Yearly Archives: 2023
Lumberyard Is Selling Its Upstate New York Headquarters And Pivoting Away From Dance
The facility only opened in 2018, and by the following year, demand for its technical rehearsal residency was nearly outrunning supply. Then the pandemic...
The Differences Between Non-Fiction In The UK And Non-Fiction In The US
At least on the face of it, the mainstream of US nonfiction is stately, thorough, chronological and substantial; whereas British nonfiction is slant, whimsical,...
Salman Rushdie Gives Rare Post-Stabbing Public Speech
"Nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, (he warned) that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe threat...
Los Angeles Opera, Post-Placido Domingo
“By most criteria, other than audience attendance, the company is in significantly better shape than it’s been in its 38-year history." - The New...
A Florida Teacher Is Under Investigation For “Indoctrination” Because She Showed Her Class A...
"Jenna Barbee, a fifth-grade Florida teacher, is under investigation by the Florida Department of Education after showing her class the animated Disney movie Strange...
Claire Chase, Flute Superhero
She's commissioned an extraordinary amount of new repertory for the flute (in all its ranges, from piccolo to contrabass), her colleagues are thrilled by...
A Student Warns Professors: We’re Already Using ChatGPT Far More Than You Realize
"In reality, it's very easy to use AI to do the lion's share of the thinking while still submitting work that looks like your...
How The Barnes Foundation Fights Off The Hordes Of Tiny Art Vandals
No, this isn't about young protesters from Just Stop Oil gluing themselves to Renoirs. It's about moths, mostly, and other pests that might eat,...
Tony Awards Broadcast Will Go Ahead, But Not As Usual, With OK From Writers’...
"Organizers 'are altering this year’s show to conform with specific requests from the WGA, and therefore the WGA will not be picketing the show.'...
Vice Media Declares Bankruptcy And Will Be Sold
"After weeks of speculation, Vice Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. … The company added that a consortium that includes Fortress, Soros...
L.A. Phil Chief Chad Smith Named CEO Of Boston Symphony
"Chad Smith, who ... traces some of his most formative musical experiences to Boston's Symphony Hall, was named Monday as the next president and...
Google’s AI Will Likely Be Quite Boring
As the company moves the technology into more of its products, perhaps the generative AI revolution will turn out to be a lot less...
Hollywood’s Luddites
The Luddites were not some group of fanatics trying to slow the march of history. They were workers trying to protect their livelihood from...
Streaming Music’s Big Bot Fakes Problem
Fake streaming is an industry-wide problem that goes beyond AI-made music. A French study found that between 1 and 3 percent of all music streamed across various...
How We Know What We Know
Simon Winchester worries “that today’s all-too-readily available stockpile of information will lead to a lowered need for the retention of knowledge, a lessening of...
Two Rembrandts, Long Lost, Rediscovered
The original paintings were last seen by the public in 1824, the year they were sold to the ancestors of their current owners, who...
How Immigrants Popularized Classical Music In America
While the United States offered myriad opportunities, it also had its challenges. Classical music in the hinterlands was a relatively new phenomenon and the...
Cannes Ready For Stars, But Braces For Protests
"The CGT union has vowed to make its presence felt -- threatening last month that it would cut power during the festival and announcing...
How, And Why, R. F. Kuang’s Satirical New Novel Came About
Kuang, author of bestseller Babel, says her new novel came to her almost fully formed. "Publishing was going through what seems like all these...
Cities Are Still Misusing Classical Music To Harass The Unhoused
This is twisted. A variety of cities and governmental departments "are using an art form once thought to carry humanity’s highest ideals to hide...
When The BBC’s Classical Station Went Eurovision
"It was so good to mine the musical riches of Cyprus, Moldova, Albania and Australia, ... and it seems that on a Venn diagram...
To The Stress Of Being A Ballerina, Add The Whole Single Mom Thing
"If I have a rehearsal and she’s on spring break from school, for example, the dancers sit in the lobby and have lunch with...
An Eight-Year-Old Girl Found A Neolithic Dagger On A Norwegian Playground
"Because flint isn’t a resource native to Norway, researchers suspect the roughly 3,700-year-old dagger originated elsewhere, perhaps in Denmark. An excavation of the school’s...
Hollywood Is So Addicted To Peter Pan
Isn't that just a little weird? "Nearly every single thing you learn about the origins of Peter Pan, Wendy, the lost boys, and Neverland...
What Happened To Great Streaming Documentaries?
The algorithm. The almighty, disgusting, algorithm, which prizes popularity above all things. So, for Netflix, the race to the bottom started with the success...
