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For Digital “Creators” Everything Is For Sale
"Tens of millions of people around the globe consider themselves creators, and the creator economy represents the “fastest-growing type of small business,” according to...
How Amazon Blocks Libraries From Lending E-Books
Librarians have been no match for the beast. When authors sign up with a publisher, it decides how to distribute their work. With other...
Why Are There So Few Women Percussionists In Orchestras?
"Today, in London’s seven top orchestras, women only account for 3% of all the timpani and percussion positions. In fact, there are more men...
San Francisco Opera Costume Shop Creates Sing-Safe COVID Masks
The opera's wardrobe team crafted the mask from materials used in making its corsets -- with a billowy shape aimed at allowing ample room...
Hollywood Made Out Big Time In The Stock Market
A month before "meme stocks" like GameStop and AMC Entertainment took flight and captured the public imagination, many of the world’s entertainment giants were...
Using Lockdown Boredom For Good
"During this period of soul-crushing boredom, it would be valuable to pay more attention to what people are feeling and thinking, rather than trying...
The Artistic Power Of AI
"AI as scientist conception runs the risk of missing out on a — the — characteristic feature of AI, particularly machine learning. Once this...
The Constant Crises Of British Theatre
The UK’s theatrical culture is obsessed with the idea of theatre as storytelling, both as a discourse and as a conditioning of what the...
Research: The Intricacies Of Detecting Bullshit
Recently, researchers have begun to treat bullshitting as having two separate dimensions. “Persuasive bullshitting” is motivated by a desire to impress or persuade. “Evasive...
How To Fix Our Online Dystopia? It’s A Design Problem
In this new wilderness, democracy is becoming impossible. If one half of the country can’t hear the other, then Americans can no longer have...
Dance Among The Irradiated Ruins Of Fukushima
Eiko’s performative gestures are captured in opulent compositional detail as she defiantly inserts her body amidst crumbled buildings, vine-encrusted train tracks, large bags of...
$158 Million Restoration Of Air Force Academy Chapel Is Biggest Modernist Preservation Project Ever
Listed as a National Historic Landmark District, the Air Force Academy campus is still one of the most advanced fusions of technology, education, art,...
Milwaukee’s Danceworks Changes Collective Leadership Model Amid Protests
A recent leadership change at Danceworks has led to the longtime artistic director's resignation and a letter from a co-founder criticizing the board of...
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre Will Pay Its Employees To Get Vaccinated
"We are incentivizing each one of our employees with a payment of $200 to get vaccinated," Chad Bauman said. "We believe it's incredibly important...
Disney+ Closes In On 100 Million Subscribers
The subscriber count is up from the 94.9 million accounts Disney reported last month for the quarter that ended in January. And the surge...
How Companies Are Rethinking What It Means To “Own” Something
Business leaders, and their lawyers, have a bias — an unjustified faith, really — that legal ownership matters. Surprisingly often, it doesn’t, and some...
The Democratization Of Storytelling
By now, a successfully kickstarted short is a rather common occurrence, but an Oscar-winning one is rare indeed. Crowdfunding is, of course, not the...
DeepFake Technology That Animates Images (Really Creepy)
The AI family history app MyHeritage allows users to animate photographs from the past. Run a document through the app and it will seemingly...
Settlement In Copyright Suit Against Robert Indiana Estate
The settlement agreement brings the legal wrangling over the estate of the artist known for his iconic “LOVE” series closer to an end. -...
Big Worries About The Met Museum’s Plans To Sell Art To Survive
"Critics of the new guidelines, including Hollein’s predecessor, Thomas P. Campbell, believe in the sanctity of public collections and want to maintain strict controls...
“Genre” Is Disappearing In Pop Music
"It’s difficult to imagine a Grammy ceremony that doesn’t rely on genre as its organizing principle—I suppose that would entail the bestowing of just...
I Miss Theatre. I Didn’t Know I’d Miss The Audience Too
"What it has taken me a year to realize is how much I also miss the community of the audience — the strangers surrounding...
What People Regret On Their Deathbed
"Broadly, people seem to wish for a more meaningful life. They wished they’d been more authentic in their activities (1; 3). They wished they’d...
Why Music Schools Like Juilliard Have To Change
Classical purists clutch their hearts in disgust at the mere suggestion of their holy shrines teaching business skills like freelancing or contemporary styles like...
NY’s Iconic Metro Pictures Gallery Announces It Will Close
It wasn't "because of declining sales, co-founder Helene Winer said in an interview, but with a sense that reopening the gallery once the pandemic...