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As It Said It Would, Academy Of Motion Pictures Expands And Diversifies Its Membership
Statistically, the 2021 class is comprised of 46 percent women, 39 percent underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 53 international members from 49 countries outside of...
Why The Statue Of Liberty Never Lived Up To The Hype
Why does its meaning seem so unstable, especially now, as a small-scale copy makes its way from France to D.C., where it will be...
The Toll COVID Is Taking On Opera
There was “great appetite when we reopened," but “it’s been a little bit flat now,” whether because of the health pass requirement or the...
How Is It That Gamers Are Better At Detecting Fraud Than Scientists Are?
Does it strike you as odd that so many people tuned in to hear about a doctored speedrun of a children’s video game, while...
Gap In Museum Pay Is Widening
Museum directors brought home an average annual salary of $320,600, compared to $317,500 in 2019. Meanwhile,visitor services associates, who were most impacted by job...
San Diego Opera In Its Best Financial Shape Ever
The company’s endowment, which was $4.8 million when Executive Director David Bennett arrived in 2015, has nearly doubled to $8.8 million. - San Diego...
Tik Tok – Now Three Times As Long?
Rather than 60-second video limit, TikTokkers will have three minutes. Will that make them more or less creative? - The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Battles With Insurers Over COVID Claims
Fireman’s Fund gives the example of a nonessential crewmember having face-to-face contact with a movie director and then reporting infection, requiring a costly shutdown...
Does It Matter Where Arts Funding Comes From?
It seems artists are now welcome to protest about funding arrangements. But this is a no-win situation for the artists. - ArtsHub
Yeah, Well — We’re A Sucker For Those Dancing Robot Videos – This Time...
"While Spot’s smooth dance moves might bring a frisson of worry to any K-pop fans thinking that K-pop boy-bands might be the next industry...
Discovered: Evidence Van Gogh Was A Founder Of A Brass Band (Still Playing Today)
In 1884 Vincent van Gogh helped set up a band in the village of Nuenen, where he was living with his family and developing...
New York Times Experiments With Insta/Twitter To Focus Stories
"You have the copy of the tweet, a couple of lines in the card, and then it’s just a lot more information and context,...
So Yale Theatre School Tuition Will Be Free. Is This A Good Thing?
The fascinating idea is that the free tuition even can expand exponentially to help yet more artists. It’s an interesting argument, rarely applied to...
Martha Nussbaum And The Striving In Structures
For her entire career, Nussbaum, now seventy-four, has blazed a trail for women in philosophy, a field that historically has not welcomed female thinkers....
Book Sales Soar Year-Over-Year (Duh!)
It comes as little surprise that statistics newly released by the Association of American Publishers found that total sales for the 1,358 publishers that...
Louise Bourgeois And Her Exploration Of Pain
“The subject of pain is the business I am in,” Louise Bourgeois once remarked. Like Emily Dickinson whose business was “circumference,” Bourgeois circled her...
Scientists Use Scans To Determine Whether National Gallery Vermeers Are Authentic
The two paintings are not obvious fakes. Indeed, one is considered a masterpiece, but they are unusual in the oeuvre of Vermeer: smaller than...
Juilliard Pulls Video Of Zukerman’s Racist Masterclass
At one point, Zukerman told a pair of students of Asian descent that their playing was too perfect and that they needed to add...
What Might Have Been — A Plan For NPR To Be An Arts Powerhouse
Once upon a time, kids, NPR was to have taken its place among other national broadcasters around the world to become the standard for...
YouTube Buys Naming Rights For New 6000-Seat Theatre In LA
The 6,000-seat performance venue at the Hollywood Park sports and entertainment complex in Inglewood, Calif., will be called “YouTube Theater.” - Variety
Turns Out AI Can Be Pretty Easily Fooled By Patterns
The ability to succeed at the task can be thought of as a foundation for all kinds of inferences that humans make. - Quanta
Suffering Under The Weight Of Happiness
Wanting to copy the happiest people in the world is an understandable impulse, but it distracts from a key message of the happiness rankings—that...
No Surprise: How AI Is Choosing The Next Pop Stars
Musiio is just one of many hi-tech firms changing the way songs are categorised, playlisted and promoted, to eventually reach the ears of millions....
Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Sleek New Gehry Makeover
Philip Kennicott: "The changes at the Philadelphia Museum are stunning". - Washington Post
Louis Menand Takes On O. Henry
In New York, he began producing at an astonishing rate. He contracted to write a story a week for the Sunday World, and he...