Yearly Archives: 2023
Learning Kronos: 50 New Quartets For The Future
The idea, according to founding first violinist and Artistic Director David Harrington, was to commission 50 quartets from a variety of composers, and make...
How A Regional Foundation Radically Evolved To Serve The Arts
At a time of unprecedented need, do organizations owe it to their communities to move more money out the door, even if it threatens...
NYC’s High Line Park Gets A New Bridge
The first half of the bridge—a gently sloped, 340-foot-long arm coming out of the High Line Spur, as the final section of the elevated...
France Has Treated Françoise Gilot Almost As Badly As Picasso Did
When the much-younger artist ended her relationship with the titan, he destroyed her artwork and tried very hard to destroy her career — and...
Why Have A Festival If It Doesn’t Take You Out Of The Ordinary?
“There’s no point coming here just to do one thing. Blowing in and out doesn’t work – financially! Performers get all that, and they...
Oregon Ballet Theatre’s New Artistic Director Has Some Big Dreams For Her Dancers
Dani Rowe hopes to end the company's apprentice program by 2030, instead treating — and paying — the young dancers as full company members....
What “The Truman Show” Got Right About Technology 25 Years Ago
Through Truman’s story, the movie predicted, with eerie acuity, the rise of reality TV, the transactions of social media, the banality of surveillance. But...
Utah School District Reverses Ban On The Bible Due To Inappropriate Subject Matter For...
"The (Davis School District) committee's reversal is the latest development in the debate over a Utah law allowing parents to challenge 'sensitive materials' available...
“Mao’s Last Dancer” To Retire
Li Cunxin, who found international fame for his remarkable rise from rural China to become one of the world’s leading ballet dancers, has announced...
Who’s In Line To Run Britain’s National Theatre?
"Will the NT reach for a safe pair of hands (as) arts funding is squeezed and theatre is clawing back revenue lost over the...
Russians Revive Mariupol’s Bombed Theatre As Russian Culture Showcase
“This theater is being reborn and has restored its great reputation,” said Aleksandr Rostov, the theater’s new, Russian-appointed creative director in a video to...
Actor Paxton Whitehead Is Dead At 85
"The distinguished English actor and theater mainstay … appeared (17) times on Broadway from 1962-2018 … (and was) known for playing stuffy types in...
What Classic Movie Best Captures Today’s America? “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers”, Says Maureen...
"There's no calm, no deliberation, no chance to change your mind about anything. Just a collapse of individuality, the very trait the country was...
Electric-Car Makers Are Dropping AM Radios From Their Products, And Right-Wingers Are Flipping Out
The reason AM radios are being dropped is that the static problem with AM signals gets much worse when the receiver is near an...
The Louvre Is Exhibiting 16 Medieval Ukrainian Icons Smuggled Out While Kyiv Was Under...
"The works come from the Khanenko Museum, which sustained damages from a Russian missile strike last October, prompting increased safety measures to protect its...
Authors Of A Children’s Book About A Gay Penguin Family Join Students In Suing...
"The lawsuit, one of several challenging Florida's policies for launching local book objections, aims to require Lake County officials to make the book —...
The “Astonishing” $52.5 Million Renovation Of Britain’s National Portrait Gallery
"New galleries have been opened up, learning spaces and restaurants added, and a public forecourt created, in a £41.3 million process of surgical slicing...
Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony Appoints Michele Merrill Music Director
The 39-year-old Texas native, a former associate conductor at the Detroit Symphony, succeeds Timothy Redmond, who resigned abruptly in the summer of 2021 after...
Global Movie Box Office Up 27 Percent In The First Quarter Of 2023
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) saw the largest spike in B.O., with a 32-percent year-on increase during the first quarter of the...
How AI Will Democratize Creativity
We lack the skill to move imagination from the brain to the real world, and, while we like to say "You can do anything...
A New “Generation-Changing” Museum For India
The new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is due to open in 2026, near Delhi’s Indira Gandhi international airport. It will be “India’s national modern...
The Remarkable 2,700-Year-Old Rock Paintings Just Discovered In Sweden
The designs were made through a laborious process of smacking stones against the granite rock that exposed an underlayer of white. This color, in...
Why Writers Have Difficulty Talking About The Working Class
“There’s a class issue that we don’t always talk about in writing and publishing, where you need to be able to afford this life....
TV’s Tired Script Formulas Are Perfect For AI, Aren’t They?
Let’s get to the other side. After analyzing forty years’ worth of sitcom scripts and studio-audience laughter and applause levels, A.I. has unlocked the...
A Forgotten Fact: James Baldwin Did Some Of His Best Work While Living In...
He first visited Istanbul in 1961, where, after a long writer's block, he was finally able to finish Another Country. He spent most of...
