In the past, civilization often declined gradually. Also, sometimes the decline was good for some members of society as their rulers were overthrown. But we live in a much more interconnecte…
"When Cooper talks about A Star Is Born being deeply personal, you can see why. It's about art that crosses cultural lines, it's about a love of music, and it's about the conflict betw…
Adversarial examples are like optical (or audio) illusions for AI. By altering a handful of pixels, a computer scientist can fool a machine learning classifier into thinking, say, a pictu…
Miquela Sousa, also known as Lil Miquela, is a fictional character created by a Los Angeles startup called Brud. Miquela has 1.5m followers on Instagram, where she shares pictures of her ima…
"It's one thing to own the ugly feelings with which one is understandably and unjustly riddled after years of hanging on by the fingernails while applying for job after job, only to be ghost…
Brian Siebert: "In short, this rushed, business-as-usual reintroduction of Amar Ramasar won't do, though I understand the company's desire to downplay it."Â " The New York Times
Webb Management Services is on the hunt for a new full-time, NYC-based team member to help develop feasibility studies, business plans, and strategic plans for arts facilities and organizati…
The most recent annual survey data from NPOs found they continued to make more of their own income through ticket sales and other activity in 2017/18, with earned income representing 5…
Experience the breath-taking splendor, art and history that is Russia on our legendary, once a year, Russian art tour. We are one of America's premier experts on Russian art and have been ta…
"This is a sign of the times. Artists are understanding what audiences or the sponsors are drawn to and are looking for. They are looking for it to go viral or become an icon of that moment.…
There's been a surge in copyright claims ever since Marvin Gaye's family sued Robin Thicke over the single Blurred Lines in 2015. "The odds of getting sued in this day and age are so high, w…
Could the IndieWeb movement"or a streamlined, user-friendly version of it to come"succeed in redeeming the promise of social media? If we itemize the woes currently afflicting the major plat…
The standardized tests, it turns out, aren't so standardized when you account for the disparities of students taking them. Where you grew up matters. How good was your school matters. So new…
It turns out that experts have bad track records at predicting what will happen. Generalists, on the other hand, who read widely and are constantly adapting to the observations they make, ar…
Music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple have notoriously bad interfaces for classical music. The problem is meta-data, the absence of which makes it difficult to properly search. …
People in the field who were close to him, recalling him after his death, said that the warmth was innate and not for show. "You think of architects who seem to lead with their ego, and he w…
Perhaps. The music festival, planned to commemorate the iconic original fifty years ago, has been plagued by financing and organizational issues. But after a favorable court ruling and new p…
"The problem with eternity is not that it doesn't exist but that it is undesirable and incoherent; it kills meaning and collapses value. This is a difficult truth to learn, because we are na…
"The idea that being a decent person involves controlling the kinds of thoughts you allow yourself to think can easily be met with resistance. If virtue depends on limits to what is thinkabl…
"Pointe shoes are a strangely enduring anachronism that epitomises the enduring desire for ballerinas to embody the unnatural, to portray an illusion. And their intention as a tool to evo…
"The age of 58 " and whether a member is older or younger " is the generational divide between donors who want more on-demand programs and those who are less likely to know that those progra…
"The combination of necessary professional arrogance, high hopes, and even bigger disappointment has allowed conspiracy theories to gain currency among the musicians who feel cheated by Evan…
Sebastian Smee: "What the sale of Koons's "Rabbit" " an auction record for a living artist " is telling us with special force is that the question of valuation is not just about rationality …
Ian McEwan: "The ancient dream of a plausible artificial human might be scientifically useless but culturally irresistible. At the very least, the quest so far has taught us just…
"I went there a month later, and spent two days trying to access its famed music archives, and mostly just looking around. And at the risk of spoiling any big, revelatory climax, I'll just t…