Yearly Archives: 2023
Why Has The Hong Kong Arts Centre Been Hemorrhaging Staff?
"Management’s attempt to overhaul the Hong Kong Arts Centre has triggered a mass walkout at the 46-year-old non-profit institution, with former employees reporting that...
The Five Most Common Delusions Worldwide
One possibility is that “they reflect the common existential issues or dilemmas of living which preoccupy all human beings,” they write. “Another is that...
70 Years Ago Today: Canada’s Stratford Festival Began
The Stratford Festival has come a long way in 70 years but the story of how racialized artists began to get a foothold and...
When COVID Shut Down Performance Venues, One L.A. Dance Artist Had A Clever Idea...
Named after the one lightbulb that stays on in unoccupied theaters, the Ghost Light Residency gave a single dance artist (to maintain social distancing)...
Considering All The Conflicted Feelings About The Surprise Success Of “Fast Car”
Now that Tracy Chapman's 1988 classic is becoming one of the biggest hits of Luke Combs's career, there are uneasy, complex emotional responses, especially...
Thirty Years Ago, Des McAnuff Staged “The Who’s Tommy” For Broadway. Now He’s Giving...
"In 2023, McAnuff argues, Tommy’s transformation from catatonic schoolboy to a charismatic cult leader resonates more strongly when considering modern-day celebrity worship. And the...
Things Are A Mess At The Israel Museum
The institution itself is strange, neither public nor private: still, after nearly 60 years, funded largely by contributions from abroad, yet located in a...
SAG-AFTRA Has No Deal With Producers; Final Strike Vote Will Happen Today
The union's negotiating committee unanimously recommended that its National Board declare a work stoppage, and the Board will meet Thursday at 9 am Pacific...
Three Pulitzer Winners Laid Off In One Day As McClatchy Drops All Editorial Cartoons
The casualties are Jack Ohman of the Sacramento Bee, Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer. The newspaper...
The Shed Hires A Separate CEO: Meredith Hodges Of Boston Ballet
"The position was initially held by Alex Poots, who founded the Manchester International Festival and served as the artistic director of the Park Avenue...
Appreciating Peter Schjeldahl
Schjeldahl’s best stuff, to borrow something he said about Clement Greenberg, is always “in command of what it omits.” One conspicuous omission is any...
The Reigning Guru Of Pop Music
Some claim that he has “revolutionized pop,” while others argue that he has, as the clickbait-y title of one video essay puts it,...
Eastern Europe Debates The Fate Of Soviet-Era Monuments
Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 once again fueled the debate in different Eastern European countries, including in Latvia and Poland, where imposing Soviet monuments,...
Facing The Truth: The Edinburgh Fringe Is Broken
We’d all known the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been broken for a while now, with prices running out of control. But it’s been difficult to focus...
I’ve Been Using AI To Automate My Writing
I have been experimenting with my literary automaton to see how well it accomplishes this task. Or, as Robot Kyle put it when I...
Study: We Hear Silence As A “Sound”
In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers used a series of sonic illusions to show that people...
Every Two Years, Indigenous Peoples Of Northeastern Australia Gather Together And Dance
"Since its inception in the early 1980s, the Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance Festival has brought together Indigenous communities from across Cape York, the Torres...
The Idea Of A Global Town Square Is Dead
The dream of the internet’s bipartisan “town square” is ending, transforming into many town squares tucked in alleys and behind buildings, because the actors...
A Literary Translator Leads Us Through Her Process, Line By Line
"A word can be a perfect fit until something I try in the next clause introduces a clumsy repetition or infelicitous echo. Meaning, connotation...
The New Feminist Dance Novels
Two recent novels put romantic longing and steamy couplings alongside discussion of body politics, feminism and #MeToo in ballet. First Position, written by ex-American...
Here’s One Case Where AI Translation Seems To Work Well: Ancient Cuneiform
"A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and computer scientists has developed an artificial intelligence that can translate Akkadian almost instantly and unlock the historic record...
This Year’s Emmy Nominations
The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held Sept. 18 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. - Variety
Another Culture War Over Spain’s Bullfights — And This One’s Not About The Bulls
This particular struggle is over the tradition of comic bullfights, often before the main corrida, featuring performers with dwarfism. Traditionalists see it as Spanish...
What You Need To Know Abut An Impending Actors’ Strike
Just a few weeks ago, it seemed that SAG-AFTRA was much closer to reaching a deal with Hollywood studios than the union’s counterpart, the...
The First Bank Of The United States (Yes, The One Founded By Alexander Hamilton)...
"(It) was built in 1797 in Philadelphia to be the central hub of Hamilton's national banking system. The Independence National Historical Park (INHP) will...
