Scientists Discover “Switch” In The Brain That Determines Whether An Experience Was Good Or...
“If you have a brain response to anything that is important, how does it differentiate whether it is good or bad? It’s a central...
Making The Case For Art: It Can’t Be About Words
If you are presenting art because you enjoy art and only because you enjoy art, you are not respecting your charter as a nonprofit. That’s vanity,...
How Ivo Van Hove Went About Adapting An Edouard Louis Novel Into A Play
"During his brief six-week rehearsal periods, van Hove introduces sets, costumes, music and lighting as early in the process as possible. ... He wanted...
A Terrible Emmy Awards Show For Shows That Were This Good
This was one of the worst Emmys telecasts in recent memory. Not in the “claws are out” way that people tend to pounce on...
The Uffizi Gallery Is Lending, Or Renting, A Bunch Of Its Masterworks To Shanghai
"Self-Portraits: Masterpieces from the Uffizi ... is the first to kick off a series of 10 exhibitions that the Florence-based museum will loan to...
AI-Generated Images Flood Online Art Sites Provoking Fierce Debate
The arrival of widely available image synthesis models such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion has provoked an intense online battle between artists who view AI-assisted artwork...
Why Europe Couldn’t Have A Serge Diaghilev Today
"Everything Diaghilev did was ad hoc, on a wing and a prayer or a plea and a handshake. He answered to nobody; there was...
New AI Image Tools Disrupt Notions Of Ownership, Authorship
These new AI capabilities confront the world with a mountain of questions over the rights to the images the programs learned from, the likelihood...
London’s V&A Museum Prepares To Return Golden Treasures Of The Asante Kingdom To Ghana
"The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is in talks to potentially return a collection of Asante gold artifacts that were looted during a...
How The Pandemic Has Warped Seattle Arts’ Return To Work
“All the houses are trying to open up at the same time, and they all need the same people,” Terry Podgorski said, noting that...
One of France’s Hottest Bestsellers Is Disqualified From The Prix Goncourt, Ostensibly Because Its...
"Punk feminist" author Virginie Despentes's novel, titled Cher connard (roughly, "Dear Asshole"), goes deep into what this correspondent describes as "France's sometimes difficult relationship...
Fleming, DiDonato, O’Hara: The Three Divas Starring In The Met ‘s Next Premiere, “The...
Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), and Kelli O'Hara (Laura Brown) give a joint interview about preparing Kevin Puts's opera (based on...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Will Stop Producing Plays And Become Strictly A Presenting Organization
After a turbulent summer that saw the artistic director fired, most of the rest of management resign, and the remaining staffers in open rebellion,...
Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, 91
"His use of long takes, jump-cuts and actors’ asides to the camera all changed the filmmaking vocabulary. He once famously stated that every film...
Jorja Fleezanis, Longtime Concertmaster Of The Minnesota Orchestra, Dead At 70
When she took the position in 1989, she was only the second woman ever appointed concertmaster at a major US orchestra, and she served...
“Succession”, “Ted Lasso”, The White Lotus”, And “Squid Game” Triumph At The Emmy Awards
"After Netflix's record-tying performance in 2021, HBO reasserted its dominance in its now-annual battle with Netflix for supremacy in the realm of prestige TV....
The Complete List Of 2022 Emmy Award Winners
With all nominees included as well. - Variety
Philadelphia Is Getting A Big New Performance Hall
"On Monday, the University of Pennsylvania announced it will build a new 3,100 square-foot theater to adjoin the Annenberg Center, a glitzy venue with...
The Future of Video Editing?
Runway's "Text to Video" demonstration reel shows a text input box that allows editing commands such as "import city street" or "make it look...
Meet Wikipedia’s “Deaditors” Who Updated Queen Elizabeth’s Entry
While some on the internet were glued to Twitter or the BBC, checking for news or watching the planes en route to Balmoral Castle,...
150 Years Of Technological Progress That Changed The World
It really looks that we had as much technological change and progress between 1870 and today as we had between 6000 BC and 1870 AD....
What The Arts Learned About Digital Engagement
Digital events can reduce geographic inequalities, and lessen the costs associated with attending a festival. Digital delivery of a festival also provides something of...
Amazon Settles With Writers Guild Over Residual Payments
“Like Netflix, Amazon had been systematically undervaluing imputed license fees on theatrical films where it was both the producer and the distributor,” wrote WGA...
That Time Duke Ellington Made A Record With A Single Copy Just For Elizabeth...
We created a unique album solely for the pleasure of giving it to Queen Elizabeth. With the help of Billy Strayhorn, he composed The Queen’s...
A First: University Offers Degree In Chess
Webster University in St. Louis is renowned for attracting top-notch chess talent to its school, and now its School of Education is offering a...
