After Ten Years, The Light Installation On The San Francisco Bay Bridge Goes Dark
Artist Leo Villareal's "Bay Lights" was supposed to be up for two years, and it wasn't designed to withstand the elements for a decade....
Alan Alda Prompted ChatGPT To Write A New Scene For “M*A*S*H”
"Alda, who hosts a podcast called Clear+Vivid, had decided to ask the tool to write a scene for M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye accuses B.J.,...
The BBC Will Close Down Its Professional Choir And Shrink Three Of Its Orchestras...
The BBC Singers, the UK's only full-time professional vocal ensemble, will cease operations this summer, and the Corporation is offering voluntary buyouts to reduce...
David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize For Architecture
"Organizers called Chipperfield's work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic and academic buildings to urban planning to residences,...
At Heart, Revising Roald Dahl And Other Childrens Books Is About Copyright
At its core updating Roald Dahl’s children’s books is really about the rights and control copyright grants to authors and copyright holders. Those rights...
Librarians Organize To Fight Book Bans
The conference in New Orleans was equal parts group therapy and war room, as nearly 2,000 librarians from throughout the country strategized on how...
Big Orchestras Are Back In The Pits Of Broadway Theatres
Enormous is right; with more than 80 percent of the show consisting either of musical numbers or underscoring, Sweeney Todd’s 26-person orchestra rivals the 30-person...
The Scourge Of Book Blurbs
Blurbing has always had discontents. In 1936, George Orwell decried the use of blurbs in his essay “In Defense of the Novel.” He feared for the...
Do Slight Regional Variations In Orchestral Tuning Matter?
Reputedly the grand pedagogue Dorothy DeLay had her piano tuned to 443Hz, maintaining that it would make her pupils’ violins sound more brilliant; there...
The Myths (And Problems) With Meritocracy
There is little hope for meritocracy as a theory of distributive justice. The “playing field” isn’t level, there is an oversupply of talent and...
Has Morris Dancing Actually Become … Cool?
"From all-female sides to youth teams and an appearance at the Brit awards, photographer Rachel Adams has been chronicling England's oldest surviving rural tradition,...
How Is “Lived Experience” Different From Experience?
The idea of ‘truth’ as something subjective may seem odd, but nevertheless it is clear how the notion of lived experience leads in this...
The Badass Women Who Rescued Hildegard Of Bingen’s Collected Works From The Red Army
Late in her life, virtually everything Hildegard had written was copied into a 33-pound illuminated manuscript — too heavy for Soviet soldiers to loot...
Why Many Musicians Don’t Like “Tar”
While nobody expects Tár to be a documentary, it gets so much wrong that either it’s deliberately distorting reality for the sake of the plot or...
Scott Adams – How The Creator Of “Dilbert” Fell So Far So Fast
"For close observers, the story of Adams, 65, has taken a stunning turn — though in a manner that had been foreshadowed in recent...
Building A Canon Of Black Writers Of The Past
This re-engagement with Black authors of the past is being led by a fresh cohort of literary tastemakers: younger authors in search of ancestors;...
Tom Sizemore Was A Drug-Addicted Basket Case — And One Of Hollywood’s Most Compelling...
"He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into...
Why Are Movie Theatres So Bad At Showing Movies?
Now that multiplexes use automated projection, problems fall to house managers, who, in this age of austerity, may be the same overworked employees ripping...
Can The Famously Reverberant Acoustics Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Be Restored? Should They Be?
Brian Katz, co-chief of the acoustics team for the medieval cathedral's reconstruction, has created a computer model — of which we can hear samples...
Notre-Dame In Paris Sets A Reopening Date
"The reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors at the end of 2024, less than six years...
Peak TV? These Days, We’re Headed For Trough TV.
"The boom isn't just ending. It's imploding, with some (shows) being snuffed out or vaporized altogether, and the old winner-take-all logic reasserting itself. Even...
Indie Film Studio A24 Buys An Off-Broadway Theater
"The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and...
In California, The Creative Economy Is Bouncing Back From COVID Unusually Well
"The latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, an annual study from the Los Angeles arts school, found that the...
Daniel Harding Named Music Director Of Rome’s Leading Orchestra
"The 47-year-old British conductor has a ... new post at the The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra, starting in the fall of 2024....
Swamped By Demand For Vermeer Tickets, The Rijksmuseum’s Servers Just Give Up
"'Due to huge demand for extra tickets for the Vermeer exhibition, the website is experiencing problems,' the Rijksmuseum announced on Monday. 'Ticket sales have...
