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Is It Ethical To Have AI Complete A Painting Keith Haring Deliberately Left Unfinished?
Haring created the 1989 work titled Unfinished Painting as a comment on the lives unlived and the creativity unrealized because of the AIDS epidemic,...
The San Francisco Symphony Has Cut Back Its SoundBox Concerts. How Worrisome Is This?
The orchestra says it reduced the programming to save money, because SoundBox concerts lose a lot of it even when they sell out. Yet...
SAG-AFTRA Deal Will Let Actors License Their Voices For AI Cloning For Video Games
"Under a new deal with an artificial intelligence company, members of the Screen Actors Guild will be able to create and license digital simulations...
Teachers At Second City In Chicago Are Set To Strike Next Week
"Unionized teachers and others at the Second City Training Center said Tuesday they have authorized a strike and will set up a picket line...
As Interest In His Work Grows, Thornton Wilder’s Estate Appoints A New Literary Executor
"Jeremy McCarter, the former New York magazine drama critic and co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of the behind-the-scenes book Hamilton: The Revolution, has been named...
To Solve Audience Confusion, Philadelphia Orchestra/Kimmel Center Renames Itself Ensemble Arts Philly
Following the 2021 merger of the orchestra with the organization that operates its concert hall and three other venues (and presents shows in a...
Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art Is Losing Board Members Following CEO’s Unexplained Departure
Six of the board's 30 members have stepped down since Colette Pierce Burnette suddenly left Newfields in November after only 15 months as CEO....
Sales Of Ink-On-Paper Books Were Down 2.6% In 2023
"Helped by a 1.7% increase in the fourth quarter, unit sales of print books fell only 2.6% in 2023 from 2022. ... The dip...
Paul Taylor Dance Company Announces Major Expansion
"(The company will) more than triple its footprint, moving its headquarters to a Midtown Manhattan office tower next year from its current home on...
In Taiwan’s Election Campaign, The Arts Sector Tries To Get Some Attention
"'Art has never been a priority' for the government, says (one gallerist), and response to pressure from the arts is 'slow, but we can’t...
On Watching George Santos’s Post-Congress Cameo Videos
"There was once a transgressive appeal to the Santos persona. … It was the inappropriateness of his high status that made him amusing. Now...
A Report On Working Conditions For Literary Translators
"Just under 300 people responded to the survey, which was intended to collect data about copyright, payment, royalties, and other labor issues. … Only...
Philadelphia Orchestra Appoints Marin Alsop As Principal Guest Conductor
"Alsop, 67, was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2007-08 through 2020-21, the first woman to lead a top-level American orchestra. She...
In Rehearsal With The N.Y.P.D. Dance Team
"The seven-officer team has mastered hip-hop and salsa and is playing around with bachata and bhangra. … But what they really need is recruits...
UK Theatres Fear A Cascade Of Closures Due To Local Government Funding Cuts
"Loss of local support for the arts is a symptom of the increasing number of councils facing bankruptcy after more than a decade of...
Radio Giant Audacy, In Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Plans To Discharge $1.6 Billion In Debt
"Radio’s second largest ownership group says it has reached an agreement with a 'supermajority' of its debtholders on a deleveraging transaction that will erase...
Joseph Lelyveld, 86, Former Executive Editor Of The New York Times
"He presided over the newsroom as executive editor from 1994 to 2001, a period that coincided with the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and...
Student At Art Institute Of Chicago Sues School For Anti-Semitic Discrimination
"Master’s degree student Shiran Canel — an Israeli-American Jew in her 30s who lives in the Chicago area — alleges the school discriminated against...
Martin Scorsese Is About To Shoot A Film About Jesus Of Nazareth
The screenplay, which is finished, is based on A Life of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, who also wrote the book on which Scorsese's Silence...
Philip Roth’s Persona Has Now Superseded Philip Roth’s Books
"It's worth asking now, five years after Roth’s death, whether they have eclipsed the actual work that Roth produced, or any true reckoning with...
This Little New York Town Closed Its Public Library Because Of A Drag Queen...
Last spring, the library in Lake Luzerne announced, as a one-time event, a drag queen story hour. After months of strife that included a...
One Of England’s Most Prosperous Counties Has Zeroed Out Its Local Arts Funding
In Suffolk, where roughly three-quarters of the population qualifies as "wealthy" or "comfortable," the county announced that it will end all core arts funding...
The Filmmaking Safdie Brothers Are Splitting Up (For Now)
"While recent rumors suggest the pair had a falling out, (Benny) Safdie insists his split with Josh is amicable. 'It’s a natural progression of...
More Upheaval At Cleveland Ballet As It Severs Ties With Its Own Dance School
"The Cleveland Ballet has severed all ties with the School of Cleveland Ballet, which was co-founded by its currently suspended Artistic Director Gladisa Guadalupe,...
The Years-Long Oligarch-Versus-Art-Dealer Battle Arrives In A US Federal Courtroom — With A Suit...
Dmitry Rybolovlev has been pursuing dealer Yves Bouvier from country to country with lawsuits alleging that Bouvier fraudulently inflated prices for multimillion-dollar artworks (such...