Yearly Archives: 2023
Rufus Norris, Director Of London’s National Theatre, Will Step Down In 2025
"His time in charge (has) seen 10 Culture Secretaries come and five Prime Ministers come and go as well as the impact of Brexit...
Liverpool Vies To Be New Home Of English National Opera. Process Is “Complicated,” Says...
In a letter to Culture Minister Lord Parkinson, Mr Rotheram and Liverpool City Council leader Liam Robinson said it would be "an honour" to...
Streaming Companies Spent 100s Of Millions Of Dollars On Content. Worth It?
In this country, nothing indicates cultural importance more than cash, and seeing this much of it handed out to creators of television said as...
David Remnick Remembers Robert Gottlieb
Gottlieb, who died on Wednesday, at the age of ninety-two, may have been the most important book editor of his time. Caro was just...
Our Metaphors For Language Shape How We Think
For example, if we talk about “wasting” or “saving” time, we treat time as if it were a commodity. Or, if we say that...
What Failure Can And Cannot Do For You
In a culture that demands overcoming against all odds, even failure has been commodified by the American self-help industrial complex: rebranded not as a...
What Libraries Are Becoming
Libraries were once places to access books. They are now places to access everything? The last place to access anything? As the social safety...
So What’s The Deal With Van Gogh And Cypresses?
"Every element of the natural world tremored with significance in Vincent van Gogh's world. Sunflowers were his symbol of joy and devotion. Stars were...
Asian Movie Theatre Box Office Is Down. So They’re Being Inventive
With movie ticket sales still lagging behind pre-pandemic highs, multiplex operators across Asia have begun deploying unconventional strategies to generate excitement and attract people back to...
A Brief, Cradle-To-Grave History Of Children’s Radio
"During the height of the pandemic, the only real player (left) in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, quietly wound down. … Today's...
California Mandated Ambitious Arts Education For Students. Why Isn’t It Working?
“It can't be an after-school program only because that builds inequitable access. Art needs to be consistent in terms of hands-on experience, as well...
People Are Totally Lining Up To Cast Me As Soon As I’m Acquitted, Says...
"It's a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be canceled. But I know...
How Hadid Architects Are Using AI To Design Better Buildings
Mr. Blum said ZHAI had a computer tool that, in 27 hours, could come up with 100,000 designs for a building’s interior; an architect...
The Bay Area’s Mass Transit Is Facing A Cash Crisis. The Region’s Theater Scene...
Over a third of the audience of the major theater companies uses mass transit, as do half the artists and staff; the percentage is...
17 Music Publishers Sue Twitter For $250 Million
According to the publishers, Musk's company allows users to share music on the platform without permission from the copyright holders. - Mashable
The Case Of “Robbin’ Hood” And The Disappearing, Reappearing Picasso
In February 1969, amid one of Boston's worst-ever snowstorms, a crate containing Picasso's Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer went missing from Logan...
Glenda Jackson, 87
"Hollywood showered her with admiration and two best actress Oscars. But Jackson was not easily flattered. Famously prickly, her view of Tinseltown often bordered...
Ukrainian Cultural Sites Damaged In Floods Following The Blow-Up Of The Kakhovka Dam
"Churches, monuments and museums are submerged all over the Kherson region. Archaeological sites dating back to the Scythians — a nomadic people who lived...
Southern California Public Radio Is Laying Off More Than 10% Of Its Staff
SCPR, which operates the LAist website and LAist radio station (the NPR affiliate formerly called KPCC) as well as a podcasting studio, will eliminate...
Stephen Petronio’s Dance Residency Retreat In Upstate New York Will Shut Down
"Caught in a web of financial difficulties, (the choreographer) and his board of advisers have decided to close the (Petronio Residency Center) and put...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Attack A Monet
"Two activists on Wednesday smeared red paint and then glued their hands to the protective glass on The Artist's Garden at Giverny, a painting...
Arkansas Symphony Goes In-House For Its Next Music Director
"Geoffrey Robson, who joined the orchestra in the fall of 2008 as associate conductor and a full-time member of the violin section, has been...
Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead” Wins 2023 Women’s Prize For Fiction
With this novel, which has already garnered her a Pulitzer, Kingsolver becomes the first author to win the Women's Prize twice. - The Guardian
Legendary Editor Robert Gottlieb, 92
For three decades at the publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Knopf, he turned hundreds of manuscripts into well-received books, many of which sold...
ABT Chief Exec Suddenly Quits After 17 Months
Janet Rollé’s hiring was announced with much fanfare: She had made a name in the entertainment industry, having served as the general manager of Parkwood Entertainment,...
