Yearly Archives: 2023
New Oscars Diversity Data Collection Rules Have Producers Troubled
The goal is to spur more inclusive hiring in the film business, but some producers who are trying to comply say the process is...
China’s Most Popular Fiction Genre? Erotic Stories About Gay Men
"Danmei is romantic fiction about men or male beings – ghosts, foxes, even a mushroom – falling in love, written almost exclusively by and...
Grand Central Station Gets A New Transport Hub — Way Below
In the end, Grand Central Madison succeeds brilliantly in its mission of handling the flow of crowds. But this is merely directing traffic, and...
Promises Of Spring: Jill Lepore Reads Seed Catalogues
"Seed and garden catalogues sell a magical, boozy, Jack-and-the-beanstalk promise: the coming of spring, the rapture of bloom, the fleshy, wet, watermelon-and-lemon tang of...
AI Will Make Us Question Everything We Think Is True
The advancement of generative artificial intelligence is not an advancement toward artificial personhood for a simple, absolute reason: There is no falsifiable thesis of...
Dancing In A White Lab Coat With Yellow Fans And Blue Balloons: See The...
"The dance video, in which the blue balloons stood in for ions, depicted how Checkers Marshall's Ph.D. work aims to make metal-organic frameworks smaller,...
Librarians Are Showing The Stress
As I puttered around the conference, I thought about the fact that although books don’t have feelings, the librarians forced to remove them from...
100-Year-Old Movies Accompanied By 500-Year-Old Music — And It Works!
For nearly two decades, Tina Chancey and her ensemble, Hesperus, have been assembling and performing live music — songs and instrumental works from the...
Defending The American Musical
My sense of musical theater in America is that we may undervalue that the higher forms of the Broadway musical are every bit the...
The Guardian’s Chief Theatre Critic Defends Audience Misbehavior (Up To A Point)
Arifa Akbar: "Crunching or chewing can be a distraction, especially in the confines of the older, tighter West End venues, but theatre is a...
Roy Lichtenstein: Appropriation Artist Or Plain Old Thief?
"Since the 2000s, there has been a chorus of voices emerging from the comic book community decrying Lichtenstein's lifting of comic art — a...
John Jakes, Whose American History Novels Became Huge Hits, Is Dead At 90
"(He) wrote some 60 novels, including westerns, mysteries, science and fantasy fiction, and children's books. But he was best known for two series of...
Who’s Nailing TikTok Journalism? Germany’s Version Of The BBC World Service, That’s Who
Deutsche Welle has nine different accounts on the platform, and the oldest of them, Berlin Fresh (launched less than three years ago), has over...
UK Government Will Give An Extra $10.4 Million To Edinburgh’s Festivals
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will announce the £8.6 million ($10.4 million) in funding as part of the UK government's next budget. Scotland's...
Pompidou Center To Open A Branch Museum In Saudi Arabia
"On Sunday, Laurent Le Bon, the president of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, signed an agreement with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) to...
Hyperion Records, Admired Indie Classical Label, Is Acquired By Universal
"The 43-year-old label — which is home to artists like Marc-André Hamelin, Angela Hewitt and Stephen Osborne and represents a catalog of 2,500 recordings,...
100-Year-Old BBC Choir Directors Decry “Toxic” Culture At The BBC
Among the damning claims levelled by BBC Singers Acting Co-Directors Jonathan Manners and Rob Johnston is that a “recurring narrative of toxic culture now exists...
Disney’s Oldest Animator
Burny Mattinson became a messenger at Disney, beginning a career that would eventually make him the longest-tenured employee of the company (just shy of...
A New Genre Of Pandemic Poetry Is Helping Process What Happened
Many established poets published lockdown poems offering their own perspective on the power of poetry to make sense of the catastrophe. Slowly but surely whole collections...
Will The Ginormous George Lucas Museum Ever Be Done? Here’s Where It’s At
Even in the haze of construction, a seemingly endless swirl of workers, cranes and girders, the enormous scope of the project is coming into...
Museums Worldwide Are Reclassifying Ukrainian Art
In reference to the recent relabeling process, the Met told CNN in a statement that the institution, "continually researches and examines objects in its...
Is Lithuania The New Capital Of Performance Art?
“We have a history of performance art going back to the 1970s. These were often illegal actions in public spaces only seen by maybe...
The Trailblazer: 17 Female TV Journalists On Barbara Walters
Jane Pauley: "From the beginning, and every decade thereafter, we were following her. No one ever caught up. She had contenders, but she never...
Your Backstory Might Be Wrong. That’s A Problem
The evolutionary history of our species negates and overturns all previous cosmologies. Ever since Darwin, it seems most fiction writers have pretended not to...
Andy Warhol Gets A Lot Of Blame For Today’s Celebrity Culture. Does He Deserve...
"Warhol, the original narcissist; Warhol, the genius; Warhol, the void. He is responsible for the TikTok dancers, the Instagram models hogging the infinity pools,...
