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The Strange Concept Of The Polymath
"The Digital Age has supplied a vast overload of information. “A well-informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny,” wrote Thomas Jefferson. But are...
How Clubhouse Took Off
Clubhouse arrived at a perfect moment. It delivered spontaneous conversations and chance meetings to people stuck at home. For those weary of tidying and...
Inside The Cryptocurrency Calculations Of The Beeple Sale
The B.20 tokens based on Beeple’s work are about 41 times more valuable today than they were in January, when MetaKovan first made them...
Reports Of James Levine’s Death Are Telling
Josh Kosman: "When a composer pleads for a more sympathetic view of Levine because of his advocacy for new music, or when an opera...
What A Post-COVID UK Classical Music World Might Look Like (Muddled)
"The unevenness of response across the London halls, from the vagueness and uncertainty of the SBC to the Wigmore Hall’s dauntless ongoing programme of...
Palm Spring Giant “Marilyn” Is A Step Back
The Palms Springs Art Museum, a low-slung building designed by E. Stewart Williams in 1974, is emblematic of the Midcentury Modern architecture now synonymous...
Twyla Tharp @80
The choreographer’s eclectic inspirations wind like a scenic highway through American culture, from ballet to figure skating, from Frank Sinatra to Philip Glass. -...
Will The NFL’s New Media Deal Kill Local TV?
"The loss of broadcast exclusivity is going to accelerate cord cutting as younger viewers gravitate toward the streaming platforms. The loss of coveted younger...
Computers V. Humans – What’s Possible?
The greatest imaginative challenge seems to be foreseeing which changes will arrive sooner than expected (computers outplaying chess grandmasters), and which will be surprisingly...
Warner Studios Cancels Plans To Build Tram To The Hollywood Sign
The effort, dubbed the Hollywood Skyway, would have cost the studio an estimated $100 million. The tramway would have taken visitors on a six-minute...
Small Independent Opera Companies Are Saving Opera
Across Canada, indie opera companies are making the art form cool again; daring and provocative again. Pre-pandemic, the collective mass of these companies was on...
Museums Battle Over The Ethics Of Selling Art To Survive
The debate has grown heated in recent weeks, pitting museum against museum, and forcing the association — which serves as the industry’s referee and...
The Controversies In Translating Amanda Gorman
"In one camp, translators argue that the issue is representation in the field, not whether a white translator is incapable of translating an author...
The Invitation Of Translation — And Its Pitfalls
The act and the art of translation requires the permission to transcend borders, the permission to make mistakes, and the permission to be repeated,...
Streaming Passes 1 Billion Subscribers (But Theatre Box Office Tanks)
For the first time ever, subscriptions to streaming services surpassed one billion, reaching 1.1 billion globally. At the same time, box office receipts plummeted...
Oscar Nominees Told Zooming In Not An Option For The Event
"We are treating the event as an active movie set, with specially designed testing cadences to ensure up-to-the-minute results, including an on-site COVID safety...
The Bottom Line: How America’s Arts Organizations Are Doing
A new report looks at the balance sheets of the country's arts organizations. Community and theatre organizations fared the best, while museums and symphony...
James Levine Was An Argument Against Genius-Worship Culture
Until his death, Levine was perhaps the music world’s most staggering living testament to the dangers of genius-worship culture. That culture nourished his ascent...
NBC Cancels “World Of Dance”
The show had been a strong performer for NBC over its first three seasons, but the fourth season ebbed and flowed in the numbers....
2020 Movie Box Office Down Big Time (But Home Streaming Offsets Much)
The U.S./Canada box office market was down 80% in 2020, to $2.2 billion, while tickets sold were down 81% to 0.24 billion. Still, that...
How A Japanese AI Used In Bakeries Ended Up Fighting Cancer
In early 2017, a doctor at the Louis Pasteur Center for Medical Research, in Kyoto, saw a television segment about the BakeryScan. He realized...
The Beeple JPG — Just A $69 Million Marketing Stunt?
“It’s absurdity at every level of implementation. They sold a JPEG. This was a $69 million marketing stunt.” - Artnet
Major New Inuit Museum Opens In Winnipeg
"When Inuit enter the building, we want them to feel like this is a space for them, that the artwork to be curated...
James Levine’s Complicated Legacy
Justin Davidson: "Levine made innumerable comebacks, and though he ended his career in bitterness and disgrace, he also avoided the punishment he deserved. The...
India’s New Internet Regulations Will Change How Indians See The Internet
Among other things, the IT Rules 2021 require social media platforms to deploy AI-based technology to identify sexually explicit content, trace the originator of...