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Preparing To Resume
"I think part of the answer is going to be for arts organizations to look in the mirror and ask themselves, “What really was...
Creating A Practice Of Public Philosophy
Public philosophy isn’t simply popularizing philosophical ideas (though it typically involves that). It is more often a matter of instigating a kind of thinking,...
Does A “Big” Book Equal A Necessary Book?
"In the marketplace of books, it can be hard to find that next, necessary book. I keep a list of what to read next...
What Should We Expect From Artificial Intelligence?
Human consciousness depends on a body that developed through evolution. If we want to create AI that is conscious in the same way we...
Gen Z’s Say Movies, TV Are Fifth On Their Entertainment Preferences
About 26% of Gen Z said video games are their top entertainment activity, and 87% of those in the age bracket said they play...
This Year’s Oscars — Disaster In The Making?
There may be fundamental problems with the way the Academy Awards connect with contemporary Hollywood films and their audiences. “For some time the movies...
How The Republican Party Buys Books In Bulk To Boost Its Candidates (And Get...
Four party-affiliated organizations, including the Republican National Committee, collectively spent more than $1 million during the past election cycle mass-purchasing books written by GOP...
Composer Wayne Peterson, 93 — Was At The Center Of A Pulitzer Prize Controversy
For 30 years, Mr. Peterson had been a composer, pianist and professor at San Francisco State University, respected by most musicians who knew his...
On What It Takes To Be A Ballerina
“We dancers bonk up against the insanity of pining after someone else’s pair of legs day after day, but with age and maturity and...
Choreographer Liam Scarlett, 35
He was a star British choreographer who staged a prodigious number of works and was assured a major international career. But "after allegations of...
The Dueling Bob Dylan Bios By Authors Who Hate Each Other
“It’s not really polite to tell other writers they’re bad writers, because they tend to fling it back to you. In response, I would...
The Weird Pilots That Didn’t Make It To TV
TV networks spend about $100 million a year in developing pilots for series. Only a small number get to the schedule. Even fewer become...
The Exploding Market For NFT Art
Most people still do not really understand it, but with the influx of cryptocapital into the NFT art market, all eyes are now glued...
Fake News As A Virus
What’s different today is the speed, scope and scale of misinformation, enabled by technology. Online media has given voice to previously marginalised groups, including...
Where Dance Is Online
Somehow, despite the continued strain and strife, many dance companies have successfully adapted to the evolving digital stage — reimagining Nutcracker seasons, digitizing never-before-seen...
Head Of New York Theatre Workshop To Step Down After 34 Years
James C. Nicola, the artistic director of New York Theater Workshop, announced on Friday that he will step down in June 2022. At that...
How Cellphones Power Popular Music In Africa
“While I was doing the recording, it became really apparent that the cellphone was such a prominent actor in that transaction,” says Christopher Kirkley....
The Forgotten Land Artist
Nancy Holt was always serious. Her journals show how other artists loved talking through ideas with her. She was very close to Michael Heizer,...
Calculation: San Francisco Says Arts Venues Can Reopen. But Are Audiences Ready To Return?
How rigorously will patrons expect to be protected from the dangers of the COVID-19 virus? Have entertainment habits atrophied during a hiatus of more...
Will NFTs Empower Artists?
As blockchain technology evolves, transaction speed increases, and transaction fees decrease (all of which are slowly, but surely happening) and more content becomes uniquely...
Venice’s Gondola Tradition Is Endangered
The anthropologist Elisa Bellato has called this an ‘identity crisis’ for the artistic manufacture of the gondola. While the boat made with cheaper materials...
New Stats: HipHop, Rap Now Account For 22 Percent Of Listening In UK
When BPI started recording data like this in the 1990s, rap music only counted for 3.6% of the singles market. In 2020, it was...
TV Viewing Down? Networks Protest Nielsen Data
Through the trade group Video Advertising Bureau, the networks are perplexed by Nielsen statistics that show the percentage of Americans who watched their televisions...
Louis Menand On The Pragmatism Of Lionel Trilling
As Menand puts it in his new book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, “Trilling thought that people’s literary preferences...
We Live In The Age Of The Ghostwriter
"In the age of texting and emailing, the world is full of Cyranos: Getting quick, surreptitious help writing high-stakes messages has never been easier,...