Thu, Jan 21 2021

The great pianist and composer Horace Silver has been heard by hundreds of millions of music fans who are probably unaware of his presence. One of Silver's best-known tunes, “Song for My Father,” is built on a catchy two-note bass…

Deep learning has proved to be enormously successful, in the sense that it has enabled us to build programs that we could not have imagined a few years ago. But laudable as these achievements genuinely are, they are not a magic ingredient that will…

Well, here we are. Nearly a month into 2021, and it looks suspiciously like 2020. Did someone forget to flip the switch? The big ball dropped, right? Last year, and, yes, the first two weeks of this year, have been personally humbling. I've seen…

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Somethin' Comes Along is the third and most ambitious release from Bright Dog Red, an improvising collective from Albany, New York. Joe Pignato, the group's drummer and leader, explains their approach:…

At a time when we're all in need of a little entertainment sometimes sticking on an album just doesn't capture your attention as it once should have. Nowadays, we need some visual stimulation too. Luckily, below, we've gathered up ten of our…

The greatest trick by Lupin, a new French series on Netflix, is disguising substantiveness in plain sight. The show, created by the British showrunner George Kay and inspired by the beloved French character Arsène Lupin, packages over 115…

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard is perhaps best known for his postmodern Shakespearanisms— Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Shakespeare In Love (though I'd personally argue that his greatest works were Travesties and…

To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envys, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle—may they never give me peace. Patricia Highsmith, diary entry, 1947 Patricia Highsmith…

In early 1966, the Beach Boys arrived at Los Angeles' Western Studios to hear what Brian Wilson had been up to. The touring version of the band – Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Jardine and Dennis Wilson – had been on the road in Japan…

At first glance, they might be identical. Two orange lozenges leaning out of shards of blue. Two paintings purportedly by the same artist. But look a little closer, and you'll start to notice differences. The one on the left seems clunkier, its…