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When the creators of GPT-2 gave the AI model a single sentence referencing J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, the machine generated a few paragraphs of Tolkien-esque prose"capturing …
"Was it really okay, I wondered, to let holograms stand in for once-vital, important artists and carry out new performances? Was this an inevitable development in the interweaving of high te…
"'I consider this the ultimate in fan-fiction, basically,' [says] Lopez, … [who] wanted to know, 'How faithful can you be to the novel while simultaneously blowing it up?' For those who kn…
The Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium's national opera house, is presenting a staging of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) by provocative director Romeo …
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
"In the face of the lack of direct mathematical demonstration, one must be careful and thorough to make sure of the point, and one should make a perpetual attempt to demonstrate as much of t…
This was one of the first jazz albums to be widely owned by people who didn't usually buy jazz albums, my father among them. I found a mint-condition copy in his record cabinet that looked a…
Dave says there are seven types of stories in the world (starting with 'rags to riches'). Josh says there are ten types of stories in the world (starting with 'a threshold crossing'). One of…
"Instead of singing Mozart or Verdi, she has made a precocious impact on the concert stage and as a curator, serving as artist in residence last season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art " wh…
Lear deBessonet is best known as the founder of Public Works, a much-lauded program of the Public Theater that once a year stages a new musical adaptation of a classic story, which is perfor…
"Indeed, the world's love of flamenco has long created problems within Spain, where the performance was once considered a vulgar and pornographic spectacle. Over the years, many Spaniards co…
" They apparently kept being surprised at their experience, and not just through its now-infamous, unseen pilot, which the duo has long admitted was a complete disaster. It just seems like e…
Last week, the company announced that Sue Dixon, who has been acting general director since Christopher Mattaliano's departure, will officially take on the job. " Willamette Week
Sandra Jackson-Dumont: "I'm trying to move the idea away from people being visitors to the museum to being users. You to go to a library to use it, right? You're not a visitor to the library…
"Given all the excellent writing about the challenges of rendering otherness, someone who asks this question in 2019 probably has not done the reading. But the question is a Trojan horse, po…
Boston Landmarks Orchestra seeks an inspiring leader to advance the Orchestra's mission of building community through innovative, free classical musical programming, accessibility and inclus…
Southern California architectural historian Alan Hess called it a "real loss to the architectural heritage of Los Angeles." "It was an early Ellwood design, but demonstrated all his distinct…
"I always imagined I would be a playwright at night and a CPA or something in the day," Lauren Yee said. "I'm pretty organized and disciplined. There are times when I'm thinking about a proj…
Joseph Young: "I went up to her and said 'I really want to go to grad school for conducting' and she said 'why don't you come study with me.' That moment changed my life. Before that I had n…
"Last year The Sun ran a story that started: 'Convicts at a drug-plagued prison performed a lavish version of musical Les Misérables for the public " to boost lags' morale.' Two years earli…
"Since being elected to the Vermont House of Representatives last fall, my perspective has dramatically changed as to how best advocate for the arts and, in fact, how siloed arts organizatio…
The Getty is still safe and secure, representatives said. But the fire, which has burned more than 650 acres and prompted mass evacuations, was only 15% contained Tuesday afternoon, and the …
"[He] left a relatively small body of compositions, but his fastidious and elegant works are filled with emotional eddies. He wrote mostly for Western instruments, but made them bend single …
Earlier this week, news broke that three musicians, all South Korean nationals, in the Eastman Philharmonia, the student orchestra of the Eastman School of Music, had been denied visas to en…
"The case was brought by the paintings' owners, Stanley and Gail Hollander, in 2007. They sought more than $90m in damages in connection with a claim for alleged loss in value on the [Martin…
