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The Brooklyn Academy of Music Is Fighting to Regain its Mojo

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music Is Fighting to Regain its Mojo

It is the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” with its Oscar-nominated lead man, Paul Mescal, has people clamoring for tickets to BAM’s production this month. The excitement recalls a period when the performing arts …

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Can BAM Be a Trailblazer Again Through A. I.?

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Can BAM Be a Trailblazer Again Through A. I.?

“A journalist finds himself in the woods.” Marc Da Costa, a digital artist with a Ph.D. in anthropology, was speaking from the controls of an artificial intelligence-driven video installation at the Onassis Foundation’s ONX Studio, a high-tech media lab in the Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan. He was talking to …

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