Art and Culture

Terms in Ailey II are more like a two-year audition, since the director of the first company is often around. “They have the inside track,” Waters said. That often starts at the Ailey School or the Ailey/Fordham bachelor’s program. The…
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Over the past few years, a very specific style of video editing has all but guaranteed success on social media. Known as “retention editing” because of its unique ability to keep a user glued to their screen, this style features loud…
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Spring is here, the birds are singing and we’ve got ever more daylight to read by — so it’s the ideal time to check in on our bookish resolutions. Good news: If you finished even one book in 2023, you’re already in the 46th percentile of…
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I spent the daytime during the summer of 2009 at an unpaid internship at a literary magazine, and I spent the nighttime, paid, behind the counter of the gelato stand at the Times Square location of Madame Tussauds wax museum. I was happy…
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Independent nightlife venues across the UK are struggling to survive amid a cocktail of high costs, low footfall and oppressive regulation that is squeezing them out of city centres.Last week, the bar Night & Day in Manchester won a…
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THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE of classics has had a rough couple of decades. Classics as we now understand it took shape in the 19th century as Northwestern European and Northeastern American scholars defined a canon of literary works written…
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No one confused early Sora demonstrations with art, but what startled filmmakers is these semi-professional and quasi-lifelike images introduced a doomsday scenario: Studios will use this rapidly evolving tech to replace them. It’s a…
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First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie.Now, it has…
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In November of 2023, a piece entitled “The Fight for the Future of Publishing” started making the rounds on my various social feeds. Initially, I was disappointed as I began to read the first lines. Not because I disagreed but because I…
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“Feel free to stop by,” she responded.“I’ll be there in five minutes,” Philbrick replied.At the time, Philbrick’s businesses were hauling in revenues of approximately $100 million annually. Later that night, showing her his gallery, he…
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