Yearly Archives: 2023
Architect A. Eugene Kohn, Specialist In Iconic And Very Tall Skyscrapers, Is Dead At...
Kohn Pedersen Fox, the firm which he co-founded and served as president and number-one salesman, designed such celebrated buildings as the World Bank headquarters...
Atlanta’s Leading Musical Theatre Company Shuts Down After Four Decades
"The Atlanta Lyric Theatre has closed its doors after 42 years under the weight of financial strain … (due to) 'a significant drop in...
Lincoln Center Has A New Board Chair
Katherine Farley, who became board chair in 2010 and led the arts complex through the complete renovation of David Geffen Hall, decided that the...
Robert Blake, 1970s Hollywood Star Tried For The Murder Of His Wife, Is Dead...
"Once hailed as among the finest actors of his generation, Blake became better known as the center of a real-life murder trial, a story...
Massachusetts Proposes Theatre Tax To Help Send Shows To Broadway
Gov. Healey’s proposal describes the live theater tax credit as a “pilot program” designed to support productions costing at least $100,000 that are headed...
France And The Theatre Of Demonstrations
Demonstrations are frequent enough in the country that they have taken on a ritualistic dimension, and often feature overtly theatrical elements designed to grab...
Why Student Debt Makes People So Angry
Gorsuch’s fairness question resonates right away. Why these debts and not others? Why them and not me? These are rhetorical questions, and they have a rhetorical...
Parents Are Challenging High School Theatre Productions For Content
In Florida, Indiana, Kansas and Pennsylvania plays and musicals have been challenged or canceled recently. Parents or school officials have complained that the content isn't family friendly. - NPR
Have The Oscars Really Become More Diverse?
While the Inclusion List shows that over the years the nominees have grown more diverse, the proportion of nominees who are part of an...
The Challenges Of Shaking Off Museums’ Colonial Legacies
The essential difficulty is that the vast majority of art museum professionals have limited training in how to identify and address contemporary manifestations of...
Demand For Indigenous Composers Is Rising
While technology is making composing more accessible to more artists, there's another important shift going on: scoring Indigenous stories with Indigenous music — rather...
So Many Of Our “Experiences” Are Abstract. What Happens When We Lose Our Connections...
One of the most consequential developments of our moment is that the experiences that create sensory memories are disappearing even faster than temperatures are...
What’s Worse For A Theater’s Artistic Director Than Managing Big Cutbacks? Managing Cutbacks And...
Nataki Garrett went from artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to interim executive artistic director — because the executive director position was eliminated,...
An Attempt To Fix The Oscars Broadcast?
To reinvigorate the red carpet preshow, Oscars organizers hired members of the Met Gala creative team. Expect much more star power, specialized lighting (to...
This Program Uses Dance To Teach Girls Of Color To Code And Ready Them...
"Launched in 2018, danceLogic blends the two to introduce girls to coding and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). The Philadelphia-based program is...
A Writing Apocalypse?
Think of it as an ongoing planetary spam event, but unlike spam—for which we have more or less effective safeguards—there may prove to be no...
On-The-Spot Poetry, Generated By AI Software Trained On The Works Of Great Black Writers
Artist/software developer Josie Williams created four chatbots, each built on a dataset consisting solely of the works of a great African-American writer: James Baldwin,...
A Change Of Leadership At The Whitney
Weinberg’s departure is not entirely unexpected given his age, 68, and his long tenure at the museum. But his departure also signals an inevitable...
Ian Falconer, Creator Of Olivia The Pig, Is Dead At 63
He was already a successful designer for opera and ballet (who got his start with David Hockney) when, in the 1990s, he started writing...
Whitney Workers Agree To New Contract With Big Raises
The new contract "will increase salaries by 30 percent, on average, with entry-level employees set to receive a greater raise, to $54,101 from $40,500....
Rare Old Books Should Be Handled Bare-Handed, Not With Gloves. The Public Will Not...
Morgan Library director of conservation Maria Fredericks: "The glove thing. It just won't die." Grolier Club director Eric Holzenberg: "Every time it comes up,...
The Dominion Voting/Fox News Lawsuit: Who’s Really Responsible (And Thus Liable) For What Was...
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch: "I'm not the CEO of Fox News. I'm not responsible for the editorial on Fox News. I don't make...
The Messy, Convoluted, Expensive, And Sometimes Ugly Business Of Campaigning For Oscar Votes
Studios, agents, and sometimes the talent themselves try to manipulate Academy voters and the press by hiring consultants, buying ads, throwing events, pestering people,...
Spotify Says It Has Now Paid Out Almost $40 Billion To Holders Of Music...
"The company said it pays out nearly 70% of every dollar it generates from music back to the industry. ... These rights holders include...
LACMA Says It’s Raised Almost All The Money For Its New Building
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that its $750-million fundraising campaign for a new building — the David Geffen Galleries,...
