Yearly Archives: 2023
Dissident Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Is Able To Leave Iran For The First Time In...
"Panahi, 62, is best known for films including The White Balloon, The Circle and Taxi Tehran – and for spending his career under close...
Meaning And Machines And Making Sense Of How Art Works
There’s something irrevocably empirical about the fact that poems and novels and paintings and music and films stir cognitive-affective goings-on that have the bearings...
Why BuzzFeed News Didn’t Survive While Its Sister, HuffPost, Did
"BuzzFeed News was 'a social media ecosystem company, and the ecosystem went away,' said a former BuzzFeed exec. 'HuffPost was a pre-social media company....
The Usefulness Of Feeling Irritated
Something about this ordinary, negligible feeling seems to make it inaccessible to critical reflection. Perhaps because, when irritable, we tend to be at our...
Alexei Ratmansky Cut All Ties With Russia, But The Bolshoi And Mariinsky Are Still...
He's found clips of the works in recent social media posts by the two companies — with his name removed. And, no surprise, they...
The Art Of Classical Music Fashion
While not every musical artist takes risks — in their repertory or their apparel choices, be they prét-à-porter or the hautest of haute —...
DC’s Arena Stage Appoints Its New Artistic Director
"Hana S. Sharif, artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and a former staffer with organizations in Hartford, Boston and Baltimore, takes...
“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...
