Yearly Archives: 2023
How Amazon’s Pilot Season Broke TV And Became A Bridge To Streaming Culture
Streaming was offered as an alternative to the traditional TV business model, which had remained largely unchanged for decades. The streamer could also act...
The Royal Tapestry Factory That Worked With Francisco Goya Is Still Weaving Today
"The factory was opened in 1721 by Spain’s King Felipe V. He brought in Catholic craftsmen from Flanders, which had been part of Spain’s...
Theatre People Who Passed Away In 2023
The ephemeral nature of the stage is part of its power. Prospero in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” compares actors to “spirits” who melt into “thin...
“I’m Under No Delusions That I’m Suddenly A Broadway Playwright,” Says Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
"This is really fun, and I'm super honored. But I feel like I'm under no delusions that my life is different. I'm still going...
A Billion Birds A Year In America Die Crashing Into Buildings. Architects Are Working...
This year, at least 1,000 birds died in one day from colliding with a single glass-covered building. In New York, which lies along the Atlantic Flyway,...
Meet Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” For 2024
"Electric performances, thought-provoking choreography, buzzy bodies of work — the artists on our annual list of dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies poised for a...
Open To Change: A Critic Goes Back To A Show And Has An Entirely...
In 2014, I couldn’t tolerate a play that mixed hilarity and monstrousness so shamelessly. But time and history have altered that in me. -...
This Village Girl From A Distant Russian Republic Could Be The Met’s Next Superstar...
"It hasn’t been an easy journey from (Bashkortostan) to New York. Along the way, (Aigul) Akhmetshina had to overcome multiple setbacks, including failures in...
A Stat That Shows How The US Music Market Is Changing
This year, a record 98 Spanish-language songs made Billboard’s list, and six made it into the top 10. - CNN
With Superhero Movies Now Losing Big Money, Where Can Hollywood Turn For Big Box...
"The rosiest spin you can put on this sudden collapse is that it’s the equivalent of a stock-market correction. … But it’s not clear...
I Tried To Be A North Korean Novelist. I Failed. Repeatedly.
One of the Japan-born ethnic Koreans who emigrated to North Korea in the 1970s, Kim Ju-sŏng lived there for 28 years, working as a...
With This Year’s Muddy Debacle, Was Burning Man Defeated By Its Own Success?
Having grown from about 4,000 attendees in 1991, the festival now caps attendance at 80,000, many of whom are just too damn rich. Having...
Greece Will “Fill The Void” If Britain Returns The Parthenon Marbles, Says Culture Minister
"Lina Mendoni promised that the London institution’s revered Greek galleries would never go empty. 'Our position is clear,' she said. 'Should the sculptures be...
Poland’s New Government Puts State TV And Radio Into Liquidation
This doesn't mean the outlets will stop operating, as the term "liquidation" would mean in English-speaking countries. The move is one of the few...
Artist Pope.L Has Died At 67
"Across the past four decades, (his works) alluded to the condition of Black Americans without outright stating what they were trying to communicate. (His)...
The Tribune Names Its Chicagoans Of The Year In The Arts For 2023
Among the honorees are the founder-director of what's now the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Chicago Symphony's composer-in-residence, the 24-year-old jazz pianist who...
Are Superhero Movies Done?
These franchises are spelling their own downfalls. This year has been a prime of example of what happens when a pop-culture movement takes hold...
7300-Year-Old Civilization Discovered On Island Off China’s Coast
They also discovered evidence that the inhabitants developed into a complex society between 5,000 and 6,500 years ago with residential homes, as well as...
Has AI Ended The Voiceover Career?
"For a lot of voice actors, AI has been the canary in the coal mine that we've been shouting about for years." -...
New York Times Sues OpenAI And Microsoft For Using Stories To Train AI
“Defendants’ unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service.”...
Writing Is A Solitary Pursuit? Not Really
Writers not only don’t work alone: they can’t. The key proxy for a vibrant book culture is the little packs they form when things are going well....
Enormous Art Gallery Found Above Pueblo Cliffs
Approximately 2,600 feet above the ancient Pueblo cliff settlements, the archaeologists discovered a sprawling collection of “huge rock panels” stretching about 2.5 miles around...
Where The Science Of Neuroaesthetics Meets The Art Of Dance
"With its unique brain–body connection, dance is at the very center of neuroaesthetics, the science of how the arts affect our brains, and therefore...
Why Do Ancient Tablets Have Information About Modern Physics?
This newly discovered connection between ancient Mesopotamian writing and modern physics is more than an amusing academic fluke. - Salon
People Have Been Arguing Over The Lesbian Love Story In “The Color Purple” For...
"Not every adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been frank about Celie's sexual orientation. And (the) new movie musical version of the...
