Mellon Foundation Steps Up To Support Humanities Funding Stripped By Trump Admin
The new funding, which will support humanities councils in all 50 states and six jurisdictions, comes a month after the National Endowment for the...
AI Learned About Writing From Us. Will We Now Learn About Writing From AI?
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now the influence may run in the other direction. Some people have hypothesized that the proliferation of generative-AI tools such as...
Orphaned University Of The Arts Dance Program Is Coming Back To Philly, But Not...
“The former UArts undergraduate dance program, that landed at Bennington College in Vermont, had planned to return to Philadelphia for the 2025-26 school year. But...
Andrew Karpen, Pillar Of U.S. Independent Film Industry, Has Died At 59
He was the COO of Focus Features beginning in 2002 and became president and co-CEO in 2006. In 2014 he left Focus to found...
Fort Worth Police Took $7,000 Trip To New York To Investigate Sally Mann For...
After seizing some of Mann’s photos of her children from an exhibition in Fort Worth, five FWPD officers spent four days and $6,988.77 in...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Sues Trump Administration For Trying To Fire Board Members
“In its complaint, ... the CPB and the three board members — Laura Ross, Thomas Rothman and Diane Kaplan — said the president does...
Mellon Foundation Provides “Emergency Funding” For State Humanities Councils Defunded By NEH
“The Mellon Foundation has announced $15 million in ‘emergency funding’ for state humanities councils across the country. The support comes after the Department of...
Federal Court Orders Trump Administration To Release Radio Free Europe Funding
“U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth … granted the temporary restraining order for the U.S. Agency for Global Media to disburse ($12 million) for April...
All U.S. Holocaust Museum Board Members Appointed By Biden Have Been Fired
“The Trump administration has terminated members of the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum appointed by President Joe Biden — including Doug...
The 19-Year-Old Bisexual Diarist Who Became The Literary Sensation Of 1902 America
“Originally titled ‘I Await the Devil’s Coming’, The Story of Mary MacLane records four months in the life of its author. Nothing much happens in...
As AI Fashion Models Cause A Sensation, It’s Time To Ponder Digital Twins
As digital replicas of real people become more common, especially in image-based industries like fashion, urgent ethical questions are emerging. These include conversations about the future...
A Rabbit On The Couch In A Psychoanalyst’s Office
“The premise may seem absurd but that is precisely the point – absurdism is a way of dealing with themes that have proved ......
The Iowa Town Where Every Other Person Seems To Be A Writer
Iowa City is the place where contemporary English literature matters more than anywhere else on earth. The home of arguably the world’s most famous...
Metaphors Are Brilliant At Helping Us Understand Ideas. They Can Also Narrow Our Thinking
One risk is that they close down possibilities. They can shut down our thinking, coercing it to fit the shape of someone else’s comparison...
One Gallery’s Artists Are Dominating New York’s Museum Calendar This Spring
The gallery’s artists are so dominant in New York’s leading museums this season that some in the art world are calling it “Hauser spring.”...
A Dancer-Turned-Neuroscientist On Finding Flow
“This passing of the boundary between ‘doing steps’ and really dancing … is truly exhilarating. I’ve experienced it many times when dance took me...
New Oscars Rule For Voters: You Actually Have To Watch All The Movies In...
According to the Academy, they will be tracking what voters watch in the digital screening room, and then there will be a form to...
Arts And The Trump Culture Wars
Because of the speed of the administration’s actions, arts and culture groups are scrambling to reassess the scope of their projects and find alternative...
The Boston Pops Phenomenon
He came to the job young, quickly became a local celebrity, and is presiding at a time when it has proved impossible for the Pops to...
Southwest Florida Symphony Closes Down
The orchestra will remain in business through the end of its fiscal year on June 30. That coincides with the previously announced departure of the...
If AI Can Think, Should It Deserve Rights?
Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give...
A Color No One Has Ever Seen Before
The color “olo” can’t be found on a Pantone color chart. It can be experienced only in a cramped 9-by-13 room in Northern California....
The Odd Case Of A Celebrity Journalist Who Gets Impossible Interviews
The author was a little-known English freelance journalist. The story of how he came to land his Johnny Depp story – along with a...
Child Damages Mark Rothko Painting In Rotterdam
“Conservators will now have to repair the artwork, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, after it was ‘scratched’ by a child visiting the Rotterdam gallery where...
New Indie Publisher, Conduit Books, Will Focus On Male Authors
Says founder Jude Cook, “Excitement and energy around new and adventurous fiction is around female authors – and this is only right as a...
