Tag: 05.05.21
What Happened When A Video Game Mixed ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Artificial Intelligence And Choose-Your-Own-Adventure?...
Last summer, the game AI Dungeon (less than a year old at the time) got an upgraded version of AI text-generation software that lets...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Unveils New Gehry Addition
Nearly 20 years ago, Anne d’Harnoncourt, the museum's then-director and CEO, proposed to Frank Gehry that he replicate the galvanizing effect of his Guggenheim...
Houston Symphony’s Music Director, Stranded In Europe By Pandemic, Misses Last Two Weeks Of...
Andres Orozco-Estrada hasn't been back to Texas to conduct his orchestra for a year, but he had been planning to return for concerts May...
What’s Behind Attacks On Critical Race Theory?
"The exact targets of CRT’s critics vary wildly, but it is obvious that most critics simply do not know what they are talking about....
Could New York Get A Really Good Penn Station?
Justin Davidson refuses to relinquish hope. "The MTA, Amtrak, and NJ Transit have jointly released not one but two possible visions for rebuilding the rest...
Ross Douthat Sees Mediocrity Everywhere, Laments Paucity Of “Great Thinkers”
"My own favoured explanation, in The Decadent Society, is adapted from the American sociologist Robert Nisbet’s arguments about how cultural golden ages hold traditional...
What It’s Like To Play The Violin Of Violins
The Sala Paganiniana, where Il Cannone resides inside the Palazzo Tursi, is monitored by scientists, experts, and bodyguards. The instrument is played monthly by...
How To Think About Racist Statues That Have Been Taken Down
To date there are no large-scale programs or comprehensive models for dealing with defaced or removed monuments. However, the museum and heritage sectors —...
The Hucksterism Of Selling Culture In The 20th Century
Any given work—1984, say, or Bonnie and Clyde—isn’t much of anything until it becomes a counter in other people’s games. How much pure hucksterism...
A New York City Ballet Principal Writes About Returning To The Studio
Russell Janzen: "This is the longest I have danced with someone else in quite some time, and after running it in this first...
UK Will Fast-Track Visas For Anyone Who’s Won An Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe Etc.
The U.K. Home Office revealed on Wednesday that people who have won any of these awards will be able to skip the endorsements previously...
The Heated Battle Over ‘Hooked On Phonics’ (Yes, There Was One)
"As strangely ho-hum as Hooked on Phonics feels now, it was once a juggernaut in the educational space, selling hundreds of millions of dollars'...
Whoosh — Chicago Arts Scramble To Get Back In The Game
The city had most all of its nonprofit arts constituencies in line like eager petitioners: as soon as the mayor spoke, they hit “send”...
Getting Students To Seriously Wrestle With Cancel Culture And ‘Loving The Art But Hating...
"For 20 years now, … Harvey Weinstein was still feared, Kanye West was still about the music, and museums exhibited portfolios of amoral...
The Science Of Victimhood?
A study identifies a negative personality trait they call TIV or Tendency toward Interpersonal Victimhood. People who score high on a TIV test have...
Daniel Libeskind To Redesign Pittsburgh’s Tree Of Life Synagogue, Site Of 2018 Shooting
"Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, has experience responding to traumatic events through architecture. He...
Book Of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s Love Letters Marks End Of 18-Year Legal Battle Between...
The letters were between the French author of The Little Prince and his wife, a Salvadoran artist of whom his family sternly disapproved. The...
Britain’s NHS Tries Prescribing Song Playlists To Alzheimer’s Patients
"A test among people with dementia found an algorithm that 'prescribes' songs based on listeners' personal backgrounds and tastes resulted in reductions in heart...
‘Sesame Street’ Was A Radical Experiment
"It's easy to forget now, given the show's 52-year ubiquity, that the original program was a shot in the dark – the first show...
“Multitasking” Is A Lie
The American Psychological Association has reported that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% in productivity....
Celebrate Napoleon? Well, It Is His 200th Birthday…
This isn’t the first time that commemorating Napoleon or the events of his reign has posed a problem. In 2005, the then president of...
The World’s Longest-Running Play, Coming Back From Its First Closure In 69 Years
The producers of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap in London's West End have "employed two casts who will rehearse and work completely separately, and appear...
UK Threatens To Cut Funds For University-Level Arts Education By 50%
"Under proposals put forward earlier this year by Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, funding from the Office for Students — the independent regulator of...
Meet The Detective Who’s Recovered Half A Billion Dollars’ Worth of Stolen Art
" Marinello is one of a handful of people who track down stolen masterpieces for a living. Operating in the grey area between wealthy...