Art and Culture

By my count, there are only three songs in the Broadway’s new Schmigadoon! that can be heard as direct lifts from the Golden Age tuners the show is riffing on, with its everyday-people-trapped-in-an-old-timey-musical premise:…
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The venue that created a new type of live entertainment has become the highest-grossing arena in the world, with $379 million on 1.7 million tickets sold last year, according to Pollstar. When it opened three years ago, it had all the…
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Good Morning, An AI model trained to value paintings has declared a random street artist’s work more valuable than a Picasso (ARTnews). Whatever that means. Meanwhile, a Facebook group called Baddies in AI — women using AI to…
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Seattle Children’s Theatre (SCT), one of the nation’s premiere organizations for theatre-for-young audiences, invites applications from dedicated and collaborative leaders for its Director of Production position. The Director of…
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President Donald Trump’s favorite color might be gold, but there’s another that recently received his attention and praise: American flag blue. That’s the color of the industrial-grade pool…
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At the heart of her method—then and now—is contraction and release. Imagine a breath is sharply expelled, hollowing out the core until the lower spine curves and is then released, returning the body to a straight posture. There is no…
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts,…
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What’s worth more—a Picasso or a painting by a street artist no one has heard of? According to the AI model we built, the answer is the latter. That surprising result came out of an experiment I ran with a data scientist and an AI…
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Carolina Miranda: “In some ways, this freeway-like building could not be more LA: messy, sprawling, too big to take in from a single vantage point. In others — its embrace of the road and its relentless horizontal-ness — it seems…
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