Yearly Archives: 2023
Brussels’ Africa Museum Rethinks Africa
After facing years of heavy criticism nationally and internationally, the museum worked with a group of experts from the African diaspora in Belgium to...
Buffalo’s Albright Knox Museum Reopens At Double The Size
The museum retains its Neoclassical facade from 1905, courtesy Edward Broadhead Green, and its modernist addition from the '60s, courtesy Gordon Bunshaft. The 1905...
Ethiopians Are Making New Copies Of Sacred Medieval Manuscripts The Old-Fashioned Way, On Parchment
"Armed with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, … at the Hamere Berhan Institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Orthodox priests and lay...
How “Jurassic Park” Pioneered CGI Special Effects 30 Years Ago
"From those six minutes of animated dinosaurs, CGI has become so integrated into the industry to the extent that nearly all film and television...
Yo-Yo Ma Busks On The Streets Of Nairobi
"Nairobi's bustling Kenyatta market is an unlikely place to hear classical music. Yet playing today in front of stalls where butchers roast meat and...
Classical Music Site Sold For $1 Million
Toronto's Ludwig Van is bought by ZoomerMedia. The publicly traded company run by Canadian media mogul Moses Znaimer is the pioneer behind CityTV, MuchMusic,...
How CEO Jonelle Procope Saved Harlem’s Apollo Theater
"Jonelle Procope's 20-year tenure as president and CEO of The Apollo Theater evolved into an era of prosperity and expansion, markedly different from the...
Why Promising Young Actors Are Leaving The Theatre
As someone who's monitored the performing arts industry for decades, I've seen dozens of talented, up-and-coming artists leave the profession. Or rather, I likely...
How Karla Puno Garcia Found Herself Choreographing This Year’s Scriptless Tony Awards
"Ariana DeBose called me and asked if I was interested and available. I said yes and yes!" - Dance Magazine
The Revolt Against Humanity
The revolt against humanity, Adam Kirsch argues, is no longer an “avant-garde phenomenon†of interest only to the chattering classes, and the spiritual development...
After Ten-Year Legal Battle In The Netherlands, Art And Artifacts From Crimea Will Be...
The 300 items were assembled for a 2013 exhibition by the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam; the show was at a German museum when...
They’ve Found Thomas Cromwell’s Own Prayer Book, The One In The Holbein Portrait
"Curators at Hever Castle were conducting research ahead of an exhibition comparing Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn when they realized Cromwell owned a...
Chevron Admits It Destroyed The Public Art Work Erected Near Its Bay Area Refinery
"'The wood was placed in our wood bin weeks ago when it was taken down. It has been processed with other wood since then,'...
US Officially Requests To Rejoin UNESCO
"U.S. officials say the decision to return was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap left by the U.S. in UNESCO policymaking...
Actor Treat Williams Killed In Motorcycle Accident
The 71-year-old star of the films Hair, Prince of the City, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Eagle Has Landed and the...
Golden Globe Awards Are Sold; Hollywood Foreign Press Association Will Disband
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries have purchased the awards, which will become a for-profit venture, and all 310 current voters will remain eligible...
Conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann Is Dead At 77
He served as music director of the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh for two decades (1982-2003) and of the Canton Symphony in Ohio for...
Author Pulls Her Book Set In Russia In Protest Of Invasion Of Ukraine
The uproar that drove Elizabeth Gilbert’s decision to pull her novel, which is set in 20th century Siberia, suggests that the debate has broadened...
Boston’s Handel And Haydn Society Explores Handel’s Relationship To Slave Trade
H+H was exploring the possibility that Handel, one of the bedrocks of its repertoire, had held investments in trans-Atlantic trading companies that participated in...
Arkansas Symphony Gets A New Music Director
Geoffrey Robson, 41, who joined the orchestra in the fall of 2008 as associate conductor and a full-time member of the violin section, will...
In The Writers Strike, An Unscripted Tony Awards Was The Best In A Long...
Ironically, the script-free ceremony was one of the most soulful Tony Awards in history, because there were no intermediaries brought in by the network...
Netflix’s Password Crackdown Generates Record New Signups
In a two day period following Netflix's roll out of the password sharing change last month saw the largest number of new Netflix account...
Does Every City Really Need An Orchestra?
Tom Wolf: Is there any way to determine in which cities orchestras are likely to be successful artistically and financially? - Nightingale Sonata
Scientists Wonder: Have We Reached The Long-Awaited Singularity?
Artificial intelligence is roiling tech, business and politics like nothing in recent memory. Listen to the extravagant claims and wild assertions issuing from Silicon Valley,...
In Portland, A Bar For Classical Musicians To hang Out And Play
Tucked in the bustling neighborhood, Mendelssohn’s has become a gathering place for Portland’s musicians to sip on themed drinks, sing ballads from the high...
