Quebec Is Laying Down (A New, Stricter) Law On French
Or rather, in French, about French. Bill 96 limits "access to public services in English and government powers to enforce compliance, despite objections...
Archaeologists Are Mining Glasgow For Buried Treasure, From 1988
Honestly: "How does an operational railway, an entire rotunda or indeed a three-metre-tall working sculpture of a floating tap manage to go missing?" A dig (and some online appeals)...
The Zoom Adventures Of A Teenage Opera Singer
Tobin Durrant "developed a love for opera after performing pieces for his exams and being moved by the influence he said it can have...
So Wait, Viggo Mortensen Said What To Pedro Almodovar, Who Said What Back?
The only popcorn at Cannes might be in reading dueling pieces on IndieWire. - Vulture
Critics Can’t Figure Out What Was Good At Cannes
Hey Cannes, what's good? - The Guardian (UK)
The Big Bored Ape NFT Lawsuit May Not Set The Precedent Seth Green Wants...
Is the hacking of Seth Green's Bored Ape actually illegal? Perhaps not. It "illustrates the limits of the free, frictionless world promised by crypto—and...
An Indigenous Filmmaker Is Turned Away At Cannes For Wearing Moccasins
"Cannes has strict rules around formal wear on the red carpet — black tie for men, evening gowns for women — but there are accommodations for...
Hollywood Is The US Military’s Best Propagandist
This isn't new; it's been going on for nearly a century, but Top Gun really highlights the results. "Each service – army, navy, air...
The Heyday Of The New York Pay Phone
There's an archive of iconic photos even as the icons themselves disappear. - The New York Times
Artists Boycott Marquee British Art Show
The British Art Show is being staged at four venues across the city. But 26 artists have pulled out in protest after accusations of...
Artist Pays For Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Painting. Now The Painting Is Worth $272,000
The sandwich, priced at $1.95, was made with fresh bread from a local Italian bakery, aged cheddar cheese and a substantial smear of butter...
Orchestra League Launches New Commissioning Program
The initiative announced on Thursday will build on those efforts, pairing each of the six composers with five ensembles. The program, which will cost...
Stiff Sentence For Artworld Fraudster Rattles Art World
In other words, the sentence was meant to scare off or inhibit potential fraudsters with the threat of substantial incarceration time. With it, Judge...
Meet Pitchbot – Media Criticism Through Parody
With his account, NYT Pitchbot imagines the Times formula for stories as a kind of wheezing algorithm, a bot churning out contrarian headlines and half-baked hot...
Imagination Is Critical For Learning. So Why Don’t We Teach It?
Studying the imagination is the most exciting and accurate way to heal the terminal divide between the sciences and the humanities. But, more importantly,...
Today In Chutzpah: This Couple Tried To Shoplift A Basquiat
An as-yet-unidentified man and woman walked into Taglialatella Galleries in Manhattan, headed to a Basquiat screen print, searched it on their phone, took it...
The Latest AI Superpower? Describe An Image And The Computer Will Create It
In each case, the text at the bottom of the image was the prompt fed into the program, and the picture above, the output....
Yes, Happily-Ever-After Is Okay In Serious Literature
"I argue that there's something in our human DNA that seeks the Happily Ever After (HEA). ... According to researchers, these fairytale endings can...
How Pacific Northwest Ballet Is Progressing With Diversity
“The company is more racially diverse today than it was in 2020, when about 30% of the company was BIPOC. Racial identity should only...
This Young Man is A Natural Male Soprano, And He’d Like To Try Singing...
Samuel Mariño, a 29-year-old Venezuelan whose voice never dropped, specializes in Baroque castrato roles, but he sees no reason not to sing female parts....
Canada Tries To Make A Case For Internet Regulation Because Of… The Arts?
The emphasis: that material cultural and live performance follow the virtual. It’s an odd hierarchy to be asserting to an arts gathering emerging from...
Can Newcomers To Dance Follow What Happens In A Story Ballet? Christopher Wheeldon Isn’t...
"I don't think we should be afraid of tackling complex stories and not feeling like the audience has to understand every second; one of...
Today’s Students — The Problem With “Excellent Sheep”
Excellent sheephood is inherently competitive. Its purpose is to vault you into the ranks of society’s winners, to make sure that you end up...
It Takes Some Real Heroics To Keep Alaska Public Radio’s Far-Flung Stations On The...
Beyond Alaska's few cities, APR's stations are sometimes the only local ones available, "mixing Morning Edition with all flavors of music, emergency announcements, swap-and-shop...
Town Councilman In Wales Is Driven To Resign Because He Can’t Stop The Weird...
"Pembroke Dock town councilor William Gannon, age 58, was just elected earlier this month, but he couldn't quell rumors about his supposed illicit artistic...
