Yearly Archives: 2023
Orbán Government Fines Budapest Bookstore $36,000 For Displaying A Gay Young-Adult Graphic Novel
"Hungary’s right-wing government has fined a bookstore nearly €32,000 (12,000,000 forints) for displaying the award-winning young adult graphic novel Heartstopper in the children's section...
San Diego Symphony Delays Reopening Of Its Concert Hall
The reasons for the delay are being attributed to unexpected construction and redesign challenges that have emerged as the nearly 100-year-old hall undergoes a...
Translating A Stately, Centuries-Old Confucian Ritual Dance Into 21st-Century Performance
For their US debut, Seoul Metropolitan Dance Theater and stage director Kuho Jung have adapted the "il mu" dance from the royal Jongmyo Shrine,...
Major Consolidation: Frieze Buys Armory Show And Expo Chicago Fairs
Both the Armory Show, which is led by executive director Nicole Berry, and Expo Chicago, led by founder and president Tony Karman, will operate...
A Ukrainian Nonprofit Collects The Graffiti Invading Russian Soldiers Have Left Behind
"The cultural nonprofit Mizhvukhamy is documenting these findings in Wall Evidence, an open archive created for future research (on) the Russian invasion." Some samples:...
Pianist Andre Watts, 77
Watts made his national concert debut when he was 16 years old with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Shortly after, he was...
Why Did Dürer Paint Himself Into An Altarpiece? Spite, According To New Research
"The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron" — Jacob Heller, a wealthy Frankfurt merchant — "after a bitter row over pay...
Nearly A Fifth Of Staff Laid Off At New York’s Public Theater
Says artistic director Oskar Eustis, "Our audience is down by about 30 percent, we have expenses up anywhere from 30 to 45 percent, and...
Disney May Sell Off Its Television Holdings, Including ABC (But Not ESPN), Says CEO...
"Disney is going to be 'expansive' in its thinking about the traditional TV business, leaving the door open to a possible sale of the...
The Fledgling Festival That’s Helping Revive Boston’s Jazz Scene
"The Charles River Jazz Festival started (in 2021) as a slapdash (post-pandemic) passion project with a $2,000 budget, four local acts and 500 attendees....
No Promotional Work Allowed During The SAG-AFTRA Strike
"SAG-AFTRA members will not be able to attend premieres, do interviews for completed work, go to awards shows, attend film festivals or even promote...
To Elevate Its Reputation, Miami Beach To Spend Nearly $100 Million On Arts And...
"The $97.6 million in bonds will be backed by property taxes, which surged in recent years as the city became a magnet for the...
IATSE Ratifies Contract Covering Touring Productions
"The so-called Bus & Truck Touring Agreement pertains to IATSE crew members working on tours presented by (four corporations which) are not Broadway League...
Record Music Streams In First Half Of This Year
The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate's 2023 Midyear Report has found. The number was...
Here’s How Streaming Broke The Way Artists/Actors Get Paid
“So many of my friends who have nearly a million followers, who are doing billion-dollar franchises, don’t know how to make rent,” Glenn told...
Google’s New AI Search Tool Could Break The Internet In Significant Ways
Sort of like ChatGPT, it pulls information from various websites, rewords it, and puts that text on top of your search results—pushing down any...
Misbehavior: Is Classical Music Teaching Broken?
While classical music has long been mired in cases of sexual abuse, the psychological and emotional abuse experienced by many young musicians is harder to pin...
SAG-AFTRA Actors Vote To Strike
With the Writers Guild strike now in its 73rd day, this will be the first time that actors and writers have been on strike at the...
Boring No More: Belgium’s Architecture Boom
The contemporary Flemish architecture is an enjoyably polyphonic architecture, that enjoys all kinds of complexities and contradictions. It’s boom is even more surprising as...
The Whitney Museum Is Having A Lot Of Fun On Its New Threads Account
Quite a few museums have started communicating with the public on Meta's new Twitter alternative, but none (so far) with quite the enthusiasm or...
Misbehaving Audiences, A History
"As far back as the ancient Greeks people like Plato were complaining about what he called a vicious theatrocracy, where audiences who were previously happy...
You Can’t Tell Much From A Person’s Handwriting, But You Can Tell This
It's how people have been socialized to present themselves. "Doctors have a culture of sloppy writing; teen girls have a culture of dotting their...
First Pictures: Giant Oak Trusses For Notre Dame Hoisted Into Place
With trusses weighing 7 to 7.5 tons, the delicate operation drew crowds along a bridge over the Seine River and on its banks. -...
Mary Ann Hoberman, One Of America’s Great Poets For Children, Is Dead At 92
Described by the Poetry Foundation as "a consummate channeler of children's sensibilities," she wrote more than 50 books for young readers, starting in 1957...
Chicago Versus Pittsburgh: Jeremy Reynolds Compares Orchestras
If anything, Chicago’s precision and balance may give it an edge. However, there’s a raw enthusiasm and vim to Pittsburgh’s performances that I rarely hear...
