Yearly Archives: 2023
Wheelchair Dance Company Hits The Road
“A lot of the time when I’m working, I come up against a lot of imposed judgements of ‘you’re a wheelchair-user so you can...
Those People In Times Square Passing Out Flyers For Shows? They’re A Key Part...
"For the general public, street teams are often the first touchpoint to a theater production. ... They serve as extensions of a show's brand,...
After The Success Of This HBO Series, Transmedia Will Never Be The Same
There are currently upwards of 60 game-based productions in development, from a new Super Mario Bros. movie to a God of War adaptation for Amazon, and analyst firms like...
Phyllida Barlow, Who Subverted Sculpture’s Monumentality And Durability, Is Dead At 78
"For more than 50 years, Barlow created 'nonmonumental' sculptures that prioritized absurdity over grandeur. Functional materials like cardboard, nuts and bolts, fabric, and plywood...
AI Voices Are Starting To Take Over Reading Audiobooks
Tech companies including Apple and Google have been working on AI audiobook narration for a while now. In 2022, Google rolled out its services to publishers...
There’s No One Left At The BBC With Enough Power To Fight For Classical...
Paul Hughes, former director of the BBCSO and the BBC Singers: "The BBC's timing is as calculated as its strategy is callous: ensembles struggling...
It’s About Time To Remember Bronislava Nijinska As More Than Vaslav Nijinsky’s Little Sister
'His mythic status as a dancer and revolutionary choreographer has overshadowed her much longer, more productive career. Nijinsky, whose artistic life was cut short...
Why The Mysterious Book Manuscript Thief Did It
In court papers, former Simon & Schuster staffer Filippo Bernardini is quoted as saying, "I never leaked these manuscripts. I wanted to keep them...
Nobel-Winning Author Kenzaburo Oe Is Dead At 88
"Despite the outpouring of national pride over Oe's win, his principal literary themes evoke deep unease (in Japan). A boy of 10 when World...
How The FBI’s Art Crime Team Works
"Recently, two of the team's investigators … agreed to answer questions from The New York Times. They declined to comment on the Basquiat case,...
Britain’s National Theatre To “Reduce Activity” For The Next Four Years
"The National Theatre is cutting productions due to money troubles. … Accounts show the theatre's income for the year to March 2022 was £80.8...
Lewis Spratlan, Pulitzer-Winning Composer, Is Dead At 82
His opera Life Is a Dream had a difficult birth: the company that commissioned it closed before it was produced, and Spratlan was reduced...
How “Free Markets” Got Confused With Freedom
The so-called “Tripod of Freedom” — which positions free enterprise, along with civil liberties and democracy, as “one of the three great elements” in...
Closer And Closer: An Endless Loop Of Misinformation
Each day is bringing us a little bit closer to a kind of information-sphere disaster, in which bad actors weaponize large language models, distributing...
How Is Streaming Affecting How We Interact With Music?
Worries about music today ignore every development in the transmission of music in the past. “I mean, when recorded music first came out, people...
Oscars: A culture Of Scandals Is Built In
Every year it's something. But then, that's built into the culture, and it helps the Academy thrive... - CBC
UK Prime Minister Says Parthenon Marbles Won’t Be Returned
“We share their treasures with the world, and the world comes to the UK to see them. The collection of the British Museum is protected by...
Oscars By The Numbers – Our Yardsticks Of Diversity
By default events like the Oscars have come to serve as a primary yardstick of representational gains. Hence our joyless new annual award-season tradition: the scrutiny...
The Ugly Truth About Gatekeepers
Nowadays the majority of the art world gatekeepers are ever more myopic, risk averse and conformist, daring only to support what is “hot”...
Pritzker-Winner David Chipperfield’s Unconventional Attitude On Buildings
As opposed to the “starchitect” impulse to create something iconic and instantly recognisable – to stamp their mark on a place – architecture, for...
The End Of Critical Theory?
All in all, it is not as clear as it once seemed how the project of critical theory maps onto the practical politics—institutional and...
The Speculative Future Of TV
ATSC 3.0 is to broadcast television what 5G was to mobile a few years ago: a mixture of buzzwords and real innovation, something that’s...
For The First Time In Decades Vinyl Records Outsell CDs
Vinyl revenue grew 17% and topped $1.2 billion last year, making up nearly three-quarters of the revenue brought in by physical music. At the...
The Wins For Everything Everywhere All At Once Proves That The Academy Loves Conventional...
Sure, some of the sequences were a bit zany (and then there are the hot dog finers), but the film "feels more in line...
How Vermeer Made The World Interior, And Modern
Stop thanking Shakespeare and Falstaff, and start looking at Vermeer's women. "Into the mundane and commonplace, this master of stillness and of light manages...
