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The "free speech" argument can be a useful tactic. But it's not necessarily a successful one in the long term. Overusing it can turn real debates into insoluble meta-arguments with no room f…
The CEO ― whose net worth is estimated at over $4 billion ― argued in an interview with Music Ally published Thursday that there was a "narrative fallacy" around claims t…
"Salvator Mundi!" The Musical, announced by Tony Award-winning production company Caiola Productions, will chronicle the tale of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance-era portrait of Jesus, presum…
GPT-3 is a product of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab based in San Francisco. In essence, it's a machine-learning system that has been fed (trained on) 45 terabytes of text d…
He remained, in critical estimation, a pianist of sublime musical intelligence whether playing with one hand or two. But he also gained renown off the stage as a conductor and an influential…
It seems like the entire edifice is teetering. If you can't pay musicians, you can't get live music. Culture, while a major economic sector, will likely be one of the last to restart after t…
Even before the pandemic, Greece's theaters were in trouble. Years of austerity saw government spending on the arts slashed, with subsidies for the largest theaters cut in half, or withdrawn…
For a group of scholars, scientists and musicians, Hagia Sophia's rededication as a Muslim place of worship threatens to cloak a less tangible treasure: its sound. Bissera Pentcheva, an art …
Born in Calais, France, Fabrice Fourmanoir, 63, might once have been dismissed as a crackpot, a wannabe who would never be welcomed into the sophisticated enclave of art scholarship. But sin…
He was nominated for the best-director Oscar for the 1978 film "Midnight Express" and again 10 years later for "Mississippi Burning." " The New York Times
When I pop around and listen to public radio streams from around the country, they almost universally sound like they did before the pandemic started. Same with the programs themselves. Thin…
The video-sharing social media app said in a blog post Wednesday that it will give creators in the U.S. over $1 billion in the next three years, and more than double that globally. " CNBC
Kitsch is a conflicted term"hard to strictly define, but as with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's joke about pornography, one knows it when one sees it. For the purchasers of kitsch in…
On a longlist packed with surprises and debuts, chosen from 162 novels, Mantel is up against major literary names including US author Anne Tyler, picked for Redhead by the Side of the Road, …
"The pandemic offered a temporary reprieve from sound, both in cities and in oceans, giving scientists a once-in-a-lifetime (we hope) chance to study the sudden onset of quiet. The lockdown …
Controversies broke out on a few fronts this week. " NPR
"We don't have to remain in our Brady Bunch squares. It was great to walk by and see the dancers sweating and breathing. We still do that. We are all choreographers now. People are starting …
David Balzer: "Here, I want to go beyond critiquing institutional messaging and superficial pledges towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. Instead, I want to use my experience as the form…
Controlled Digital Lending's essential position is that it's fine for a nonprofit like the archive or a library to scan a print copy of a book it owns, then lend that digital scan out on a o…
A new report calculates, in detail, what it would take to aggressively transition to a clean energy economy in the U.S. by 2035"the timeline needed to make it possible to hit the target of t…
David Nash at the University of Brighton in the UK and his colleagues have identified the source of 50 of the 52 large boulders, known as sarsens, that make up the monument's iconic stone ci…
Robust poems committed to memory can counteract the corrosive effects of self-pity. They can offer a different way of viewing the world, particularly to generations that did not suffer the b…
There has been a lot of research into the Nazis' plunder of Jewish-owned artwork in Europe during World War II, though far less attention has been paid to the looting of instruments. But a n…
Who can blame voters for wanting to escape? The last year has been a wrecked clown car inside a dumpster fire that's riddled with the plague. Series that deal with today's ugly reality throu…
The report said the financial transactions were enabled by the secrecy and anonymity with which the art market operates and it called for tighter rules to force greater transparency. The inv…
