Yearly Archives: 2023
Science Journals Are Being Overwhelmed By Fake Papers
Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts from paper mills—secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying...
Shazam App Now Works With Classical Music, Identifying What You’re Listening To
Users can press the Shazam button to identify a classical music song or search for music. Then, tapping the menu icon on the track...
This French Tycoon Will Try Almost Anything To Get Regular Folks Interested In Arts...
"To Frédéric Jousset, our most irrational ideas can sometimes be our finest. That thinking has led the 52-year-old thrill-seeker ... to build a giant...
Commencement Speaker Cancels Amid Investigation At Cleveland Institute Of Music
Anne Midgette, the former longtime classical music critic at the Washington Post, declined an honorary doctorate from the higher education institution and withdrew as keynote...
Ethereal Words: Famous Writers Huffing Solvents In Late-19th-Century Paris
"The strands of medicine, consciousness expansion, intoxication, addiction, and crime were tightly entangled in fin-de-siècle Paris, where ether and chloroform circulated among bohemian demi-mondaines"...
Disney Surprise: Disney+ Loses 4 Million Subscribers
The flagship Disney+ service also lost 4 million paid subscribers during the quarter—its biggest drop ever and a shock to analysts who expected the...
A Visit To The World’s Largest Museum Of Latin American Art
The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), in the city's wealthy and artsy Palermo neighborhood, opened during Argentina's 2001 currency crisis...
“Cinderella” Dies: For The First Time In 43 Years, Andrew Lloyd Webber Doesn’t Have...
"Cinderella" was greeted on Broadway by hostile reviews, garnered zero Tony nominations and struggled at the box office. Last week it played to houses that...
Bollywood Film About ISIS And “Love Jihad” Provokes Firestorm In India
The Kerala Story, set in the southwestern state but produced by Mumbai's Hindi-language industry, purports to tell the story of three out of an...
Spotify Removes Tens Of Thousands Of Songs Created By AI
Spotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy, the equivalent of...
The Beaches Of Barcelona Are Washing Away (But They Were Mostly Artificial Anyway)
They're a big business, attracting Barcelonans and tourists alike, but, thanks to rising sea levels and heavier storms, the city's beaches are eroding fast....
Why Egyptians Are Flipping Out Over Casting A Black Actress As Cleopatra (Maybe It’s...
"The show is dragging an ancient queen into Western debates in which she has no place, they argue, … and they would like Afrocentrists...
Putin’s Government Arrests Director And Playwright For Crime Of “Justifying Terrorism”
"Investigators opened a case this week against Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, alleging that Petriychuk's Finist, the Brave Falcon, which premiered in...
Despite The War, A New Ukrainian Opera Takes The Stage In Lviv
"Based on Gogol's short story 'The Terrible Revenge,' the opera (by composer Yevhen Stankovych) was directed by Andreas Weirich. ... 'We did some of...
The Old Barnes Foundation Has Become A New Museum
"The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the (Benjamin Franklin) Parkway in Philadelphia, is...
How Is Broadway Choreography Changing? (A Critics’ Roundtable)
"Jesse Green, chief theater critic, was joined by the dance critic Brian Seibert and the contributor Elisabeth Vincentelli in a discussion about some of...
Documents Reveal Tug-Of-War Between British Museum And Government Over Parthenon Marbles
"The Foreign Office was dismissive of the British Museum's efforts to retain the Parthenon Marbles in 1983. The question of where the marbles should...
The Prescient Artist: Nam June Paik
Paik once said, “It’s an artist’s job to think about the future.” This compelling film underscores why Paik should be considered the progenitor of...
Paramount Network Cuts 25 Percent Of Workforce
To be sure, Paramount is hardly alone in its bloodletting. Warner Bros. Discovery, for instance, completed a series of layoffs as well as a...
Reality Is Shifting. We Need To Rethink Authenticity
With text, image, audio, and video all becoming easier for anyone to produce through new generative AI tools, I believe people are going to...
How Dance Is Adjusting To New Post-COVID Norms
During the past three years, we’ve caught glimpses of healthier ways to conduct business, produce more inclusive events and better support artists. Right now...
Of Course Ed Sheeran Won His Case. But AI Is A Whole New Ballgame...
For as long as there has been music, there has been the practice of “contrafact,” the use of another song’s chord progression to create...
Prop 28 Has Funded Arts Instruction In All California Schools. Now They Have To...
"While an estimated 15,000 new arts teachers are needed statewide, (fewer) than 5,000 are currently credentialed in music, dance, theater, visual arts and media...
Breaking Boundaries: Tyshawn Sorey
A 2017 MacArthur fellow, Sorey is a musical universalist who has little use for categories and labels. He feels they are reductive and irrelevant...
British Theatre Is Surprisingly Reluctant To Be Critical Of The Monarchy
"Where modern theatre takes bold, controversial steps in some directions, on the matter of the monarchy, dissenting voices rarely make their way to a...
