For certain kinds of tasks—playing chess, detecting tumors—artificial intelligence can rival or surpass human thinking. But the broader world presents endless unforeseen circumstances, and there A.I. often stumbles. - The New Yorker
Theaters and art venues appeared to be one of the most fragile institutions with the war. Most of them stopped functioning and closed up with the first sound of the sirens. Many actors joined in territorial defense, some went into the army, many are volunteering. Almost all theaters ceased to exist. - Arts Fuse
By his count, it is actually 37 more languages, with at least 24 he speaks well enough to carry on lengthy conversations. He can read and write in eight alphabets and scripts. He can tell stories in Italian and Finnish and American Sign Language. - Washington Post
Those scrappy days of shoestring budgets and ad hoc responsibilities — with everyone, including the members of the quartet, pitching in as needed — are now long past. Kronos has become a new-music juggernaut, with a catalog of more than 1,000 commission works and a discography including more than 60 items. - San Francisco Chronicle
"I spend my days writing optimized blog articles that feature short paragraphs and less-sophisticated wording — proven SEO winners — to help my clients appear at the top of search results. ... (My clients') instructions are usually simple: 'See what the top articles are doing, and do it better.'" - MSN (The Boston Globe)
What if we put video game designers inside the gallery context? How could they reimagine the world of gaming for a more collective audience and with that kind of spatial format for their work? - ArtsHub
"Because to write about anything, you have to declare something and I find that very hard to do. I do very much feel: 'Is my blue the same blue as your blue?' I have that about everything." - The Observer (UK)
These modern bastardizations have eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precedent. Singers notoriously inserted their preferred arias into opera scores, however unrelated to the opera at hand. - City Journal
"The arts center will be the centerpiece of a 53-acre park on the Sarasota bayfront. It will have a 2,250-seat main stage theater and a 400-seat flexible performance and event space ... (as well as) a lawn where people can watch movies or performances in the open air." - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Artists do not deserve financial support just for being artists. Selling one’s art is a different story altogether and requires at least 2 parties to be in agreement. Artists are no more deserving of financial support than any other worker, thinker, or creator. - Alan Harrison
"My life totally changed in one day. In the morning, I didn't know I was going to leave Russia. And in the night, I was sitting on the plane. ... I never followed politics. But politics became impossible to ignore, which is why I spoke out against the war." - The Guardian
Brott was a pedestrian involved in a hit-and-run incident. Following the news of his death, social media tributes poured in from the Canadian classical music community, including the Hamilton-based festival that bears his name. - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
The somewhat confusing case — earlier reports that the director had been convicted were later denied — concerns Farhadi's A Hero, an Oscar-nominee this year. A former student claims Farhadi stole the idea for his film from a documentary she made in a workshop he ran in 2014. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"Hanson, 48, who already has led two orchestras larger than the BSO" — the San Francisco and Houston Symphonies — "will begin his new job April 21. He succeeds Peter Kjome, who announced his resignation as the BSO's president and CEO in the spring of 2021." - The Baltimore Sun
