This Year Was A Huge Breakthrough For Artificial Intelligence
This year, we’ve seen a flurry of AI products that seem to do precisely what the Oxford researchers considered nearly impossible: mimic creativity. Language-learning...
Are Our Brains Quantum Computers?
Even though we have a good understanding of where consciousness originates — essentially via neurons sending signals to each other — scientists still aren't...
South Asian Novels Have Been On An Awards Streak Lately. Will That Help South...
This year's Booker Prize was won by a Sri Lankan, and the International Booker went to an Indian novel. And there's always Salman Rushdie. ...
Have America’s Cities Entered A “Doom Loop”?
Scholars are increasingly voicing concern that the shift to working from home, spurred by the Covid pandemic, will bring the three-decade renaissance of major...
Frederick Swann, Master Of The Mammoth Pipe Organ, Is Dead At 91
He was famous for his posts at the Riverside Church and the Crystal Cathedral, but he was most admired among colleagues for quickly figuring...
New “Democracy’s Library” Aims To Bring Research To The Masses
Democratic governments, at all levels, spend billions of dollars publishing reports, manuals, books, videos so that all can read and learn. That is the...
South Asian-Americans Are Trying To Reclaim The Swastika
The equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles has been a symbol of good fortune for Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for millennia, and...
The Unstoppable Tania Leon
León says she never planned to become a composer, much less one who earned a Pulitzer Prize. - NPR
The Washington Post Is Closing Its Sunday Magazine
"The newspaper has eliminated the positions of the magazine's 10 staff members, according to the Post. There's no guarantee the staffers will be offered...
Woman Artist Finally Gets Old Master Cred
After her death in 1689 in Brussels, Michaelina Wautier largely became a footnote in art history, occasionally drawing a mention here or there. Much...
Check Out The Huge New Mosaics By Yayoi Kusama And Kiki Smith At Grand...
The artworks, four by Smith and one by Kusama, are in the soon-to-open Grand Central Madison, an addition to the historic train terminal built...
Sydney’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Has More Works By Women Than By Men
"Fifty-three percent of works on display in Sydney Modern's exhibition spaces, its corridors and terraces are made by women. Five of nine site-specific art...
Looks Like Actors’ Equity And The Broadway League Have Settled On A New Contract
"The details of the agreement have not yet been released and remain subject to ratification by Equity members who have recently worked on these...
The Right-Wing Twitter Mob Comes For The Washington Post’s Theater Critic
Last week, a review by the Post's Peter Marks of Bruce Norris's Downstate carried an eye-catching headline: "Downstate is a play about pedophiles. It's...
The Critics’ Poll Has A New Greatest Movie Of All Time — And It’s...
The once-a-decade list of the top 100 films from Sight and Sound magazine has nudged 2012's champion, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, down to runner-up status...
Money Troubles At NPR Bring A Hiring Freeze And $10 Million In Budget Cuts
"The cuts, CEO John Lansing says, are due to a sharp drop in sponsor revenue and represent approximately 3% of NPR's current annual budget." ...
The Washington Post Lays Off Dance Critic Sarah L. Kaufman
The Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been at the newspaper for 25 years and was one of only two full-time dance critics in the...
It’s Worth Reviving The Fading Art Of Writing Longhand
I’m old enough to remember writing by hand when it was the only choice. Then I fell to the seductions of these newfangled things...
Italian Government Fights Over Museum Policy: Free Museums?
During the election campaign Giorgia Meloni, defined culture as a “cardinal strategic point”, noting that the country’s arts industry generates roughly €85bn annually. The...
Time To Reconsider David Mamet?
Since Mamet’s 2008 essay in The Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” he has been subject to a towering wave of enmity from the...
Twenty-Five Years Ago The YBA’s Took The Art World By Storm. Here’s Where They...
The YBAs are now all middle-aged. Hirst is 57, Emin 59, the Chapmans 56 and 60 respectively, and the years have been kind to...
Is The BBC “Dumbing Down” To Appeal To Lower Income Viewers?
The broadcaster also said it would try to attract viewers from lower socio-economic groups by making sports documentaries and crime shows, after criticism from Ofcom that...
Internet Culture Now Is Mainstream Culture
Boundaries between “traditional” culture and online culture have been breaking down. Television audiences have shrunk. Newspaper circulations are in terminal decline. Meanwhile, people have been...
What Exactly Is Geopolitics, And Who Invented It? (Losers, That’s Who)
"Do the politicians and pundits who speak of geopolitics really know what they are talking about? Geopolitics is a classically ambiguous or nebulous term,...
Democrats New House Leader Has Been Congressional Champion Of Music
Hakeem Jeffries co-sponsored the Music Modernization Act, the most important copyright law passed in decades, as well as the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act...
