Hollywood’s Difficulty In Grappling With What AI Will Do To It
AI isn’t just another flash-in-the-pan techno-bauble, like VR headsets, the “metaverse,” or NFTs. It’s actually revolutionary. The insistence betrays the measure of anxiety one might expect...
Why Being A Writer Is No Longer A Profession
Today, by some estimates, the average freelance journalist is paid around $0.25 to $0.50 per word, and at the highest-paying glossies, rates have hovered...
“The Dawn Of The Three-Minute Heist”: Considering The Fallout From The Latest Museum Robbery
“How and why is this incident different from the Louvre theft, which targeted the royal jewels? How will investigations play out? Perhaps most importantly,...
The “South Park” Guys Have A Successful AI Company. They Named It Deep Voodoo.
“If a studio or production house needs something shape-shifting or face-switching, chances are they’ll call Parker & Stone. And chances are something strange —...
Last Year Rome’s Cinecittà Studios Hemorrhaged Money. Hollywood Has Saved Them.
“Italy’s Cinecittà Studios are back in the black with a small but significant €1.1 million ($1.2 million) operating profit for the fiscal year of 2025,...
Mad Dog at the FBI Is Sued in the Noonday Sun
Fired FBI agents are suing the bureau and Kash Patel for dismissing them because they took part in an investigation of el presidente Trumpscheisse’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Jeremy O. Harris Was Quite Productive During His Three Weeks In A Japanese Prison
In a paywalled essay in Vanity Fair, the playwright/actor/screenwriter/impresario writes that he read 23 books, finished an outline he owed to a film studio,...
Lara St. John Says She Paid No Damages To Settle Jonathan Carney’s Defamation Lawsuit
“No monies were paid to settle the litigation or to secure Mr. Carney’s signature,” the violinist wrote. “There has never been a personal campaign...
Doing the Right Thing With Nonprofit Arts Organizations: “Like Walking in High Heels Through...
...while the attention to charity has evolved, the nonprofit arts behemoth class has not.
America’s First Fully Nonprofit Newspaper Is Dropping Its Online Paywall
“The Salt Lake Tribune is in a unique position among American newspapers, having converted to nonprofit status in 2019. In the years since, it’s achieved financial stability and...
2,500-Year-Old Golden Helmet Stolen Last Year Has Been Found
A gang of robbers used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in the northern Netherlands in January of last year. They smashed display cases and...
Was Richard Wagner a “Monster”?
In Verdi, the elephants are in Aida. In Wagner, the elephant in the room is a pamphlet: “Judaism and Music.” It seems the Rosetta Stone of Wagner scholarship, the central text that lays bare what lurks hidden in his life and work. Beyond a doubt, it is an egregious text,
Lego Set To Release Its Largest-Ever Set, Of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia In Barcelona
News of the upcoming set, part of the company’s Architecture series, was leaked by a long-time leaker known as Chief Wiggum, whose predictions have proven...
Compelling Video Games About Managing Stores???
Retro Rewind is the latest in a category called “store simulators”—games that basically create bottled versions of hourly-wage drudgery. Set in the ’90s, the game...
50 Years Ago, This Fairuz Song Became Lebanon’s Great Anthem Of Hope. Now The...
Through year after year and decade after decade of turmoil, Fairuz’s “Bahebak Ya Lebnan” (“I Love You, Lebanon”) inspired hope and pride in the...
Ben Affleck’s Company (Which Netflix Just Bought) Says It Can Save “Millions” In Production...
The reductions made possible by InterPositive‘s technology would be “substantial” on below-the-line production, “conservatively” reaching at least 10% to 20%, the application said. - Deadline
Trump And The Golden Idol In His Proposed “Library”
There is one recent development upon which we really should all agree — erecting a gold statue of President Trump in the middle of...
You Can’t Sell Famous Stolen Art. So Why Steal It?
The items stolen are clearly valuable. But, as an expert in the governance of criminal markets, I can tell you acquiring the goods is only the...
Why Are Arguments About “Project Hail Mary” All Over Social Media?
“With the movie’s release came a flurry of social media posts, as audiences debated everything one could possibly imagine to be a potential topic for debate....
How The Publishing World Works Systemically
Yes, literature is structured by institutions that serve their own self-interest, but that self-interest requires a lot of other people to give them their labor at...
Met Museum’s First-Ever Native American Curator Resigns
Patricia Norby had been hired to great fanfare, as both the first person to hold the role at the Met and the first Native American...
Roundabout Theatre Company Reopens Todd Haimes Theatre On Broadway
The Todd Haimes Theatre is one of five spaces owned by Roundabout, including Studio 54 and the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway. The current...
Melvin Edwards, Influential Sculptor Of Steel Assemblages, Has Died At 88
“Working primarily with found steel objects, Edwards created masses of hooks, chains, and beams, some of which were abstracted beyond recognition. His titles …...
Growing Recognition: Our Arts Models Need Reinvention
We now operate in a landscape of cultural abundance – of content, of participation and of alternative platforms for meaning-making (if not direct investment)....
Australia’s New Idea For Arts Funding
Creative Australia is testing a new model for financing organisations to be named the Creative Industries Impact Fund, by working with donors to raise...
