Yearly Archives: 2023
Turner Prize 2023 Goes To Jesse Darling
"Darling is a 41-year-old Oxford-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, drawing and performance; he also released a collection of poetry, Virgins, last...
Staff Layoffs At Guggenheim Museum
When the Guggenheim raised the price for adult admissions to $30 from $25 over the summer, it cited a lack of visitors and declining membership...
What Happens When A Poor State Disinvests In Its Public Universities
The destruction of dozens of majors and careers at West Virginia University, which serves many working- and middle-class students, raises a fundamental question in...
Adam Shankman Will Be Creative Director At New DanceOne Company
Director and choreographer Adam Shankman has been named chief creative officer of DanceOne, a new brand from TZP Group. DanceOne will serve as the world’s largest dance...
John Adams On Music As Monuments
"Something struck me forcibly as I was trying to fulfill the New York Philharmonic’s 9/11 commission: America had no contemporary musical work that could...
Remembering John Byrne, Scottish Polymath And Creative Force
His desire to create extraordinary pieces of work burned fiercely to the end. A cultural polymath, Byrne traversed a number of genres throughout his...
Myths About AI And Creativity
Contrary to some beliefs, introducing AI as a technology can support and enhance creativity in educational settings. For example, generative AI tools can be used to promote...
Spain’s Newspapers Sue Facebook/Meta For Half A Billion Euros
"The AMI media association, … a group representing 83 Spanish media outlets has filed a 550 million euro ($600 million) lawsuit against Facebook owner...
Got Content? (The Meaninglessness Of Our Word For “Stuff”)
Google “What is Content?” and you will encounter an infinitude of web pages explaining the concept of content marketing; the indispensability of superior content...
Syracuse City Ballet Placed On Administrative Leave After Striking Dancers Are Fired
After all eight of the company's dancers went on strike over what they called unsafe working conditions under artistic director Caroline Sheridan, two returned,...
Feeling Persistently Meh? Turns Out It’s A Real Condition
There may not appear to be a reason behind it. “You’re just sort of ‘meh,’” Dr. Shanbhag said. “And you get used to being...
Robert Lepage Is Staging A Full-Length Ballet Adaptation Of “Hamlet”
The famed experimental theatre director and his company, Ex Machina, are collaborating with National Ballet of Canada star Guillaume Côté and his company, Côté...
Researcher Says Conan Doyle Resented The Success Of Sherlock Holmes
"He would have hated the fact that today, 93 years after his death, his historical novels lie unread, while his ‘cheap’ – but beloved...
The Librarians Who Helped Win World War II
"These librarians adopted technology from other fields to photograph an array of documents, including rare and/or archival documents, and found means of sending them...
When You Want A Dragon, Sometimes You Have To Just Do The Job Yourself
Christopher Paolini really wanted to be a dragon-rider, but that wasn't a job opportunity. So the then-15-year-old wrote a book instead. - The New...
Nicholas Cage Says He’s Ready To Stop Acting in Films
"This would amount to a stark shift for Cage, who has appeared in at least one feature film for 37 consecutive years and …...
Burglars Got At An Anselm Kiefer Sculpture And Stole $1 Million Worth Of Parts...
The thieves broke into a warehouse in suburban Paris, cut through the metal guard fence around Kiefer's The High Priestess/Zweistromland, a large lead sculpture...
$100,000 Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition Goes To Aleksandra Vrebalov For “Missa Supratext”
"The six-movement work, written for Kronos Quartet and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, was conceived as a wordless celebration free of any connection to...
Broadway May Be Coming Back, But Off- And Off-Off-Broadway Are Still Struggling
"'This is the hardest season yet,' said the president of the Off-Broadway League, citing the combined effects of smaller audiences, shifting philanthropic patterns, rising...
CBC To Eliminate 600 Positions And Reduce Programming Budgets
"The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada, the French-language version, said the bulk of the layoffs will come from its corporate divisions such as technology...
English National Opera Confirms That It’s Moving To Manchester
"The company had a shortlist of five places where it was considering setting up a new headquarters, with Manchester, the biggest city in Europe...
Ending Turbulent Period, Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints New Director For Its Famed Music...
Julian Wachner, who made the historic church into a major force in New York's concert life, was fired in March 2022 for behavior "inconsistent...
What It Was Like At This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors
Everything that’s usually on the menu was present. Hair-raising musical performances. Touching tributes from past honorees. Biographical videos. Amusing bits. Herbie Hancock. - Washington...
A New Model For Financing Prestige Movies?
The foundations and donors who wrote the checks to produce it — including the Ford Foundation, nonprofits funded by Melinda French Gates, Laurene Powell...
A Study Of American School Internet Censorship Data Suggests Some Worrying Issues
Our analysis of more than 117 million censorship records confirms what students and civil rights advocates have long warned: Web filters are preventing kids...
