Yearly Archives: 2021
Now AI Is Formulating Hypotheses Scientists Haven’t Thought Of
Creating hypotheses has long been a purely human domain. Now, though, scientists are beginning to ask machine learning to produce original insights. They are designing neural...
A LinkedIn-Style Platform Built Specially For Casting Dancers
"Choreographer Amy Gardner used to consistently run into the same problem: When jobs popped up in different cities, whether for Nick Jonas or Neiman...
Why Are AI Data Sets Disappearing From The Internet?
All together, about a dozen AI datasets vanished—hastily scrubbed by their creators after researchers, activists, and journalists exposed an array of problems with the...
Jazz Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield Sentenced To Prison For Stealing From Post-Katrina Charity
Mayfield, who became a symbol of the survival of New Orleans, and his business partner, pianist Ronald Markham, were given 18-month sentences for diverting...
Attendance At US History Museums Was Down By More Than Two-Thirds Last Year
"This (finding) contrasted (with) surveys in prior years, which indicated strong visitation growth for history museums — especially small, local ones." - Hyperallergic
Desperate Staffers Start A Wave Of Unionization At US Museums
“(The movement is) confront(ing) conditions that workers — from archivists and curators to those selling T-shirts — say are untenable: minimal wage increases, draining...
These Ruins Could Be Of One Of King Herod’s Roman Temples
The ancient Jewish historian Josephus reported that Herod (reigned 37 BC-4 BC) built four temples: the Second Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem and...
Another Major Theatre Company In The Berkshires Changes Leadership
Less than a week after news broke of Mandy Greenfield's departure from the Williamstown Theater Festival following reports of poor working conditions, co-founder Julianne...
Chicago Symphony Comes Through Lockdowns With A $1.4 Million Surplus
"(The orchestra) turned a $4.4 million operating deficit into a $1.6 million surplus by cutting expenses deeper than revenue fell during the pandemic-struck fiscal...
For The First Time, A Black African Author Wins France’s Top Book Award
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr of Senegal has won the Prix Goncourt for La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (The Most Secret Memory of Men), which...
How Korea Became A Major Cultural Exporter
Once streaming services like Netflix tore down geographical barriers, the creators say, the country transformed from a consumer of Western culture into an entertainment juggernaut...
This Year’s Booker Prize Winner:
Booker judges pronounced Damon Galgut the winner, praising his novel for its “unusual narrative style that balances Faulknerian exuberance with Nabokovian precision, pushes boundaries,...
DC City Council Approves Two New Arts Commission Members Over Objections Of Its Chairman
The controversy comes as the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities has dramatically reshaped its policies to focus on diversity and equity and to broaden...
Jazz Guitarist Pat Martino, 77 — Overcame Amnesia To Perform Again
In 1980, brain surgery left him with no memory, but he painstakingly relearned the instrument, and his own past, and went on to three...
The Cultural Revisionism Industry
Over the past few years, a certain genre of media has found opportunity in debunking false conceptions of the semi-recent past and meditating on...
Rehabilitating Chuck Close
Where Close’s work ultimately lands in the canon of American art will serve as the art world’s first test case for how an artist...
Mark-Anthony Turnage Writes Music For A Soccer Match
Granted, this isn't just any match: it's the still-legendary 1989 English Premier League championship in which the London team Arsenal pulled off a dramatic...
What Do Hybrid Performances Look Like After COVID?
It may be counterintuitive, but the consensus view is the best way to produce the emotional intensity of a live performance is to create...
Inigo Philbrick, “The Bernie Madoff Of Art Dealers”, Will Plead Guilty To Fraud
In 2020 he was indicted on multiple charges of wire fraud and identity theft and fled to Vanuatu in the South Pacific, where he...
JackTrip: Solving The Internet’s Latency Problem For Musicians?
“We now have 60,000 users and we just hit the 100,000-hour mark of people making music on our platform. We’re excited to be a...
After 80 Years, The “City Of Arts” Diego Rivera Dreamed Of Is Open
"The 13-building complex opened this weekend (in Mexico City) with around 64,600 square feet of gardens, workshops, and performance and exhibition spaces." Amazingly, the...
Orchestras Continue Progress On Diversity During COVID
With racial sensitivities heightened since the 2020 murder of George Floyd, classical music groups nationwide have increasingly highlighted BIPOC performers and composers. - Dallas...
Not Your Grandfather’s Native American Dance Troupe
"When Indigenous Enterprise appeared on World of Dance, Kenneth Shirley described the group's style as 'Native American with a little bit of hip-hop.' And...
Mark Zuckerberg As Cultural Director Of The Internet? Er…
Though the term “metaverse” suggests a fully articulated sci-fi realm, Zuckerberg is using it to glamorize a network of virtual and augmented reality apps...
“Internet Culture” Reporting Is Technology Reporting (So Let’s Call It That, Okay?)
Taylor Lorenz: "Why aren't internet culture writers, who are primarily women and people of color, seen simply as technology or culture reporters? And do...