As Deepfakes Proliferate, Countries Struggle With What’s Real
The worst abusers of the technology tend to be the hardest to catch, operating anonymously, adapting quickly and sharing their synthetic creations through borderless...
Archaeologists Find 9000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure On The Bottom Of Lake Michigan
They uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. -...
American Artists Are Worried About AI And Copyright. American Policymakers, Not So Much.
"While the UK and the European Union have released more specific guidelines around AI development, such as the Digital Single Market Directive and the...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Appoints Choreographer Aszure Barton Artist-In-Residence
"The appointment follows a long vacancy after resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo's departure in 2018. ... (While) Cerrudo lived in Chicago full-time and, until 2015,...
US Museums And Universities Have Thousands Of Indigenous People’s Remains, Three Decades After A...
"Our reporting, in partnership with NBC News, has found that a small group of institutions and government bodies has played an outsized role in...
Do Not Send That Disputed Van Gogh Back, Federal Court Orders Detroit Institute Of...
"Federal appeals court judges Wednesday ordered (museum) officials to hold onto a long-missing multimillion-dollar painting by Vincent van Gogh" — The Novel Reader —...
Facial Recognition Software Helps Identify A Raphael
"Researchers from the (UK) used facial recognition technology to identify the author of a painting known as the de Brécy Tondo. ... The researchers...
Artistic Director Of London’s Donmar Warehouse Announces His Planned Departure
Michael Longhurst, who took the top job at the small and extremely successful theatre in 2019, will depart when his five-year contract ends in...
Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director of New York’s Primary Stages, Is Dead At 53
For 21 years he led Primary Stages, one of New York's most prominent Off-Broadway companies, producing works by such playwrights as Theresa Rebeck, Terrence...
On Not Reading
It's not the flex some celebrities seem to think it is. - The Atlantic
Amsterdam Museum Finds Out Presenting ‘Nuance’ About WWII Isn’t Such A Great Plan
The effort to provide profiles of everyone from Resistance heroes to those wowed by Nazi propaganda "has touched a sensitive nerve among many Dutch...
Texas Library Board Chair Says She Was Removed Because Of Anti-LGBTQIA Bullies
"Cat Serna-Horn says council members offered her 'political favors' to quietly resign from the board ... was told the board's compromise to keep LGBTQ...
Take A Look At Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt Mile-High Chicago Skyscraper
"The new renderings include the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, a planetarium proposed in 1925, as well as the National Life Insurance building, the...
Florida Governor’s Desire To Whitewash History Is Sparking Pushback
"The latest controversy in Florida education policies began this month, when the DeSantis administration said a pilot Advanced Placement course on Black history would...
Broadway Is Really Into Drag, But Why?
A new Some Like It Hot musical tries to balance painful depictions "and the rich reality of drag as art, self-expression, and everything in between....
On That Viral Video Brawl Starring The Michelle Yeoh Of Waffle House
"It's a miracle how she dispenses with the chair. 'Dispenses' isn't even the right word: She repels it. She parries it like an anime...
A Chinese Musician Is Working To Revive The Gehu
The gehu, an instrument which was introduced into Chinese orchestras in the 20th century and then replaced by the cello, "has four strings, a...
How Edith Wharton Foresaw 21st-Century America
"Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country ... can be conceived of as (a) social media influencer conscious of her brand. For Undine...
Arts Groups Must Innovate If They Want An Audience
The pandemic accelerated a generational shift: "Past program choices are not adequately energizing younger audiences. They want the experience to be new and different,...
Fighting The Good Fight Against Focal Dystonia
At USC in Los Angeles, faculty at the Thornton School of Music are working with neurologists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, physical therapists, and other health care...
It’s Not Just The Oscars Failing Black Women – It’s The Whole Ecosystem
"What does it say that the Black women who did everything the institution asks of them — luxury dinners, private academy screenings, meet-and-greets, splashy...
Complete Roman-Era City Unearthed At Luxor, Ancient Egypt’s Capital
"On Tuesday, Egyptian archaeologists announced that they had uncovered a complete 1,800-year-old residential Roman city. … Most archaeological work in Luxor, a city that...
After A Long Campaign, The UK’s Royal Opera House Cuts Ties With British Petroleum
That long campaign was by climate activists, one of whom said, "What we are witnessing is a seismic shift, a near wholesale rejection across...
Rennie Harris Has Created A Curriculum To Train Dance Teachers In Hip-Hop
"Over the course of his decades-long career, Harris ... has been a guiding force, ushering hip-hop and street dance into new spaces and championing...
Israel’s New Far-Right Government Tries To Claw Back Funding For Two Documentaries About The...
"The (culture) minister, Miki Zohar, of Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, has pledged to 'revoke funding that promotes our enemy's narrative' and withhold grants...
