Yearly Archives: 2023
Is This True? Are We All Really Hardwired To Our Primitive Past?
“We have seemingly been hardwired with a number of cognitive biases that impede our ability to take appropriate action to address seemingly distant, gradual...
Pianist Max Morath, Who Led The 1960s Ragtime Revival, Is Dead At 96
"With syncopated piano rhythms and social commentary (he) helped revive the ragtime age on educational television programs, in concert halls and in nightclubs for...
How Parking Explains American Cities (And What To Do About It)
You imagine the American city in the 1940s and ’50s and you think so many challenges being confronted—substandard housing, deindustrialization, racial strife, pollution—all this...
Layoffs At Australia’s National Broadcaster Will Decimate Arts Coverage
"The first mass job cuts at the ABC since 2020 will heavily impact the corporation’s arts coverage and, some argue, may put the corporation...
The First AI Magazine (It’s Soulless)
The ability to see something you hadn’t expected is what separates printed products from the internet. It’s why those who love magazines do so...
Sculpture Stolen From A Museum Is Discovered Next To A Dumpster At A Casino
"A sculpture that was stolen from the North Dakota Museum of Art seven months ago was found next to a dumpster at the nearby...
What We Should Learn From Loss
We fail all the time, in things large and small, yet our biggest failure may be that, as a rule, we don’t understand failure. And...
Oh, Great, Now Truther Trolls Are Telling Lies About The Titanic On TikTok
They're saying that the Titanic itself never sank and there was insurance fraud, or that J.P. Morgan or the Rothschilds or the Jesuits ordered...
Manchester’s Big New Arts Venue Gets A Corporate Sponsor And (Of Course) A New...
"One of the most eagerly anticipated new cultural venues in Europe, … the £210 million flagship building in Manchester, previously called Factory International, will...
“Mao’s Last Dancer,” Li Cunxin, Retires For Health Reasons From The Company He Has...
After 16 years as a star of Houston Ballet and four at the Australian Ballet, followed by 13 years as a successful stockbroker, Li...
This Dutch Improv Club Launched The Careers Of Major American Comedians
Next month marks the 30th anniversary of Boom Chicago, an Amsterdam venue featuring Chicago-style improv comedy in English, where Seth Meyers, Jordan Peele, Amber...
Nine Suspects Charged In Theft Of Long-Missing Warhol, Pollock, And Other Works
"The thievery ring operated for more than two decades at 20 museums and stores across the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest."...
For The First Time, One Of The BBC’s Orchestras Has A Woman As Chief...
Anna-Maria Helsing, a Finn who became the BBC Concert Orchestra's principal guest conductor in 2020, will step up to succeed the late Bramwell Tovey...
Manchester’s Hallé Orchestra Appoints New Chief Conductor
Kahchun Wong, a 36-year-old native of Singapore who won the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in 2018 and has since worked as chief conductor of...
Canadians Want To Promote Canadian Content. Problem: What Is Canadian Content?
Nobody seems happy. The way the issue splits along political lines feels so incoherent, it’s almost arbitrary. - The Walrus
Public Libraries Have Become… Social Work Agencies?
Vicky Varga, a twenty-four-year veteran of Edmonton Public Library, described how the city had moved toward fully integrating social work into the activities of...
Satire Seems To Be Dead (For Now)
As the world became almost unfathomably strange, many people reacted by demanding seriousness; social and political critics understandably turned very sober. And this too...
In The Age Of AI, Form Seems To Be Making A Comeback
AI-driven image-making—far from heralding some future post-human development—appears to be reviving long-dormant visual strategies that dominated the arts, and art theories, of the past....
The Enduring Allure Of Concert Halls That Make An Architectural Splash
Sydney cemented the idea that grandiose political and architectural ambitions — some would say hubris — can merit the expenditure of much larger sums...
Taliban Sell Tickets To Bamiyan Buddha Site They Destroyed In 2001
With the group now back in power, Bamian holds new symbolic and economic importance to the cash-strapped region: Officials see the Buddha remnants as...
How The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Found Itself In A Crisis
“We've been basically in a recovery mode since the 2020-21 pandemic. And I think that's the real reason why things have been stressed more....
The International African American Museum Opens At Long Last
"The museum was built on the site of Gadsden’s Wharf, where an estimated 100,000 enslaved African individuals disembarked between 1783 and 1807. The new museum will...
The Conceptual Artist With Eight Alter Ego Artists, A Team Of Assistants, And An...
Ryan Gander: "For me, life is one massive prototyping experience." - The Observer (UK)
Remembering John Romita Sr, Who Brought Spider-Man To Life
"Sometimes, when they'll cast these wonderfully handsome men as Peter Parker - and, you know, some fans will complain like, that's not what Peter...
This Artist Hand-Stitches Recreations Of Classic Composition Notebooks
Candace Hicks: "No one else is reading the same books as me in the same order, so in a way, my reading is my...
