Art and Culture

Nearly every major pianist of the early 20th century made music for these machines. Echoing AI commentary today, some musicians viewed the player piano as not just replicating human playing, but exceeding it. – The Atlantic…
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“A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered … at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The page in question contains geometric diagrams and a passage…
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With the Academy Awards approaching to celebrate the year’s best films, a new survey offered a reality check about moviegoing: Just over half of Americans say they set foot in a movie theater over the course of a year. According…
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About Several books of poems have been published in recent years by Moloko Print, Statdlichter Presse, Phantom Outlaw Editions, and Cold Turkey … The agenda is just what it says: news of arts, media & culture delivered with…
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The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in sales, according to the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total…
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Two big entertainment deals closed last week — Paramount sold, Live Nation tightened its grip on ticketing — and I argue in Diacritical why these commercial infrastructure moves should alarm anyone running a nonprofit arts…
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Image: Pixabay Two huge culture industry deals in the past week, both in entertainment, and maybe they don’t seem connected. Certainly not connected to non-profit arts. But these are exactly the kinds of culture infrastructure deals…
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Saved from the dump, a Nelson pipe organ from County Durham is now in a new home in East London More than 400 of the UK's church pipe organs are being junked or falling silent due to neglect every year.The organ preservation charity Pipe…
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Just before Valentine’s Day, Brad Reese bought a bag of Reese’s Unwrapped Peanut Butter Creme Mini Hearts from his local convenience store in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was a brand-new product, released especially for the holiday,…
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Last fall Carrie Olivia Adams sketched an overview of the current state of book publicity to share with colleagues at the University of Chicago Press and, a little later, members of the wider university-press community. I’ve thought…
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