AI Image Generators Have Already Changed The Visual Art World
Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis....
Study: YouTube’s “Dislike” Button Doesn’t Stop Unwanted Recommendations
Pressing Don’t Recommend Channel would stop only 43 percent of unwanted video recommendations while the Dislike button stopped only 12 percent of recommendations users...
Magic And Illusion Are Doorways To Neuroscience
Arts of illusion are often taken for granted, explained away as a series of clever tricks, but in the sharp and magical transition from...
The World’s Largest Collection Of Totem Poles
The totem poles in Ketchikan represent the ancestral traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people. The Ketchikan Museum’s collection at the Totem Heritage...
The Long Lonely Road To Proving A Lucien Freud Is Real
Owning a disputed, possibly wildly valuable, art work is a cruel test of any person’s aesthetic values, basic reason, and innate (often well-disguised) capacity...
Painting Stage Scenery The 17th-Century Way
Historical stagecraft expert Wendy Waszut-Barrett paints backdrops and wing pieces with the same material that European craftsmen used four centuries ago: distemper paint, made...
What Does Innovation In Music Really Mean?
These groups may indeed be performing the most innovative composers. But what is also emerging is a much more heightened gravitational pull of music...
Filmmaker Alain Tanner, A Leader Of Switzerland’s New Wave, Is Dead At 91
"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known...
This Year’s Van Cliburn Competition Got Monster-Size YouTube Views
Using Yunchan’s Rach 3 video for comparison, these numbers put the Van Cliburn competition viewership well above some of the biggest television show premieres in history....
Spotify Makes A 300,000-Title Bet On Audiobooks
"After spending the past few years teasing its literary ambitions and acquiring the audiobook platform Findaway for $119 million, Spotify has formally launched its...
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Evolution
PNB is a vastly different company now than it was in 1972: More than 50% of its dancers self-identify as people of color (up...
Hollywood’s Masters Of Prosthetics Talk About Their Craft
Kazu Hiro, who turned Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill and Bradley Cooper into Leonard Bernstein: "I hate to see 'This actor is unrecognisable.' It's...
Walter Lippman’s 100-Year-Old Book “Public Opinion” Contained Warnings For Today
Our current debates about disinformation and the pernicious effects of social media could be rather more productive if the participants would bother to read...
Constipated Scorpions, Moose Crash-Test Dummies, And The Best Way To Turn A Doorknob: The...
Other winners included a study of why ducklings swim in a straight line formation (the physics prize), research on ritual enemas in Mayan pottery...
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Is Returning Its Benin Bronzes. Is It Irredeemable Nevertheless?
The German capital's ethnological museum has started displaying videos or modern copies of the works it has returned to the countries from which they...
A Dance Critic Considers The (Extensive) Choreography Of The Queen’s Funerary Ceremonies
"Like the classic 19th-century ballets that display massed ranks of identically costumed, identically moving dancers, the rituals have shown us many military units from...
Why Does Having A Royal Patron Matter For British Arts Groups?
With the queen's death and the ascension of a new king (who won't have time for all the causes he supported as Prince of...
Did Woody Allen Say He Was Going To Stop Making Films Or Not?
The Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia printed an article this weekend quoting Allen saying that his next movie (his 50th) would be his last; on...
Byzantine Floor Mosaic Uncovered By A Gaza Farmer Trying To Plant A Tree
"Salman al-Nabahin unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, six months ago while working in his...
Russian National Orchestra Dumps Its Founder, Mikhail Pletnev
The pianist-turned-conductor founded the RNO in 1990, as the USSR was collapsing. Now the orchestra has refused to renew Pletnev's contract, saying that "since...
Study: How To Change Minds And Opinions
The groups with blowhards were less neurally aligned than were those with mediators, the study found. Perhaps more surprising, the mediators drove consensus not...
How Politics Is Driving Book Bans In America
“This is a concerted, organized, well-resourced push at censorship,” said Suzanne Nossel, the chief executive of PEN America. The effort, she said, “is ideologically...
What Would Art Critic Hilton Kramer Have Thought About Today’s Culture?
His take on contemporary culture made him seem antique. “We are still living in the aftermath,” he wrote in 1982, “of the insidious assault...
Reason To Close: Broadway’s “Phantom” Has Been Losing $1 Million/Month
The show has earned $1.30 billion during its impressive Broadway run, according to the Broadway League, and has played an astonishing 13,733 performances with over 19...
Think Your Image Has Been Stolen By AI? Now There’s A Website To Tell...
Any matches in the results mean that the image could have potentially been used to train AI image generators and might still be used...
