Yearly Archives: 2023
Physical Books Have Reached That Awkward Stage
Kindle is to literature what Instagram or TikTok are to visual images, or Spotify to music. They have their uses, but it would be absurd for the British Library,...
Cartoonist Sam Gross, Who Cracked Readers Up At Both The New Yorker And National...
"(His) outrageous, sometimes shocking and occasionally — by today's standards — cancel-worthy cartoons are considered some of the funniest single-panel gags to ever appear...
When You Have All Of Classical Music In Your Ear: Too Easy, Too Good?
"I am not resistant to progress, not a Luddite, not an anti-vaxxer. But putting the whole of classical music onto a device that fits...
How Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” Became Both A Canonic Text And A Culture-War Battleground
"The decades-long transition from a comic originally serialized in the pages of an alternative magazine to a mainstream, foundational, and even, yes, educational book...
What An AI-Created Novel Looks Like
Quite quickly, I figured out that if you want an AI to imitate Raymond Chandler, the last thing you should do is ask it...
Smithsonian’s National Museum Of African Art Is Looking For A Director — Again
"Ngaire Blankenberg, a museum and cultural consultant who took up the post in July 2021, left the museum at the end of March, a...
Now That Tucker Carlson’s Out At Fox News, Advertisers Are Coming back To His...
"'We have had over 40 new advertisers come into the hour since we launched the new program, including some of the largest in the...
Dance Data Project Finds A Third Of Resident Choreographer Positions Worldwide Are Held By...
As of 2023, the tally, which includes some contemporary as well as ballet-based companies, is 36% women and 64% men. (Among US companies, the...
The Traffic Facebook Sends To News Outlets Is Way, Way Down
"For 1,350 global publishers included in Chartbeat’s data, 27% of page views coming from external, search and social in January 2018 came from Facebook...
The Met Museum Gets Serious About Locating And Restituting Looted Art In Its Collections
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... announced a major new effort ... toward returning items it finds to have problematic histories. The core feature...
After 36 Years, MTV News Is Shut Down
"What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet...
Love At First Sight? Kansas City Symphony Names Matthias Pintscher Its Next Music Director
"His appointment on a five-year contract (beginning in 2024) was announced Tuesday. The 52-year-old (conductor and composer) had not led the orchestra or been...
PS1 Names New Director
Connie Butler, currently chief curator at the Hammer, is to assume her new position at the museum in Long Island City, Queens, on Sept....
Why The Writers’ Strike Is The “Netflix Strike”
In the industry, some are dubbing this year’s labor action “the Netflix strike. Netflix in a lot of ways has upended the business model,...
Archaeologists Discover What They’re Calling An Ancient “Arabian Stonehenge” In Oman
The trilith was discovered at the Zufar site and dates back 2,000 years. Triliths are made up of three flat standing stones 50 to...
My Color Isn’t Your Color: How We Perceive It
For a long time, people believed that colours were objective, physical properties of objects or of the light that bounced off them. But this...
How To Label A Deepfake? Technology Is Working On That
As creators work to develop more detailed frameworks for deepfake and AI disclosure, disciplines and modes like accessibility theory, interactive storytelling, TikTok, footnoting practices,...
Silk Road Project Gets A New Executive Director
One of the major projects Ben Hartley will take on as executive director is the first national tour of “American Railroad." The multimodal project...
A Dance Critic Considers The Careful Choreography Of Charles III’s Coronation
Roslyn Sulcas: "As with the funeral rites for Queen Elizabeth II in September, the choreography of ritual surrounding the coronation was extraordinarily powerful. Almost...
Dance Is The Most Ephemeral Art: What Gets Left Behind
Dancers and choreographers often become unintentional collectors, accumulating valuable records of an art form with few tangible traces. And once artists are gone, families...
Is Colonial Williamsburg Going “Woke”? No, Says Its CEO
Absolutely, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is expanding the stories being told there to include Blacks, Native Americans, and even LGBTQ people. CEO Cliff Fleet...
Hula Is Thriving
“This is hands down the best time to be in Hawaii, and to be able to see that the Hawaiian people are thriving: in...
They Didn’t Light The Sydney Opera House For The Coronation, And Some Aussies Are...
"Citing a cost of between $80,000 and $100,000, Premier Chris Minns, whose Labor Party defeated the conservative Coalition government in a state election in...
The Pittsburgh Symphony’s New Steinway Wasn’t Quite Doing The Job. So Steinway Sent A...
Every piano has a noticeably different “character” of sound. It’s the kind of thing you might think you need training to hear, but then...
Long-Rumored, Unfinished Gabriel García Márquez Novel To Be Published Next Year
Penguin Random House will release En agosto nos vemos (We'll See Each Other in August) throughout Latin America in 2024. The roughly 150-page book...
