How The Conversation, An Academic News Website, Has Pulled In An Audience Of Young...
"Survey data showed that a bulk of (the site's) readers were in the 18-to-35 age bracket. ... To experiment with a new approach, The...
How Speculative Profit Made The World
Under the increasingly uncontrollable uncertainty of our financialized world, speculation becomes a more productive mechanism to imagine community and collective coping with disorienting volatility....
This TV Show, Arguably, Makes New York’s Theater Scene Possible
"From familiar character actors lacking household names like Ronald Guttman, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Jessica Hecht, to well-known crossover stars like Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Bart,...
We Thought AI Would Be Scary Smart. Instead It’s A Facilitator Of Banality
The dreariness of ChatGPT, the soulless works of visual art produced by similar programs seem to confirm that hunch. In the real world, the...
This Opera Company Used Virtual Reality To Reconstruct A Century-Old Staging, Saving Thousands Of...
The Finnish National Opera and VR company Varjo developed a "digital twin" of the theater, with sets, lighting, costumes, etc, so that elements could...
Needed: Commonsense Tools To Protect Creative Work
A report released by Digital Citizens Alliance in August 2020 found that pirated streaming subscription services are used by an estimated 30 million individuals in the...
The Adelaide Festival Loses A Key Sponsor Amid Outcry Over Two Controversial Palestinian Authors
The law firm MinterEllison, a major supporter of the Southern Hemisphere's counterpart to the Edinburgh Festivals, pulled back after several participants withdrew from Adelaide...
Rick Newman, 88, Founder Of One Of America’s Seminal Comedy Clubs
"(He was) the founder of Catch a Rising Star comedy club in New York City where a generation of stand-up comics — Billy Crystal,...
Neo-Nazis Demonstrate Outside First Broadway Preview Of “Parade”, A Show About A Lynching
Members of a group calling itself the National Socialist Movement yelled slogans and accosted theatergoers just before the first preview performance of Jason Robert...
Palm Beach Art Dealer Pleads Guilty To Selling A Warhol Forgery
"Daniel Elie Bouaziz ... pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering, referencing a sale of counterfeit Warhol works to an unnamed victim. ......
NPR To Lay Off 10% Of Its Staffers
"National Public Radio will reduce its workforce by 10 percent as it grapples with what CEO John Lansing says is a 'sharp decline' in...
New Scottish Government Reverses Millions In Arts Funding Cuts
"Cuts of around £6.6m," made by the cabinet of recently departed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, "to Scotland's arts and culture sector funded by the...
The Joyce, A Leading New York Dance Venue, Gets A Second Space
"The Joyce, which since 1982 has presented dance companies from all over the world at its home in Chelsea, has signed a yearlong lease...
Is Intelligence Really Our Best Feature? Or Is It Holding Us Back?
Rather than being our crowning glory as a species, is it possible that human intelligence is in fact a liability, the source of our...
AI Is Getting Awfully Good At Designing Buildings. So What Happens To Architects?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly advancing to a point where it can generate the design of a building completely autonomously. With the potential to...
Archaeologists Discover 4,500-Year-Old Palace In Iraq
During a press conference at the Iraq embassy in London on Friday, Tablet Hill was described as the “cradle of civilization” and “one of the most...
Police Link Prominent Now-Deceased Horn Player To String Of Rapes
As a young hornist in the 1970s, he helped launch the first French-horn soloist competition in America, inspired by the performances of European players....
Before We Get All Artificial About It, Consider Intelligence…
Most experts acknowledge that we are a long way off from seeing what AI researchers have termed “artificial general intelligence”: the kind of intelligence...
In English: The Importance Of The Words From Elsewhere
Emily Dickinson thought that words start a new, discrete cycle of life the moment they are uttered. While American English can be perceived as a threat...
Wisconsin Governor Proposes $100 Million Endowment For Arts Funding
In the budget proposal he submitted to the legislature, Gov. Tony Evers has called for $100 million from the state's general fund to be...
The Most Troubling Thing About ChatGPT Writing? The Endless Cliches!
ChatGPT, the popular bot released to the public by OpenAI late last year, is obsessed with clichés and uses them all the time. Perhaps...
In Washington State, Exotic Dancers Have To Pay To Perform. Here’s Why, And What...
The Evergreen State forbids the sale of alcohol in strip clubs; without that revenue source, club owners instead charge the talent for access to...
Now Come Tools To Detect ChatGPT Writing. Do They Work?
We dug into several proposed methods and tools for recognising AI-generated text. None of them are foolproof, all of them are vulnerable to workarounds,...
Alan Gilbert Extends His Contract With Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie Orchestra For Five Years
The native New Yorker's term as chief conductor will now run through the 2028-29 season. A former music director of the New York Philharmonic...
What Might Dudamel’s Move To The NY Phil Mean For San Francisco Symphony?
Salonen’s ambitious plans for San Francisco, conversely, have gotten off to a rocky start because of COVID-19. There’s still plenty of time to get...
