Yearly Archives: 2023
“Omar” By Rhiannon Giddens And Michael Abels Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize For Music
The opera is based on the memoir of Omar Ibn Said, a scholar who was abducted in Senegal in 1807 and sold into slavery...
2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Goes To “English” By Sanaz Toossi
"Sanaz Toossi’s English has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in an English language class in Karaj, Iran, the drama quietly unpacks...
Carl Phillips’s “Then the War” Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize For Poetry
"Washington University professor Carl Phillips has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his most recent book, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020....
New York Magazine’s Andrea Long Chu Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
She was honored for five essays, among them "Hanya's Boys," about how author Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life) tortures her gay male characters so...
2023 Book Pulitzers Go To Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz, “G-Man”, “His Name Is George...
For the first time, two winners split the fiction prize: Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, and Diaz's Trust. Also honored were Beverly Gage's J. Edgar Hoover...
How The Turner Prize Has Reflected British Politics
My research often focuses on how art and politics have intersected during the past few decades. With a whirlwind 40-year socio-political history this lens...
Cellphone Interrupts And Stops Philadelphia Orchestra Performance – Twice. Nezet-Seguin Gets Angry
“Can we live without the phone for just one damn hour?” he asked. He went on to point out that the audience had paid...
NPR Stopped Tweeting. So Now Elon Musk Wants To Recycle @NPR To Someone Else
His remark on Tuesday that he may transfer NPR's primary Twitter account with nearly 9 million followers to another entity is typical of how...
Beaux Arts Piano Trio Pianist Menahem Pressler, 99
The Beaux Arts Trio would go on to play more than 4,000 concerts throughout the world while recording virtually all the standard trio repertory....
Soprano Grace Bumbry, 86
Few audiences had ever heard a Black singer perform in an opera house when Ms. Bumbry was growing up in St. Louis in the...
Hollywood Was Built On The Hard-Typing Fingers Of Underpaid Writers
Raymond Chandler, in 1945, "described Hollywood as a cauldron of 'egos,' 'credit stealing' and 'self-promotion' where scribes were ruthlessly neglected, marginalized and stripped of...
Now That He’s King, Could Charles Please Declare A Truce With Modern Architecture?
"Might they not unite over what they have in common? They all want sustainable communities and good design. Architects and the monarch also have...
A Traditional London Music Venue, Reimagining Everything
"Remixing maypole dancing is just one of the myriad ways that English folk culture is currently having a reboot, thanks to a new wave...
Richard Dreyfuss Says The Academy’s New Diversity Rules For Oscar Movies Make Him Want...
Dreyfuss: "No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what...
Work Has Changed – Can The Office Novel Keep Up?
Sure. Here's a list of "a few unconventional work novels that remind us of the way things once were, offer alternatives to the way...
Netflix Is Making Even More Of A Bet With South Korean TV
Thanks to the massivehit series The Glory and, of course, Squid Game, Netflix's Ted Sarandos has invested a lot of money into developing Korean...
The Rise Of A New Sort Of Mediocre Film
The genre of movie doesn't matter - the point is, this kind of movie is never going to sell at movie theatres. But it...
Why Are Conservatives So Intent On Banning A Book That Fights Childhood Sexual Abuse?
"What is consistently missing in the national conversation about book banning: the voices of those children and teenagers who see their experiences in print...
Do You Remember IBM’s Watson?
This is the future of ChatGPT. "Watson should be bragging in its stilted voice, not fading into irrelevance. But its trajectory is happening all...
A Truly Unforgivable Book For Kids
"Generally, there is something subversive and inspiring about the people Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara chooses to immortalize (RuPaul! David Bowie!), which raises the question,...
Painter Alfredo Arreguin Has Died At 88
Arreguín "fused the tools of classical oil painting with Mexican folk traditions, compressing fine art and ancient craft into stretched canvases that often stood...
The Broadway Producer Who Says She Wants To Sharpie Women Into Art History
Jenna Segal is intent on buying art by women from Peggy Guggenheim's 1943 Exhibition of 31 Women. That show contained "names that would later...
Berkeley’s Famed Eastwind Books Closes Up Shop
The Asian American bookstore was never just abou the books - the owners' vision was to create a place "that used books and reading...
How The Bleep Changed Everything
The Jerry Springer show had many iconic sounds, but one of its best-known "was added in post-production: the 1,000 hertz censor bleep, which became more...
Los Angeles Chooses A Design Team For Its Memorial To The 1871 Massacre Of...
"The concept was inspired by the banyan trees that guard the entrance to many villages in Guangdong, where many early Chinese immigrants to Los...
