How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used In Making Music
The use of AI in music is here today, and while its contribution is still small, it will likely grow. If you take that...
Yes, Representation On Screens Makes A Difference — And Not Only With Actors
"It's about more than who you see on screen, she said, but how those characters are written. And who's doing the writing. And what...
2021’s Jazz Critics’ Poll: The Year’s Best Jazz
In being asked to stand in for clubs, concert halls, and festivals so frequently these last two years, recordings are still being asked to...
Is Susanna Mälkki About To Be Named Music Director At A Big US Orchestra?
The Times's Joshua Barone says she's "one of the world's top conductors." The LA Phil's CEO says "Susanna has to be at the top...
Lincoln Center Was An Enormous Urban Renewal Project. What About The People Who Were...
The Lincoln Center complex, which opened in 1962, was a citadel. Critics noted that it was designed to separate itself from the Black and...
After A Painful Hiatus, The Mummers Will Be Strutting Down Philadelphia’s Broad Street This...
Omicron is spreading, sequin prices have gone up, and it may well rain; nevertheless, after last year's cancellation, the Mummers Parade is going ahead,...
After 35 Years, One Of America’s Best Ballet Schools Is Getting A New Director
Peter Stark, a former principal at Washington Ballet, has had students flocking to him as he taught in Maryland, then Orlando, then Boston; he...
On Broadway This Year, Design Was Pulling A Lot More Weight Than It Should...
Jesse Green: "It seems to me that designers, bringing evermore astonishing prowess to bear, too often outshine the work they are meant to support....
So, What Goodies Are Going Into The Public Domain In 2022?
Among the properties that adapters can now use free of charge are A.A. Milne's original Winnie-the-Pooh, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the debut poetry...
Here’s One Place Where High-Tech Firms Are Willing To Give To The Arts
For years, aesthetes and directors of development have been frustrated by the lack of interest that software industry execs have shown in directing their...
This Nightclub Will Get Energy From The Heat Of Customers’ Dancing Bodies
"This month, (Glasgow nightclub) SWG3 and geothermal energy consultancy TownRock Energy will begin installing a new renewable heating and cooling system that harnesses the...
Uffizi’s Director Wants Museums To Use Art To Address Social Ills
"Eike Schmidt, the director of Uffizi Galleries since 2015, … says it is now crucial for museums to play a role in highlighting the...
How The Pandemic Has Changed Cities (Perhaps For Good)
Even with those opinions on the books, the pandemic—or really, the haphazard response to it—has shifted people’s perceptions of what a city can be. -...
TikTok Is Now The World’s Most-Trafficked Website (Beating Out Google)
Regardless of where it sits, TikTok is no joke when it comes to popularity. It had a surge of growth during the pandemic which...
Seattle Musician Shares The Scoop On Streaming: 80,000 Plays = $90
“I just mean to really expose what these numbers mean and what they don’t mean." After splitting the revenue with a collaborator, those...
Ways To Think About Death (It Might Not Be So Bad?)
This is not an argument that death is not bad. This is the titular argument that death is probably not as bad as you...
Puzzling Over What To Make Of 2021 In The Movie Business
For Hollywood studios, 2021 was a year of great experimentation and the rare chance to relentlessly test movie distribution patterns in ways they had...
“The View” Is Having Trouble Finding A Conservative To Replace Meghan McCain
"They don't want another NeverTrump Republican who will chummily respond to the liberal hosts' musings with 'yes, but' qualifications (their focus groups suggest that...
Why Are NYC’s Public Monuments Crumbling From Neglect?
Dozens of monuments and artworks await repairs and conservation that may never be forthcoming because of rising maintenance costs and shifting priorities to newer...
David Wagoner, Leading Poet Of The Pacific Northwest, Dead At 96
"(He) turned a keen eye on nature, his childhood and numerous other subjects in more than 20 volumes published across half a century." -...
Proposed Oklahoma Law Would Punish (And Fire) Librarians If They Don’t Remove Books
Under Senate Bill 1142, if just one parent objects to a book it must be removed within 30 days. If it is not, the...
“Nutcracker” As Political Allegory
A foreign policy scholar suggests (with some evidence) that the Tchaikovsky/Petipa/Ivanov adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's story was intended as a portrait of the calming...
“Don’t Look Up” Critics And Defenders Go To War
It shouldn’t have to be restated every time a lackluster movie is released that a critic’s job is to evaluate a film’s quality and...
Trying To Get More Women Into India’s Growing Standup Comedy Scene
That's as both audience members and performers. - Deutsche Welle
Are Critics Missing The Point Of “Don’t Look Up”?
This is not the film Idiocracy, depicting us all as dumb consumerist sheeple. This is a film with great faith in humanity, and cynicism only...
