Yearly Archives: 2023
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...
France’s Electricians’ Union Threatens To Unplug Cannes Film Festival To Protest Macron’s Pension Reforms
"Members of the National Federation of Mines and Energy – a branch of the powerful CGT union – have announced '100 days of action...
“We Are Facing A Long-Term Fight For Existence”: Read Simon Rattle’s Speech On Britain’s...
"There is nobody here tonight, even musicians, who does not recognise the enormous challenges faced by the world at present and this country in...
In Praise Of Long Movies
The long film is without conventions—it’s like turning a football field, with its sidelines and yard lines, into an open field, unmarked and unbounded...
How Shakespeare Was Influenced By Mathematical Breakthroughs
With 2023 marking 400 years since the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, it is exciting to see how the Bard’s plays spoke to significant...
Dame Edna (Barry Humphries), 89
A stiletto-heeled, stiletto-tongued persona who might well have been the spawn of a ménage à quatre involving Oscar Wilde, Salvador Dalí, Auntie Mame and...
Damien Hirst’s AI-Generated Art Project Earns $20 Million
In a nine-day sale that ended on April 10, Hirst sold 5,508 paintings (5,109 physical artworks and 399 NFTs) and generated $20.9 million in...
How Streaming Algorithms Turned My Music-Listening To Sludge
My sludge addiction sprang from Spotify’s algorithmically curated playlists, which promised to help me focus or find music tailored to my tastes. But at...
Big Ears’ Ashley Capps And The Art Of Curating Music
Big Ears started very small in 2009, and very organically. It had been discussed for a number of years and was rooted in a...
Apple’s New Classical Music App Understands Classical
As long as we’re living in a streaming world, we might as well have technology that reflects the specific contours of the classical repertoire....
AI Trains On Banality. So An Opportunity For Human Creativity
As AI proliferates, this lack of originality in our daily language is what will render so many of our jobs irrelevant... It’s clear that...
How Can A Judge Decide If Ed Sheeran Copied From Marvin Gaye?
"The music industry is keenly interested in the outcome. Over the last decade, the business has been rocked by a series of infringement suits...
In The Heart Of Paris, Archaeologists Uncover 2000-Year-Old Graves
The Gallo-Roman graves "will offer further insight into the funeral practices of the Parisii, the Gallic tribe that inhabited Lutetia. In the process, we...
The Leonardo Ferry Is Left High And Dry By Bureaucracy And Climate Change
"Since the last ferry operators left to run a more lucrative water taxi in Lake Como, no one has bid to take over the...
When Hilary Mantel Died, She Left Behind A Jane Austen-Inspired Manuscript
The book world is salivating. "Imagine the post-modernist-Austenite novel that would have been! Imagine the Mantel treatment being given to poor Charlotte Lucas, not-quite-good-enough-and-not-rich-enough...
Why Do Apps Love The Color Blue So Darn Much?
"It’s a very distinct color, it’s a distinct design. Paramount and Prime are a little bit on the lighter side, Disney+ has more of...
This Is How The Universe Ends
Not with a bang, but a black hole (or a few). - Wired
NBCUniversal CEO Ousted For Inappropriate Relationship
The news "sent shockwaves through the Burbank-based company, is unfolding days ahead of Comcast reporting its first quarter results on Thursday, including a conference...
The New Canon Of Julius Eastman
"We’re firmly enjoying some new period of appreciation for the pioneering but once-overlooked work of this Black queer composer and multi-instrumentalist; archival recordings and new...
