Yearly Archives: 2023
Lance Reddick, Star Of The Wire, Bosch, And The John Wick Series, Has Died...
Reddick "was a distinctive, instantly recognizable presence, even if he was not quite a household name. His voice was distinctive, too, as players of...
Adam Gopnik And The Difference Between Knowing And Doing
“Activities that are interesting to read about (science experiments) are probably dull to do, while activities that are dull to read about (riding a...
Kazuo Ishiguro On The Art Of Writing And Medium
Over the decades I’ve learned a huge amount about writing novels. I feel like I’m just learning on the job about screenplays. One key...
The Barcelona Residents Protesting Construction On Sagrada Familia
As anyone who has been forced to live in close proximity to building works for an extended period might understand, a growing movement of...
Post-Pandemic: A New Sense Of Collaboration In Theatre?
I feel that we’re in a kind of new and important phase where directors especially, who never get to hang out with each other,...
Women Composers Have Reached Parity In Australian Orchestras
Half of the composers commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for its flagship new music program, 50 Fanfares, are women. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will...
AO Scott Says Goodbye To Movie Criticism
"The thing I love most about the movies is their ability to obliterate reason and abolish taste. You know the jump scare is coming,...
Why The Exclamation Point Started Fading Away, And How It Came Roaring Back!
Mid-20th-century writing guides taught that this emphatic punctuation mark should be used sparingly -- not least because advertising and marketing overuse it. But !...
Visitor Attractions In The UK Down Substantially From Pre-COVID Attendance
Figures published on Friday by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions show that while the number of visits to its sites rose by 69%...
Scientists Working On Notre-Dame’s Reconstruction Have Found Something They Had Never Anticipated
"Scientists working on the scorched interior of Notre-Dame de Paris have found iron was used in the cathedral's construction in the mid-12th century. It's...
The Fraud Of AI Generators
AI image and text generation is pure primitive accumulation: expropriation of labour from the many for the enrichment and advancement of a few Silicon...
Amazon Stops Selling Periodical Subscriptions For Kindle And Print
"Amazon hasn't shared its exact reason for the change …, but one obvious explanation is that relatively few people are buying these subscriptions and...
Survey: UK Museums Are Struggling To Get Visitors To Return
The British Museum was the most-visited art museum in the UK in 2022—and the third globally. It reported 4.1 million visitors, more than three...
How Broadway Was Tied Up With Signature Bank
The New York-based institution is the favored bank of many Broadway theaters, producers, and related businesses; when New York state regulators closed Signature last...
Los Angeles Is A Creative Place (But Its Arts Aren’t Very Equitable)
“Despite being the top per capita provider of arts in the nation, Los Angeles ranks 259th in government funding allocation,” the nonprofit’s CEO Gustavo...
Two King’s Singers Tell How The Pensacola Concert Cancellation Went Down
It made international headlines when Pensacola Christian College cancelled a performance by the famed vocal sextet two hours before curtain time because of some...
The Isabella Stewart Gardiner Art Heist: After 33 Years, What Do We Know?
Before dawn on March 18, 1990, two criminals dressed as policemen convinced a security guard to let them into the Boston museum, tied him...
The Isabella Stewart Gardiner Art Heist: A Timeline
Here's a chronology of the entire mystery, from the strange event two weeks before the robbery happened through all the tips, clues, and suspects,...
Stella Abrera Named Permanent Director Of ABT’s School
"Stella Abrera is ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School's new Artistic Director. Abrera has been acting in this position for the last several months after...
TikTok May Split From Its Chinese Parent Company If It Can’t Assuage US Officials’...
"China's TikTok is considering separating from parent ByteDance to help address U.S. concerns about national security risks. … A divestiture, which could result in...
The Arts Contribute A Record $1 Trillion To US GDP: NEA Report
The study, covering calendar year 2021, shows a 13.7% increase in economic value over 2020 provided by the arts; it also indicates clearly that...
Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical Has A New York Opening Date
The show, whose last working title was Square One, is now called Here We Are; it's based loosely on the Luís Buñuel films The...
Pompidou Centre Is Getting Another Overseas Branch, This One In South Korea
Less than a week after the announcement that the Paris contemporary art mecca will have a satellite in Saudi Arabia's planned arts destination, AlUla,...
Why Siri And Alexa Lost Out To ChatGPT
“These products never worked in the past because we never had human-level dialogue capabilities. Now we do.” - The New York Times
The Gift (and Curse) Of English As Our Universal Language
English may have become universal, but not everyone believes it is a gift. In fact, many hold diametrically opposite views. - Aeon
