Yearly Archives: 2023
“There Is Nothing That Fires”: On Location As Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Very Carefully Resumes...
"(Armorer Andrew) Wert built rifles from individual parts so they would look as real as possible but would not be able to fire under...
Pianist Angela Hewitt On How To Keep So Many Pieces Memorized As She Ages
"At the age of 64, (my brain is) definitely shrinking, and memorising has become a very conscious, frustrating and time-consuming activity. But I stick...
It’s Over: After Several Attempts To Save It, San Francisco Art Institute Goes Into...
"The San Francisco Art Institute has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, a move that will force the 152-year-old institution to liquidate its assets"...
American Museum of Natural History’s New Science Building Gets A Rave Review
"(The) Gilder (Center) is spectacular: a poetic, joyful, theatrical work of public architecture and a highly sophisticated flight of sculptural fantasy. New Yorkers live...
Does The Rise In Movie Attendance Mean We’re Headed For A Recession? (Or Is...
"The data looks like a sign that Americans are continuing to spend on entertainment services and flexing their wallets despite recession fears. But moviegoing...
The Big US Publishers Have Raised Starting Salaries by 23%
"As of April 1, the average entry-level salary for publishing employees located in New York City at the Big Five trade publishers and Scholastic...
The Emerging Science Of Hope
We might typically think of hope as a touchy-feely emotion that, almost by definition, is divorced from real-life experience. In fact, as more research...
Five Ways To Protect Your Career From AI
What can we do personally to stave off the displacement that may happen as a result of AI and future-proof ourselves in the age...
Shakespeare’s Environmentalism
It would, of course, be an anachronism to dub Shakespeare an environmentalist. But he was acutely aware of what we would term the environmental...
The Culture Around Cancel Culture
Cancelling is a colloquial term applied to anything from discussion about an author with a critical tone to internet pile-ons or campaigns to deplatform individuals after...
Afghanistan Archaeological Treasures In Peril
“Given the focus of most current donors on humanitarian needs, cultural heritage is inevitably regarded as marginal, despite the fact that conservation generates significant...
The Science Of Punctuation In Languages
Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent statistical analyses paint a different picture: punctuation seems to "grow...
Somerset Maugham Said His Plays Were For Light Entertainment Only. Don’t Believe It.
"Maugham is a deeply deceptive dramatist. His plays look as if they are dated old crowdpleasers, yet often challenge conventional ideas. … This is...
Museums Are Reinventing How They Work
Museums are shifting gears — seeking artists of different backgrounds, arranging works in new thematic groupings, reinterpreting pieces they already own. - The New...
When Radio Was A Tool For Long-Distance Education
"Today's Tedium tries its best to capture the excitement of educational radio in the 1920s and 1930s. … (It was) the first truly real-time...
Theatre MFA Degrees Are Becoming Endangered
The economic viability of graduate programs is becoming an increasingly complicated question. The majority of MFA theatre programs offer tuition remission, housing, and stipends, but...
ProPublica Investigates The Met Museum’s Holdings Of Native American Art
Over nearly five decades, Charles and Valerie Diker have amassed one of the country's biggest private collections of Native American art, and they've been...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Existential Threat
“There’s been a drag on finances for some time,” Muse said, noting the problems had not been addressed over a multi-year period. “There were...
Ronald Perelman Donates $25 Million For A New Arts District At Brown University
"The Perelman Family Foundation, headed by cosmetics mogul and art collector Ronald Perelman, has pledged $25 million to Brown University to build an arts...
A Post-COVID Surge In Welsh History
“One factor is that there seems to be a renewed interest in Welsh history. And there was a big surge of new visitors...
A Cache Of Unknown Songs By Donizetti Has Been Discovered
Musicologist Roger Parker found the works — some of which were published in the 19th century and faded from view, others only in manuscript...
Harry Belafonte, 96
"(He) was born to Jamaican immigrants, grew up in poverty in Depression-era Harlem and became a major Black crossover success in popular music. He...
San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Abruptly Resigns After One Year
"Neither Danielle St.Germain nor the Ballet gave any reason for the move. … If there's a sense of déjà vu about this, that's because...
Book Ban Attempts Are At The Highest Level We’ve Ever Seen, Says American Library...
"The ALA ... said in 2022 it had seen the highest number of reports of calls to remove or restrict books since it began...
The Frick Collection Announces Its Return To Its Fifth Avenue Mansion
"After two-plus years of occupying a temporary home on Madison Avenue at the historic Breuer building, Manhattan's beloved Frick Museum has announced it will...
