Yearly Archives: 2023
Tina Turner, 83
"Few stars traveled so far and overcame so much. Physically battered, emotionally devastated and financially ruined by her 20-year relationship with Ike Turner, she...
How The 1990s Changed America
New scholarship indicates that the end of the Cold War did not so much settle history’s debates as it did undermine the structuring framework...
Researchers Are Burning Out. It’s The Culture
The recent studies, which have collectively surveyed tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, suggest that scientists’ mental-health struggles are a direct result of a...
This Choreographer Is Incorporating Rock Climbing and Tightrope Walking Into His Work
In a work titled Corps Extrêmes ("Extreme Bodies"), which choreographer Rachid Ouramdane calls "halfway between a documentary and an art piece," involves highliner Nathan...
The Arts: We’re Being Bored To Death
After a century or so, as Dave Hickey explains, in which it had evaded institutional control—a century of Parisian bohemians, modernist vagabonds, and visionary...
After 17 Years, Greece Regains 351 Looted Artifacts From Disgraced British Dealer
"After a 17-year legal battle with the liquidated company that belonged to disgraced British art dealer Robin Symes, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced...
Adding Live Theatre To Movies Is A Hit In Western Australia
Evidently, this new blend of live theatre and film may be just what the cinema industry needs to help fight back against at-home streaming...
Tate Britain’s Director Explains What’s Behind the Complete Rehang Of The Museum’s Collection
"So far, most of the coverage about the project has focused on the increased representation of female artists. Yet, this barely scratches the surface...
Why The US Needs Its Own Bookfair
The U.S. is the biggest English-language publishing market it the world, yet it’s one of the few large countries without an industrywide conference. - Publishers...
To This They’ve Come: Florida School Forbids Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem To Grade-School Students
"A parent of a student at Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes objected to the poem, for which they erroneously listed Oprah Winfrey...
Susan Sontag’s Complicated View Of Women
The essays in “On Women” make clear that, for Sontag, the oppression of women presented an aesthetic and narrative problem as well as a...
Paul Simon Says He’s Gone Mostly Deaf In One Ear And May Have To...
"Quite suddenly, I lost most of the hearing in my left ear, and nobody has an explanation for it," he said. As if that...
Trump’s Voice of America Chief Repeatedly Abused Power and Tried To Impose Political Loyalty...
Just days after being confirmed as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Michael Pack was trying to fire executives suspected of insufficient...
The Worst Is Over: U.S. Orchestra Audiences Are Finally Coming Back To Live Concerts
"In interviews, orchestra leaders around the country (said) that things had been deeply disappointing early on this season for them, too — and that...
The Netflix Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Begun
"Netflix is bringing its password-sharing deterrents to the U.S. On Tuesday, the streaming giant began rolling out its paid sharing feature in the U.S.,...
Egyptians Are Flipping Out Again About A Famous Pharaoh Depicted As Black
"A new exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands has sparked controversy by including a contemporary artwork that depicts the Pharaoh...
It’s The Playwrights Who Saved This Year’s Tony Awards
Many leading playwrights also work as screenwriters — and are thus members of the striking Writers Guild of America. When that union refused to...
International Booker Prize 2023 Goes To Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel for “Time Shelter”
"(The novel) imagines the 'first clinic of the past,' in which Alzheimer's patients can visit different time periods of their lives on different floors."...
Want To Be Wildly Successful? Fail. A Lot
Far from being an occasional exception, failure is an inherent part of human life. - Hedgehog Review
Louise Bourgeois Spider Sells At Auction for $33 Million
Only four of the French-American artist’s arachnid creations have ever appeared at auction. In May 2019, another sold for $32.1 million with fees at...
Meet The Chicago Symphony’s Music Librarians
The orchestra "owns more than 5,000 sets of scores and parts, some dating back a half century or more, with even older ones...
Hearing Aids Help Clarify Speech. Music? Not So Much
Much of the research indicates that it can take years for the brain to adjust to the new mode of input via hearing aids....
A Set Of Ceramic Plates Bought For $8 From The Salvation Army Turn Out...
"It’s every thrifter's dream. Several years ago, a New York woman purchased several ceramic dishes at a Salvation Army store for $8, then found...
Hi! We’d Love To Publish Your Book. But Could You Take Out Any Reference...
In what Maggie Tokuda-Hall described as a “Faustian bargain,” Scholastic made the offer contingent on removing mentions of the Japanese American incarceration that tied...
Steven Spielberg Want To Make Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” Into A Miniseries
Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Partners, "are shopping it with Patrick Marber adapting (the Closer writer/director was the play's original director when it...
