Art

Frank Cirinna didn’t necessarily set out to become someone people turn to for news headlines, but that’s exactly what has happened with his popular TikTok account. He is admittedly not a journalist — he’s a full-time school teacher in the Toronto area — but his concise yet punchy videos breaking down local and national news

Stages is looking for its next Managing Director, someone to set and execute organizational strategies in close collaboration with an artistic partner and Board that will lead Stages to accomplish its key goals and objectives. The Managing Director co-leads the company in partnership with the Artistic Director and reports directly to Stages’ Board of Directors.

The Hugo Awards, the most prestigious science fiction and fantasy literary awards in the book community, has recently been blanketed in scandal. It all began when esteemed sci-fi authors like Neil Gaiman, R.F. Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Paul Weimer were no longer eligible as finalists for the awards even though they had earned enough

The President delivers a ‘State of the Union’ Speech every year, but that’s a snooze. Just look at your worthy representatives struggling to keep their eyes open. That’s because they’ve heard it all before. We have too. Not much changes in politics. Certainly not the candidates. There’s more variety at my local gas station, where

Activism / February 14, 2024 Hundreds of protesters occupied the storied museum in a reminder that the art world cannot evade its political and moral responsibilities. Ad Policy (Alexa B. Wilkinson) It was an ordinary Saturday at the Museum of Modern Art. Tourists flowed through galleries, clogged lines at the bathroom, meandered through the institution’s

Giacomo Puccini is widely regarded as one of opera’s greatest composers. “Turandot,” “La bohème,” “Tosca,” and “Madama Butterfly” are all widely performed and beloved the world over. Since its premiere in 1900, “La bohème” has been performed over 1,200 times and in all but eight seasons at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. The 1981 Zeffirelli production

View image in fullscreen A century on from Rhapsody in Blue, debates about cultural ‘theft’ rage still Kenan Malik Societies are robbed of subtlety and depth when racism is conflated with the borrowing of ideas ‘The future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real

View image in fullscreen New Beyoncé song Texas Hold ’Em gets country music radio airplay after online campaign Oklahoma’s KYKC initially refused to play the song, but later added it to its rotation after saying it had not been aware of the star’s new single A country music radio station in the US that initially

In front of the library on Main Street in Littleton, New Hampshire, is a bronze Pollyanna statue, smiling with her arms flung wide. Pollyanna’s carefree days may be numbered. If the residents of Littleton vote to limit public art, as one official has suggested, the statue will have to be removed. There’s no middle ground:

In a rare poetry reading organized by Efe Balıkçıoğlu and Sibel Erol and focused on often unacknowledged voices in contemporary Turkey, the works of three dissident authors are to be presented as a serious Turkish delight for mind and tongue. The presentation at NYU on Feb. 23 — both in person and on Zoom — will

On 19 October 1752, a discovery was made 20 metres underneath the town of Resina, near Naples in Italy. Peasants digging wells in the area around Mount Vesuvius had struck marble statuary and mosaic pavements – and they also found lumps of carbon. Initially, they were tossed aside – the lumps weren’t considered valuable or

I might have inadvertently insulted Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor when I interviewed them about their new AI startup last week. Their new company, Sierra, is developing AI-powered agents to “elevate the customer experience” for big companies. Among its original customers are WeightWatchers, Sonos, SiriusXM, and OluKai (a “Hawaiian-inspired” clothing company). Sierra’s eventual market is

This op-ed originally appeared on Kansas Reflector and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. Just like that, a chilling cut to public television funds in Kansas was rescinded. Wednesday morning, the Senate Ways and Means Committee heard budget recommendations from the Senate Commerce Committee. Last week, that panel had stripped 10% of the state’s PBS funds. Why?

Google cofounder Larry Page thinks superintelligent AI is “just the next step in evolution.” In fact, Page, who’s worth about $120 billion, has reportedly argued that efforts to prevent AI-driven extinction and protect human consciousness are “speciesist” and “sentimental nonsense.” In July, former Google DeepMind senior scientist Richard Sutton — one of the pioneers of reinforcement learning,

Museum shows come and go, but a grand Alexander Calder exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum may just reshape the institution for much of the immediate future. The works in this show, from a gift by longtime museum patrons Jon and Kim Richter Shirley, isn’t just monumental in its cultural and financial value. The show

The Tate Modern and Tate Britain welcomed around five million visitors in 2022, according to our Visitor Figures research. But Tate’s senior social media manager Nell Burnham reports that the museums recently hit a staggering 12.5 million followers on social media. They are united under the @tate handle and can be found on Instagram, TikTok,

As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never goes out of style. The gift of verse may carry extra cachet this Valentine’s Day, on the heels of Taylor Swift’s announcement that her next album is poetry-themed. But in carrying out my research on Renaissance literature and gender, I’ve been struck by

[embedded content] Gershwin’s Rhapsody performed by Alexander Tsfasman and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Now that the centenary of Rhapsody in Blue (last Monday) has come and gone – with fanfare and a degree of controversy and a sampling of many renditions of Gershwin’s “worst masterpiece” – I am left with a craving to revisit my favorite version: by Alexander

With its origins in 16th-century India, Bharathanatyam remains hugely popular. Here’s a primer to kickstart your enjoyment I watch spellbound when, with just a flick of her fingers and a gleam in her eye, my teacher transforms from an impish five-year-old one moment to a spiteful snake in the next, to a lovelorn maiden in

In 2022, the New York R&B producer, songwriter and singer Al B. Sure spent two months in a coma. He survived after a liver transplant, but the ordeal battered his finances. He needed to find every cent he was due from a career working with Usher, Jodeci and Faith Evans, and being sampled by acts