Yearly Archives: 2023
In London, Relief As the Tourism Economy Comes “Roaring Back”
"After two years wiped out by Covid restrictions and a third that only saw a tentative recovery, … two million more international visitors are...
In Wagner’s Bayreuth, The Reinvention Never Ends
In Bayreuth’s modern era, perpetual workshopping prevails. New productions usually play for five summers before cycling out, and the expectation is that directors will...
Editor Of People Dishes On The Rules Of Celebrity
An early editor at People came up with rules for who to put on the cover. "Young stars sell better than old. Rich is...
OMG – Surely The Ugliest Building In Paris
One can hardly deny feeling something un-Parisian, even anti-Parisian, exuded by the dark, Kubrickian slab rising out of its nineteenth-century surroundings. But nor, on...
Hollywood Ponders What AI and How Much AI
Netflix is looking to hire an AI product manager who will “define the strategic vision for” the streamer’s machine-learning platform, according to a job posting. -...
Show Your Work: Why Scientific Papers Should Tell Better Stories
I understand the need to present scientific findings in a clean, concise way, but the papers also omit all the false starts, blind alleys,...
Underneath The Hype Around AI
Too much focus on this worry risks downplaying somewhat less apocalyptic but more likely scenarios of social disruption, like dramatic upheavals in jobs. Finally,...
Louisville Ballet Makes Cuts To Next Season And Is Trying To Raise $3 Million...
"Tax documents from 2010-2020, which are the most recent available from the IRS, show that's an optimistic number, and in some cases, hundreds of...
Major Museums Hike Admission Fees
The trend started last July when the Metropolitan Museum of Art — New York’s largest art museum — raised its adult admission price to...
Wyoming Library Board Withdraws From Library Association, Fires Librarian For Not Removing Books
The board voted 4-1 to fire longtime library director Terri Lesley after months of tension surrounding her refusal to weed out the library’s shelves...
Hong Kong’s Big New Arts Center Is Facing A Terrifying Fiscal Cliff
The West Kowloon Cultural District was meant to be funded by income from adjacent office buildings — but, since COVID, the office market is...
All About Leonardo – Inside Google’s Masterclass in The Artist
The expansive project, titled “Inside a Genius Mind,” is a collaboration with 28 institutions around the world. It features 3,000 drawings, including 1,300 pages...
Well, There’s One Big Show Business Event Unscathed By The Hollywood Strikes: Montreal’s Just...
"To be sure, stand-up artists gathered in Montreal like summer camp for their industry have been looking with great interest to the stalled contract...
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Names New Director
Giovanna Sardelli will serve as the company’s artistic director, after a brief turn in the position on an interim basis following the departure of...
Threads: How A Small Team Built An Alternative To Twitter From Scratch In Seven...
"(The app's fast creation and launch) has become something of a marvel inside Meta. … Many see its quick rise as a reminder that...
British Museum Director Steps Down
As well as overseeing the British Museum during the Covid pandemic, Hartwig Fischer has faced growing controversy over one of the institution’s cultural highlights...
Why “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” Was So Brilliant At What It Did
"(The show) made perfect sense. Kids are wigged-out surrealists by nature; it takes grown-ups to regiment their impulses into predictable TV formats. ... Maybe...
Paris Olympics Organizers Say The Bookseller Stalls Along The Seine Must Move, And The...
The opening ceremony, rather than being in a stadium, will be a parade of boats down the river through the city, and authorities say...
Judi Dench Says She Can No Longer See On A Movie Set Or Read...
Says the 88-year-old actress, who had already revealed her macular degeneration, "You just deal with it. Get on. It's difficult for me if I...
Myth Debunked: Antiquities Trafficking Is Not The World’s Third-Largest Illegal Trade, Finds Study
"Though (the researchers) agree that the illegal trade in antiquities is a matter of serious concern, they argue that the reiteration of and reliance...
Last Of The Big Holdouts Gives In: Hyperion Records Is Finally Making Its Catalog...
The classical label's founding father and son, Ted and Simon Perry, insisted for years that they'd allow their recordings to be accessed only by...
Why Are The Big Studios Risking Everything?
They don't exactly have a history of making great decisions: "Hollywood has a history of treating evolving consumer habits first as a threat to...
Why Aren’t More Women Playing The Trombone?
Hillary Simms, the first woman in the American Brass Quintet, would like to solve that by inspiring more girls and women - which involves...
Book-Tok Has Revolutionized Book Marketing. Now It’s Going To Publish Books, And…
Called 8th Note Press, the proposed entity seems to sit at the intersection of a major publisher and a site like Amazon or Goodreads,...
How AI Is Training On The Work Of Artists It Will Replace
There's a model with Stability AI that utilizes a large data set called LAION. It contains 5.8 billion text and image data pairs. And...
