Yearly Archives: 2023
Elon Musk Backs Down, Says Twitter Will Change Its Labeling Of BBC From “Government-Funded”...
"I know the BBC for example's not thrilled about being labelled state-affiliated media. If we use the same words that the BBC uses to...
Fans’ Loud Singalong Halts Theatre Performance
A rowdy singalong by audience members has halted a performance of The Bodyguard. Singer Melody Thornton was unable to complete her rendition of I...
Broadway Box Office Bumps Up
Attendance for the week ending April 9 was 280,760, up 4%. The more modest jump in attendance left ticket prices to do some heavy...
Did These Four Women Change Classical Music?
Leah Broad paints vivid, at times over-imagined, pictures of all four women and the worlds in which they lived and worked. She deftly interweaves...
Santa Fe Center For Contemporary Arts Shuts Down
A press release announcing the closure and local media coverage cited pandemic mandates and protocols, changing models of film distribution and consumption, and long-standing...
Diversity Of The Ancient Classics
To suggest the Classical inheritance is monocultural, or “pale, male and stale”, is to do a disservice to the patchwork of cultures, backgrounds, outlooks...
Were The 20th Century Modernists Really So Radical?
In fairness, Schoenberg never pretended that he was out to smash the system — maintaining, to the end of his life, that art was...
In Praise Of Long, Complicated Sentences (Take That, Strunk And White!)
"Within a long sentence — clause upon clause, the commas and semicolons, em-dashes and colons, parentheticals and appositions piling up — there can be...
The Value Of “Splendid Uselessness”
The real project of humanity – of understanding ourselves as human beings, making a good world to live in, and striving together toward mutual...
The Revival Of Cambodia’s Arts Capital (Which Is Not Phnom Penh)
"The wealth from (agriculture provided) plentiful funds to carve the most beautiful Buddhist temples, craft the finest musical instruments and produce high-quality motion pictures....
The Next Step In Broadening The Classical Music Canon
Something critical is getting overlooked amid the fervor with which classical music claims its new sense of conscience: the artistic value of the works...
The World’s Oldest Piece Of Tartan Is Found In A Scottish Peat Bog
"The (16th-century) textile was found in the 1980s in Glen Affric, a region in the Scottish Highlands about 19 miles west of Loch Ness....
Why Williamstown Theatre Festival Is Throttling Back Its Productions This Summer
The reason for the absence of theater amounts to what is essentially a public atonement for how the festival treated interns, apprentices and other...
Radio Stations’ Struggle To Stop US Automakers From Dropping The AM Band From In-Car...
"Facing an existential moment in the 100-year history of the medium, AM broadcasters are banding together, calling on allies in Congress, and enlisting listener...
UNESCO Chief Pledges To Help Rebuild Ukraine Culture
“in order to rebuild but also to redress the situation, it will be necessary to invest $6.9bn in the cultural sector in Ukraine over...
Anna Netrebko’s Husband And Frequent Stage Partner Is Now Running A National Opera House
TThe tenor Yusif Eyvazov has been appointed director of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in his hometown, Baku. (The couple has...
Another Thing TikTok Has Changed About Dance: Earning A Living
"TikTok creators, professional dancers, choreographers, and dance companies … said the app had changed the way they choreographed, helped them earn more money, and...
Canadian Gets Trapped Inside Outdoor Sculpture
A 26-year-old man (acting against his girlfriend's advice) climbed on top of a public artwork called Talus Dome and made of stacks of stainless...
Florida School Removes Anne Frank Book After Complaint That It Minimizes The Holocaust
"Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation was removed from a library at Vero Beach High School after a leader of Moms for Liberty in...
Choreographer Jennifer Muller Is Dead At 78
"Her choreographic career, which spanned more than five decades and produced more than 125 dances, set her apart from her postmodern contemporaries. 'I'm not...
British Theatre Audiences Behaving Even More Badly (We’re Talking Fists, Screams, And Urine)
"A front-of-house assistant at a theatre in the north says disruptive incidents now occur weekly and are increasingly serious: “Myself and my colleagues have...
Al Jaffee, Legendary “Mad” Magazine Cartoonist Who Retired At 99, Has Died At 102
"Few of the magazine's self-billed 'Usual Gang of Idiots' contributed as much — and as dependably — as the impish, bearded cartoonist. For decades,...
The Internet Archive Publishing Ruling That Will Change How Libraries Work
The judge wrote that the IA had simply “copied the Works in Suit wholesale for no transformative purpose and created ebooks that … competed directly...
How Governments Are Using Science Fiction To Predict Potential Threats
Not only can science fiction help us imagine a future shaped by new technologies, but it can also help us learn lessons about potential threats....
The Mystery Of Who Attacked Jascha Heifetz 70 Years Ago
Seventy years later, the man who attacked Jascha Heifetz has not been identified. A faction called Han oar Haivri (or Hebrew Youth), later linked...
