Donald Runnicles Closes Out Two Decades With The Atlanta Symphony
Undoubtedly, there will be great guest conductors in our future. But Runnicles created his own two-decade golden age of Atlanta Symphony history, one that...
The Moral Ambiguity Divide: How Gen Xers And Millennials See The World
While Gen Xers grew up with the moral gray areas and disdain for authority, Millennials were raised on Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, neither of which would...
There Was That Moment Computers Started Beating Humans At Chess. Now They Will Start...
We’re living a new, much broader Deep Blue moment, when the basic boundary lines between the outer limits of what machines and humans can...
The Arts’ Power To Influence Behavior To Address Climate Change
Diego Galafassi, who researches the role of the arts in sustainability, argues the arts can foster the disposition and imagination required to address the climate crisis. Arts activities...
The Art Of Blurbs (Ads In Hiding)
Blurb, then, is a twentieth-century euphemism for a particular kind of advertisement, one that uses evaluation as a figleaf for a sales pitch. In...
Chicago Opera Theatre Appoints New General Director
Lawrence Edelson founded American Lyric Theater in 2005, building a model organization for presenting and fostering new opera. He also recently concluded a successful...
Greece’s Prime Minister Seeks An “Innovative,” “Win-Win” Solution To The Parthenon Marbles Dispute —...
"We will never recognize that these sculptures are owned, legally owned by the British Museum,” said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. "But again, we have...
Striking Writers Focus Anger On Netflix
Demonstrations over the past week have underscored just how much writers have soured on the company. In Los Angeles, Netflix’s Sunset Boulevard headquarters have...
Neutraface — The Typeface Of Gentrification?
"Maybe you recognize it from the Shake Shack nameplate. ... Even if you think you've never seen it before, if you step outside, you...
Illinois Legislature To Consider Ban On Book Bans
As per the bill, the $62 million of funding that goes to the state’s libraries will only be eligible for said funding if they “adopt...
Lumberyard Is Selling Its Upstate New York Headquarters And Pivoting Away From Dance
The facility only opened in 2018, and by the following year, demand for its technical rehearsal residency was nearly outrunning supply. Then the pandemic...
The Differences Between Non-Fiction In The UK And Non-Fiction In The US
At least on the face of it, the mainstream of US nonfiction is stately, thorough, chronological and substantial; whereas British nonfiction is slant, whimsical,...
Salman Rushdie Gives Rare Post-Stabbing Public Speech
"Nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, (he warned) that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe threat...
Los Angeles Opera, Post-Placido Domingo
“By most criteria, other than audience attendance, the company is in significantly better shape than it’s been in its 38-year history." - The New...
A Florida Teacher Is Under Investigation For “Indoctrination” Because She Showed Her Class A...
"Jenna Barbee, a fifth-grade Florida teacher, is under investigation by the Florida Department of Education after showing her class the animated Disney movie Strange...
Claire Chase, Flute Superhero
She's commissioned an extraordinary amount of new repertory for the flute (in all its ranges, from piccolo to contrabass), her colleagues are thrilled by...
A Student Warns Professors: We’re Already Using ChatGPT Far More Than You Realize
"In reality, it's very easy to use AI to do the lion's share of the thinking while still submitting work that looks like your...
How The Barnes Foundation Fights Off The Hordes Of Tiny Art Vandals
No, this isn't about young protesters from Just Stop Oil gluing themselves to Renoirs. It's about moths, mostly, and other pests that might eat,...
Tony Awards Broadcast Will Go Ahead, But Not As Usual, With OK From Writers’...
"Organizers 'are altering this year’s show to conform with specific requests from the WGA, and therefore the WGA will not be picketing the show.'...
Vice Media Declares Bankruptcy And Will Be Sold
"After weeks of speculation, Vice Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. … The company added that a consortium that includes Fortress, Soros...
L.A. Phil Chief Chad Smith Named CEO Of Boston Symphony
"Chad Smith, who ... traces some of his most formative musical experiences to Boston's Symphony Hall, was named Monday as the next president and...
Google’s AI Will Likely Be Quite Boring
As the company moves the technology into more of its products, perhaps the generative AI revolution will turn out to be a lot less...
Hollywood’s Luddites
The Luddites were not some group of fanatics trying to slow the march of history. They were workers trying to protect their livelihood from...
Streaming Music’s Big Bot Fakes Problem
Fake streaming is an industry-wide problem that goes beyond AI-made music. A French study found that between 1 and 3 percent of all music streamed across various...
How We Know What We Know
Simon Winchester worries “that today’s all-too-readily available stockpile of information will lead to a lowered need for the retention of knowledge, a lessening of...
