How War-Torn Ukraine, With The World’s Help, Is Trying To Protect Its Heritage
Ukrainian institutions and individuals, with support from UNESCO, the Getty Trust, World Monuments Fund, and others, are cataloguing damage, digitizing archives, and "winterizing" monuments...
Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Artistic Director Announces His Departure
"André Lewis, 68, has been (at the company) for nearly 50 years, first as student, then as company dancer, then as artistic director and...
School Book Bans Are A Losing Political Issue: Poll
A recent YouGov survey found that a majority of Republicans favors such restrictions, but Democrats and independents are very much against them. And when...
Warner Bros. Sues Paramount For $500 Million Dollars Over “South Park”
"Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit against Paramount Friday, claiming the rival media company breached its half-billion-dollar exclusivity contract with HBO Max by airing...
“A Different-Shaped Company”: English National Opera CEO Outlines A Hoped-For Transformation
Stuart Murphy says that the plans currently taking shape in talks with Arts Council England call for large-scale proscenium opera remaining at the Coliseum...
Pittsburgh Symphony Is Starting A New Series of Casual Concerts
At the PSO Disrupt series, ... the concerts will last only about an hour and a half or less. A host will guide listeners...
Rise Of The Online “Event”
The word event was once reserved for more special occasions. But now Zoom is doing to the word event what Facebook did to the word friend; Just as most...
US Plan To Raise Visa Fees For Artists To $1,615 Will Stop Most Artists...
The US immigration service wants to raise visa costs from $460 (£385) to $1,615 (£1,352) alongside other changes that artists and their managers say...
How Linguistic Diversity Plays Out In English
Polyglot texts (texts using multiple languages) have become increasingly common; they are salvos fired against arrogant monolingualism. Monolingual English speakers would do best to...
Is It Time To Take The Metaverse Seriously?
It’s easy to imagine many productive uses of the metaverse, from educational to virtual meetings to entertainment. And most of these are already underway in some...
We’re All Afraid Of Losing Our Memory. But Remembering Everthing Can Be Debilitating
A ceaseless and faultless archive of mental images is instantly available; every configuration of clouds he has ever witnessed can be compared to the...
Canadian Actor Gordon Pinsent, 92
The Grand Falls, N.L., native and Canadian household name had a storied acting career spanning dozens of films and TV projects over six decades,...
When Dinosaur Encyclopedias Strode The World
From the 18th century to the 21st, the stats keep rising — number of words, number of entries, number of volumes — and the...
Science Fiction Magazines Have Been Inundated With Chatbot-Generated Stories
The editors of three science fiction magazines — Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction — said this week...
AI Is One Thing, But AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Takes It To The Next...
Unlike existing, but newly popular, artificial intelligence (AI) systems which are designed to perform specific tasks such as image recognition, speech recognition, and natural...
Big Sporting Events Are Showing Us The Future Of Our Dystopian Surveillance Society
Sports are a harbinger of a future of surveillance that is more intrusive, multitudinous, and expansive. But they aren’t just showing us the future. Sometimes, they’re...
How Did Jonathan Majors Get To Be In Every Movie, Everywhere, All At Once?
It all started when he was forced to take a theatre class after getting in trouble as a kid. - NPR
It’s Super Secret Oscar Ballot Season
And, from the super secret ballots revealed in their entirety here, it sure looks like Todd Field is going to win Best Director for...
Ukraine Issues A Banksy-Based Stamp
The Banksy mural "depicts a man resembling Russian President Vladimir Putin being flipped during a judo match with a young boy." - BBC
The ChatBots Were Never The Point
They were just stalking horses for much, much more expensive and powerful programming interfaces. - Slate
Trying To Reverse-Engineer A Video Game
The game won't be ready for years - but by the time it is, players will have watched "content" for it on TikTok, read...
A Science Fiction Magazine Had To Close Submissions After Being Flooded With AI Content
Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke says some people submitting AI content are "listening to all these experts on TikTok and YouTube that say, ‘Hey, you...
Designing Costumes For A Large Group Of Women Whose Characters Dress To Never Stand...
The costume designer for Women Talking "found two consultants who helped her create the costumes authentically. They assisted her in sourcing fabric from...
Look, Just End Grey’s Anatomy
The main character has now left, after 19 seasons, and truly, it's run out of steam. Please, people, just let it go. - HuffPost
Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Has Been Banned From Making Movies Or Leaving Iran
"There's sort of a state of fear and tension and paranoia that comes with making and watching Panahi's art. And I think there is...
