Yearly Archives: 2023
Bolshoi Ballet Will Return To The West On Tour “One Day,” Says Director
"Speaking in Beijing on the eve of the performance, artistic director Makhar Vaziev insisted the troupe was 'not suffering' from being unable to perform...
Polish Radio Station Replaces Midday Host With AI Host
Basia, the country's first AI-generated radio host, has taken over an hour of middays every Saturday through Sept. 2 on the station, which published...
AI Says Its By Raphael. Art Historians? Not So Much
Researchers hope their experimental use of AI will put to rest a decades-long debate about the origins of the painting, known as the de Brécy...
Here’s One Market Where Theaters Aren’t Giving Up On The Subscription Model
"Yet despite these (shrinking) numbers, subscriptions are here to stay, say Bay Area theater leaders, partly because the basic numbers don't tell the whole...
Scott Joplin Never Got His Opera “Treemonisha” Produced. Perhaps Now Its Time Has Come.
"Treemonisha experiments seem to be everywhere these days: Three very different versions have recently been presented, in the United States, Canada and France. Their...
In Post-Pandemic Philadelphia, The Recovery Of The Arts Is A Mixed Bag (Which Is...
"In the post-pandemic era, Philadelphia’s cultural districts often look like the good old days: streets and sidewalks crosshatched with arts patrons animating the city's...
Emperor Nero’s Theater Has Been Discovered In Rome
"Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered...
Emmy Awards Postponed Amid Hollywood Strikes
"The 2023 Emmy Awards are officially moving off their usual September airdate as actors and writers continue their strikes against media conglomerates. … The...
A Major Gift Of 19th- And 20th-Century American Works To The Fine Arts Museums...
"Consisting of 50 paintings, nine works on paper, and two sculptures, the donation represents the art of 39 artists. Among those included are well-known...
Carlos Acosta Is Building A Dance Center In A Multiethnic London Neighborhood
"His arts education charity, the Acosta Dance Foundation, has set up its global headquarters in Woolwich. Housing five dance studios, it aims to teach...
How GoodReads Messes With Authors’ Psyches
The world-ending devastation of the first scathing review. The righteous indignation at the first three-star review. No one understands me. Are these people even literate? Am I even literate? It’s...
The GoodReads Review Revenge
A Goodreads blitzkrieg can derail an entire publication schedule, freak out commercial book clubs that planned to discuss the release, or even prompt nervous...
Musicians Have The Same Issues As Actors, Writers. So Why Aren’t They Also On...
All the fears and complaints that Hollywood actors and writers have are a reality for musicians and songwriters, too. Yet the rockers, pop singers...
At This Point In Our Culture, What Is History For?
Ironically, the education of more and more people in the United States has led to an expansion of potential audiences for quality, and progressive,...
Two Art Vandals Who Glued Themselves To A Raphael Painting Fined $1,600 Each
The Dresden prosecutor’s office announced on July 21 that the two activists, Jakob Beyer and Maike Grunst, would be fined €1,500 ($1,600) each for...
One Of South Asia’s Great Architects Helps Victims Of Pakistan’s Floods Rebuild With Their...
Yasmeen Lari, who's spent nearly two decades creating and promoting architecture for the poor using inexpensive traditional materials and techniques, has designed improved, flood-resistant...
New Ways To Use Old Instruments
New music for old instruments is, of course, nothing new. Nor is the engagement by composers with varying degrees of historically informed performance. But...
“Here Lies Love”: Inside The 20-Year Journey Of David Byrne’s Imelda Marcos Disco Musical...
"Democracy, it's been said, isn't easy. Neither is examining its terrible fragility through the form of a deeply fun, fairly avant-garde song-and-dance show. …...
Bay Area Musicians Fight Back Against The Gig Economy For A Living Wage
With each musician guaranteed $200 for an hour-long set, “we’ve presented about 400 concerts featuring 500 musicians, reaching about 18,000 listeners." - San Francisco...
“Barbie”, Greta Gerwig’s Hot Pink Philosophical Experiment
"Barbie combines the rules of the movie musical ... with the investments of a Beckett or a Ionesco play. … (It's) a highly symbolic...
What Was Remarkable About Conductor Carlos Kleiber
Like Kleiber, Klaus Tennstedt and Leonard Bernstein seemed to harness everything they knew in the heat of the moment. But Kleiber also had structural...
Spotify’s Stock Is Tanking This Week. Why?
Spotify said recent price increases are expected to have “minimal impact” on the company’s total revenue in the third quarter. - CNBC
The First Lady Of Brazilian Jazz, Leny Andrade, Is Dead At 80
"(She) was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Edith Piaf and a consummate nightclub artist. With a thick, husky voice seasoned...
Construction Of Philadelphia’s Long-Awaited Calder Museum Has Finally Begun
"Calder Gardens, the long-awaited showcase for the art of native son Alexander Calder, is finally moving toward reality. The new museum will be located...
Ezra Klein’s New York Times Podcast Is Coming To Public Radio
"The New York Times … has signed a deal with the public media organization PRX to repurpose (The Ezra Klein Show) into a weekly...
