Art and Culture

The Institute for Social Research was formed in 1923, under the auspices of Goethe University, in Frankfurt. Early meetings occurred at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum, beneath a diplodocus skeleton and other prehistoric relics.…
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Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s five-day event — called “Edinlochry” — won’t be as chaotic as the actual Edinburgh Fringe can be, mainly because it will be curated rather than open-access. – The Edinburgh Reporter Source link
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Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Pun-spouting…
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If, as a French saying has it, “style is the man himself,” what does the style of AI writing tell us about it? For one thing, it has no fixed style, revealing that it has no fixed self. It’s happy to burn tokens saying the same thing in…
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When Sean San José took over running the Magic Theatre in 2021, he had a multipoint mission to remake the institution from the inside out.That meant questioning every assumption, down to the use of terms like "artistic director" and…
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Last week we collected 126 stories. Here’s what I learned A growing chorus of critics is asking if we’ve hit a creative dead end in the 21st Century. A new book by W. David Marx, Blank Space, argues that the years from 2000 to 2025…
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Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley (www.cantabile.org)invites interest from leaders passionate about the arts and youth programming to serve as its Executive Director.  WHO ARE WE? Cantabile Youth Singers is an…
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Good Afternoon, When AI can spin out endless essays in seconds and whole novels in minutes, what’s left for human writers? The Atlantic makes the case that AI writing’s smooth blandness is exactly what hands human…
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Ample research shows that passive content consumption among kids and teens is adversely affecting attention spans, language attainment, and other factors that help make deep reading both sustainable and fun. It’s all the more alarming,…
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The music industry has always sold anticipation. But the tools available to today’s artists have transformed the album rollout from a promotion into something closer to a long-running narrative event. Artists like Taylor Swift,…
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