Yearly Archives: 2023
Most Artists Have Day Jobs. Are They Asset Or Liability?
Day Jobs makes the countersuggestion that, for people with creative ambitions, day jobs should be recorded not as losses but as gains. - The Baffler
Movie Audiences Returning? Theatre Owner AMC Posts Strong 20 Percent Sales Gain
Losses narrowed by $102 million to $235 million, for an adjusted EPS of 17 cents a share, a also ahead of expectations. Shares popped...
Immersive Shows: Hated By Critics, Loved By Audiences
Critics generally hate the shows, but, if attendance figures are anything to go by, the paying public loves them. Museums have taken notice of...
Memorials To Pushkin In Ukraine Are Under Threat
Pushkin has been falling rapidly in Ukraine. Since the start of the full-scale invasion last February, more than 30 monuments to the poet have been dismantled....
When Screens And Live Theatre Collide
One of the most intriguing aspects of the celebrated show is the live video recording, with close-ups of the actors and occasional puppetry interludes...
A YouTube Channel Helps Revive Qawwali, The Ecstatic Sufi Music Of Pakistan
"The Dream Journey aims to promote traditional, Sufi-style music, the popularity of which has declined in recent decades" due to the spread of militant,...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Out In Midst Of Emergency Fundraising Campaign
What led to Nataki Garrett’s resignation after just four years in the post, in which she spent as much or more time handling crises...
The Instagramization Of The Broadway Stage
These unmissable logos seem designed to engage audiences with the stage quite actively, creating an Instagrammable moment in a space where cameras are mostly...
Watch The Centuries-Old Musical Game Played by Inuit Women
"In traditional katajjaq, also known as Inuit throat singing, two women stand face to face and perform a duet that doubles as something of...
Verdict In The Ed Sheeran Copyright Case
Sheeran had faced allegations that he copied parts of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” for his 2014 song, “Thinking Out Loud.” Heirs of...
Saving The Crumbling Adobe Mission Churches Of New Mexico
"(In Spanish colonial days,) villagers … filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap. Today, threatened by dwindling...
Rethinking What Fatigue Is
“People often think about” fatigue “in terms of ‘oh, people are tired all the time.’ But fatigue is so much more pervasive and detrimental...
Vox Media Has Made A Major Bet On Podcasts, And It’s Starting To Pay...
Acquiring Esther Perel's Where Should We Begin? "has shown that Vox Media's podcast ambitions extend beyond the digital media company's brand of publications, which...
High Fashion: What Happens When Superfakes Are Indistinguishable From The Real Thing
My plunge into the world of fantastically realistic counterfeit purses — known as “superfakes” to vexed fashion houses and I.P. lawyers, or “unclockable reps”...
Could The City Of Paris Actually Make The Seine Safe To Swim In?
"A swimmable Seine would be a major turnaround for a busy urban waterway once notorious for its filth, allowing Paris to stage (Olympic) aquatic...
This Cambodian Dance Company In Massachusetts Has Come Out Of The Pandemic Stronger Than...
The Angkor Dance Troupe in Lowell was founded by refugees from the Khmer Rouge who were determined to keep Cambodian classical dance from being...
The Bay Area Children’s Theater Has Been Selling Out Shows. It Still Needed An...
"The campaign, Save Our Stage, … seeks to raise $750,000 by July 1. The cause for the emergency campaign isn't declining demand but increased...
Check Out Some Of The Best Signs From The Writers’ Guild’s Picket Lines
"Hey, Amazon, free delivery is your job, not ours." "Give up just ONE yacht." "Without writers, Succession is just The Apprentice (and look how...
Library Funding Has Become Another Weapon In The Culture War Over Books
In Missouri and Texas, state lawmakers have been considering laws that would remove funding from libraries that host drag queen story hours or don't...
Illinois Passes A Law Banning Book Bans In Libraries
"Illinois lawmakers greenlighted a bill Wednesday that says libraries in the state must adopt an anti-book banning policy to receive state funding, in a...
In Charles III, The UK Will Have A King Who Genuinely Loves The Arts
"Throughout his life, King Charles III has involved himself in British cultural life, not only a maker of art but as an avid spectator...
The Art Of Being Informed Post-Twitter
Until the past year’s insipid Musk-related shenanigans, the platform functioned as an efficient information delivery system that made it unique among its social media...
The Pressures Of Beauty Have Ever Been Thus
In her 1991 book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf argued that the standards of western female beauty were used as a weapon to stagnate the...
Hollywood’s Canadian Production Was Up 27 Percent In 2022
The number of foreign, mostly Hollywood, feature films that shot in Canada jumped from 141 in 2021 to 171 pictures last year, with total...
NYC’s Natural History Museum Adds A Wing For The Natural World
A mega-attraction devoted to the natural world may seem an odd fit for Manhattan, one of the most human-manipulated landscapes on earth. But in...
