Yearly Archives: 2023
Translating “Blue”, Derek Jarman’s Final Film, To The Stage
Released a year before Jarman's 1994 death from AIDS, Blue is a collage of texts, narrated over an empty blue screen, on illness and...
Why TV Writers Are Unhappy
Studios are cutting writing budgets to the bone by hiring fewer people for shorter time periods, often without paying for lower-level writers to be...
Yvonne Jacquette, Who Painted Dazzling Aerial Landscapes Decades Before There Were Drones, Is Dead...
"She crisscrossed continents for those brief glimpses of natural and man-made landscapes, which she often made into watercolors while on board." Sometimes she painted...
This Year’s Tony Nominations: Boldness And Backsliding
The spirit of boldness that marked Broadway’s reopening in the wake of a once-in-a-century pandemic and widespread societal reckonings on equity, diversity and inclusion...
Can Members Of The Actors’, Directors’, And Tech Crew Unions Refuse To Cross The...
Contracts generally prevent unions themselves from joining in, but individual members may choose to honor the picket line — though not necessarily without consequences....
Strategy and the “standard story”
Any strategy or plan for future action is essentially a story. It describes the present and coming world, the dynamics of the past that invoked them both, and the actions that will propel an organization toward a desired future.
Disney Sued Florida Gov. DeSantis And His Hand-Picked Board. Now That Board Is Countersuing...
"The board overseeing Disney's special taxing district" – the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board of supervisors – "voted on Monday to sue the...
Hollywood Writers’ Strike Immediately Shuts Down Late-Night TV Shows
The work stoppage by the Writers Guild of America has led to the temporary closure of the weekday late-night shows on NBC, ABC, CBS,...
Vice Media Is About To Declare Bankruptcy: Report
"Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that charmed giants like Disney and Fox into investing before a stunning crash-landing, is preparing to file for bankruptcy,...
The Streisand Effect Applies To Censored Books, Too
"The best sales pitch is the threat of censorship. It draws attention to books that might otherwise have gone under the radar." What's more,...
Here’s Why San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Resigned So Suddenly
Two weeks ago, Danielle St.Germain stepped down from the dance troupe without explanation. Now the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have announced that...
La Scala Just Finished Its Second Renovation In 20 Years. Here’s A Q&A With...
Mario Botta: "We've added a 17-story structure (six floors are underground) on the Via Verdi. At the base of this tower is an orchestra...
Three Years After His Death, Philosopher Roger Scruton Is More Influential Than Ever
Conferences on Scruton’s work are springing up like mushrooms across the continent. Budapest boasts a chain of Scruton cafes that hold regular discussions of his...
Book Banning: Et Tu, Canada?
A push that began last summer to remove a few children's sexual education books from the southern Manitoba library system has since bubbled up into...
Regina Symphony Ponders Its Place Post-COVID As Audiences Are Slow To Rebound
"But in many places, the idea of the regularity and the consistency of attendance and participation in orchestral activities has been broken." - CBC
La Scala To The World: Let The Streaming Begin
The platform is part of a wider effort to modernize La Scala’s infrastructure, including an extensive educational outreach program using the technology and plans...
Grantmaking In The Arts Must Change
Artists know best what they need to advance their art and to thrive — hire artists as grantmakers and advisors. Support organizations that are...
The Case For Being Able To See Inside AI Algorithms
If you want to trust a prediction, you need to understand how all the computations work. For example, in health care, you need to...
Reckoning With George Balanchine, For Good And Ill
"It's possible to see Balanchine as both a god and a bogeyman, responsible for everything that's wonderful or wrong about ballet. Of course, that's...
Watch As A Chatbot Learns To Write Like Shakespeare
To show you what this process looks like, we trained six tiny language models starting from scratch. We’ve picked one trained on the complete...
Meet The Boxing Champion Who Helped The Met Opera Stage The Fights In “Champion”
Chris Dumont, the company's fight director, is much more used to staging fencing than fist-fighting with gloves. So he turned to former professional WBO...
The Doll Family That Mysteriously Took Up Residence In A Mailbox
“Some people initially thought that I had planted the dolls myself, but that is definitely not the case. All I did was provide a...
How The Journalists Of Kyiv’s Main English-Language Newspaper Regrouped After Its Oligarch Owner Fired...
When Adnan Kivan bought the Kyiv Post, he promised editorial independence; when the paper became too critical of the Ukrainian government for his taste,...
Culture Wars Come To The High School Musical
“You see politicians and officials enacting rules and laws which are incredibly onerous and designed to enforce a very narrow view of what students...
Despite The Invasion, Independent Bookstores Are Opening And Thriving In Kyiv
"They have popped up like mushrooms after rain," says one visitor. Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian's chief culture writer, visits three of them. - The...
