The First Piece Of Music Created By An AI Was In 1956
Decades before today’s artificial intelligence pop stars, Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions was Lejaren Hiller’s piece, described by the New York Times in his 1994 obituary as...
Now *This* Is How To Design Attractive Affordable Housing
Critic Oliver Wainwright says that the architects of this east London project, called A House for Artists, have found a way to follow local...
Transformative Director Of NYC’s City Center Steps Down After 18 Years
During her tenure, Arlene Shuler has transformed City Center from a mostly rental space for dance companies to a producing house that commissions and...
How “Squid Game” Has Transformed International TV
Better, perhaps, to say that the Korean hit marks a transformation that has been happening for several years now: the gradual acceptance by anglophone...
Research: Why Sustainable Careers In The Arts Are So Difficult
In the interviews taken as part of my research, I repeatedly found financial constraints underpin three problems causing career unsustainability in the arts. -...
Ebook And Audiobook Stats From UK Libraries Have A Few Surprises
The sleeper among audiobooks — ahead of Michelle Obama and Kazuo Ishiguro, behind only J.K. Rowling — is mystery writer Brenda Chapman's Cold Mourning....
The Venue For New York’s Shakespeare In The Park Is Getting Its First Overhaul...
The structure of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is deteriorating, and the renovation had been expected, before the pandemic, to run from 2020...
Fort Worth Symphony Names Kevin John Edusei Principal Guest Conductor
The 45-year-old German-Ghanaian, now in his final season as chief conductor of the Munich Symphony, joins incoming music director Robert Spano at the FWSO...
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Melted Down And Made Into New Black...
In a project called "Swords Into Plowshares," the Confederate monument that was the excuse for the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 will...
Carnegie Hall Starts A Streaming-Video-On-Demand Network
The $7.99-a-month service, called Carnegie Hall+, isn't all, or even mostly, performances at the New York venue itself (where video recording is unusually expensive):...
Britain Makes Masks Mandatory For All Indoor Venues
With infections of the Delta and Omicron variants rising, the government has instituted what it calls "Plan B": audiences and staff at theatres, concert...
Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller Dead At 93
A protégée of Federico Fellini, she won critical acclaim internationally for such films as The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away;...
Brooklyn Museum Gets A New President/COO
Trueblood, who starts early next year, previously served as chief of staff at the American Civil Liberties Union and as director of White House...
Welcome To Selfie Wrld – Unique Pix That Aren’t
Selfie Wrld is a chain with 30 franchises from Anchorage to Tampa. Because the props encourage certain poses, your selfies might be identical to...
How Translating Language Opens A Writer’s Mind
In translating, you pose yourself a question—or it is posed to you by the text; you have no satisfactory answer, though you put something...
San Jose Opera Picks A New General Director
Shawna Lucey has some 15 years of opera and theater experience, having worked at such companies as Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Gran...
Why Is A New Moscow Museum Recreating An American Soap Opera?
Every day through March 22, 2022, a team of 80 actors and technicians is carrying out the vision of the Icelandic performance artist Ragnar...
The 13-Year-Old Who’s Become Famous For His Car Pictures
The Woodinville eighth-grader has made a name for himself in the art of “forced perspective” photography, a technique that creates an optical illusion by...
Literary Translators Are Finally Demanding The Recognition They Deserve — On The Book Cover
"For decades, translators in the U.S. have been ... working in the back rooms of literature even as they play a central role in...
A Museum On The Border Between North And South Korea (What Could Go Wrong?)
Unimaru, as it's called, opened in September in a former customs clearinghouse in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Visitors must get a permit from the...
Why The Music They Play While You’re On Hold Is So Infuriating
So where did hold music, the most vanilla of genres, go wrong? When experts have spent decades crafting tinkling tones to placate us, why...
Can Newly-Won Artistic Freedom In Sudan Survive Post-Coup?
After longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019, the country saw "the flowering of an artistic community that had long been harassed, censored...
The Collapse Of NeoLiberalism
The challenge for the neoliberals was—how do you design institutions that safeguard the rights of property over borders, in an era when everyone is...
Greg Tate, Cultural Critic And Pioneering Writer On Hop-Hop, Dead At 64
He made his mark as a staff writer for The Village Voice, covering everything from rap to Black hardcore, African-American identity to Michael Jackson....
Have We Forgotten The Art Of Listening?
Being able to engage in the practice of mindful, aesthetic and critical listening is as important to democracy as literacy. Yet, in comparison to...
