Yearly Archives: 2023
Performing Arts COVID Recovery: Which Arts Are “More-Recovered” Than Others
Of the four genres, performing arts centers and ballet compete for the “most recovered” position by the end of 2022, in different ways. -...
Liverpool And Manchester Are “Really Strong Contenders” For English National Opera’s New Base, Says...
"Stuart Murphy, who steps down later this year, said three potential bases would be selected by the end of May and a winner chosen...
Lost Art Deco Murals From The Empire State Building Have Re-Emerged
The two oval-shaped murals, nearly eight feet tall, are part of a set of eight painted by artist Winold Reiss in the 1930s for...
Angry Right-Winger Sprays Purple Paint On Artwork At Paris’s Palais De Tokyo
A visitor described as an "elderly person" vandalized Miriam Cahn's painting fuck abstraction!, which the artist and museum say is a response to human...
Oklahoma’s Governor Defunds The State’s Public TV Network
On the last day of April, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill funding the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, calling public broadcasting an "outdated system"...
“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,...
