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This week, the New Museum in New York City announced its temporary closure through early 2025 for a site expansion that has been in the works since 2008. The project will encompass the since-razed property adjacent to its current SANAA-designed building, adding a seven-story annex at 231 Bowery to nearly double its exhibition space and

London had a problem. In 2016, more than 2 million of the city’s residents—roughly a quarter of its population—lived in areas with illegal levels of air pollution; areas that also contained nearly 500 of the city’s schools. That same air pollution was prematurely killing as many as 36,000 people a year. Much of it was

The new German edition of “The Marriage,” from Wolke Verlag — with an ingenious cover When I embarked on my novel The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York, I felt I possessed a pretty good understanding of Gustav, and none at all of Alma. Nor are the various biographical treatments of Alma adequate – she escapes portraiture, and

Unreserved53:59Indigenous playwrights take centre stage It might be hard to imagine that well-known playwright Tomson Highway once had to pull people off the street to get an audience.  But that is how the Cree writer’s award-winning play The Rez Sisters — which explores the lives and hopes of seven women from a fictional reserve on Manitoulin

Former Colorado Public Radio host and reporter Vic Vela, who rose to prominence in recent years through his podcast about addiction, recovery and mental health, filed complaints Tuesday with state and federal disability authorities alleging he was fired in January because he asked for accommodations to help maintain his sobriety. Vela, who has candidly discussed

It is the age of signing open letters, then issuing apologies for signing them a few days later; of fretting about the effect of AI on human creativity, then boring anyone who will listen with “hilarious” responses generated from ChatGPT prompts; of whining about binge TV, then blasting through a whole season of The White Lotus in

M. Emmet Walsh, the wily character actor who became an audience favorite for his deliciously despicable performances in such films as Blood Simple, Blade Runner, Brubaker and The Jerk, has died. He was 88. Walsh died Tuesday in St. Albans, Vermont, his longtime manager, Sandy Joseph, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause was cardiac arrest. With his distinctive lumbering

The Theatre The Art of the Robocall Illustration by Josie Norton Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story Four years ago, at the height of the pandemic, I came across a show called “claws,” which was put on by the Chicago-based Candle House Collective and billed as a “telephonic thriller for one.”

PARIS (AP) — The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris following a tragic blaze in April 2019 is a story of dedication and recovery. The iconic medieval monument immortalized in history, film and literature has been gradually rebuilt over the past five years, through challenges that have included delays during the pandemic and the

Lawrence Tibbett as Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra Lawrence Tibbett as Gruenberg’s Emperor Jones George Gershwin chose Lawrence Tibbett to make the first recordings of Porgy’s songs from his opera Porgy and Bess. But Tibbett did not sing them at the Alvin Theatre – Todd Duncan (called by Gershwin “the Black Tibbett”) did. Gershwin wanted a Black Porgy

LONDON — Sweeping new laws regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe, including controls around the use of copyrighted music, have been approved by the European Parliament, following fierce lobbying from both the tech and music communities. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favor of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act by

Listen to this article 00:00 53:38 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of

Everybody needs an oldies station.  WKBJ was equal parts doo-wop and PG hijinks, faceless friend to commuters from Saugerties to Secaucus. It was the late ’90s, when Neil Diamond and the Beach Boys jostled for room in the nostalgia car. Bobby Miller was the manic maestro behind the wheel.  Favored by parents and Earth Science

London’s biggest screening party for the Eurovision Song Contest finals has been canceled, the venue Rio Cinema and organizer Eurovision Party London have said. “Following discussion with the organizers of Eurovision Party London, we have collectively decided not to screen the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest this year while Israel remains in the

View image in fullscreen Interview Ava DuVernay: ‘I’ve got real big-sister energy’ Michael Segalov The film maker, 51, on her early love of film, why she’s not on social media and the importance of silence Being the oldest of five kids, I’ve got real big-sister energy. I’m protective and want to take care of people.

ChatGPT caught regulators by surprise when it set off a new AI race. As companies have rushed to develop and release ever more powerful models, lawmakers and regulators around the world have sought to catch up and rein in development. As governments spin up new AI programs, regulators around the world are urgently trying to

While “nonprofit” is not Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. As nonprofit news has grown in importance over the last two decades, one bit of wisdom (or cynicism, depending on the tone) you will frequently hear dispensed

West End theatre producers can put on a happy face. In a rare move, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has confirmed that the government will reverse its rule raising the thresholds for high-net worth individuals allowed to invest in British theatrical productions and start-up companies. “The government will legislate to reinstate

While having dinner with a group of artists recently, I said something that made the entire table go silent: “The Whitney gave artists a fee of $1,500 each to participate in the 2019 biennial.” This was not, in fact, a secret. I had read about the fee, given to participants in the Whitney Museum of

HarperCollins will publish The Collected Poems of J R R Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G Hammond, in September 2024, the first time all the author’s poems will appear in one volume.  HC, which holds world all-language rights to Tolkien’s works, said: “Poetry was the first way in which Tolkien expressed himself creatively