Yearly Archives: 2023
Republicans In Congress Revive Trump’s Plan To Make New Federal Buildings In Classical Style
This month, Republicans in both the House and Senate introduced legislation to once again make classical architecture the preferred house style for federal buildings....
College Librarians Under Siege In Ron DeSantis’s Florida
"Lots of librarians have wasted a ton of time cleaning up files in their OneDrives; removing their names from projects, committees; taking down …...
Why Your Brain Is Tricking You Into Thinking Things Are Worse
People have believed in this moral decline at least since pollsters started asking about it in 1949, they believe it in every single country...
Why Ayodele Casel Did An Autobiographical Tap-Dance Show With Voiceover
"When I got to do While I Have the Floor, that was me really saying, okay, I can be in control of the narrative....
Seattle Opera Produced A “Relaxed” Performance Of “Traviata. Here’s What They Learned
The response was overwhelmingly positive, with a common refrain of, “It’s about time!” One patron was grateful to move around and said that sitting...
TKTS, Times Square’s Famous Half-Price Ticket Booth, Marks 50 Years
"Some 68.6 million tickets have been sold from the booth during its 50 years, with more than $2.6 billion going back to the shows....
The Similarities Between AI And TV Commercials
However much they may doodle in the margins, they stick to tried-and-tested principles: sparkling suburban kitchens; slow-motion ice-and-soda splashes; pleasant, wordless canoe trips that...
Fox News’s Late-Night Insult Comic Is Actually Outdrawing “The Tonight Show”
"After decades of cultural dominance by left-leaning late night, … (Greg) Gutfeld's striking inversion is a hard-won victory for the right. Like The Daily...
Seattle’s Book-It Theatre To Close After 33 Years
A majority of the staff of 18 was told they’d be laid off Tuesday; six people will stay on for three to six more...
Britain’s State Schools Are Robbing Kids Who Aren’t Rich Of Arts Education
V&A director Tristram Hunt: "This is a real problem, and there's a social inequity here because the private sector is not closing its theatres...
Argentine Court Assigns The Rights To Jorge Luís Borges’s Works
"Borges's wife, Maria Kodama, had devoted much of her life to fiercely protecting his legacy and it surprised many in Argentina's literary circles that...
What Happens When Opera Singers Get Pregnant? Sometimes They Lose Roles, Sometimes They Gain...
"The science behind the phenomenon is still poorly understood, but it is such a noticeable and common occurrence that it has become something of...
In Song Recitals, The Way The Performers Move Their Heads Matters: Study
"The new study used 24 subjects who were advanced piano and vocal students (in) Vienna. The researchers specifically wanted to look at how musicians'...
$2 Billion Of Art In The Attic: The Story Of The Greatest Art Thief...
He piled all $2 billion worth of artifacts he amassed over eight years into that same attic in his mother Mireille Stengel’s “nondescript” stucco...
The Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold In Europe: Gustav Klimt’s Last Portrait
Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) — said to have still been on the easel when Klimt died — was sold at Sotheby's...
Actor Julian Sands Confirmed Dead At 65
Best known for roles in The Killing Fields, A Room with a View and Leaving Las Vegas, he worked steadily in films and television...
How Streaming Platforms Guide Your Choices
Being able to control how long programmes are available to stream appears to give video-on-demand platforms significant power over what audiences watch. The longer...
Neuroscientist Predicted 25 Years Ago Science Would Unlock Consciousness. He Loses Bet
Despite a vast effort, researchers still don’t understand how our brains produce it, however. “It started off as a very big philosophical mystery. But...
Cormac McCarthy Was A Literary Star. He Couldn’t Happen Today
This improbable trajectory — writer toils for decades in obscurity before finding international renown — is the stuff of legend. But it did not...
Another Director Quits The Much-Troubled Royal British Columbia Museum
In the wake of the recent resignation of Alicia Dubois, the chief executive of the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in Victoria, British Columbia, 16 months after...
Why Divas Have The Right To Be Difficult
Diva status depended, back then as now, on being the author of your own career – creatively and financially – and driving it forward....
What Ails Publishing Can’t Be Fixed By AI
Authors know that the idea that “good books” will prevail in the marketplace is a cruel joke. Publishers are very, very bad at connecting...
A Bronislava Nijinska Bio-Ballet
The Ballet de Santiago in Chile commissioned Spanish choreographer Avatâra Ayuso to create Nijinska, Secreto de la Vanguardia for this year, the centenary of...
Rita Reif, Art And Antiques Columnist For The New York Times, Is Dead At...
"After starting out in some of journalism's lowest-rung jobs, (she) spent decades covering the worlds of antiques and auctions, … and (she) made news...
San Francisco Opera At 100: Its Best Season Ever?
"There’s no getting around it. I’ve been covering this company since 1985, and in all that time there’s never been a season in which...
