Art and Culture

Long before the term heteropessimism was coined, Tina Fey made the sentiment a staple of her comedy on “30 Rock.” Her quasi-autobiographical heroine, Liz Lemon, was the chronically single head writer of a “Saturday Night Live”-like…
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As a teenager in the mid 2000s, Billy Bain would ride waves around Sydney’s northern beaches, having travelled the world watching his champion surfer father Rob Bain compete. But even though he was minutes from his home in Avalon, he was…
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On opening night of the Paranormal Activity stage show in Toronto this June, someone booed the lead actor in the middle of his performance. The jeerer didn't seem dissatisfied with acting, just the choices of the character on stage. …
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Artists now have an increasingly expensive new toll gate to pass through. Last week the Commonwealth Foundation cleared this year’s short story prize winners of “cheating” after allegations that some winning entries were written by…
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When I was a child, the public library in my small Alabama town, a one-story frame building that had once been the train depot, was off-limits to me. This was the early 1960s, more than a decade before the schools were…
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Over the months, as the learning language model is trained on bits of the language — such as an old-age French nursery rhyme — it brings centuries-old dialect closer into the digital age. – The New York Times Source link
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Good Morning, Critics savaged the Michael Jackson biopic. Audiences just made it the highest-grossing biopic ever (BBC). The gap between professional judgment and what people pay to see keeps widening — which makes the…
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ZRG Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with University Musical Society in the search for a Vice President and Chief Development Officer. Reporting to the President, the Vice President and Chief Development…
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Just 10 years ago, almost 60 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in higher education. By last year, that number had fallen to 42 percent. Seventy percent of Americans told Pew last fall that higher education is moving…
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Layers of overpaint have been removed from a 17th-century painting, confirming that it was painted by Rembrandt and revealing that a turban on one of the figures had been replaced with a traditional Dutch soft cap.A later anonymous hand…
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