Yearly Archives: 2023
This Ancient Amphitheatre Stages The Classics Of Greek Drama In Grand Style
The auditorium, carved out of a hillside in Syracuse on Sicily's southeastern coast, "seats 5,000. The stage is 27 metres wide and 44 deep;...
Podcast Producer PRX Cuts 10 Percent Of Staff, Blaming Declining Sponsor Income
With a roster of 124 active shows, PRX has been a steady, albeit low-key, podcast publisher. It had nearly 6.6 million unique U.S. listeners...
Who Was The First Modern Celebrity? Sarah Bernhardt
The great French actress wasn't the first to be famous solely for being famous (that phenomenon came later), but she was the first to...
On The Internet No One Knows You’re An AI
If a computer system can write code—as ChatGPT already can—then it might eventually learn to improve itself over and over again until computing technology reaches what’s...
Breakdancing Debuts At The 2024 Olympics. Meet Some Of The Hopeful Young Competitors
"Next summer, the best 16 B-boys and 16 B-girls from around the world will face off in solo battles soundtracked by a live DJ...
The Art Of Collecting: Heroes Or Plunderers?
As long as objects have been plundered, countries have called for their repatriation. Yet western popular culture has muted these voices, sometimes expressing anxiety...
U.S. Carmakers Are Eliminating AM Radio From Their Dashboards
"Despite protests from station owners, listeners, first-responders and politicians from both major parties, automakers … are removing AM radios from new electric vehicles because...
Philosophers And Their Obsession With Language
In the 20th century, Western philosophy split into two discourses, each with its own canon and jargon, usually referred to as ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’. Mastering...
Two Florida Moms At The Center Of The Fight Against Book Bans
"Jen Cousins and Stephana Ferrell track school board votes and the fates of books across Florida's 67 districts. They file public records requests, appear...
Nicholas Hytner’s Plan For Reforming British Arts Funding
The stage and film director, former head of the National Theatre in London, argues for two different (and, of course, generously financed) government funding...
Ten British Classical Luminaries Suggest Ten Ways To Save Classical Music
Antonio Pappano, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Sarah Connolly, Edward Gardner, and others offer suggestions from turning off the cell phones to incentivizing philanthropy to restoring music...
The Torch is Passed At Dance Theatre Of Harlem
"As they prepared for the leadership transition, (outgoing artistic director Virginia) Johnson and (successor Robert) Garland spoke with Dance Magazine about their deep, shared...
New York Stock Exchange Moves To Delist Radio And Podcast Giant Audacy
"NYSE notified the company that it is not in compliance with its continued listing standards" because of its low share price (down 13% to...
Politically Sensitive Titles Are Getting Yanked From Hong Kong’s Library Shelves
"Books about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong protest movements, and other subjects deemed politically sensitive by Beijing have been removed from the former...
Court Convicts Five Men In Dresden Green Vault Jewel Robbery
"(In) the biggest art heist in modern history, the thieves made off with a haul worth more than €113 million ($123 million) from the...
Donald Runnicles Closes Out Two Decades With The Atlanta Symphony
Undoubtedly, there will be great guest conductors in our future. But Runnicles created his own two-decade golden age of Atlanta Symphony history, one that...
The Moral Ambiguity Divide: How Gen Xers And Millennials See The World
While Gen Xers grew up with the moral gray areas and disdain for authority, Millennials were raised on Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, neither of which would...
There Was That Moment Computers Started Beating Humans At Chess. Now They Will Start...
We’re living a new, much broader Deep Blue moment, when the basic boundary lines between the outer limits of what machines and humans can...
The Arts’ Power To Influence Behavior To Address Climate Change
Diego Galafassi, who researches the role of the arts in sustainability, argues the arts can foster the disposition and imagination required to address the climate crisis. Arts activities...
The Art Of Blurbs (Ads In Hiding)
Blurb, then, is a twentieth-century euphemism for a particular kind of advertisement, one that uses evaluation as a figleaf for a sales pitch. In...
Chicago Opera Theatre Appoints New General Director
Lawrence Edelson founded American Lyric Theater in 2005, building a model organization for presenting and fostering new opera. He also recently concluded a successful...
Greece’s Prime Minister Seeks An “Innovative,” “Win-Win” Solution To The Parthenon Marbles Dispute —...
"We will never recognize that these sculptures are owned, legally owned by the British Museum,” said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. "But again, we have...
Striking Writers Focus Anger On Netflix
Demonstrations over the past week have underscored just how much writers have soured on the company. In Los Angeles, Netflix’s Sunset Boulevard headquarters have...
Neutraface — The Typeface Of Gentrification?
"Maybe you recognize it from the Shake Shack nameplate. ... Even if you think you've never seen it before, if you step outside, you...
Illinois Legislature To Consider Ban On Book Bans
As per the bill, the $62 million of funding that goes to the state’s libraries will only be eligible for said funding if they “adopt...
