Yearly Archives: 2023
How Did A Novel About Game Development Become A Multi-Year Bestseller?
Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, isn't sure. And it's a bit weird for her. "Even though is not her...
A New York City Artist Is Paralyzed After Being Shoved On The Subway
Artist and illustrator Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy's "designs have been featured in outlets such as Chicago Magazine and NPR, and she won an American Illustration award in 2021." - Hyperallergic
Ingrid Haebler, Splendid Interpreter Of Mozart, Has Died At 96
Haebler was a pianist who "drew particular acclaim for her performances and recordings of the works of Mozart, impressing critics while still in her...
NPR’s Biggest Gaffe Turns Forty
That's right, this is four decades on from the time the national radio network let a six-year-old entirely spoil Return of the Jedi. -...
A French Murder Mystery Wins The Palme D’Or At Cannes
Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet is the third woman ever to win the prize. The courtroom drama, which stars German actress Sandra...
It’s A Grave Mistake To Cede The Humanities To Artificial Intelligence
Maureen Down isn't having it. "Without humanities, humanity and humaneness, we won’t be imbuing society with wisdom, just creating owner’s manuals. That would be...
Celine Dion Cancels Tour Dates For The Foreseeable Future
Dion has not performed since before the pandemic because of her condition. "Stiff Person Syndrome is a progressive neurological and autoimmune disorder that affects...
US Supreme Court Justices Engage In Fierce Art Criticism Debate
Kagan’s dissent was not mild, either—it reads as strenuously as a vintage art-critical piece by, say, Clement Greenberg, slamming Harold Rosenberg—thus producing an image...
Are We Asking Too Much Of Public Art?
It must be said that no work of art interrogates anyone or anything. This linguistic tic is endemic to the art scene and unproductively cliché. The...
Colorado Museum To Close American Indian Exhibit
The exhibit was first established in 1978, in collaboration with Indigenous representatives. A description of the exhibit on the museum’s website says visitors could see “authentic...
Are America’s Regional Theatres Reaching The End Of Their Useful Lives?
It is certainly not a popular theory, but it’s quite possible that, at this moment, America’s cultural venues may be larger than needed. Now...
How AI Could Improve The Ways We Work
There’s a lot of potential for workers to step outside of the box with the assistance of generative AI, whether it’s improving their daily...
How Dancing Made The Savannah Bananas Social Media’s Favorite American Sports Team
"The factors driving the Bananas' online success are obvious. In-game clips of players swinging flaming baseball bats, pitching from atop stilts, and performing choreographed...
Report: Documenting How Artists Are Getting Screwed By Museums And Galleries
Data gathered from more than 100 contributors outlines a status quo in which artists are expected to work for low (or no) money, even...
After A $3.7 Million Renovation, George Frideric Handel’s London House Is Open Again
"The former home of composer George Frideric Handel has reopened to the public following a two-year renovation project costing £3 million. The property is...
Using AI And Bumping Up Against The Edges Of Reality
Where do real memories end and generative AI begin? It’s a question for the AI era, where our holy photos merge with holey memories,...
Artist-Professor Arrested For Threatening A Reporter With A Machete
Okay, it was a New York Post reporter, but still … "The confrontation … at professor Shellyne Rodriguez's apartment building on Tuesday came after...
I Let AI Make All My Decisions For Three Days. Here’s What Happened
I had asked the chatbot to make the choice for me, and it had said that I should prioritize “valuable experiences” that contribute to...
An Apparent Family Suicide Pact Rocks Japan’s Kabuki Theater Scene
Ennosuke Ichikawa IV — scion of an eminent kabuki family, the force behind an updated style called super-kabuki, and a popular television star —...
To What Extent Do Our Secrets Define Us?
If a secret really is something I tell only myself, is there something here that is mine and mine alone, that survives as my true ‘self’,...
Xi Jinping’s Latest Cultural Rule That Nobody Was Warned About: Treat China’s Armed Forces...
"In the chest-thumping nationalism that has dominated the country's tightly controlled official and public discourses, the Chinese military occupies a sacred, central place –...
When Langston Hughes Wrote A Children’s Book
In 1936, Hughes and artist Elmer W. Brown put together and shopped around The Sweet and Sour Animal Book. No publisher acquired the book,...
Actors And Stage Managers In London’s West End Win 17% Pay Raise, Drop Strike...
"About 94% of (Actors Equity) members who voted backed the deal with the Society of London Theatre, which will see them get 16.7% pay...
Rare Books Damaged In Italy’s Recent Floods Are Being Salvaged By Flash-Freezing Them
"Volunteers have been transporting the books and other precious documents, which became submerged in water and mud in flooded libraries in the worst-affected areas,...
Thousands Of Trafficked Antiquities Recovered In Raids In Southern Italy
"Italian police have arrested 21 out of 51 suspects in an operation which included hundreds of officers, authorities said. … Those arrested are under...
