New Technology That Reads A Movie Audience To Alter The Plot
Using this data from the brain, audiences create a non-conscious edit of the film in real time – reinforcing the films’ respective stories of science-fiction dystopia...
A Headlong Scramble To Protect Artists In A Time Of AI
Collective campaigns, lawsuits, international rules and IT hacks are all being deployed at speed on behalf of the creative industries in an effort, if...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only West African City With Libraries Full Of Priceless Medieval Manuscripts
The oasis town of Chinguetti in north-central Mauritania, a major trans-Saharan trading stop in centuries past, has 13 libraries housing more than 6,000 manuscripts....
In Our Distraction Maze, It May Be That Slower Art Becomes More Valuable
Paradoxically, we may come to want the things that we cannot have in an instant, that demand our time and patience before they will reveal...
How Does A Public Radio Star Cope With Hearing Loss? Ask Mary Louise Kelly
"When I'm anchoring, I never have trouble, because the NPR studio is soundproof — there's no background noise to distract you, and I wear...
The Museum Director Who Stayed In Ukraine To Protect Culture
Her ideas of war had come from art—from photographs of the devastated city of Warsaw, which appeared deserted in the still images; from books...
A Shostakovich Operetta About Australia’s Housing Crisis
"What could be more pressing than an operetta about the housing crisis? This is something that everybody in Australia is grappling with at the...
Just How Important Is Identity To Who You Are?
In an identity crisis we question our purpose in life, what our role or place in society is, what values we ought to be...
Iranian Women Are Posting Protest Videos On TikTok, Dancing Without Headscarves
Earlier this month a video of five teen girls dancing -- bareheaded, outdoors -- to the Rema/Selena Gomez hit "Calm Down" went viral. The...
The Ideas About Threats To Truth That Orwell And Camus Shared
The political turbulence of twentieth-century Europe forced both Camus and Orwell to confront the question of truth as a matter of necessity, even and...
Can Streaming Broadway Shows Help Sell In-Person Tickets? Very Possibly, If It Can Be...
"While the general consensus among industry experts is that digital access provides an opportunity for Broadway to reach new audiences and tap new revenue...
Playwrights Sarah Ruhl And Samuel D. Hunter On Religion And Theater
Hunter: "I think people have been really reticent to talk about spirituality or religion in these kinds of 'secular spaces.'" Ruhl: "For me, theater...
The Met Museum Is Reclassifying Some Formerly “Russian” Works As Ukrainian. It’s Not Going...
For a start, one of the artists reclassified as Ukrainian was, in fact, an ethnic Armenian, as New York's Armenian-American community was very quick...
Yes, Negative Headlines Work, But They Don’t Have To Be Angry Or Frightening: Study
A large survey of click stats from Upworthy.com (!) found that headlines with negative words had a higher clickthrough rate than those with positive...
Is The Indoor Plaza At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Is Finally Becoming A Genuine Public...
"The Kimmel Center was trumpeted as Philadelphia's fifth public square — an 18-hour-per-day, seven-day-a-week arts center where you could show up anytime and find...
Contractors Renovating A Kitchen Uncover 17th-Century Friezes
The murals, believed to date from between 1635 and 1699, are in a one-bedroom apartment in the old walled city of York in northern...
After 41 Years, Beloved NPR Veteran Sylvia Poggioli Is Retiring
"Sylvia's wide-ranging, often hard-hitting and always rich storytelling helped NPR distinguish itself in its early years as a news organization with deep interest in...
Ranked Choice: Enjoying Art Is About Reacting
Criticism is not an unerring ranking system but a form of personal expression, and a good review is not right (or not only right)...
Warning: We Need New Laws To Protect Artists From AI Creative Theft
Big Tech has successfully skated through legal matters for years, waving the banner of “permissionless innovation.” - Washington Post
The BBC Used To Be Champions Of Culture
Something seems to have gone terribly awry at the BBC when it comes to classical music. - The Critic
Adam Sandler Wins The Mark Twain Prize
“As I look at this goofy award, I can’t help but think that one day it just might be the weapon used to bludgeon...
Does Anyone Read Professional Reviews Anymore?
Good criticism can provide that context — historical or theoretical or even economic — and some vocabulary for discussing musical taste. It can help...
Orange County Museum Of Art’s New Building: Bettter, But…
It’s easy to dump on the contractors. But the contractors didn’t design this overwrought building, nor did they commission it. That falls to the...
Can You Copyright AI-Generated Work? Right Now It’s Complicated
Perhaps the most significant aspect of the guidance is an author’s “duty to disclose the inclusion of AI-generated content in a work submitted for...
AI Is Less A Search Engine Than It Is A Librarian
The problem is that even when these systems are wrong only 10% of the time, you don’t know which 10%. People also don’t have...
