Yearly Archives: 2023
Translating Manga For The US Market Has Been A Complicated Business
"Since manga was first introduced to the U.S. in the 1980s, American companies have wrestled with how to adapt the genre for their readers....
The National Youth Orchestra Of The United States, A Decade On
"Carnegie Hall's initiative to train the next generation turned 10 this year. After arriving July 1 for intensive instruction ... at suburban Purchase College,...
Actors’ Union Gives Approval For More Than Three Dozen Films To Shoot During Strike
"SAG-AFTRA has granted approval to 39 independent productions to shoot during the strike, after confirming that they are not tied to AMPTP companies. The...
Israel Lent Some Artifacts To President Trump. Now It Can’t Get Them Back From...
The antiquities were lent for a 2019 Hanukkah event at the White House but, due to a "bureaucratic difficulty," were never displayed. They were...
Reimagining “Miss Saigon.” Possible?
Yet it’s hard to shake the suspicion that Orientalist kitsch was integral to the show's commercial appeal. Remove the defamiliarizing frisson of the exotic...
How Hollywood Lost The Point Of What They’re Doing
Under pressure to deliver to Wall Street, too many CEOs have lost the plot of their own movie. They are not running companies to...
300-Year-Old Minaret Destroyed In Basra To Make Way For Road
The demolition of the 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in southern Iraq last week to make way for a road extension has drawn outrage...
The Piano Problem: Owners Fret About How To Get Rid Of Them
Go to any online sales site and you'll find dozens of ads for free pianos — mostly large wooden upright instruments that are around...
The Battle For Nashville’s Creative Soul
Every city changes. But the transformation of Nashville—which began a decade ago, and accelerated exponentially during the pandemic—has stunned the people who love the...
Has Hollywood Abandoned DEI?
After the sudden exits of top diversity and inclusion executives at Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Netflix and the Motion Picture Academy in the past...
Hollywood Made A Film About The Movie Industry’s AI Crisis Ten Years Ago, Before...
Director Aril Folman's 2013 film The Congress, starring Robin Wright, "foresaw problems including actors' loss of control over their images, the specific difficulties of...
The TV-ization Of Social Media (Why TikTok Works)
By design, TikTok encourages different behaviors from those prompted by other social networks. “They say they check Facebook, and they check Instagram and they...
The Unlikely Composer Of The Music Most Played Over The Phone For Customers On...
"(She's) never played a live gig and is unknown to the music industry. But every day since 2017, Harriet Goldberg's jazzy instrumental, 'My Time...
Susan Jaffe On Reinventing ABT
When it comes to the classics, one of the biggest hurdles to bringing new audience members to the ballet is that people are initially intimidated...
Soaring Ticket Prices Due To Soaring Costs Are Threatening Australia’s Entire Arts Ecosystem
"The poet Mary Oliver once described art as being like 'bread in the pockets of the hungry'. … (But) what does it mean when...
Why Poetry?
The best thing to do is just start with any poem, because what matters about poetry is not what other people think of it...
Is This The Voice Of The Elusive Banksy?
Someone has dug out a 2005 interview on NPR's All Things Considered. Host: "We assume that you are who you say you are, but...
Kansas City Symphony’s First Black Tenure-Track Musician Talks About What Happened
“To deny tenure to such a gifted musician on the basis of some unsubstantial and, frankly, unconvincing reasons seems highly suspect. Any shortcomings in...
“Dr. Strangelove” Is Coming To The Stage
The nuclear apocalypse comedy will be adapted by Armando Iannucci (Veep, The Death of Stalin) and will star, and be directed by, Sean Foley....
Another Ethnic Casting Controversy As Hispanic Actress Signed To Play Fanny Brice In “Funny...
"As the North American tour of Funny Girl gets ready to hit the road beginning Sept. 9 following the Lea Michele-led musical's closing on...
This Artist Has Created A Robot Dog That Poops AI-Generated Art Criticism
"The furry pooch, named A.I.C.C.A. (or Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine) has been trained on a corpus of visual art and art writing. … Using...
Derek Malcolm, Longtime Film Critic For The Guardian, Is Dead At 91
"Derek defined himself as a reviewer rather than a critic, having started when more judgmental figures were leaving the arena. Among many choice anecdotes,...
A Major Art Gallery Is Now Representing A Choreographer
"Dancer Sarah Michelson has inked representation with David Zwirner, which has plans to show new work by her at its new Los Angeles location...
Major Buyouts And Layoffs At Penguin Random House
"Some of publishing’s most celebrated and enduring editors are leaving Penguin Random House after accepting buyout packages. Meanwhile, an undetermined number of company-wide layoffs...
Highway Tunnel Past Stonehenge Gets UK Government Approval
"The transport secretary has granted a development consent order for a scheme to widen roads and dig a two-mile tunnel near the ancient site....
