-fertilization of “Western” and “non‐Western” cultures happened throughout human history, and that the modern West...
Bay Area Children’s Theatre Suddenly Closes
The abrupt closure comes less than three weeks after the theater, known for adapting beloved books into short musicals and for devising dance parties...
The New Executive Producer of “Jeopardy!” Is Treating It Like A Sport
Michael Davies: "I want to build an elite pyramid of competition that plays a postseason every single year at the same time. … It...
The Future Of Novels Written With AI Tools
Working with ChatGPT, an author inputs a prompt request and can choose from an infinite number of outputs. If you don’t like a paragraph...
The Contemporary Ballet That Became Modern Taiwan’s National Epic
"Performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Legacy is widely considered to be the first contemporary dance to tell the story of modern Taiwan. It...
World’s Largest Publisher Sues Florida School District Over Book Bans
Joined by free-speech advocacy group PEN America and several authors and parents, Penguin Random House filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Escambia County School District and its...
An Anti-Mafia Museum Opens In Sicily
"The publicly- and privately-funded museum will open in Palermo's 18th-century neoclassical Palazzo Jung palace, sources report. Joining an existing No Mafia Memorial and museum,...
New AI Bot Can Analyze A Book In Seconds
To demonstrate how this improves the AI's performance, Anthropic loaded the entire text of The Great Gatsby (72,000 tokens) with one line modified from...
The Art And Practice Of Nude Standup Comedy
"Public speaking is always ranked in polls as among our greatest fears. Stand-up must be worse. But 'The Naked Comedy Show'? This monthly showcase...
An Agreement On The Parthenon Marbles?
“I would just say that we are, without changing … our fundamental position about the ownership of the sculptures, we’re trying to explore a...
The New York Times Tries Out “Enhanced Bylines”
"Stories online will no longer include a traditional dateline that tells where a story was reported from. Instead, certain stories will have 'enhanced bylines'...
TikTok Creators Sue Montana Over Its Ban Of The App
"Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an...
COVID Cost California’s Performing Arts Sector Ten Years’ Worth Of Job Growth
"California's performing arts sector lost a decade's worth of jobs within a two-year period, with 2021 employment dropping to 2010 levels, according to a...
Spoleto Festival USA Tries Out A Pay-What-You-Will Ticket Program
"An anonymous donation this year made affordable rates for a quarter of the festival's shows possible, (subsidizing) about 1,300 tickets, valued at about $50,000....
Amid Italy’s Catastrophic Floods, Museums Close, And One Becomes An Emergency Shelter
It's still too early to assess damage to museums and heritage sites in Emilia-Romagna, where 13 people have died and 10,000 are displaced amid...
Salman Rushdie Makes First In-Person Appearance Since Attempted Murder
"Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event's...
Of Racism, Music And Musicology
John McWhorter on musicologist Philp Ewell's new book: "The assumption, then, is that the “whiteness” or “maleness” of any given proposition must automatically be...
Canada Sets New Canadian Content Rules For Streaming Music
Before C-11, online broadcasters were under no obligation to stream any Canadian content. In essence, Bill C-11 looks to put streaming and other Internet...
The English National Opera Does Eurovision
This all feels like ENO letting off some steam. For an hour on a Tuesday afternoon in May, a group of musicians, blissfully under-rehearsed...
From Global Star To… What Happened To Valery Gergiev
Sources close to him report that Gergiev—who, before the war, would drop by the theater three or four times a month—now spends most of...
Survey: Audiences Uncertain About Using AI For Movie/TV Scripts
According to the survey, consumers remain uncertain about how they feel about the use of AI in the entertainment industry, but they’re also open...
Why Buzzfeed And Vice Fail And The NYT Is Thriving
Reversals of fortune are nothing unusual in the news business. But in the last few weeks it’s been gobsmacking to see Vice facing bankruptcy and BuzzFeed shuttering its...
Immersive Theater Meets Mexican Masked Wrestling
Aa a joint project of the La Jolla Playhouse and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, designer David Israel Reynoso and theater company...
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Understanding Iceland’s Musical DNA
There's a very small population in Iceland, and people tend to do everything. You might be playing in the symphony orchestra in the morning, in...
Culture Is Now Utterly Boring, Argues William Deresiewicz, And It’s Because Of Far More...
"Decent we have, sometimes even good: well-made, professional. But wild, indelible, commanding us without appeal to change our lives? I don't think we even...
