Yearly Archives: 2023
Complexions Contemporary Ballet On The Cusp Of Turning 30
"On the cusp of celebrating their company’s milestone anniversary, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, who co-founded the New York-based (company) in 1994, still have...
Are We “Addicted” To Social Media? A New Study Puts The Notion To The...
A small but thoughtful new study in PLOS One calls into question whether addiction is the right term for heavy social media use, and suggests digital detox, at least...
Has The Philadelphia Orchestra’s “Musical Diplomacy” To China Really Made A Difference?
In a Q&A, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns says that yes, it has — even the recent visit by only 14 musicians (following...
The Limits Of AI In Creating Photographs
A.I. as photographer falls short because it can’t truly empathize with a subject. A camera, no matter how high-tech, can’t grasp the unspoken stories...
Gwyneth Paltrow — Is She Really A Performance Artist?
"Parking the new-age woo-woo momentarily (the seven-day detoxes, the walking barefoot to cure depression, the vagina-steaming), there is a provocation here or at the...
Can The Oscars Telecast Solve Its Dwindling Viewership Problem By Starting Earlier? We’ll Find...
"The 96th Oscars will begin one hour early, with the official show starting at 7 p.m. Eastern for the first time, ABC said Thursday....
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Emergency Fundraising Campaign Was More Successful Than It Dared Hope
In August, the Bay Area's third-largest theater company announced that it needed to raise $3 million by November or it would have to cancel...
Now It’s Official: Valery Gergiev Is The General Director Of The Bolshoi Theater (As...
After Izvestiya reported this story two weeks ago, both Gergiev himself and outgoing director Vladimir Urin backed away from it, though without an outright...
Federal Judge Blocks Montana’s TikTok Ban
"Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state was blocked Thursday, one month before it was set to take effect, by...
The Abrupt, Unexplained Departure Of The CEO At Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art Has Alienated...
"They are expressing shock that Colette Pierce Burnette would serve just 15 months in the role, especially since they said the Indianapolis newcomer was...
“No Opera On A Dead Planet!”: Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Disrupt The (Other) Met
On Thursday (Nov. 30), during Act II of Wagner's Tannhäuser, as the characters were singing about a natural spring, activists on each side of...
The Problems With AI Provisions In The SAG-AFTRA Contract
“It’s one thing to use to make a King Kong or a flying serpent (though this displaces many VFX/CGI artists), it is another...
Hunter College Reschedules Movie Critical Of Israel After Campus Protests
Hunter College has agreed to reschedule a screening of a documentary critical of Israel, following an outcry from faculty members and students who claimed that the...
Slave To The Machines – Have We Already Set Up A System Where Humanity...
A new book argues that the invention of states and corporations has something to teach us about A.I. But perhaps it’s the other way...
BBC Cuts Staff For Evening News – Audience Has Changed
"This is a discerning audience, and they are looking for added value, but they're listening to podcasts, their habits have changed." - BBC
$100M Botticelli Discovered In Italian House. Who Is The Owner?
The artwork was originally displayed in a small church in the Italian town of Santa Maria la Arita before being given to a local...
How “Frozen” Shifted Disney’s Focus From Male-Centric Stories
It set the stage for the rise of empowering culturally rich narratives in the decade that followed. Subsequent hits included the strongly female-centric Moana (2016), Encanto (2021), and Turning...
“A Variety Show In Human Form”: Billy Crystal Knows Almost Everyone And Can Do...
"(He) somehow managed to know nearly every significant cultural figure of the past half-century. Mickey Mantle confided in him. … Martin Scorsese taught him...
Iowa Families Sue To Block Law Prohibiting Mention Of LGBTQ In Schools
The law, which passed earlier this year via a majority Republican Legislature, forbids "any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to...
The YouTuber Who Ended Up As Your Favorite Pop Star’s Favorite Choreographer
"Under the name @seanalator, Sean Bankhead built a YouTube channel to showcase his unique style; a routine set to Beyoncé’s 'Run The World (Girls)'...
Don’t Like Music? Of Any Kind? There’s A Name For People Like That.
"That’s not a matter of preference, such as not caring for sports or pets; it’s a pathological condition. Accordingly, it’s been given one of...
Hollywood Biopics Are In Again. What Happened?
All these movies are awards contenders, and each of them, in a different way, is enthralling. What they add up to is the glorious...
The 19th-Century Science Fiction Novel That Inspired A Communist Utopian Movement In America
"Étienne Cabet's fictional 1840 travelogue, Voyage en Icarie (Travels in Icaria), … was so popular and affecting that it led hundreds of French citizens...
Google Caves, Agrees To Pay Canada’s Link Tax For News
The federal government had estimated earlier this year that Google's compensation should amount to about $172 million. Google estimated the value at $100 million. - CBC
Ticket Survey: Ticket Prices Outside London Are A Third Cheaper Than On The West...
The average top-end ticket outside of London comes in at £49.19, compared with £141.37 for West End shows, while the average cheapest ticket in...
