Yearly Archives: 2023
Painting Through Unimaginable Grief
Luella Bartley, famous British designer whose oldest, artist child died two years ago at age 18: "I wouldn’t say that I have acceptance, but...
The Writers And Actors Are Striking For All Of Us
"Almost nobody is immune to the risk that A.I. could devalue their economic position, even though A.I. will also have widespread benefits." - The...
How Director Agnes Varda Turned Her Photographs Into Films
Varda was a photographer first, and for her first film, La Pointe Courte, "she really worked on the photos – it was more than...
Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life In Europe During The War, Has Died At...
Minco "described the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during World War II, based on her own experiences." Her first book, Het...
Why Does It Matter Than 90 Percent Of Historic Video Games Are Impossible To...
It's our history. And right now, for a definition of "classic" that means before 2010 (!), "the availability of classic games is only slightly better than the...
The English Is Coming
Never fear, Europe. Though the language itself seems to have invaded every corner of France, an announced focus on English this summer at the...
Octavia Butler’s Seemingly Prophetic Parable Of The Sower Is Now An Opera
The book, published 30 years ago, is a classic that took on new relevance during recent events. Co-writer Toshi Reagon: "Singing this story evokes...
Private Museum In India Fires Curator Over Anti-Modi Personal Social Media Post
"Sandip K. Luis, the former curatorial research and publications manager at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in Noida, was formally terminated from...
And Now To Explain Why So Many People Have Walked Off Work
In a word, money. In a few words, "the advent of streaming has led to significantly lower residuals, according to SAG-AFTRA." - Washington Post
A Rebellion Against AI Stealing Content
Fan fiction writers, "social media companies such as Reddit and Twitter, news organizations including The New York Times and NBC News, authors such as...
Meanwhile, Netflix Says Its Password Crackdown Is Working
Prognosticators of doom were not correct. "Instead of the company shedding users, Netflix’s new subscriber count grew 236% between May 21 and June 18...
Let’s Be Clear About What Hollywood Actors Are Allowed To Do Right Now
It's not a lot. While the strike lasts, "actors cannot act, sing, dance, perform stunts, pilot on-camera aircraft, puppeteer or do performance capture and motion capture...
What’s At Stake For So-Called ‘Background’ Actors?
"'I am sure that the feeling is unanimous among background actors that being scanned and having our likeness used in perpetuity for a one-time...
The Smithsonian Suddenly Cancels Asian American Literature Festival
"The 2023 iteration was expected to draw thousands of attendees to Washington in early August. But just weeks before writers from across the world...
Don’t Settle, Hollywood Actors Urge Canadians
"Stars including Elliot Page, Martin Short and Tatiana Maslany are among the 74 Canadian actors who signed a July 10 open letter calling for...
Just Stop Oil Protesters Interrupt First Night Of Proms In London
"The duo mounted the stage and briefly unfurled an orange banner on Friday. They were met with boos and jeers from some members...
Drunk Shakespeare, But Make It Union
"'We have had so many conversations with our upper management about the issues we are trying to fix, and once it became clear that...
David Brooks: Why AI Won’t Replace Us
Over the past few months, I’ve become an A.I. limitationist. That is, I believe that while A.I. will be an amazing tool for, say, tutoring children...
Science Fiction Is Chockablock Full Of Aliens. But “Alien” Is So Hard To Comprehend,...
“A truly alien alien is so incomprehensible that stories about them just become stories about human beings,” Jaime Green writes in her new book, The Possibility of...
Amapiano – Can The South African Dance Music Craze Go Global?
In Zulu, amapiano means “the pianos,” or “piano people,” and the genre’s name refers to its origin as a jazzy variant of house music—at parties around...
Why Are Published Editions Of Under-represented Composers So Riddled With Errors?
Some inaccuracies were very obvious, while others needed more detailed detective work, and only became apparent as we got to know the music more...
Inside Philadelphia’s Thriving Mural Culture
“There was this idea that, OK, industry and maybe some people left this city, so now it’s our playground." (the city’s population declined from...
AI Is Coming For Us. So What Could Go Wrong?
With all this talk of killer robots, humanity may be overlooking the more immediate dangers posed by AI. - The Atlantic
The Censored Parts Of Elizabeth I’s First Biography Have Been Revealed
"State-of-the-art imaging technology has enabled the British Library to read hidden pages of William Camden's Annals for the first time. … Those pages had...
AI Company Says It Created 100 Million New Songs
An artificial intelligence company in Delaware boasted, in a press release, that it had created 100 million new songs. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire...
