Art and Culture

NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI on Monday said it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices that “Her” actor Scarlett Johansson says sounds “eerily similar” to her own.In a post on the social…
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The Church of Intercession rises on West Harlem’s vibrant 155th Street with an ornate gothic heft. A less conspicuous feature of the 110-year-old gargantuan Episcopal sanctuary is its small underground crypt. There, curved arches and a…
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On Feb. 11, 2023, the choreographer Marco Goecke cornered a dance critic, Wiebke Hüster, during intermission of a performance at the Hanover State Opera in northern Germany. After asking her about negative reviews that she had written…
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Last year, the city of Leeds held a year-long celebration of culture, complete with festivals, newly commissioned works of art and community projects. More than 1,000 events took place, with hundreds of volunteers and local schools…
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“The best is still to come this week,” said Christie’s chief executive, Guillaume Cerutti, at the auction house’s post-sale press conference for its evening auctions on Tuesday (14 May). Last night, Cerutti was proved right, with the…
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Many readers have responded to a series of recent blogs in which I’ve pondered the bewildering appointment of Klaus Makela, age 28, to become music director of the Chicago Symphony beginning in 2027. Some have expressed…
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The Executive Director (ED) will serve as the chief executive officer of the Windsor Historical Society and will be a strategic and people-oriented executive who values community engagement and leads with a clear sense of purpose and…
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If giving people money encourages them to create, then surely giving them more money would encourage them to create more music, right? The answer is actually no. Throughout music history, copyright’s incentive has often been dialed up…
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After that, why did you leave Manhattan?I decided, OK, it’s time to move to Brooklyn. The critical mass of artists and people interested in this work are in Brooklyn now. And when I walked into that space, it was like when I walked into…
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Inner speech is mysterious and hard to study. But movie voiceovers and introspective novels offer fresh ways to understand itIn a scene from the movie Adaptation (2002), Nicolas Cage, playing the writer Charlie Kaufman, sits in front of…
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