Yearly Archives: 2023
Chaim Topol, Actor Known Worldwide For “Fiddler On The Roof”, Is Dead At 87
A revered actor in his native Israel, he had a respectable list of stage and screen credits there and internationally, but he was indelibly...
Daniel Barenboim’s Health Is Again A Worry As He Cancels An Upcoming Recital
"(He) has canceled a piano recital at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo due to the effects of a serious neurological condition. … Barenboim was diagnosed...
The Reality Of Artistic Success In Canada: “I Still Can’t Pay My Bills”
Molly Johnson has achieved at the highest level in Canada, with the awards to match: “I gotta say I was depressed. It saddened me,...
Florida’s Attack On Free Speech Casts A Chill
The bill would make it defamatory to claim that someone is racist, sexist, or homophobic based on that person’s religious beliefs. This is, in...
Study: Why So Many Of Us Are Afraid Of Clowns
More than half the respondents (53.5%) said they were scared of clowns at least to some degree, with 5% saying they were “extremely afraid”...
Scientists Figure Out How To Turn Brain Signals Into Images
Using around 90 per cent of the brain-imaging data, the pair trained a model to make links between fMRI data from a brain region...
What If You Optimized Your Everyday Life With Algorithms? This Guy Tried It
One of the first things I’d learned about optimization was that something is optimal if it is equal or preferable to any alternative. To...
Will Your Next Radio Host Be An AI? (It’s Already In Testing)
One of the advantages of RadioGPT is that it knows about an artist or a song or about a current event, so it can...
Painters Have Been Flouting The Physics Of Shadows For Centuries, And Most Of Us...
"The rules of physics that apply in a real scene appear to be optional in a painting; they can be obeyed or ignored at...
Art On Abortion Removed From Idaho College – It’s Against The Law?
Idaho Code 18-8705 states that public funds cannot be used “to perform or promote abortion, provide counseling in favor of abortion, make referral for abortion,...
Britain’s National Theatre Is Producing A Multi-City Adaptation Of “The Odyssey”
The first four episodes of the updated version of Homer's epic will be produced in Stoke-on-Trent, Doncaster, Trowbridge, and Sunderland, with each episode adapted...
The BBC Has A Huge Impact On UK Classical Music. Now It’s Shifting Priorities
The BBC, as the biggest commissioner of music and one of the biggest employers of musicians in the country, has a vital part to...
More Dance Companies Are Moving To A Shared-Leadership Model
"Though complicated and sometimes fraught, these transformations can feel organic: They apply the ideals of creative practice to administrative practice. ... Not all dancers...
John Mauceri: “Tar” And The Culture Of Conducting
Fiction or not, the sort of backstage backstabbing depicted in “Tár” is, alas, very real. We conductors do not generally like our colleagues, and...
How Bosnians Used Underground Culture To Survive The Four-Year Bombardment Of Sarajevo
"A new documentary ... brought together musicians, artists and journalists who used music and art to rebel against their imprisonment and to assert their...
Wall Street Billionaire Commits Suicide, Leaving Hole In The Art World
“He brought the attitude of a businessman and an entrepreneur to a sector that, as you well know, is much less focused on that...
The Academy Should Make An Oscar Category For Best Stunt Work
"It seems particularly odd that the Academy would give an award for Best Visual Effects but not for Best Stunts. Visual effects could be...
New York Mag’s Vulture Confers Its First Annual Stunt Awards (Because If The Academy...
"(These honors have been) created from a desire to not only highlight great stunt work over the past year (and there was great stunt...
Bookmobiles Bearing Banned Books
"(In Florida and) along other fronts of the culture war, bookmobiles are motoring around the country to bring banned books to all, especially in...
After Ten Years, The Light Installation On The San Francisco Bay Bridge Goes Dark
Artist Leo Villareal's "Bay Lights" was supposed to be up for two years, and it wasn't designed to withstand the elements for a decade....
Alan Alda Prompted ChatGPT To Write A New Scene For “M*A*S*H”
"Alda, who hosts a podcast called Clear+Vivid, had decided to ask the tool to write a scene for M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye accuses B.J.,...
The BBC Will Close Down Its Professional Choir And Shrink Three Of Its Orchestras...
The BBC Singers, the UK's only full-time professional vocal ensemble, will cease operations this summer, and the Corporation is offering voluntary buyouts to reduce...
David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize For Architecture
"Organizers called Chipperfield's work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic and academic buildings to urban planning to residences,...
At Heart, Revising Roald Dahl And Other Childrens Books Is About Copyright
At its core updating Roald Dahl’s children’s books is really about the rights and control copyright grants to authors and copyright holders. Those rights...
Librarians Organize To Fight Book Bans
The conference in New Orleans was equal parts group therapy and war room, as nearly 2,000 librarians from throughout the country strategized on how...
