Yearly Archives: 2023
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...
Putin’s War On Ukrainian Cultural Memory
It's always the libraries. "Three national and state libraries, including the National Scientific Medical Library of Ukraine, as well as some 25 university libraries,...
Remember All Those Chromebooks School Kids Got Early In The Pandemic Lockdown?
Turns out they're low quality and not reparable, and, three years later, that's not turning out to be so great for the schools or...
The Small British City Getting A Bunch Of Dali’s Surreal Sculptures
In Shrewsbury, a town of 40,000 a few miles east of the Welsh border, "the organisers of an ambitious arts trail in the Shropshire...
Imagine Being A 16-Year-Old Bookstore Owner Who Gets To Interview Judy Blume
Just, like, wow. That is extremely cool. And: "'It’s people like you who give us hope, because you’re the next generation and you’re who’s...
A Blockbuster Show, Ripped In Half By War
The National Gallery in London and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow both have a new show up - "After Impressionism."...
Tracking Down Retired Celebrities Is A Gross New Trend For Paparazzi
"The rush to track down people who used to be famous does seem to have picked up some speed lately. And, as far as...
A City That’s Been Longing For A Bookstore Finally Gets Its Own
"Most of Buho's books are secondhand or donated, costing around $10 to keep them accessible. Literacy rates in the region are some of the...
