Yearly Archives: 2023
Can Streaming Broadway Shows Help Sell In-Person Tickets? Very Possibly, If It Can Be...
"While the general consensus among industry experts is that digital access provides an opportunity for Broadway to reach new audiences and tap new revenue...
Playwrights Sarah Ruhl And Samuel D. Hunter On Religion And Theater
Hunter: "I think people have been really reticent to talk about spirituality or religion in these kinds of 'secular spaces.'" Ruhl: "For me, theater...
The Met Museum Is Reclassifying Some Formerly “Russian” Works As Ukrainian. It’s Not Going...
For a start, one of the artists reclassified as Ukrainian was, in fact, an ethnic Armenian, as New York's Armenian-American community was very quick...
Yes, Negative Headlines Work, But They Don’t Have To Be Angry Or Frightening: Study
A large survey of click stats from Upworthy.com (!) found that headlines with negative words had a higher clickthrough rate than those with positive...
Is The Indoor Plaza At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Is Finally Becoming A Genuine Public...
"The Kimmel Center was trumpeted as Philadelphia's fifth public square — an 18-hour-per-day, seven-day-a-week arts center where you could show up anytime and find...
Contractors Renovating A Kitchen Uncover 17th-Century Friezes
The murals, believed to date from between 1635 and 1699, are in a one-bedroom apartment in the old walled city of York in northern...
After 41 Years, Beloved NPR Veteran Sylvia Poggioli Is Retiring
"Sylvia's wide-ranging, often hard-hitting and always rich storytelling helped NPR distinguish itself in its early years as a news organization with deep interest in...
Ranked Choice: Enjoying Art Is About Reacting
Criticism is not an unerring ranking system but a form of personal expression, and a good review is not right (or not only right)...
Warning: We Need New Laws To Protect Artists From AI Creative Theft
Big Tech has successfully skated through legal matters for years, waving the banner of “permissionless innovation.” - Washington Post
The BBC Used To Be Champions Of Culture
Something seems to have gone terribly awry at the BBC when it comes to classical music. - The Critic
Adam Sandler Wins The Mark Twain Prize
“As I look at this goofy award, I can’t help but think that one day it just might be the weapon used to bludgeon...
Does Anyone Read Professional Reviews Anymore?
Good criticism can provide that context — historical or theoretical or even economic — and some vocabulary for discussing musical taste. It can help...
Orange County Museum Of Art’s New Building: Bettter, But…
It’s easy to dump on the contractors. But the contractors didn’t design this overwrought building, nor did they commission it. That falls to the...
Can You Copyright AI-Generated Work? Right Now It’s Complicated
Perhaps the most significant aspect of the guidance is an author’s “duty to disclose the inclusion of AI-generated content in a work submitted for...
AI Is Less A Search Engine Than It Is A Librarian
The problem is that even when these systems are wrong only 10% of the time, you don’t know which 10%. People also don’t have...
It Looks Like Netflix’s Ad-Supported Subscriptions Are Getting Traction
The figures suggest that Netflix is finding its footing with the new revenue stream, after having been overwhelmingly reliant on subscriber revenue for most...
When The Pandemic Hit, Pico Iyer’s Income Dropped To Zero
His mother was dying, and, like everyone, he couldn't travel. But, he says, "given so much external suffering, as the Dalai Lama pointed out,...
AI Generators Just Figured out Hands
This is a huge issue for verifying images, as hand issues had been one of the ways to tell an AI-generated photo from a...
In Southwest England, The Police Don’t Want Any Stinkin’ Jazz Festivals
Or at least not the We Out Here fest, founded by the BBC's Giles Peterson, expecting about 25,000 people during the event. The Dorset...
Is The Internet Archive A Library, Or Is It A Publishing Scam?
Librarians argue that a lawsuit filed by four major publishers, should it succeed, "would jeopardize the future development of digital libraries nationwide. The Internet...
When Good Stage Design Reinforces A Character’s Internal Journey
"In devising an onstage gateway to Ally’s imagination, 'We were like, what if the portal is actually her notebook?' said Sammy Lopez, co-director. 'And...
Still Life Paintings Are Boring, And Often Bad
Honestly, Cézanne, who cares now, and who ever cared? "Portraitists and landscape artists have almost always been held in much higher esteem. ... Humans,...
Suzan-Lori Parks Is Making A Musical
And it's not just any musical - it's an attempt to adapt the 1972 movie The Harder They Come, the movie that introduced a...
When Acting Is A Lifeline To Freedom
"The Actors’ Gang Prison Project is a rehabilitation program that offers theater programming to 14 California state prisons, a reentry facility and an L.A....
Two Halves Of A Long-Divided Flemish Portrait Are Reunited In Denmark
After some art historical detective work, "the two artworks, which were once one, now hang side-by-side ... only a sliver of wall dividing the...
