Yearly Archives: 2023
Unreleased Live John Coltrane Recordings Rediscovered In New York Public Library
The recordings of joint concerts with Eric Dolphy at New York's Village Vanguard were stumbled on by a Bob Dylan researcher. They've now been...
How The Smithsonian Has Helped Rebuild Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Wrecked By ISIS
Dr. Richard Kurin, founder of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, writes about how the Washington museum complex, along with the Louvre, the World Monuments...
Salman Rushdie’s Next Book Will Be About His Getting Stabbed Onstage
"It will be a relatively short book, a couple of hundred pages. It's not the easiest book in the world to write but it's...
Oklahoma Legislature Overrides Governor’s Defunding Of State’s Public TV Network
"Cheers broke out in the Oklahoma House of Representatives as lawmakers approved the bill that reauthorizes OETA (the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority) as a...
How The Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Will Stunt Creativity
Our remix culture has democratized art by letting anyone with a phone create new art from the pieces of previous works. The Supreme Court’s decision “stymies...
Sotheby’s Buys Whitney Museum’s Breuer Building
Designed by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer, the building has had its share of occupants since it was erected. It was first the third home to...
Amnesia After Taylor Swift Concerts? Yes, It’s A Thing
From out-of-body experiences to entering a dream-like state, Swift's fans - or Swifties as they prefer to be known - have taken to social...
Toronto’s Fringe Festival Is In Trouble
Behind the scenes, Toronto’s largest theatre festival was struggling. Audience attendance fell below expectations. Fundraising efforts came up short. All that while the festival...
Why The Newsroom Needed(s) To Change
The decline of the newsroom itself is not the same thing as the decline of media, and conflating the two obscures how the newsroom...
Texas Ballet Theater Names Tim O’Keefe (Permanent) Artistic Director
The dancer-turned choreographer joined the Fort Worth company as associate artistic director in 2002 and was appointed acting artistic director last summer when Ben...
Probing The Life (And Deaths) Of Social Media Networks And What Makes Them Work...
In a world where social networks abound, what leads people to try to find new places to hide out, instead of sticking with the...
Fresno, California Is About To Spend Millions On The Arts. The City’s Arts Community...
Fresno voters approved a ⅜-cent local sales tax, with 12% earmarked for arts and culture, in 2018; the city awards the first grants this...
The Battle (And Calculations) Over Banning TikTok
The president has his national-security advisers, who are expressing concern about what China could do with a technology in the pockets of 150 million...
This Dave Eggers Project Lets Young Readers Edit Books-In-Progress Written For Their Age Group
"'We started cooking up this idea of showing students or classes written manuscripts and saying, 'What do you think?' To show them the process...
Round 286: Movie Theatres Want You Back. They’re Upgrading
Many theaters also went into 2020 with thin margins and may have survived only because of federal pandemic relief programs. Now cinemas are spending...
Even Peter Weir Had No Idea Just How Prescient “The Truman Show” Would Be
"Released in 1998, the film about one man living in a fabricated reality concocted by TV producers made an impact, but ... in subsequent...
Istanbul’s Priceless Historic Buildings Are Not Ready For Another Earthquake
The massive earthquake that struck near the Syrian border in February killed more than 50,000 people and wrecked half a million homes. Nearly 2,000...
Figuring Out The Rules Underlying Conceptual Art, Which Was Invented To Get Rid Of...
"There's an underlying logic and set of constraints that constitute specific choices as meaningful. While the materiality of these works is all over the...
The Winner Of This Year’s Tony Award For Teachers Has His Students Perform Both...
"The special Tony Award that honors educators will go this year to Jason Zembuch-Young, a drama teacher in Florida who has closed the gap...
What’s Holding Broadway Back From A Full Audience Recovery? The Burbs.
"Grosses are down about 13% from the record 2018-19 season but only 7% from the (previous) year. The remaining gap is largely caused by...
Florida Art Dealer Who Sold Bogus Basquiats And Warhols Gets More Than Two Years...
"After pleading guilty in February to money laundering for selling cheap reproductions of works purportedly by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Roy Lichtenstein at...
Disgraced Donors The Sackler Family To Pay $6 Billion And Lose Purdue Pharma In...
"The Sackler family will pay out $6 billion to fight the ongoing opioid epidemic and give up control of their company Purdue Pharma in...
Jonathon Heyward Named Music Director Of What Was The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
"This summer, Louis Langrée wraps up his 21-year run as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival and its orchestra. Next year, the 30-year-old...
A Desperate Maggio Musicale, Florence’s Opera House, Looks To Sell Off Its Archives To...
"The Maggio Musicale in Florence may sell its large archive in a desperate attempt to find €8.5m by July, part of a huge debt...
Two goals to rule them all
I've been reading and thinking a lot about human cognition – about how we make sense and take action. The useful answer describes a combo platter of species-wide sense-making systems and their unique manifestation in each of us…
