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View image in fullscreen From Dylan to Ishiguro: can song lyrics ever be literature? A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page? Long before he wrote Booker-winning novels and Oscar-nominated screenplays, the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro wrote bad songs.

/ The team, subcontracted through Cognizant, went on strike in February 2023. By Emilia David, a reporter who covers AI. Prior to joining The Verge, she covered the intersection between technology, finance, and the economy. Share this story Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge A union representing contractors for YouTube Music claims that Google cut

Cultural Comment “Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages Play/Pause Button Pause Illustration by Vivek Thakker Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story A trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, yelling something foreign and uninterpretable to a horde of

When the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran its story about the Cleveland Institute of Music faculty denouncing the school’s administration — see my last post — they hadn’t gotten CIM’s response. Hadn’t come in time. Now they have it, and it’s pathetic: “We are not going to go into detail about any personnel issues, but as

As generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini become more advanced, they are increasingly being put to work. Startups and tech companies are building AI agents and ecosystems on top of the systems that can complete boring chores for you: think automatically making calendar bookings and potentially buying products. But as the tools

Highlights of the video include the Bharatnatyam dance form becoming “the living canvas for seat belt and cabin baggage instructions”, with Kathakali and Mohiniyattam forms “eloquently expressing the prohibition of electronic gadgets and smoking on board” against a backdrop of the backwaters of Kerala. Safety jacket instructions are provided by Bihu dancers from Assam, while

At the end of a long list about why audiences are shrinking, a burned out, defeated arts manager’s last bit of ire will be directed at the declining arts coverage in the mainstream media. It will be the final gasp of their venting session. Then their voice will trail off, they’ll throw up their hands,

CHENGDU, China (AP) — For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi ’s biggest annual event, was held in the country for the first time. It was a rare moment when Chinese and international fans could get

Artificial intelligence is already enabling stations to replicate the voices of on-air talent. Now a new Benztown product uses AI to craft “listener” audio for on-air use. The audio imaging company says its AI Listener Voice Generator is designed to aid with the challenges stations may have in collecting actual listener audio. While it raises

Leonardo da Vinci didn’t seem to take a day off. If he wasn’t painting a masterpiece, he was making major discoveries in anatomy. If he wasn’t making major discoveries in anatomy, he was designing flying machines. If he wasn’t designing flying machines, he was calculating plate tectonics. If he wasn’t calculating plate tectonics… you get

View image in fullscreen Black artistry is woven into the fabric of country music. It belongs to everyone Rhiannon Giddens With Beyoncé becoming the first Black woman to top the US country charts, musician Rhiannon Giddens, who plays banjo and viola on Texas Hold ’Em, explains how capitalism and racism warped the genre What is

View image in fullscreen ‘Russia’s Cartier-Bresson’: how Dmitry Markov captured beauty amidst the brutality of Putin’s regime The photographer, who has died aged 41, took the nation’s most vulnerable people as his subject, and his soulful images, shared on Instagram, earned him comparisons with the greats Waiting in a Russian police station after being arrested

What will it take to bring audiences and donors back? Find out in Toronto, June 25-26, or New York City, July 23-24. Sign up by March 15 and get the lowest price and bring 2 colleagues for FREE! (3-for-1). NEW WAYS FORWARD https://artsreach.com/conferences_list.php For the past 23 years, Arts Reach, the Association of Arts Management, Marketing

In August 2023, Manchester United had to make a decision. Should their talented winger, Mason Greenwood, play for the club again? More importantly for our purposes, fans faced a choice, too: would they accept him back? He had been out of the team since his arrest in January 2022, on suspicion of rape, assault and

/ Journalist Tim Burke is facing charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. After all this time, is the federal anti-hacking statute still broken? By Sarah Jeong, features editor who publishes award-winning stories about law, tech, and internet subcultures. A journalist trained as a lawyer, she has been writing about tech for 10 years.

In January, Robert De Niro made Academy Awards history by becoming the actor with the longest span between his first and most recent nominations—49 years since winning supporting actor for The Godfather Part II in 1975. Taking over the character of Vito Corleone from Marlon Brando, De Niro also took the torch from him, becoming

Thirty-one years after its founding, Other Minds, the brainchild of Charles Amirkhanian and Jim Newman, is still going strong as a presenter of experimental contemporary music with an emphasis on “the most original, eccentric, and underrepresented creative voices.” Here’s a presentation of Linda Bouchard and the Ensemble TriOcular+ performing three of her “Live Structures” pieces. 

Benito Mussolini (left) and Gabriele D’Annunzio in 1924. Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection / CORBIS / Corbis via Getty Images Writers under despots,” says Simon Ings, “may have to take instruction, but they’re rarely out of a job.” Every regime requires a story to validate it, and a regime lacking the authority of tradition needs one

Michael Volpe OBE Monday, February 12, 2024 As theatrical capabilities allow live performance to reflect extreme violence ever more effectively, Opera Holland Park founder Michael Volpe argues that it’s time for opera to follow the world of cinema and warn audiences about what they’re about to witness © Adobe Stock Don’t miss out on our

The expanded museum in Old Towne Orange features California scene paintings and nine new exhibitions on view starting Friday. Arts patron and museum founder Mark Hilbert stands in front of the newly expanded Hillbert Museum of California Art in Orange featuring the restored “Pleasures Along the Beach” mosaic by Millard Sheets on the museum’s west-facing