Director Joe Mantello On Time In “Death Of A Salesman”
“One of the questions I always have is whether Willy is having flashbacks, or if he has some kind of dementia. … Miller said...
Musicians Are Using AI At All Levels. They Don’t Want To Talk About It
Tech companies with billion-dollar valuations are extracting value from copyrighted music on the internet and selling it as a service: making music-making easier and,...
A 60s Art Experiment That Redefined How We Think About Creativity
The discovery of this “problem-finding” creative process was a seminal moment in creativity research. In the decades since, countless researchers have shown that many of the...
Hundreds Of Musicians Call For Eurovision Boycott Of Israel
This year’s list is organized by the “No Music for Genocide” initiative, which also calls on anti-Israel artists to have their music geo-blocked inside...
Montreal Symphony Gives Rafael Payare Five More Years And New Title
His contract, which was to expire in summer 2027, has been extended through the 2031-32 season, and the Venezuelan-born conductor’s title is now Music...
Another Human Threshold Crossed: Robot Beats Elite Ping Pong Players
Named Ace, the robotic system developed by Sony AI, won three out of five matches against elite players, but lost the two it played...
How AI Is Already Changing How People Read
“I believe AI can simultaneously solve the problem of not knowing what to read and the difficulty of maintaining consistent reading habits.” Subscription-based reading...
A Pioneering Greek Arts Institution Calls It Quits: “We’ve Done What We’ve Set Out...
NEON goes out on a high note after 14 successful years of exhibitions, performances and initiatives that enriched Greece’s art scene. - Ekathimerini
Book Publishing’s Latest Demographic Category: “New Adult”
“Young Adult” fiction, despite its name, is aimed at teenagers; the "New Adult” category covers actual young adults, 18 to 24 or so. Four...
V&A East Museum Opens With A Very Different Lens On Art
V&A East’s boxy, beige facade, pierced by pointed shards of window, was concocted by Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey and has received mixed reviews. Its futuristic appeal does,...
30-Year Copyright Case In EU Finally Settles
The initial court ruling "was subsequently appealed, overturned and referred on several occasions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), resulting in a three-decade long...
Layoffs At Artnet And Artsy
Days after layoffs at Artnet and Artsy shook the art world, investor and owner Andrew E. Wolff has offered his clearest explanation yet for the cuts, framing them as part...
Algeria’s Leading Author Says He’s Been Sentenced To Prison For His Prize-Winning Novel
Kamel Daoud, who lives in France, said that a court in Oran fined him five million Algerian dinars ($38,000) and sentenced him to three...
Michael Tilson Thomas Is Dead At 81
“He was widely considered one of the most distinguished American conductors of his generation” — most notably for his 25 years as music director...
Pianist Ruth Slenczynska, Rachmaninoff’s Last Surviving Student, Has Died At 101
She gave her first recital at four and performed her first concerto at seven, going on to tour with the Boston Pops, play for...
Tiktok’s Biggest Star Had A Nearly-Billion-Dollar AI Deal. How Did It Fall Apart?
This past January, Khaby Lame, a Senegalese-Italian who has 160 million followers for his Chaplin-esque silent TikTok shorts, signed a $975 billion deal with...
What The Kennedy Center’s Chief Showed Journalists To Prove The Building Really Does Need...
“A theme emerged at virtually every stop: The water damage was real, apparent in some places through discoloration and pooling. Some pieces of equipment,...
San Francisco’s Broken-Down Brutalist Fountain Will Be Hauled Away Starting Next Week
“The first phase — removing grout from the massive concrete sculpture and cataloging the pieces for future reassembly — will take at least a week,...
Yet Another Tourist Climbs On The Statuary In Florence And Breaks It
A 28-year-old visitor caused thousands of euros in damage when she climbed the fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria because her friends...
The Bard Died 410 Years Ago Today. His Poems Live On
Sometimes he rewrote them. See an example and decide which you prefer: the early or the later version.
In Honour of Shakespeare’s Birthday, A Six-Minute, Five-Act Play
To think that music hath the charms to heal!
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He Wrote The Hit Torch Songs of The Elizabethan Age
“(John) Dowland was well regarded; (he) was also well-connected, cosmopolitan and at times unusually well-remunerated for his work. Yet his musical expression was dominated...
Competitive Chess Is Wearing Down Its Champions
Life in chess has always been a struggle, never more so than today. During the two-year battle for the 2024 world chess championship, I saw...
The Best Thing About LACMA’s New Building
In a startling and largely gratifying way, LACMA has done what the poet Audre Lorde, alluding to a different but not unrelated aspect of...
